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The Persecution of Tom Delay
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| 09-28-05
| the heavy equipment guy
Posted on 09/28/2005 3:16:59 PM PDT by backhoe
"We regret the people of Texas will once again have their taxpayer dollars wasted on Ronnie Earle's pursuit of headlines and political paybacks. Ronnie Earle began this investigation in 2002, after the Democrat Party lost the Texas state legislature to Republicans. For three years and through numerous grand juries, Ronnie Earle has tried to manufacture charges against Republicans involved in winning those elections using arcane statutes never before utilized in a case in the state. This indictment is nothing more than prosecutorial retribution by a partisan Democrat."
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.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 109th; delay; dempos; earle; ethics; persecution; probe; rather; rathergate; ronnieearle; tomdelay
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To: A Citizen Reporter
I'm looking for an article I read this afternoon about the corporate contributions Ronnie Earle received for his D.A. campaign. Do you remember seeing it?I don't recall seeing that- but I skim thru the links, and might have missed it.
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posted on
09/28/2005 4:14:37 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: Moolah
While it is true that Earle has prosecuted more Dems than Republicans that is because for most of the time he has been in office the majority of elected state officials and congressmen have been Dems. Earle simply prosecuted conservative Dems, most of whom, like Texas Governor Rick Perry, have now switched to the Republican Party.
To: Moolah
The information going around on the Internet about Earle prosecuting Democrats is misleading. At the time of those prosecutions, Texas was a Democratic state, the Republican party was almost nonexistent, and the prosecutions were aimed at Conservative Democrats, they were political enemies of Earle.
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posted on
09/28/2005 4:53:09 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
To: Moolah
Some lib just told me Earle has prosecuted more Dems than Reps, is this true?From what I learned today, apparently years ago ole Earle did prosecute more Dems than Republicans. However, that was back when the majority, if not the only politicans in Texas WERE democrats. Back then the fight was between liberal democrats and conservative democrats. Earle went after the conservative dems. So those trying to justify Earle by saying that he has prosecuted more Democrats than Republicans AREN'T telling the REST of the story.
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posted on
09/28/2005 6:05:54 PM PDT
by
Chena
(I'm not young enough to know everything)
To: Moolah
Okay. I'll accept that you are on the good side of things.
Pop in a little and let us know that!
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posted on
09/28/2005 6:26:44 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
To: backhoe
You know, our side really needs to start looking at our political rivals and begin taking names, ending careers, busting up marriages, and ruining their children's lives.
To paraphrase a great film, we need a wartime consigliere - a Sicilian. ;-)
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posted on
09/28/2005 6:30:13 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
To: Moolah
Ronnie Earle was a member of the legislature b/f he ran for DA. Never prosecuted a case. He was brought in as a hack to enforce party discipline.
When Dims were the majority, he went after conservative Dims he didn't like. Now that there'll all Republicans and Liberal Dims are the pathetic minority, he goes after Republicans.
Earle has ALWAYS used his office to enforce political vendettas.
To: backhoe
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posted on
09/28/2005 7:54:57 PM PDT
by
TheSarce
(The Silent Majority is finding its voice. It goes to ELEVEN!)
To: backhoe
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posted on
09/28/2005 8:20:32 PM PDT
by
TheSarce
(The Silent Majority is finding its voice. It goes to ELEVEN!)
To: backhoe
And one more, from March 2004. Post #20 has some background info on why a County DA does prosecutions for the entire state. Interesting references from Texas newspapers in that resolution, and the Houston Chron and Dallas Morning News are very liberal papers.
[March '04] Probe May Force Delay To Step Down (Texas Witch Hunt)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1105136/posts
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posted on
09/28/2005 11:17:40 PM PDT
by
TheSarce
(The Silent Majority is finding its voice. It goes to ELEVEN!)
To: TheSarce
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09/29/2005 12:25:41 AM PDT
by
backhoe
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09/29/2005 12:41:44 AM PDT
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backhoe
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09/29/2005 12:44:02 AM PDT
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backhoe
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09/29/2005 12:46:31 AM PDT
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backhoe
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09/29/2005 12:52:00 AM PDT
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backhoe
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09/29/2005 12:59:02 AM PDT
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backhoe
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09/29/2005 1:10:52 AM PDT
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backhoe
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posted on
09/29/2005 1:17:41 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: Dog Gone; Moolah
Yeah, long ago Earle successfully prosecuted a handful of corrupt Democrats (not too hard to find) but what he was actually doing was settling some internal rat squabbles - - he helped his camp of rats against the other camp of rats. Nowadays he and his handlers (along with, of course, the liberal newsrooms) point to those old prosecutions in order to support their declaration that Earle "goes after both parties", and is "fair" and "nonpartisan", etc.
Bottom line, the guy's a scumbag and a hack - - a typical Travis County (home of the Rathergate forgery) Democrat.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
LH
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