Gov. Rick Perry of Texas Is Indicted on Charge of Abuse of Power

[ignerntbend]

No problem, I shouldn't have been lazy and abbreviated.

It was me that muddied the waters. Now everybody else [RickN] gets off the hook.

 

[Billybob]

It was me that muddied the waters. Now everybody else [RickN] gets off the hook.

Anybody that wants to should be able to figure it out, if not it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[ignerntbend]

You're too polite and you expect people to make connections on their own that they won't make on their own. You need to use your knowledge as a bludgeon, Billybob.

 

[RickN]

The only reason I mentioned it was because someone indicated a Republican would have acted differently, Caudill didn't resign even though her own party wanted her to.

Do a check, the majority of Republicans do resign when they get caught doing something wrong while most Dems tend to stay in office and are even re-elected. The GOP puts a lot of pressure on them to resign and if they do not, the GOP will not usually support them for re-election. They are not perfect but for the most part do not have the "I am above the law" mentality of the Dems.

 

[ignerntbend]

Do a check, the majority of Republicans do resign when they get caught doing something wrong while most Dems tend to stay in office and are even re-elected. The GOP puts a lot of pressure on them to resign and if they do not, the GOP will not usually support them for re-election. They are not perfect but for the most part do not have the "I am above the law" mentality of the Dems.

The only documented example in this thread is the one in which he did a check. Why don't you do a check, Rick? See what you come up with.

 

[RickN]

A grand jury indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts on Friday, charging that he abused his power last year when he tried to pressure the district attorney here, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to cut off state financing to her office.

The indictment left Mr. Perry, a Republican, the first Texas governor in nearly 100 years to face criminal charges and presented a major roadblock to his presidential ambitions at the very time that he had been showing signs of making a comeback.

Grand jurors in Travis County charged Mr. Perry with abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant, according to Michael McCrum, the special prosecutor assigned to the case.

The long-simmering case has centered on Mr. Perry’s veto power as governor. His critics asserted that he used that power as leverage to try to get an elected official — Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney in Travis County — to step down after her arrest on a drunken-driving charge last year. Ms. Lehmberg is Austin’s top prosecutor and oversees a powerful public corruption unit that investigates state, local and federal officials...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/u...d-over-veto-of-funds-for-das-office.html?_r=0

Here is the main point.

No one disputes that Perry is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature, including part or all of the state budget.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/16/texas-gov-perry-indicted-for-coercion-for-veto-threat/

This whole thing is about Perry calling out a Dem and now having the gall to think of running against Hillary in 2016. He picked up a lot of good will with the public when he sent the Guard to the Texas border and the Dems are hoping to tarnish him before the election kicks off.

 

[RickN]

Some other things to note, Perry will be out of office before this comes anywhere near a trial, legal experts are saying there is no chance he will be convicted, and the special prosecute is a Dem who at one time was nominated for a post by Obama.

 

[ignerntbend]

According to recent surveys (not to mention my contacts at the justice department) eight out of ten legal experts believe that Bubba will be packing Perry's fudge within three months. If he loses his spoon he'll spend a night in the box.

 

[n2sooners]

" Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy." David Axelrod.

 

[ignerntbend]

He'll be raking his tin cup against the bars trying to get the attention of the screws, just like the Bird Man of Alcatraz.