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Star-Telegram
Our state’s elected and appointed officials added a new wing to their Hypocrisy Mansion when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this week called out the wildly popular daily fantasy sports websites, such as DraftKings and FanDuel; the two companies had been printing money until other states took action against them.

The Texas Tribune
Texas legislators are going to have to figure out whether they want to allow the private sector to compete with the state’s billion-dollar gambling business. The state is acting like a monopolist — or Al Capone.

Star-Telegram
Many Texans are fond of gambling, and many of them are not fond of Attorney General Ken Paxton for issuing an opinion on Tuesday saying daily fantasy sports gambling is illegal in Texas.

Texas Monthly
On Tuesday, beleaguered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took a break from tending to the various personal legal fires that he’s dealing with to address one that faces the state. Namely, the question of whether daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel are actually gambling sites, rather than games of skill—and if so, if they’re illegal under Texas law.

WFAA 8 ABC
Dale Hansen sounds off on Texas AG Ken Paxton’s opinion on daily fantasy sports.

Houston Chronicle
Here’s the story coming out of the Texas attorney general’s office last week that should have captured the headlines: Attorney General Ken Paxton has established a special unit that will target the $32 billion human trafficking industry, an odious criminal enterprise that has metastasized in Houston particularly and across the state.

1200 – WOAI
The big ‘weekly fantasy sports’ operators, including DraftKings and Fan Duel, are banding together in Texas, starting a political action committee to fight back against talk of declaring the games to be illegal gambling, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Houston Chronicle
For Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general who is under indictment, the political calls have been relatively easy to make in this first year on the job. He, like his GOP counterparts across the country, have sued the federal government on everything from Syrian refugees to the president’s clean power plan.

KYKX-FM and KFYO.com
Friday on The Chad Hasty Show, Peter Schoenke, Chairman of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, joined the show via telephone to talk about the legal issues surrounding ‘fantasy sports’. Representative Myra Crownover (R) of District 64 has asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to review the issue to determine whether or not fantasy sports is gambling.

Dallas Morning News
Texans love football. For millions of us, that means not just watching football — but playing fantasy football, too. State attorneys general in New York and Illinois, however, have taken controversial actions to prevent their citizens from playing fantasy sports. Texans are asking whether the same could happen here.