This is the “Mccrum bit” —
> The special prosecutor who obtained an abuse of power indictment against Texas Gov. Rick Perry was once set to become the U.S. Attorney in San Antonio... Defense lawyer Michael McCrum... had been the consensus choice of Austin-area Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a liberal Democrat, and the state’s two senators at the time, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans. Doggett at the time had been vocally upset over [Zero’s] willingness to accept the Republican senators’ recommendations for the top federal prosecuting jobs in Texas over those of House Democrats... Doggett abandoned his first choice to back McCrum, because he was both acceptable to Doggett and backed by Hutchison and Cornyn.
So, let me see if I have this right. The guy who got this indictment was maybe going to get to become the US Atty, but his dem sponsor dropped him because the two R senators liked him?
Two comments, one, it seems he should be ticked off with the dems and, how come that derailed it? Do they need all kinds of sponsors? Couldn’t Obama have picked him anyway?
But, at this point he’s shown himself to be a hack among hacks, so perhaps it is to the good he did not obtain a more powerful perch.