Paxton took 100,000 shares in a server company, voted to create its tax break, now runs against it.

“A guy takes a hundred grand in shares from a server company, votes to hand that whole industry a tax break, then runs for Senate promising to take it back — and the papers cover it like a policy reversal instead of what it is, which is getting paid on both ends of the same trade. This is why nobody in Washington, left or right, actually touches the subsidy or the water bill: the loudest ones warning you about AI oligarchs are still standing on that industry's stage. You don't need a bag of cash changing hands in a parking garage — you just need everybody with the power to stop it to have a reason not to, and the reason is always sitting in a brokerage account.”