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'Moderate' Voice Fails to State Why Rick Perry Pushed for DA Removal
NewsBusters ^ | August 16, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/16/2014 3:20:15 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

One should always put the "Moderate" in Moderate Voice in quotes. Why? Because they are a Liberal Voice masquerading as a "Moderate" Voice. It's a nice little shtick to hide their real agenda but sometimes they get a little too obvious in the attempt to hide  their inner Liberal.

A good example is the Moderate Voice story about Texas Governor Rick Perry getting indicted by a Travis County grand jury for "abusing" his power by pushing for the removal of that county's District Attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg. To read their story, you would have no idea why Perry was pushing for her to leave office other than wanting to remove a Democrat from office. However, to see the reason why Perry and many others wanted her out of the D.A. spot you need to watch her drunken antics (after the jump) when she was arrested for DUI last year. Something the "Moderate" Voice so very conveniently failed to mention.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: drunkenmoonbat; rickperry; rosemarylehmberg; texas; traviscounty
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To: rhinohunter
The one thing this does tell us is that the demoncraps see Perry as a threat in 2016.

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That for sure is one possibility. But another is that this is an Austin Texas squabble
between differing factions, namely the governor and the Travis county DA. At this
juncture I tend to think it is a local fight.

21 posted on 08/16/2014 4:48:33 PM PDT by deport
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To: Spok
This is going to be the future of politics-every Republican or conservative that poses a credible threat to a Democrat will be indicted or investigated.

And Sarah Palin will laugh and say "Welcome to MY world!"

22 posted on 08/16/2014 4:58:47 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: skeeter

Yep...I think he needs to call MADD. Heck, they make the most radical organization seem tame.


23 posted on 08/16/2014 5:59:43 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Sooth2222
If you buy 23 gallons of vodka, and you don't operate a bar or restaurant, I think there is a good chance you have a problem.

If it was scotch I would guess that she was having a couple Kennedys drop by. But then that is, by definition, a problem.

24 posted on 08/16/2014 6:37:41 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: deport; rhinohunter; El Zoro
"I tend to think it is a local fight"

Its about Tom Delay.

Let's review: Delay was convicted and appealed. The 3rd court of appeals overturned the conviction last Sept. Lehmberg appealed to the State Court of Appeals, which is the highest criminal court in Texas. They agreed to hear the case last spring.

After Lehmbert's "episode", Perry saw the chance to save Delay. He first threatened to veto the entire funding to public corruption unit. Then Perry met with Lehmberg and told her if she would resign, he would find another job for her, which would allow him to appoint her replacement, who would squash the Delay prosecution.

She refused that deal, so Perry vetoed/cut funding for the entire public corruption unit trying undermine the prosecution, but the county came up with some funding to keep it going.

25 posted on 08/16/2014 6:47:06 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: PJ-Comix

Indeed - “The Moderate Voice” is an ultra-liberal publication.


26 posted on 08/16/2014 9:36:00 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: El Zoro
When you resort to ad hominen attacks, that means you have lost the argument.

There is not doubt that the campaign money was laundered. The men who worked for Delay pled guilty and were convicted.

Delay's defense is/was that he had nothing to do with it, didn't know about it, these other men did it. Nobody believes that.

But, it is possible that since his fingerprints are not on the deal, he could walk.

28 posted on 08/17/2014 5:51:19 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: PJ-Comix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxsCH_p1oc


30 posted on 08/17/2014 10:49:09 AM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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