Posted on 08/20/2014 4:48:57 PM PDT by thetallguy24
That’s fair enough, first things first. B^)
I wasn’t a fan of Perry for several reasons, historically he was kind of a squish on things I care about.
But on this he has my support 100%. The criminalization of politics is itself a gross abuse of power, it is the stuff of corrupt totalitarians. This is the kind of thing that destroys rule of law, and leaves a banana republic in its wake.
The writer admits Perry had the right to do what he did. Everything he wrote after that is word-fog. If they can take down Perry with something so transparent, then they can take down anyone they choose.
You'll need eye-bleach, she's ugly with the kind of ugly that comes with bitterness.
Travis County Prosecutor's office needs to get rid of the politics.
/johnny
As we discussed earlier, our new Lt. Gov. Patrick will be working diligently to defrock the Travis County DA's office, and they know it.
I think this is their last big bang of glory before they know the party's over.
Yes, Perry would appoint a replacement until such time as there was a scheduled regular state election. In a Texas county where I lived, the district attorney died. Perry appointed one until the next regular election. My husband was the Republican Chairman of that county and he contacted Perry to ask Perry to consider a certain attorney in the county. That attorney was appointed by Perry.
I recall when the law was passed to create this agency to promote cancer research - I thought at the time the state shouldn't be in the business of cancer research - also, we don't have money to get into research for anything. However, the legislature did create this agency. If the legislature did not write into law the procedure for oversight, that was their fault, not Perry's fault.
State law gives the governor the power to veto any bill, period. His reason for doing it doesn't matter.
Texas was a Democrat state for many years in its early past. The line of Democrat governors filled the thousands of government jobs with Democrats and those early people filled the city/county. Thousands of decedents of these early Democrats still live there and that is why Travis County has remained a Democrat county.
Because our government is in Travis County, the District Attorney of Travis County can indict anyone in our government. No other District Attorney in this state can do that - only the Travis County one can do that. That is why Tom Delay in our US House, was indicted in Travis County by the Democrat Travis County District Attorney. There has never been a Republican District Attorney in Travis County.
You again? Crawled out of your hole to dump on Perry? You did the same thing creating trash about State Attorney General Greg Abbott until your chosen incompetent candidate QUIT. He was a loser and so are you - go pound sand.
$500,000 from Soros to help this thing along.
I think while we’re poking around we should looks at the Baptist FCS or whatever that got 200 million to settle those OTM kids overrunning the border these last months.
As I recall, he requested deactivation of his FR account. Yeah, it was some time ago.
Wow. If the reaction in this thread is any indication, the Travis Co. DA has given Perry an unfathomable gift. Any comment negative of Perry is now circle the wagons zotworthy on FR?
Just wow. What a difference from last time around. It must be nice to get a pass on some real concerns about your credentials because of trumped up charges that won’t go anywhere.
I had already decided to lay off Perry this time around. He’s better than Jeb or Crispy will be, even as I’d prefer Cruz or Palin. My guess is that Perry needs to walk back his “heartless” comment more than “oops”, and I suspect he will.
But still. If you disagree about Perry, you deserve the Zot? Really? How far we’ve come if the machinations of Austin commies send us thumb-sucking to rally round the flag. We, of all people, should be above being so easily manipulated.
You’re wrong about Jo Ann Fleming. I’ve worked with her in the past. She may have been tone deaf in this article, but she is a tireless backer of conservative causes in Texas. I mean conservative as defined by the likes of people on websites like FR. Part of the problem in Texas politics has been the mountain of money vested in the triumvarate of Perry, Dewhurst, and Straus. Dewhurst is gone, Abbot will inherit Perry’s place, and the proper next point of attack is Straus. There is good reason for conservatives to be wary of the money game that has iced them out and kept Democrat chairs in power in a government composed of 2/3rds Republicans.
Jo Ann Fleming works around the clock to de-throne Straus. Calling her names based on her looks is truly classless. Yes. Do look her up online. See how she traveled the state with Ted Cruz, working full time to get him elected. See how she went to dozens of local campaign forums to push candidates to the State House that wouldn’t be under Straus’ thumb.
You’re a self inflating goober
Nice work...I had not seen these
Nice picture. I am a Perry fan.
:)
I think you are overreacting. I and several others here would strongly support Cruz over Perry. What has us so angry right now, is the Travis County smear machine is about to pull a Tom Delay on him. Perry isn't perfect, but he is an honorable man, who has done a decent job here as my governor. He doesn't deserve this, and many of us here are doing something about it.
Exactly..... I hope some of the spineless GOP state reps and senators realize this the next time this comes up for a vote. It could be them.
Whether I agree with him politically or not is not zotworthy.
The original poster has a history of attacking Texas politicians with the sleaziest and most dishonest of hit pieces written by hacks with an agenda.
Perry gets my support against the ugly, feral drunks in the Travis County Prosecutor's office.
/johnny
Straus’s key buddy representatives lost in the primary so that should do him in.
This isn’t the first time for Tall to dump on a Texas elected official. He did it over and over to Texas Attorney General Abbott when Tall’s candidate was running. In his wheelchair, Abbott stands tall between Texas and Eric Holder. So, in my opinion, Tall has a sordid history here.
Those of us who are long-time Texas residents have good reasons for referring to him as "Governor Goodhair." Like Johnny, I'm not a big fan of his for a multitude of reasons. However, if it comes down to him vs. Jeb and the other GOPe's being pushed by Rove & Company, he'll have my vote.
O/T, a huge problem in DC is that the Legislative Branch no longer fulfills its role as a co-equal with the Executive and Judicial branches. They've taken on a subservient role to the Executive Branch, especially when the President is of the same party that controls the House or the Senate.
The obvious exception was the last couple of years of the Clinton Administration. While Clinton was seen as triangulating, the House and Senate fulfilled their role as co-equals in the federal government. When they didn't roll over for Clinton, he grudgingly saw the light.
The author is a hack who will kneecap Perry at every chance, all in the name of Jesus, of course.
“Perry gets my support against the ugly, feral drunks in the Travis County Prosecutor’s office”
Yes and we can all agree that Austin is Libtard Central in Texas. If its coming out of Austin it can’t be good for republicans.
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