Posted on 08/20/2014 3:30:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s no holds barred in RickPac’s latest video, which continues to eviscerate the legitimacy of the abuse of power indictment made against Gov. Rick Perry over a budget veto within the Travis County District Attorney’s office.
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg was arrested for drunk driving; she refused to resign, and Gov. Perry vetoed her Public Integrity Unit. And that’s how this whole circus began.
As Dan noted earlier today, the New York Times labeled the indictment "overzealous:"
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America, having done great harm to immigrants, abortion clinics and people without health insurance during his 14 years in office. But bad political judgment is not necessarily a felony, and the indictment handed up against him on Friday — given the facts so far — appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution.
For more than a year, Mr. Perry has been seeking the resignation of the Travis County district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg. He had good reason to do so: Ms. Lehmberg was arrested in April 2013 for driving with a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit, and she verbally abused the officers who found her with an open bottle of vodka. She ranted and raved at the local jail, threatening sheriff’s deputies, and she had to be restrained in a chair with a hood over her head. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. In addition to endangering people’s lives, she instantly lost her credibility as a prosecutor of drunken-driving cases.
Good shootin’ Governor.
Fertile minds need to come up with a strategy to move against those behind this bogus indictment. Can they be charged with abuse of power? Who has contributed to their campaigns? Were they coordinating their efforts with the DNC? etc.
Fertile minds? I’ve never heard that expression, but I know what you mean and I agree
How do we keep whores of Babylon like this out of our democratic process? What a pig.
Easy, change the democratic process.
The democrat whore of Babylon was elected by the voters, so we change the process and let the republican governor decide that she cannot serve and it becomes the republican governor's duty to replace her with a republican.
Except, she refused, which meant that the republican governor would cut off funding, which is only partially effective in limiting her from performing the duties she was elected to do.
Well, of course, the problem is the low-information voters who put this disgrace in office. I’m still in shock over the video, I guess. I’ve been a little - shall we say - bombed on occasion and never acted like this. Of course, I refuse to drive if I even have one cocktail.
OTOH, DWI is illegal. But, while Perry has been Gov, two GOP district attorneys have been convicted of DWI and Perry didn't try to remove them from office.
So, the DWI standard that Perry used for Lehmberg applies only to democrats. Which is changing the democratic process.
So why are all the DAs in Texas drunks?
I’m going to take a wild guess and say you aren’t smart enough to know her Public Integrity Unit is a statewide position of authority and the other DA’s position of authority isn’t statewide.
A DA is a DA. The candidate runs for the office of DA, not the office of PIU. The Travis County DA is not held to a higher cultural or legal standard than any other DA.
So even if the Travis County DA recuses as she did on the Perry complaint, the complaint has gone forward. In fact, the other dem judge, Kocurekof, also recused. But it was picked up by the GOP judge, Stubblefield who is a Perry appointee and a member of the 3rd appeals ct, who handed it off to another republican judge, Richardson, who hired prosecutor McCrum, who got the indictment.
But for all this to play out optimally in the press, we can keep on blaming the whore of Babylon, Lehmberg.
And just because perry cut off the money, that doesn't means she's broke.
She has authority no other DA in the state has.
She is held to a higher standard.
And you must have noticed that Perry was indicted, even tho she recused and had nothing to do with it.
She also appealed Tom Delay's case to the State Court of Criminal Appeals.
They need to trash that DA like Trump trashed Rosie. Relentless is the watchword.
Thank you for pointing out why left wing freaks should never be elected to a position of authority.
You’ve explained it much better than I ever could.
No problem. I understand how easy it is at Free Republic to get caught up in the rhetoric and lose sight of reality.
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