Posted on 03/31/2023 8:55:03 AM PDT by Wayne07
AUSTIN, Tex. — A grand jury indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts on Friday, charging that he abused his power last year when he tried to pressure the district attorney here, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to cut off state financing to her office.
The indictment left Mr. Perry, a Republican, the first Texas governor in nearly 100 years to face criminal charges and presented a major roadblock to his presidential ambitions at the very time that he had been showing signs of making a comeback.
Grand jurors in Travis County charged Mr. Perry with abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant, according to Michael McCrum, the special prosecutor assigned to the case.
The long-simmering case has centered on Mr. Perry’s veto power as governor. His critics asserted that he used that power as leverage to try to get an elected official — Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney in Travis County — to step down after her arrest on a drunken-driving charge last year. Ms. Lehmberg is Austin’s top prosecutor and oversees a powerful public corruption unit that investigates state, local and federal officials; its work led to the 2005 indictment of a former Republican congressman, Tom DeLay, on charges of violating campaign finance laws.
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Great detail.
Good work
No kidding where have you been
Most of the Republican Party is ex democrats since till recently the GOP was too lazy to register new voters see Ronald Reagan for example
Once again tell that to Ronald Reagan
A football analogy would be, if your opponent is holding, and not getting called for it. You do it, because “that is how the game is being called today”.
Now if the officials allow holding by one team, and not by the other, the game is fixed.
Simply put, the game is fixed. Others could explain this better, but present things to the public in this way may help. Most people hate a crooked game, cop, or Judge. Play this right and our side gains converts.
Good post.
Recall that Dick Durbin is an ILL senator because Lois Lerner at the FEC in 1996 charged his opponent with election violations just before the election.
Four years later, a federal judge dropped all charges.
“Did y’all hear Ronnie Earle died of COVID? I laughed when I heard that; hope it was painful.”
God works WONDERS!
I remember when Ronnie Earle indicated Kay Baily Hutchinson just prior to her first Senate election. Within a week after she won, he simply DROPPED ALL CHARGES.
The idea of having a DA from Austin investigate state-level corruption made sense before Austin turned into lobbyist-fueled Leftist Paradise (roughly 1980), but it was insane after that happened. Texas has now, thankfully, eliminated that virus from our system, but we still have a GOP run by RINOs.
Reagan was a great man, but one need look no further than his immigration policies to understand how “conservatism”.
Well there’s always the Bush family to see true conservatism
Good Lord don’t have a coronary.
My point was that they’ll try to drag it out that long because they did before.
I’ve said over and over that the left will never take trump down. If he gets destroyed, it will be by his own
Doings. Trump is the only one who can take trump down.
The only time he starts losing ground and fervent supporters is when says stupid crap that conservatives don’t like AND the media/ liberals are leaving him alone at the same time.
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