...1) The indictment was not brought by the Tavis County DA. Nor were any other Democrats involved. It’s worth quoting at length from Smith at the Texas Tribune:
-SalonNot a single Democratic official was involved at any point in the process, except to recuse him or herself. That’s what the victim of Perry’s “offers,” Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, did. So did District Judge Julie Kocurek.Kocurek referred the criminal complaint to Judge Billy Ray Stubblefield, a Republican and Perry appointee. Stubblefield could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he assigned it to Judge Bert Richardson, also a Republican. He, too, could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he appointed conservative, well-respected former federal prosecutor McCrum as special prosecutor. Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison once recommended McCrum for the job of U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. McCrum could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he took it to a grand jury."
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So I guess all that animus with Rosemary Lehmberg was made up?
Animus from whom, and what is your point?
The point of my posted article is that big newspapers jumped to conclusions.
No conviction. That's my prediction.
They did the same Dem horseshit in Wi. No conviction, just smear. Same in NJ.
Hillary is pushing these buttons through surrogates.
Salon, eh?
Say no more...
Axelrod is backing off:
"Indeed, a recent post by Slater, “Why the conventional wisdom in the Rick Perry indictment story might be incomplete,” led early Perry defender David Axelrod to tweet that it was “worth reading” notwithstanding his first impressions."
Does anyone know what Chait is saying now?
I jump to the conclusion that every detail in the story is correct, but it omits all other truths that prove its conclusions wrong.
Is Rick Perry Jewish?
Exactly, Christy.
There's something fishy and missing here.
Wishful thinking, Deb.
A few liberal reporters setting the stage for the hissy fit they'll throw if the indictment is thrown out before trial.
I don't see anything new related specifically to the indictment in the article you cited.
Also, Axlerod's tweet can hardly be regarded as "backing off" and Chait has said nothing new since he called the indictment "unbelievably ridiculous."
This is a cover-my-ass story for the prosecutor who came up with this piece of crap indictment. It's falling apart, so the friendly media is running a nearly non-researched article.
Total BS.
I would be there are a whole bunch of people who register as Republicans in Texas but who are just liberals in disguise. The epitome of Republican in name only. The fact that they are lawyers only reinforces the supposition that they are lying scum. So the fact that nominal Republicans are being used as cover is not impressive.
But I suppose if you can accept Barack Obama as a nominal American you will swallow anything.
he appointed conservative, well-respected former federal prosecutor McCrum
Um... Not so much
Not a single Democratic official was involved at any point in the process, except to recuse him or herself.
Well, except for Rho Chalmers, who is an active delegate to the Texas Democratic Party and member of the Grand Jury that indicted Perry.
And then there is the author of the Texas Tribune piece: Director of the Progress Texas PAC So a Progressive political hack wrote a hit piece in a "non-profit alternative news source".
No matter what the article says, the indictment is only what it says it is, and the article attempts to suggest it is something more when it cannot possibly be more. One count would make it illegal for a Governor to exercise a power granted by the Texas Constitution if the legislature sends the governor a budget bill. It's absurd.
The liar leftwing prog machine is at it again.
It's not going to matter anyway. I've got it all figured out.
Isn't it obvious? The asteroid Is going to hit, not "pass very close."
The President is one of the few to know. This clearly explains his disinterested attitude about, well, everything.
That jet "diverted" to Iran - billionaires looking for Mount Ararat and the Ark in the false hope that what worked for Noah will work for them. Seen Soros or Gates recently? Point made.
The "Nato Summit" - just a crying party because there's nothing they can do about the impending doom.
Still doubt me? Well just where in the fuck was Obama today? Stonehenge! Fucking Stonehenge! A last desperate attempt to appeal to the ancient Gods.
OK, maybe it's a stretch, but it's no more of a stretch than the Salon article on Perry.
Been nice knowing yall. I'm going out for fajitas and margaritas one last time.
deborah said...
Animus from whom, and what is your point?
The point of my posted article is that big newspapers jumped to conclusions.
September 5, 2014 at 4:02 PM
The animus I pointed to in my link. I believe your link is saying that Democrats have nothing to do do with the indictment.
@deborah: And if Dems had nothing to do with the indictment, then they have only themselves to blame if it fails. Or will they try again if this indictments fails?..try it "their" way?
