Posted on 08/16/2014 6:35:47 PM PDT by WilliamIII
They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. The “crime” for which Perry faces a sentence of 5 to 99 years in prison is vetoing funding for a state agency. The conventions of reporting — which treat the fact of an indictment as the primary news, and its merit as a secondary analytic question — make it difficult for people reading the news to grasp just how farfetched this indictment is.
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Nah. This will have no effect outside of Texas.
Clearly political, but it could wind up helping him.
"Republican Perry Indicted on Multiple Felony Charges"
He was just doing the job he was elected to do!
Even Texas capitol city is every bit as much a pimple on it’s’ A$$ as is Chicago to Illinois. Just a RAT infestation with a drawl! I guess this drunk took over for Ronnie Earle (of Tom DeLay fame).
.... Not just a pattern Bryan24 .... It's an M.O.. It's how they eliminate the best candidates ... Reference .... Last Federal Election ....
...Republicans take note. (Unless you are involved .... then go away)
Mostly the drawl is found beyond the city limits, where all the native Texans moved to when the transplants from California took over Austin.
The behavior of Rosemary Lehmberg during her drunk driving arrest shows a public official of the most corrupt kind you can find. The people of Texas should have started a recall process the minute that video became available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxsCH_p1oc
I was glad to hear Judge Jeanine on Fox making national news of the incident with that lowlife Rosemary Lehmberg, but I did cringe every time she said Austin County. Psst... It’s Travis County. Austin County is near Houston. Gaffe aside, though, it was a pretty good rant.
I am so thankful this happened. I can’t stand him and hopefully at least this stops him from running for President. He is horrible in so many ways.
I thought that ALOT of the transplants in Austin came from Katrina, am I
wrong about this? I thought that this is where Texas brought most of these
folks can someone from Texas enlighten me in this matter Thank you!!!
She should be nicknamed the wench on the bench.
She's not a judge; she's a prosecutor.
I.e., the wench before the bench...
Mark
Not that I know of. We saw the Katrina victims show up here, but that is not the bulk of what we’ve taken on.
Austin has been recruiting from California for years and years. I can remember griping about it as far back as ‘92. They are now moving here by the hundreds every day.
Shameless?
Liberals are powerful and smart. Organized. Motivated.
I wish the conservative movement had 1% of the boldness and balls that the liberals have.
The liberals in Texas got a sitting governor indicted for using his veto power.
Can we say that the conservative movement has done anything remotely as powerful as this?
Hell no. We write "open letters" and columns on the internet that nobody reads.
Its illegal and the District Attorney should be dismissed for exceeding his statutory powers.
10-1 he is a Democrat.
10-1 he is a Democrat.
Of course, she is a Democrat. She's the DA of Travis County. Which means she is completely within her statutory powers.
As posted on a previous thread:
For the benefit of non-Texans, they need to know that the state's constitution grants the Travis County District Attorney legal jurisdiction over every elected official in the state -- including those elected to federal office.Travis County is home to the capitol, Austin, and generally populated by moonbats -- government workers, lobbyists, university faculty, techies, artists & musicians & dopers and their hangers-on. It's San Francisco-on-the-Colorado.
As a consequence, Travis County elects far left local politicians -- and their DA happens to exert statewide power. And they have no trouble finding a grand jury that's ready to indict a Republican for chewing gum on the wrong side of his mouth.
Tom Delay was one example. Even the inoffensive Kay Bailey Hutchison was a target of some trumped up charges that were dropped one second after the court was gaveled to order.
Lehmberg's action against Perry is nothing more than partisan harassment designed to complicate his presidential run.
And, no, I don't know why the state legislature hasn't gotten around to posing a constitutional amendment that would end this petty scourge.
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