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Travis County DA Ronnie Earle
aka, "Dances with chickens"
I wonder if there was any "choking" going on...
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Posted on 09/20/2013 5:34:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’d like to see him back in the fray, too. If the lefties are that afraid of him, let’s get him front and center. And this time let’s ALL fight dirty. Honestly, the mealy-mouthed too-nice Pubs in DC are beginning to get to me.
I’d rather see that slimy prosecutor Earle wearing an orange jumpsuit.
The greatest mugshot ever...! I wish that Delay was Speaker today instead of the weeper.
The full Third Court of Appeals will not do them any good. The 3 member group that ruled on the case contained the only “Progressive” judge on the court. They only highlighted 2 or 3 elements of the case out of 10 or 12 that would have had the case thrown out before prosecution in any other trial court not located in Austin. Ronnie Earl did not seek reelection and “slunk off into obscurity before he could be sanctioned and prosecuted”.
Delay was on Hannity’s show last night. He said that the idea of a prosecutor like Earle being immune to proecution or lawsuits for something like this is just a theory, and that he and his lawyer(s) were going to put that theory to the test.
Delay's defense was that he had nothing to do with it and at the time didn't even know that employees were doing it.
I hope he does —
****Ronnie Earl did not seek reelection and “slunk off into obscurity before he could be sanctioned and prosecuted”.****
Not a good idea. It is turning into a cesspool as well.
Turning? That train left the station a long time ago.
Oh, that would be awesome -- on many levels.
Malicious prosecution is a real problem. It would be good to see some precedents set, putting prosecutors on notice that they are personally liable for misconduct.
Those who worked for Delay pled guilty to the crime.
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I don’t remember the details but one name comes to mind that did plead guilty was Tony C. Rudy.
Rudy pled guilty to conspiring with GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff to corrupt public officials.
That plea was after he left DeLay to become a lobbyist.
Please call it Travis County’s shame. A lot of us Texans fully supported Speaker DeLay.
When I first moved to Texas I was in the 9th district, represented by the despicable Nick Lampson. After the 2000 census, and much political haggling and delay tactics by the failing and flailing Texas Democrat party, the districts were re-drawn and I found myself in the 22nd district represented by Tom Delay. This re-drawing left Lampson out in the cold, where he belonged. I got to vote for Delay once before this legacy of LBJ politics led Delay out of the run for congress. The timing was perfect, for the Democrat crowd, as the only way a Republican could appear on the ballot was via write-in. Texas write-in laws are quirky and the ballyhooed candidate not all that strong, resulting in Lampson becoming my representative again. Then came Olson. Olson is a nice enough fellow, but more like a copy made at the end of a mimeograph run than a real stand out representative. Even so, he demolished Lampson by just appearing on the ballot with an “R” by his name. Seems the 22nd district voters didn’t forget.
Wish I could sue Earle for alienation of representation.
The NappyOne
Way too little and too late. The job of DA involves huge power and almost nothing you'd call accountability; it is a natural magnet for pychopaths (Janet Reno, Scott Harshbarger, Martha Coakley, Nifong, Earle, Angela Corey, the lunatics behind that David Camm case which i going on right now.....)
What is needed in my estimation is this: We need to keep our jury system and the idea of an assumption of innocence but, otherwise, we need to entirely get rid of the "adversarial" system of justice along with the job of DA/Prosecutor, and adopt something like the "inquisitorial" system which the French use in which the common incentive of all legal officials in the picture is to figure out what actually happened, and determine punishment if warranted.
NOBODY should ever have any sort of a money or career incentive to simply put people in prison.
Travis County DA Ronnie Earle
aka, "Dances with chickens"
I wonder if there was any "choking" going on...
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The campaign money came from a Texas Manufacturers Trade Association and the Abramoff money came from indian tribes.
Gale Norton, Sec of Interior, had to resign because she was getting some of that tribal money.
Way back then they said DeLay would be more likely to suffer because of Abramoff than he would because of the Texas campaign money.
What really suffered was DeLay's reputation as "The Hammer".
Turned out he really wasn't a hammer, he was controlling which republicans and which democrats got the Abramoff money.
Anyway, who cares? This is ancient history.
Ya think?? There were reports of the DA being gay way back when.
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