Looks like we lost another good one. GEEZ! seems we can't catch a break.
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Looks like we lost another good one. GEEZ! seems we can't catch a break.
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Gov Rick Perry I think,
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...r-veto-threat/
I seriously doubt this goes anywhere, just some of the democratic playbook being hashed out.
Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. A video recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell and sticking her tongue out.
Lehmberg faced pressure from other high-profile Republicans in addition to Perry to give up her post. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving.
Lehmberg served about half of her 45-day jail sentence but stayed in office, despite Perry's assertions that her behavior was inappropriate.
This is what Perry did and I like him more for it. http://news.msn.com/us/texas-perry-i...or-veto-threat
A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry's calls to resign.
Perry's general counsel, Marry Anne Wiley, defended the governor's action.
"The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution," she said. "We will continue to aggressively defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail."
Typical liberal BS, when you have zero ideas of your own and aren't capable forming any you do the only thing left, anything you can dream up that the liberal media will jump all over to smear and destroy the opposition. The only thing this really proves is that they fear him therefore destroy him. Same will happen to the next likely GOP candidate.
Rick
Just politics, nothing more. Rick Perry is a good man, I'll leave it at that.
I'm betting this is much like the phony prosecution of House Majority Leader Tom Delay, also in a
Texas politically tainted case, where he was convicted but on appeal the conviction was overturned
and he was formally acquitted of all charges. Delay was originally protected by the statute of limitations,
but he waived it himself, preferring to get it cleared up in court rather than have this hanging
over him and giving his enemies the ability to claim that he was guilty but "got off on a technicality".
Unfortunately, he agreed to step down and not run during the trial, so the Persecutor (no misspelling)
achieved his goal of getting a very effective Republican out of Congress.
The Democrat prosecutors in Texas seem particularly prone to bringing these political cases, which appear to
be mostly based on "getting at your enemy". Seems to always be a Dem prosecutor going after
a powerful Republican, with questionable basis in fact, but a easily swayed jury or judge.
We'll see how far this witch hunt goes.
Bill
Sounds like libtard gossip to me.
They did the same thing to Scott Walker in Wisconsin. News flash, he's still there! Election cycle sniping.
These are the same liberal joto maricons that went after Delay.
Democrats and criminal aliens getting more and more of a foothold in Texas. It is beyond sad.
smokeywolf
Dumbacrats have had a huge foothold in Austin for many years.
Go to the Drudge Report You can see how the libtards in Austin are handling this.Look at the viedo of the drunk and you can see why he threaten to withhold funds until she resigned.
He's still a lot more attractive, both physically and politically, than Chris Crispycreme.
Yeah....take a minute to research who filed the complaint. A liberal group formed to go after Bush in 2000 and 2004. That they found a Democrat in Austin to file and a grand jury to indict is no surprise. Remember the political prosecution of Tom Delay which was thrown out?
The Dems in Texas can't win elections so spend their time in the courts trying to get the results they don't like overturned. That Perry would try to force out a DA that was arrested for drunk driving and threaten a veto if she did not resign does not bother me in the least. A Gov, President etc that threatens a veto of legislation to get what he/she wants somewhere else is unheard of isn't it?
Remember the old saw about a grand jury and a ham sandwich?
btw: notice the timing? Right on cue for the 2016 Election. Gee, that's odd isn't it
Folks do the names Herman Cain and Tom Delay ring a bell??? Once again the liberal Dems in Austin can't come up with something substantive , so they have to find a grand jury to indict someone.......Perry is well within his rights to VETO anything he wants to. Including $$ for a Demo. District attorney who like to drink and drive. Why isn't she indicted and removed from office???. Wait!!!! She a liberal, therefore entitled to do what she wants.... I for one am tired of this double standard. this case will go nowhere, and I hope Perry gets to bring MORE jobs to Texas, where freedom and opportunity run rampant!!
