Poll: Most GOP voters think Paxton should resign

A majority of Texas Republican voters think Attorney General Ken Paxton should resign, a new statewide poll has found.

The poll, being released Monday by the Longview-based Texas Bipartisan Justice Committee, found 78 percent of respondents were aware of the felony fraud indictments Paxton is facing and 62 percent said he should resign because of them. More than 53 percent of those who identified themselves as tea party voters agreed the Republican should resign the job he won in November.

Dr. John Coppedge, treasurer of the committee that commissioned the poll, said that as more becomes known about Paxton's past — including what he calls "the Mont Blanc pen story" — the drumbeat for Paxton's resignation will grow louder.

The poll, conducted Aug. 15 by Gravis Marketing of Florida, found 18 percent of GOP voters were aware of the Mont Blanc pen story. The 2013 episode, in which Paxton walked away from a courthouse metal detector with a $1,000 pen that didn't belong to him, was reported a few weeks after the November election.

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