Posted on 09/28/2005 10:07:08 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Kevin Madden, spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (TX) today released the following statement regarding today's announcement by the Travis County (TX) District Attorney's Office:
"These charges have no basis in the facts or the law. This is just another example of Ronnie Earle misusing his office for partisan vendettas. Despite the clearly political agenda of this prosecutor, Congressman DeLay has cooperated with officials throughout the entire process. Even in the last two weeks, Ronnie Earle himself had acknowledged publicly that Mr. DeLay was not a target of his investigation. However, as with many of Ronnie Earle's previous partisan investigations, Ronnie Earle refused to let the facts or the law get in the way of his partisan desire to indict a political foe.
This purely political investigation has been marked by illegal grand jury leaks, a fundraising speech by Ronnie Earle for Texas Democrats that inappropriately focused on the investigation, misuse of his office for partisan purposes, and extortion of money for Earle's pet projects from corporations in exchange for dismissing indictments he brought against them. Ronnie Earle's previous misuse of his office has resulted in failed prosecutions and we trust his partisan grandstanding will strike out again, as it should.
Ronnie Earle's 1994 indictment against Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was quickly dismissed and his charges in the 1980s against former Attorney General Jim Mattox-another political foe of Earle-fell apart at trial.
We regret the people of Texas will once again have their taxpayer dollars wasted on Ronnie Earle's pursuit of headlines and political paybacks. Ronnie Earle began this investigation in 2002, after the Democrat Party lost the Texas state legislature to Republicans. For three years and through numerous grand juries, Ronnie Earle has tried to manufacture charges against Republicans involved in winning those elections using arcane statutes never before utilized in a case in the state. This indictment is nothing more than prosecutorial retribution by a partisan Democrat."
Time for Karl Rove to use his svengali-like powers to convince the DoJ to investigate Earl for violating DeLay's civil rights.
Well at least he's fighting back. Go git em'!
I agree.
For my part, given Ronnie Earle's track record, I will say the indictment is "partisan until proven accurate".
For my part, given Ronnie Earle's track record, I will say the indictment is "partisan until proven accurate".
For my part, given Ronnie Earle's track record, I will say the indictment is "partisan until proven accurate".
Hokkay, then, when do we get to indict Governor Blanco for gross negligence, send John Kerry to prison for treason (and strip him of his Senate seat), and about two dozen other Democrats, who shall remain nameless at this time, on RICO charges?
Speaking of Blanco, she must have driven everyone nutty with her small, pecking, cowardly voice such that we got to see all of about 1 minute of her testimony today televised.
Isn't there some provision in the law for dealing with 'malicious prosecution'? It seems to me that might very well be applicable here.
Did you hear that this DA once INDICTED HIMSELF??? Pled guilty...and he's still in office. OUTRAGEOUS.
Absolutely.
Don't know much about Texas politics,but I've read that Austin is an island of "progressives" in a sea of sanity. Assuming that this is true,and assuming that DA's are elected in Texas,it shouldn't come as a surprise that a hack like this can hold office,any more than it should be a shock that a Maoist can be elected Mayor of San Francisco.
When a Democrat is blinded by ideology, he will waste taxpayers' money on fruitless prosecutions over and over again.
Ronnie Earl is, pardon my French, a vindictive little shit.
He has made a career out of indicting and embarrasing his political enemies, Republican and Democrat.
He has not, however, managed to convict any of them.
Most notoriously he had indicted Kay Bailey Hutchinson for abuse of her State office when she first ran for the Senate. The Judge finally ordered him to either present evidence or withdraw the charges and he had to fold.
Some years before that he indicted the State Atty General, Mad Dog Maddox, a rabid, but essentially honest Democrat, who was in a different party faction.
It is a fluke of Texas law that puts prosecution of political corruption at the State level under the aegis of the local DA for Austin.
So9
I'm no lawyer but my guess is that if this clown is ever "put in his place",it will either be done by the voters, the AG of Texas or the Texas Supreme Court.
The liberals are getting too greedy. There's a scandal here, but it lies somewhere in the game of gotcha the left is playing against all top Republicans.
I think Earl decided that since the President's numbers are so low right now, that this is a perfect opportunity to pile on some more. It doesn't matter whether anything comes of this or not.... the perception is out there. I think we all know that if it turns out to be nothing, the coverage of that will be less than .01% of what today's news is on the indictment.
Another thread has CNN saying he will step down. There's no mention of that in the press release.
TX RATS in cahoots with D.C. RATS on a vendetta over TX congressional redistricting that occurred in 2001? I smell Hitlery's long hand in this.
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