Ronnie Earle, DA in the peoples republic of Austin. "Does he have a record of selectively bringing charges against Republicans" is sort of like asking "Does dan rather have a history of trying to take down politicians named Bush". This ass-clown brought a totally empty indictment against Kay Bailey-Hutchinson, and has prosecuted numerous other GOP politicians with no case whatsoever.
The GOP has an ethics rule that any member who is under indictment must step down from any leadership position. When they started to amend the rule to allow members to retain their position through the course of due process so that politically motivated indictments would not topple leaders, the democrats and the media of course decried such a scandalous rule change. Of course they never bothered to mention that this type of indictment would not affect a democrat since the democrats have no such ethics rules against themselves.
" When they started to amend the rule to allow members to retain their position through the course of due process so that politically motivated indictments would not topple leaders, the democrats and the media of course decried such a scandalous rule change. Of course they never bothered to mention that this type of indictment would not affect a democrat since the democrats have no such ethics rules against themselves"
Time to demand that the Dems adopt the EXACT same rule.
According to wikipedia:
Politicians investigated by Earle
* Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough (Democrat - 1978)
* Texas State Rep. Mike Martin (Republican - 1982)
* State Treasurer Warren Harding (Democrat - 1982)
* Attorney General Jim Mattox (Democrat - 1985)
* House Speaker Gib Lewis (Democrat - 1992)
* U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Republican - 1994)
* Former state Rep. Betty Denton (Democrat - 1995)
* Former state Rep. Lane Denton (Democrat - 1995)
* Jack Abramoff (Republican-2002?)