"I'm Rick Perry, and I don't approve of this political BS".
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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I assume that the Texas state legislature, controlled by Republicans, can impeach and remove the judge. That ends the silly process of a mug shot and fingerprints.
That needs to be done - now.
If that’s not possible, send a punitive expeditionary force into Austin to clean out that nest of commies and fascists.
I guess we’ll all get to see how “frivolous lawsuits” should be handled.
"I'm Rick Perry, and I don't approve of this political BS".
The dems just dug themselves into a PR nightmare of epic proportions.
This is ridiculous.
Obama has a plan.
He’s gonna drop the soap.
What a pathetic malignancy the DIMs/LIBs are.
He should refuse to get his mug shot taken. Let them come arrest the Gov. This is pure bans name republic politics.
I hope goes the route that Tom Delay took for his mug shot. It was positively flattering!
this is pure Banana Republic politics.
Bwahahaha!
Agreed. There’s no way he should give in to this utter BS.
Out of curiosity, why do you think he handled it poorly? I’m asking sincerely.
I hope you are right. This same bunch have destroyed Tom Delay and went after Kay Bailey Hutchinson. This is what they do, DESTROY reputations to low information voters. They have been very successful over the years. Republicans have never been good at getting in the mud pit, but they had better learn to protect their own. Something we are going to have to start demanding they do if we are to turn this country around.
And that’s it. They play dirty dirty and Republicans should never forget it. Of course they are ‘above all that’. That’s why they keep losing elections. They allow the Dems to set the narrative and they are constantly on defense. Then the stupid public believes exactly what the Dems want them to see.
From what I have seen, the Republicans are not interested in protecting their own.
I know. Makes me sick to my stomach.
He should make the mug shot into a campaign poster
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