Now just what would a fellow from BC know about Texas and our governor other than what he reads in the press or picks up via hearsay? About as much as I know about that drug addict buffoon elected Mayor of Toronto I should think.
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Sorry--- I was not clear! I meant your POTUS not your Texas Governor! Granted my opinion of the current POTUS has come from press, hearsay and comments on this forum!
Right now, Texas legally has a governor. On the other hand, no one has legally held the office of POTUS since January of 2009. We have an illegal squatter residing there right now and a bunch of people who never took an oath to defend the Constitution *enabling* his illegal occupancy. All of them are guilty of treason.
Perry fired the DA for a wild drunk driving arrest so she indicted him in retaliation for firing her for cause from an ethics commission. The news is that his mug shot makes him look great while her mug show from her arrest makes her look like a drunk reprobate (which she was and maybe is). Hope they post them side by side for comic relief. Of course the lame stream media won't do that because it would make a Democrat look bad. Nobody ever said politics wasn't a blood sport.
It's going to be interesting...but bottom line...hypothetical at best...Perry vs Hillary...for whom do you vote?
Couple of mistakes in this thread. Perry fired nobody. He did nothing that would affect the performance of her legitimate office. All he did was defund a project/position from which she clearly disqualified herself by her behavior. He had both the Constitutional right and the responsibility to do so. I find nothing wrong in this and much to praise.
Unfortunately, Hitlery will get many votes from women (because she's a woman) for the same reason the 0 got many black votes (because he's black). Also, the negro population will see her as the better bet to keep getting taxpayer funded food, booze, cigarettes, tattoos, piercings, hair and nail salons, etc.
Yes, I know welfare doesn't directly pay for those things other than food. But, many, if not most of those on welfare that I see pictured, have tattoos, piercings and are often smoking cigarettes (or perhaps Swisher Sweets cigars).
Why do they need welfare if they can afford tattoos, piercings, jewelry, nail jobs, hairdos and smokes?
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We haven't lost him yet. A few thoughts on this:
The woman, The District Attorney of Travis County Texas, went out and got drunk. She wasn't a little drunk. She was **** faced fallen down snokkered. She got caught and it weren't pretty. When she sobered up and got rid of the headache she was apologetic, stood trial, took her medicine, did her time and went back to work. Good for her.
The Chief of Police of Austin, Travis County, Texas, sick of Officers getting caught for Drunk Driving, instituted a no pass policy. You do it your gone. Now I might be wrong, but I believe the DA is the Head Law Enforcement Official of the County they serve. So maybe not so good for her.
Several legal minds around the country have weighed in and said Perry was within the Constitutional Law of the State and had every right to act as he did.
One local commentator said that these kind of Political Prosecutions were becoming a troublesome way of getting rid of political opponents.
All that said, Perry did just manage to make our not so illustrious president look like the fool he is by sending enough DPS Troopers to the Border to seal things up and then backed it up by sending the Texas National Guard to boot. If that ain't yer loud and clear message. Makes we wonder if this deal is "only" a Travis County Democratic move.
you all are falling for a democrat ploy. our governor is under investigation for this and that. this past few months. why ? he is running for reelection. it is the democrat way. if you can not win on facts you destroy them in court or with investigations.
A big PLUS 1! He has shown the gonads to do what was the right thing no matter what the political implications were. Texas politics can get real messy - I remember Ballot Box 13 - I was there - LBJ was a Public Speaking teacher at my dad's HS, and the protégé of Tom Connolly, the last of the long-haired frock-coated string-tied Senators.
I hope Perry wins against Hillary. Most folks don't realize she is an Alinskyite, just as is Obama. Her Senior thesis @ Wellesley was about Saul A., and she will continue BO's course.
For the sake of clarity, I offer this; Nobody questions the Governor's authority to veto the funding for whatever reason he wants. That veto is at his description.
However, he told the drunk DA, if she did not resign, he would veto the funding. It was this threat to defund, if she did not resign, that is the subject of the indictment for "Official Oppression". The veto itself is not part of the alleged criminal act.
So the legal question is; Did the attempt to intimidate the drunk DA into resigning by the threat of a funding veto rise to the level of criminal official oppression.
Rick killed his last Presidential campaign by saying what he really thought in front of a camera. Here again, he said what he thought in front of a camera. He is the kind of guy who does what he feels is "right" and figures that is he does the right thing, it will all come out the way it should. This is the way he (and I were raised), but unfortunately doing what is right is often the wrong thing to do in American politics. Rick has yet to learn this lesson, but I doubt if he wants to learn it. He is just a straight talking Texan and that is the way we operate, but we should stay out of presidential politics for there is no place there for straight shooters. Presidential politics involves the frequent use of weasel words and the ability to be a chameleon and change colors according to our background. Rick does not have that capacity in him.