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Texas Gov. Perry Booked on Abuse of Power Charges
WKYT ^ | August 19, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 08/19/2014 4:06:56 PM PDT by lbryce

Gov. Rick Perry has been booked on two felony counts of abuse of power for carrying out a threat to veto funding to state public corruption prosecutors.

Perry, who is mulling a second presidential run in 2016, turned himself in Tuesday at the Travis County courthouse. He vowed he'd fight the charges "with every fiber of my being."

The Republican is accused of coercion and official oppression for publicly promising to veto $7.5 million for the state public integrity unit run by the Travis County district attorney's office.

(Excerpt) Read more at wkyt.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: governorperry; texas; tyranny
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To: 1010RD

I have to tell you I am sick of the carpola about Perry the RINO. He is not a RINO. He is a thoughtful, mature states rights advocate and he knows how to create business. I am just sorry I bought into that RINO garbage in 2012. I hope the guy runs for President. I would be happy to vote for a mature adult for the Presidency. Cruz and Perry are the only names I have any interest in whatsoever.


21 posted on 08/19/2014 4:25:19 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: napscoordinator

This isn’t a Perry presidential thread dear. It’s ok,you can be here! Come on, we love you. ...and that’s truth. Not sarcasm.


22 posted on 08/19/2014 4:25:55 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Call for a revolt Gov. We’ll follow you.


23 posted on 08/19/2014 4:35:50 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Don Corleone

Hutchinson, DeLay, Palin, Walker, Perry...


24 posted on 08/19/2014 5:00:48 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: lbryce

If left wing fascists can do this to sitting Governors, Congressmen and Senators just think what they can do to you.


25 posted on 08/19/2014 5:02:53 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: FredZarguna

Livingston!!!


26 posted on 08/19/2014 5:08:20 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: napscoordinator

You’re sharp. I wish you’d put that to use defending Perry. I appreciate your thoughtfulness, though. Take care.


27 posted on 08/19/2014 5:22:31 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: austinaero

Grind them up with this. Paste her photo and tell the truth all over the place. Let Perry lead the fight against lawfare. Hopefully the Texas Legislature will defund her and appoint a Constitutionalist over public integrity.


28 posted on 08/19/2014 5:25:52 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I am with you. We’re not going to get a perfect candidate, but I like a Gov/Gov ticket. I think Cruz is especially effective in the Senate. We need someone with executive experience to clean up the mess in DC in the Executive. It’s tough to do that with a legislative background. Totally different skill set.


29 posted on 08/19/2014 5:27:19 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I am sick of the attacks by the people on our side too. Perry is a good guy and I like him. He has plenty of fans in Texas.


30 posted on 08/19/2014 5:43:49 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: lbryce
Would love to see:

"Barak Obama has been booked on two felony counts of abuse of power...."

31 posted on 08/19/2014 5:52:39 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Ditter

Me too. I’m sick to death of all this RINO talk about Perry. If Ronald Reagan was running right now there would be freepers calling him a RINO because he used to be a Democrat. Read Rick Perry’s book on the 10th amendment. He is a states righter and that is no RINO belief. I think the guy would make a fine President. Besides him and Ted Cruz who do we really have that are mature adults and know what they think about things?

If we are not careful we are going to end up with Jeb or Mitt folks.


32 posted on 08/19/2014 5:53:23 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Mark
Booking photo
uuuumm yearbook photo. Hahaa...


33 posted on 08/19/2014 5:56:56 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: napscoordinator

You want him “tangled up in legal problems” until 2016? Because he wanted a drunken disgrace to resign?

Seriously?

Naps, you’re wishing a terrible thing on a man who doesn’t deserve it, and that’s reprehensible. You’re letting your emotions do the talking. It’s time to get over Rick Santorum, but I can see by your tag line you haven’t, so...


34 posted on 08/19/2014 6:18:07 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Red Steel

i am so glad Rick is smiling on his mug shot. :)


35 posted on 08/19/2014 6:22:28 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: lbryce

Rick Perry turns himself in to authorities: Does he lose in the end?


Even the New York Times editorial board thinks the grand jury indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry is baseless. In an editorial dripping with contempt for their own conclusions, theTimes is compelled to confess that there is really no there there.

“One has to read this editorial to appreciate the angst it engendered in the Gray Lady’s panel of handwringers,” Ed Morrissey observed. “It’s an expert lesson in the use of weasel words.”

Conservatives have rallied to Perry’s side following this baseless indictment. Democrats have scrambled to disassociate themselves from his accusers. Many thought that Perry may end up emerging, paradoxically, in a better political position for having been indicted on corruption charges.

But Rosemary Lehmberg, the local district attorney who managed to secure this indictment and who many believe was exacting political retribution against Perry after he sought her removal from the bench for her DUI arrest, may end up with the last laugh.

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to turn himself into authorities Tuesday afternoon at a local Texas jail on the heels of his indictment for alleged abuse of power, a member of the governor’s legal team told Fox News,” a report read on Tuesday. “Fox News has learned Perry will have his mugshot and fingerprints taken.”

That’s really bad news for those who backed Perry’s prospective 2016 presidential campaign. No matter how frivolous the charges Perry faces, and they are frivolous, few politicians can recover from having a police mugshot follow them around wherever they go. And Perry’s mugshot will do just that in 2015 and 2016.

Life isn’t fair, and neither are high-dollar Republican donors – the kind of people a prospective candidate needs to woo in order to mount an even remotely competitive presidential campaign. Perry has been effectively positioning himself as a more conservative but still electable alternative to more centrist candidates like Chris Christie and Jeb Bush in his pitch to donors, but the notoriously skittish GOP donor base will be nervous about backing a candidate with optics as bad as those the Texas governor will earn today.

Maybe Perry can turn this around and turn even his mugshot into an advantage, as he has so effortlessly with the indictment that precipitated it. But that remains to be seen. When the Republican base’s protective instinct has worn off, that mugshot will still be there. Make no mistake, this is a serious blow to Perry’s viability as a national candidate.


The reason these tactics continue to work is because of the Republican Establishment's reluctance to get their hands dirty in national elections.

They always want to appear as being above the fray of the riff-raff that lives in flyover country...the type of complications that result from incidents like the Perry indictment are beneath them.

And it's why they continue to lose.

36 posted on 08/19/2014 6:31:21 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: napscoordinator

Then go somewhere else and vent your dislike. We don’t appreciate you.


37 posted on 08/19/2014 7:03:06 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: Bratch

Too bad Perry isn’t a Democrat, an arrest on his resume would make him a shoo in in 2016.


38 posted on 08/19/2014 7:05:49 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Hillary or Warren 2016! Why? Just to have a woman for Historical Purpose?? That's Retarded Sir.)
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To: tillacum

Newbie....spit.


39 posted on 08/19/2014 8:24:45 PM PDT by napscoordinator (I guarantee every FRiend Misses the lost opportunity of a President Santorum!)
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To: lbryce

Note George Soros gave the group $500,000 to fund the campaign against Perry.


40 posted on 08/19/2014 8:26:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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