I noticed in the news of the continued rioting in SL that the dem senator after hearing of the release of the video of the convenience store robbery by the gentle giant went through the crowd with a bull horn trying to insite a riot by telling the crowd it was a ploy to try to taint a jury pool.
Now why is this dem senator not being arrested for inciting the riot that took place last night and attacked the very convenience store that the robbery took place in?
If the demicans and republicrats want to play ball let them play but hay don't give the game away what is good with one should be well with the other.
Should make for an interesting game eliminating each others ranks for illegal activity leaving an empty playing field.
Yes, as the metro areas grow with city folks from other parts of the country we are seeing more than a little blue in a traditional red state. Austin is very liberal, Dallas and Houston are close behind. My hometown of Denton is not the town I grew up in, I avoid it as much as possible. It's like the folks who move to Arizona to escape allergy issues and use the scarce water for landscaping plants.
Just a bunch of AH Dems stirring the pot for elections. They are running scared and are trying ANYTHING they can find to try and hurt conservatives.
This probably will amount to nothing. But is most likely killed his 2016 dreams.
Austin is a cesspool of liberals, just like most college towns. I have relatives (disavowed from my family tree) that live there!
banger
These kind of things to destroy any threats to the Democrats aren't working like they used to. It does show who the D's and Ivy League ruling class Republicans are afraid of.
Haven't seen anything on facebook yet!
Remember the quote, "a DA can get an indictment against a ham sandwich". I'm not a huge fan of Pretty Hair Perry, but this is purely political.
This will get tossed pretty darn fast. The exercise of veto power is his sole prerogative. Any attempt to state otherwise isn't an attack on Perry so much as an attack on the office of Governor. Before all is said and done there will be a dear price paid by Lehmberg and her cabal.
Are you kidding me? We are wasting tax dollars to determine that he is exercising his rights as Governor to insure there is check and balance of the 3 branches of government?
Unfortunately I had a similar incident when DFACS kept my kids away from me for 3 months because of "emotional trauma inflicted upon the children by taking them hunting and cleaning a squirrel." There was also concerns of "firearms within the home"
I had to hire an attorney and draft up a case against Fayette County GA DFACS (run by DUMBacRATS) for abuse of power. I had my kids back in 1 week.........
My son just commented today that he wants to go squirrel hunting again..........what's a guy to do?
Perhaps this thread should be moved to the political thread area? I dunno.
Even David Axlerod said these charges look pretty sketchy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/v...ve_1.0_strip_3 The author of this article picks apart the spurious indictment so that even a layman can see it's garbage from the outset. Austin liberal slime attempting to get payback for their fat pet's perceived slight due to her DUI and behavior which should be an instant firing from a "public integrity unit".
Talking about how libs treat conservatives ........ hows about comparing Lous Lerner's treatment by the libs ...........
........... take the fifth and get a free ride ......... no .... not a smidgen of corruption?
REALLY?
A real double standard ........ what libs dish out (who are just likely doing their do diligence) and what they work at providing for their truely dirty opperatives .............
It's a great life if you don't weaken!
Three 44s
Some times blind staggering drunk is a must to achieve higher office.
Does Teddy Kennedy and a bridge ring a bell?
And remember it took him at least 4 hours of talking with many friends and lawyers before he remembered to notify the police of the submerged vehicle and the pregnant mistress trapped inside.
Wonder why Ma hasn't banned cars as assault weapons and gas tanks with more capacity than 4 PINTS?
Typical Texas politics--"Let's apply the law in a manner that we can embarrass the opposition." Official oppression? ---Let's see--a local prosecutor is arrested for DWI and while being processed, is belligerent and demeaning to the LEOs. Resign or I'll withhold funds for your office. Bribery?--Resign as head of the Special Anti-corruption unit, but remain with the D.A.'s office in another position and I will get funding for the unit. Pretty long stretch of the law, all I can say. What's going to be amusing is who pays for Perry's defense--all the acts he alledgedly did was while acting as the governor of the State of Texas--veto power is discretionary as executive of the State. I think Rick Perry has (in the complete picture) done a good job for Texas--he has his agenda, some things I agree with, some maybe not, but he's done good, all in all. Lots of time he is at odds with other Republicans--but from what I've seen, he holds true to his beliefs and won't compromise from his vision of his faith and values. Is he politically motivated? You betcha.
