RICK PERRY INDICTED ON 2 FELONY COUNTS, including ABUSE OF POWER

Fair enough.

Well, that could be one way of looking at it. However, two points I would like to make.

First, she was subject to the law, and if I recall correctly she did do a couple of weeks in jail. It is not as if she was exonerated.

Second, perhaps Perry's methodology was flawed. Using his office in the manner that he did, vetoing funds for a unit that had an investigation against him certainly does not put Perry above the fray.

 

Unless the Governor's veto authority is limited constitutionally, or by statute, there is no way it can be abused. It is 100% his discretion to use, or not, for any reason whatsoever.

 

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This is the person who decides who to prosecute for crimes and who not to.

 

There is a sick sense of irony to this story. It is essentially nothing more than Democrats attempting to strong-arm Perry. He was basically just indicted for being a Republican. Viva la fascism!

 

Of course her actions have been shown to have been WRONG,...

And. the damage she has caused by attacking Tom Delay was all political as is this action.


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So this investigation was going on about him vetoing the funds before he vetoed the funds?? Or does this liberal hit squad just keep an open investigation running against any and all Republicans in the state??

In 1977 my case -based on false allegations - was set to go before the GJ in Austin. I had passed two polygraphs and had subjected myself to a sodium amatol interview with a psychiatrist who happened to get a law degree while he was in med school but the AD's office still wanted to take my case to the GJ and my guy really wanted to testify before the GJ. I paid him $200 per hour for him to sit in the hall for two hours before the Ass Attorney came out and told him that my case was postponed because the DA was going after the Republican Comptroller.

It is a shame that the most liberal fools in the state have the power to go after public servants and I can't remember them going after a dem.

 

Yeah, THAT'S the problem. He's Republican. The only difference between him and DEMOCRAT, he'll probably get out of JAIL TIME!

 

I'm no lawyer but i have studied some law, and i know one thing: the governor has a right to veto and it sounds like he had a darn good reason.

I doubt this will go anywhere.


doesn't look like it should, that's 4 sure..


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Apparently they only believe that about Democrat politicians like Bill Clinton or Charles Rangel. With Republicans it's hang'em first and convict them later.

The burden of proof is on the Prosecution. The Governor has the right to veto whatever funds he likes. I think Gov. Perry's actions may not sit well with a lot of people, but I doubt he did anything impeachable much less criminal.

 

I've said it before, I'll say it again. WE LIBS WANT TO GET RID OF OUR TRASH!! Republicans build a FORTIFIED 'DUMPSTER' around theirs!

 

It was plain and simple extortion. He withheld funds to get her to resign. That in and of itself is unethical plus there was an on going investigation of the Governor when he did it. So it doesn't look real good for Ricky.

 

What dem have this Austin bunch of liberal fools put in jail?

 

Then why is Bill Clinton not only still revered by the Left but they want to elect his equally culpable wife to the White House?

 

No.

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Well he was better than the war mongers the right put up!

 

Regardless of that particular debate, the fact he is revered disproves cpicturetaker's comment

 

Think about it folks. This is a BORN AGAIN REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR who wears his religion on his sleeve loudly and proudly. A woman gets busted for a DUI. Not only is he UNCHRISTIAN, unforgiving, and judgmental, he forces her to RESIGN and when she says no, he removes all her STATE FUNDING FROM HER DEPT, attempting to shut her down. High powered men all over Texas as well as this country and in the REPUBLICAN PARTY get busted every single day for DUIs and much worse. They are forgiven, allowed to stay in the fold AND KEEP THEIR JOBS and lauded when they come back 'saved'!

This is utter PUNITIVE POLITICS or MISOGYNISTIC treatment of the 'fallen woman'! In Perry's case it could well be both! When I google double standard matches in google of this particular case, ALL I GET IS DOUBLE STANDARDS ABOUT A DEM VS. A REP double standards. Can't find a thing about the OBVIOUS other double standard. MAYBE TEXAS MEN have TEXAS WOMEN well trained not to dare to speak of such glaring inequitable treatment!

If I were Democrats, I'd be GETTING THE BUMPER STICKERS produced and out on the cars about THAT double standard in Texas!!! You bet your ass WENDY DAVIS ought to run on this, though I'd do it be SURROGATES. Otherwise she'll be accused of WHINING, SHRILL, VICTIMIZED, or WORSE--a feminist.


Zeke J Miller [MENTION=383]Zeke[/MENTION]JMiller Hilary Hylton Aug. 15, 2014
Rick Perry
Governor Rick Perry pauses as he addresses attendees at the 2014 Red State Gathering, Aug. 8, 2014, in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on two counts of abuse of power Friday by a Texas grand jury, in the latest chapter of a long-running politically-charged dispute between the Republican and his Democratic opponents.


The indictment revolves around Perry’s veto of $7.5 million in funding to state’s public integrity unit., based in the Travis County district attorney’s office. District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who ran the unit, was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated in 2012. Perry publicly demanded that she step aside. When she didn’t, he vetoed the unit’s funding.

At the same time, the unit, long a weather vane to Texas politics, was investigating one of Perry’s signature achievements, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, for alleged mismanagement....

http://time.com/3121778/rick-perry-indicted-in-politically-charged-texas-battle/

 

Might also be worth remembering and mentioning. One male drunk driver became President of the United States. Another male and twice drunk driver became Vice President of the United States.

Let's just assume for a second, HILLARY CLINTON had had a DUI??

 

Meh, this is just a phony scandal.

 

I agree. That would be the icing on the phony scandal cake. Dems are so desperate they need to manufacture these phony scandals.

 

Get the (*)(*)(*)(*) out of here...............the "typical" citizen goes to jail and in certain circumstance lose their jobs over this.

What the hell makes her any different?

Don't you find it quite ironic that someone that heads an "integrity" unit would not resign when her "integrity" was lost?

 

Perry didn't do anything wrong.

Perry told her to resign because of her drunken actions.

She refused.

So, Perry eliminated her job by line item vetoing the budget that payed for her position.

There is nothing wrong with that. A governor can line item veto anything from a bill.

 

So, you are admitting that this is nothing but a fishing expedition?

This is all a plan by you loony left-wing nuts to indict a person on charges that will probably not hold up in court just so we can get that person under oath in a deposition to ask them questions that have nothing to do with the case just so we can get a perjury out of them or some scandalous escapade?

Am I correct???

 

It is not like this lady got a DUI years ago and has since changed her lifestyle and and is now making better decisions. She got the DUI recently. The fact that she got behind the wheel in a drunken state...risking the lives of other motorists suggests that she fails at making some most basic decisions. How can she effectively be a District Attorney when she herself breaks the law?

Those that think Rick Perry is in the wrong here probably believe so because for partisan reasons. Can you honestly say she should not be removed from her position? Have we stooped so low that DUI is ok, depending on the political party you belong to?

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I couldn't care less if Rick Perry had an affair. An affair does not risk people's lives. Someone getting behind the wheel of a car while drunk does.

 

The charges say otherwise. Have you already proven your case that Perry didn't bribe her to step down instead? Because those are the charges. At this point, we don't know if he didn't do anything wrong or not. The charges he is accused of, you haven't proven he isn't guilty of.