Democrats Corrupt Indictment Of Rick Perry

http://leomcneil.net/2014/08/18/democrats-false-indictment-against-rick-perry/ ^ | August 18, 2014 | Leo McNeil

[LeoMcNeil]

Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power. This is, unfortunately, the headline most Americans will see. They won’t bother to look into the matter any further. Their reaction will be along the lines of “yet another politician has abused his power.” Usually this reaction is accurate. However, each case has to be looked at on its own. In the case of Perry, there isn’t an iota of evidence that he abused his power. In fact, if we look at the facts it becomes clear that he exercised his lawful power under the Texas Constitution. That information is buried under a highly charged headline.

Rosemary Lehmberg is a District Attorney, a Democrat and a nasty drunk. She was arrested for drunk driving and tried to pull rank at the police station after her arrest. She was ultimately sentenced to 45 days in jail. Perry called on her to resign, as did others. Lehmberg refused. Perry then threatened to veto funding for her office and carried through with his veto threat when Lehmberg refused to resign. This is what constitutes “abuse of power” according to the indictment against Perry. Even liberals like Johnathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz think the indictment is ridiculous.

The Governor of Texas can veto any bill he wants, for whatever reason he wants. There is nothing unlawful about Perry vetoing a bill funding the office Lehmberg is part of. Yet Perry has been charged with abuse of power crimes for threatening to lawfully use his veto power. Lets imagine that this sort of charge against Perry sticks. Would it be an abuse of power for a Governor to threaten to veto funding for an agency he doesn’t particularly care for? Let’s say Perry doesn’t like the Texas version of the EPA and vetos funding for it. Would that be an “abuse of power”?

You would have to think that vetoing or threatening to veto any bill would potentially bring abuse of power charges if the Perry indictment is successful. A Governor would either fund government in the manner the left wants it funded or face charges. Any personal disagreements between a Governor and anyone else in government could potentially bring about an indictment if funding is vetoed. In this case, we’re talking about a drunk, corrupt district attorney. Someone who should probably be suspended from the practice of law or disbarred. Trying to force her resignation isn’t a crime, if anything is a crime it’s Lehmberg in office.

In this nonsense indictment you can see what the left is up to going into 2016. Perry is the second Republican Governor facing a bogus indictment. The other is Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who the left loathes and fears running for President. They’re obviously afraid of Rick Perry’s successful track record in Texas. While you would think Perry’s weak debating skills wouldn’t result in Democrat hysteria, they must be sufficiently afraid of his track record to the point that their fear overcomes his “oops” in the 2012 primary debates. One wonders which Republican will be the next to receive a phony indictment. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul must be on the Democrats radar.

[Servant of the Cross]

The Travis County District Attorney’s office has a long history of politically-motivated prosecutions, including the 2005 indictment of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for alleged campaign finance violations. DeLay’s convictions were completely overturned and he was acquitted after an appeal to the Third District Texas Court of Appeals in 2013—too late to save his political career.

Republican Hutchison was indicted only four months after her landslide win in a special election in 1993. Travis County district attorney Ronnie Earle — whose successor, Rosemary Lehmberg, is at the center of the Perry indictment — persuaded a grand jury made up of residents from the liberal Austin area to indict Hutchison on charges of misusing her prior office of state treasurer. (The Travis County district attorney’s office runs the Public Integrity Unit, which enforces ethics laws for all state officials, and Austin is the county seat.) Hutchison was accused of using state employees and her state offices to conduct personal and political business and then ordering records of her activities to be destroyed. Among the specific accusations was that she used state employees to plan her Christmas vacation in Colorado and write thank-you notes.

Hutchison pressed for a quick resolution of the case because she was running for reelection in 1994, much as Governor Perry has to worry his indictment will hang over any 2016 presidential race he might run. The case against Hutchison slowly began to fall apart. The first indictment had to be thrown out because one of the grand-jury members who heard the case was ineligible to serve. A defense motion to move the trial from the politically charged climate of liberal Austin to Fort Worth was granted. Then, when the trial began in February of 1994, it ended after only 30 minutes, when Hutchison was found ...

[freekitty]

Travis County, the left’s friend. They always have been. Remember old Ronnie Earle?

[freekitty]

Maybe they should relocate the office of public integrity or get rid of it?

[Vaduz]

Democrat and a nasty drunk must be friend of Hillary both operate the same way.