Posted on 12/14/2007 6:11:35 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
AUSTIN—Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle on Friday announced he won’t seek re-election next year.
The 65-year-old Democrat was at the center of the criminal investigation of Republican former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
DeLay quit Congress last year.
Earle’s term has one year remaining, and his resignation will bring to an end to his three-decade reign in which he battled some of the biggest names in Texas politics.
Earle has been criticized by DeLay and other Republicans, who say some of his prosecutions of elected leaders are politically motivated.
"This is a no-brainer for him. He never had any intention of finishing off his revenge on Tom DeLay and is scared to death of being Nifong-ed while still in office,” DeLay spokeswoman Shannon Flaherty said in a statement, comparing Earle to the disgraced district attorney in the Duke lacrosse team rape case. "Good riddance to another corrupt DA."
But Earle points out that he prosecutes Democrats as well as Republicans.
DeLay and the Republican fundraisers who were indicted with him are still awaiting trial in Austin......"
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
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Will DeLay ever get a trial on the trumped up charges? I remember DeLay said recently that he intended to pursue criminal charges against Earle. Retiring won’t protect him. DeLay will have his day in court eventually.
It was never about the conviction; just a political hit job.
Yep, but there are still outstanding charges against DeLay (I think) and those need to be resolved. Hopefully the new prosecuter will dismiss them clearing the way for DeLay to tear Earle a new one.
I would love to see DeLay pursue criminal charges against Earle, cannot come too soon. Thse Prosecutors think they are God.
He only prosecutes conservatives whether Democrat or Republican. The only liberal he prosecuted was Jim Mattox and that was to help his friend Ann Richards in the Democrat primary for governor. The press loves to tout his prosecuting Democrats but again it was only conservative Democrats.
He is a partisan POS. He has done these persecutions and escaped justice himself.
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