I have known Rick Perry and his family since 1976. He is a bare knuckle Texas politician of the Lyndon Johnson school. That poor alcoholic Travis Country Democrat DA has bit off more than she can chew. This will not work out well for her. Rick has the best legal minds and talent at his back and will drag her kicking and screaming into the courtroom for a through beating. This will happen pretty quickly, I should think.
His first step, I should think, is to file a motion to quash the indictment. If he draws a non-political District Judge in Travis County, it will be granted. If not then it will be fast tracked through the appellate courts where it will be granted. There is just no way, you can morph a Governor's discretionary official line item veto into a crime. To do so would be to gut the Governor's office of it's power granted by the Texas Constitution. That just isn't going to happen.
He will then proceed to get her indicted for abuse of her office and then get her law license jerked. She still might be able to get elected JP in Travis County as you don't need law license for that office.
There is an old Chinese proverb: "The hardest part of riding a tiger is getting off.".
Some of the left wing Austin democrats are using this poor woman as their stalking horse to try and side track Rick's presidential bid. He is hated by the Austin liberals, which is pretty good reason for me to like him.
Folks who understand Texas politics understand this for what it is i.e. Texas politics. Will this hurt Rick's Presidential hopes? It depends on how quickly he puts this poor dupe of a DA under. I imagine she has a few UT Law Professors meeting with her behind closed doors. I remember the old saying about law school grads: "A students make professors, B students make judges and C students make millions." They will be lunch for the lawyers that eat raw meat and drink blood at Rick's back.
This is gonna be fun! Rick doesn't stand a Chinaman's chance of being elected POTUS anyway.
DUI 3 is a felony in Texas. I know a woman who did a two year stint in a woman's prison for multiple DUIs. After a couple of chances and folks don't learn, they just lock you up in the pen for a year or two. At least you are not going to kill anybody driving drunk if you are in the pen.
As much as I like Rick and think he is what this country needs, the Dems will hang George W. Bush around his neck like the dead albatross. This is sad because there is no love lost between Bush and Perry. Bush supported Kay Bailey Hutchinson over Perry in her run for the Governor's office. Perry beat her like a red headed step child and she has not been heard of since. Perry did not forget Bush's betrayal.
None the less, folks who don't understand Texas politics will tar Rick with the same brush as Bush. Bush screwed the pooch big time in the middle east and folks are not ready for another round of that. Perry is a conservative, but a pragmatic sort and is not likely to repeat Bush's mistakes, but folks don't know that. He is just another bigger than life Texan as far as they are concerned. Folks don't really that all Texas governors are not the same.
The Bush's are not really Texans anyway, sorta Carpet Baggers who came to Texas to make it in the "all bidness" which they did. Rick's family have been in Texas for many generations and he is the real deal. I know his mother and father well, and they are salt of the earth people. His daddy flew B-17s out of England and bombed the heck out of Hitler's boys. Rick followed in his father's footsteps and few airplanes for the Texas National Guard after graduation from Texas A&M. When I knew him best, he was just out of the Army and was trying to figure out his next move. He made it into politics and has been the best governor in many many years. He has managed to irritate just about everybody at one time or another, because he is his own man. He is willing to take on anybody, even those in his own party, if he thinks it is the right thing to do. He would make an excellent President, but I think Bush queered that deal for him.
Rick would make a president much like Harry Truman. Truman didn't overthink thing, but took often bold measures when he thought it was the right thing to do and didn't worry much about personal political consequences for him or his party. He was known as "Give Em Hell Harry".