Democrats taking selfies with handcuffed Ken Paxton cutout at state convention

Democrats take photos at a booth run by Progress Texas at the Texas Democratic Convention in San Antonio on Friday, June 17, 2016. Democrats take photos at a booth run by Progress Texas at the Texas Democratic Convention in San Antonio on Friday, June 17, 2016. Photo: Kelsey Bradshaw/San Antonio Express-News Photo: Kelsey Bradshaw/San Antonio Express-News Image 1 of / 53 Caption Close Democrats taking selfies with handcuffed Ken Paxton cutout at state convention 1 / 53 Back to Gallery

SAN ANTONIO — All across the floor of the Alamodome, organizations sold buttons and T-shirts and some even had cut outs of Democratic leaders from Texas and beyond at the state Democratic convention.

But Progress Texas had something a little different to offer attendees looking for a selfie opportunity: a cutout of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. In handcuffs.

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Progress Texas, a liberal group in Austin that for months has led the efforts to publicize Paxton's various legal woes, including his 2015 indictment for alleged securities fraud.

Paxton is the target of a federal civil lawsuit, which was initiated in April by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, for alleged securities fraud.

The lawsuit alleges that before he became attorney general, Paxton pressured friends to invest nearly $1 million in a Collin County technology startup called Servergy, Inc., without telling them that he was being paid to promote the company, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Additionally, the allegations are nearly identical to those that Paxton is also fighting in the state criminal system. Paxton was indicted last year and has so far been unable to get the charges thrown out. Last month, an appeals court upheld the indictment.

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Attendees were allowed to take selfies with the cutout of Paxton.

Cutouts of President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton were also at the booth. They were not in handcuffs, however.

Austin bureau reporter Brian Rosenthal contributed to this report.

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