Posted on 08/18/2014 4:00:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A Texas judge opted Monday not to issue an arrest warrant against Gov. Rick Perry, but the Republican still faces the unflattering prospect of being booked, fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken — and has assembled a team of high-powered attorneys to fight the two felony counts of abuse of power against him.
"This is nothing more than banana republic politics," Tony Buzbee a Houston-based defense attorney who will head a cadre of four lawyers from Texas and Washington defending Perry, said at a news conference.
A grand jury in Austin, a liberal bastion in otherwise largely conservative Texas, indicted Perry for carrying out a threat to veto $7.5 million in funding for the state's public integrity unit after Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, refused to resign following a drunken driving arrest. The ethics unit is housed under Lehmberg's office.
No one disputes that Perry has the power to veto measures approved by the Legislature, but his threat to do so before actually carrying it out prompted a complaint from a left-leaning watchdog group.
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All is going according to the MSM's plan.
Unfrickingbelievable!!! This is going to backfire so bad on the Dems. They are not called Libtards for nothing. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Perry will be sought after on every talk show. This is going to catapult his presidential campaign.
When will Eric Withholder be arrested, fingerprinted, and photographed for gun running to narcoterrorists in Mexico and lying to Congress?
ABC ( Always Been Communist) are so Happy they got this
story! Their network must be curling through their wine.
and the mugshot will be posted everywhere come the election
this is how they play.
learn it.
then look at 0bama... can he be held to the letter of the law anywhere? then hold him to it and don’t back down until it’s exhausted
the main problem with the right is there are so many of the left in its leadership
Exactly. And that’s the least of his crimes.
Amen to that.
Is there no way he can refuse to do this?
Perry should give campaign smile when the picture is taken - maybe give a thumbs up. Don’t give them a surly, guilty looking picture to post.
From the story—>>> No one disputes that Perry has the power to veto measures approved by the Legislature, but his threat to do so before actually carrying it out prompted a complaint from a left-leaning watchdog group.
They got a mugshot out of Tom Delay. He had a handsome smile on his face.
This. Is. B.S.
Smash the domestic communists by all means necessary.
Marxists out!
“indicted Perry for carrying out a threat to veto $7.5 million in funding for the state’s public integrity unit after Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, refused to resign following a drunken driving arrest. The ethics unit is housed under Lehmberg’s office. “
Ok, I’ll admit this is the first I’ve read of the issue here, but how the ever-lovin f**k would anyone think Perry did something “wrong” here?
This has got to be the most politically-motivated sack of horse dung to ever be attempted.
And to pull this in Texas? That’s some real stupidity there.
Agree. A smile and a thumbs up is also a “Gig ‘Em”, for Ags.
This to avenge a corrupt public official who reportedly said on one of this videos that this would tank her career.
I remember the anticipation when Tom Delay was going to have his mug shot taken. He played it smartly, wearing a tie, jacket, looking directly into the camera with a huge grin on his face. It looked exactly like a campaign photo and the democrats got absolutely no mileage out of it. I suspect Gov.Perry will do the same.
a contract is needed
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