Posted on 09/28/2005 9:35:52 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by Texas grand jury, according to Travis County clerk's office.
Truer words have never been spoken.
If you run the two press conferences back to back, it is painfully obvious that Earle just doesn't have the evidence to back up his partisian indictment.
"Well, just like a Ronnie Earle indictment, this seems to be all charge and no substance. IOW, there is NO evidence."
In which case the Earle is guilty of bringing up frivilous charges on everyone, from what you have said. Is there any evidence he has done this more often with republicans than democrats? That is what you need to prove partisanship...
And he just stepped on his schlong by jumping onto the National Stage....
Even the Media in Austin isn't buying this, from the sound of that press conference.
He's in THE BIG GAME now, and that usually isn't healthy for Democrat Pawns! Do I see DEAN in the shadows of this??
I thought the quote was about indicting a ham sandwich.
oh well, let the mayo fall where it may(o) or something like that.
This guy Earle is a lib to the bone. Check out his links at ronnieearle.com.
http://www.ronnieearle.com/links.html
STRONG SPEECH BY DELAY!!!
On Ronnie Earle Raising Money For Democrats.
Ronnie Earle is at it again. The partisan Democrat District Attorney from Travis County (Austin), Texas, has, because of a quirk in the Texas law, the peculiar jurisdiction over statewide political issues, and he has persistently abused that authority over the past decade.
Earle became ignominious in Texas when he launched the politically motivated investigation of three of Tom DeLay's associates working for Texans For a Republican Majority (TRMPAC). This investigation has not produced any credible or compelling evidence of corruption, but it is widely cited by the left as evidence that DeLay is dirty.
In the ongoing controversy over whether he is an objective voice for justice or merely an arm of the DeLay-hating mob, Earle has "hammered" the final nail in that coffin.
According to The Houston Chronicle, Earle has now crossed the line into raising money for far-left interest groups:
A newly formed Democratic political action committee, Texas Values in Action Coalition, hosted the May 12 event in Dallas to raise campaign money to take control of the state Legislature from the GOP, organizers said.
Earle, an elected Democrat, helped generate $102,000 for the organization.
In his remarks, Earle likened DeLay to a bully and spoke about political corruption and the investigation involving DeLay, the House majority leader from Sugar Land, according to a transcript supplied by Earle....
"It may help Tom DeLay establish his case that Ronnie Earle's investigation is a partisan witch hunt," said Richard Murray, a political scientist with the University of Houston.
"It clearly fuels the perception that his investigation is politically motivated. It was probably not a wise move," said Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who heads the watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics.
Earle has a history of vicious partisan hackery:
EARLE'S LAST FORAY INTO politicized prosecution in 1993 turned into a huge embarrassment when he went after Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), who was then Texas Treasurer. Earle made a series of trumped-up charges, including that the demure Hutchison had physically assaulted an employee. Earle dropped the case during the trial.
Defenders of Earle like to point to the red herring that Earle has prosecuted Democrats, as well as Republicans, over the years. What they don't mention is that those Democrats were clearly guilty of serious violations (the cases were open and shut), and those prosecutions happened decades ago, when Texas was essentially a one-party state (controlled almost entirely by Democrats).
The real issue here is a failure on the part of Democrats to cope with the loss of political power they held in Texas (and elsewhere) for so many generations. Because Democrats have been so ineffective at the ballot box, and because DeLay is, in part, responsible for that failure, he must be destroyed.
Ronnie Earle, by invoking DeLay's name in the raising of money for far-left Democrat interest groups, has shown his true colors; he is indeed a partisan prosecutor out to get DeLay, and those who claim otherwise are deluding themselves.
Agreed.
Tom Delay needs to dig his old BG Gun out of his garage and spray Ronnie with it like he used to termites or Black widow spiders, or RATS. Once an exterminator, always an exterminator. LOL!
Rove may not be an elected politician....but I think that an idictment of him would cause MORE trouble for Bush...
and I would have to say right now...that the piling on that has been going on for the last 5 years...is just dragging the whole country down...
The ELECTED POTUS is being "innuendoed" (not a word, I know)...every single day...
I do pray though that if Rove is indicted, that it won't have a major affect on President Bush or our country.
Travis County, what party is the DA a member of?
Tom DeLay said it all. I can add nothing to his statement or to the facts.
Someone here will find a copy of his statement and it needs a separate posting on a thread of its own!
Is this the same Rat DA that has been causing trouble for other Republican office holders?
Since you seem to have lost track of it in all the noise you are putting out, here is the original post you still have not responded to.
Could you actually prove your accusation? I know you Democrats claim to believe in the principal of innocence until proved guilty or as in Clinton's case innocence despite prove guilt because he "means well" but your failure to conform to your own rhetoric raises serious doubts about your sanity.
Could we please have some PARAGRAPHS?!
When you provide them, I'll debate you,urchin.
I have the feeling that Ronnie boy is going to find out why they call Tom DeLay The Hammer. Pin your ears back, son...
Yes, but now he no longer the house majority leader and this breaks me up cause i truly love the man!
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