Joaquin Castro: The dog ate my AG campaign paperwork

In a political career that's already long with bullshit excuses for why he can't leave his comfy San Antonio House district to seek higher office, the Congresscritter offered one of his best yet for why he wasn't running for the Democratic nomination to try to replace Kenny Boy Paxton as state AG.

He claims that, shades of the 2002 Dem primaries, when sekrut Republican donor Tony Sanchez, still-sekrut but sure Rethuglican John Sharp and Dallas' answer to Barack Obama Ron Kirk formed a triumvirate to run for top offices of guv, lite guv and US Senate respectively, he was trying to do similar with R.F. Beto-Bob O'Rourke, Colin Allred and James Talarico, but to do better lane-clearing in advance. Castro said they couldn't agree on who would run for governor or not (still pretty much dogshit there), lite gov (worse) and Senate (Allred back from two years ago and Talarico in).

He said that if others dropped into slots, he'd run for state AG. 

“All of us initially were interested in the U.S. Senate race,” Castro, a seventh-term congressman from San Antonio, said on a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. “But, you know, it doesn’t really make sense to have four people running for the U.S. Senate, and then nobody’s running for anything else. So at one point, I told a few of those guys … hey, I’ll slot down to the AG race if you guys can figure out the rest.”

Dood? Nothing, NOTHING, was stopping you then, or is stopping you today, from running for AG. 

He did "allow":

Asked if he had ruled out a statewide run, Castro said he hadn’t made a “final decision” and would announce his plans at some point before the Dec. 8 candidate filing deadline.

But, the Trib adds: 

The San Antonio Democrat has toyed with statewide runs a number of times since he began representing Texas’ 20th Congressional District in 2013. He previously passed up Senate bids in 2018 and 2020.

What a lying sack o shit. You're running for nothing but the security of your own bunghole.