The left had everything to do with this. It back-fired in their faces, so, naturally here come the lies and half-truths. This has everything to do with Rosemary Lehmberg. She is the whole thing. The whole kitkat and kaboodle. ( btw- She should be made the face of the democrat party.) She is a vile drunken slob law-breaker who lost the truth of the public she is supposed to serve and is unwilling to step down when asked. Typical and blends right in with all the other corruption.
truth = trust
"The animus I pointed to in my link. I believe your link is saying that Democrats have nothing to do do with the indictment."
Will you please read the part I quoted again? The upshot is that Republican judges could have thrown the complaint out, but did not. Why you are linking to a Comonocreerendios thread I do not know, except to be obfuscatory.
Like when you said a sockpuppet should/could take the other side of that discussion. Whatever that meant. Not into riddles. say what you mean, please. It had the appearance of suggesting you think I could be a sockpuppet. And you did not accept my apology.
Thank you, Leland, I know you practice law in Texas. Would there have been too much flak for the Republican judges to throw out the charges?
It had the appearance of suggesting you think I could be a sockpuppet. And you did not accept my apology.
I never thought you were a sock puppet, Deb. I just thought you were being overly-contratrian here. I mean, are the TX Dems completely hands off on this or not?
I know you practice law in Texas.
I know you just made that up, care to explain why?
So I did a bit more research on the "DUI's Perry ignored". So here is this Examiner's piece. The Examiner article claims it is a double standard to ignore the DUI of elected Representatives (and not veto their legislation) while demanding the Travis County DA step down as head of the County's Public Integrity Unit or veto their funding from the state.
Various accounts claim Perry asked her to step down form heading the Public Integrity Unit while others claim he told her to resign he DA post. The interesting thing to me is the early claims said just step down from the PIU, and the later claims seem be resign from the elected position of DA. There's a difference here that matters to "Perry ignored other DUI's". Asking a convict not to head a Public Integrity Unit seems fairly logical. Asking a politician to resign their elected position is another (say, like what the PIU did with Tom Delay).
However, more to the point is that the state is funding a portion of the PIU. While technically, the state also pays the salary of State Representatives; I think most people can tell the difference between $14,400 a term vs $7,500,000. I'm not sure why Texans should be paying $7.5 million to Travis County to run this unit which has a track record of failed prosecutions, and is now lead by a convict. That such a line item made it to Perry's desk to veto is just one more reason why Dewhurst lost his second statewide primary challenge. If we have $7.5 million to spend on a Public Integrity Unit, lets spend it on a State PIU, not a County PIU.
Apologies Leland, I thought you were a lawyer in Texas.
"I never thought you were a sock puppet, Deb. I just thought you were being overly-contratrian here. I mean, are the TX Dems completely hands off on this or not?"
IIRC during the original hoopla claims were made that the Tavis County DA had brought the charges against Perry. The first sentence in my quoted excerpt suggests otherwise. I am also questioning why the two Republican judges the case came before failed to dismiss it.
Deb is just stirring the pot. We Eyetalians obsessively stir the pot of Sunday sauce on the stove.
McCrum is a bum (and a Democrat supporter) Don't buy this nonsense from Salon. It was an insider Democrat deal manufactured in Austin.
Evi, again, why did two Republican judges fail to dismiss the charges?
Nick, I'm following a news story.
"The indictments, however, have not left the Texas governor chastened. During his six-minute news conference after they were handed down, he threatened retaliation for the people involved in getting him into this mess, which is probably another form of official abuse he has promised to deliver to his fellow Texans. His central complaint was that the legal and grand jury investigative process was being used to settle political differences and that wasn't something we did in America, which is a startling irony for anyone who knows how Rick Perry first won statewide public office in Texas.
When Perry ran for Texas agriculture commissioner in 1990, he benefited from a federal investigation of his opponent's office, which had been facilitated by his campaign manager Karl Rove. Rove worked with an FBI agent to investigate Democrat Jim Hightower and two of his senior staffers at a time when Perry was challenging Hightower for the agriculture commissioner's job. The FBI, in fact, served search warrants at Hightower's state office on the day he was out of town announcing his reelection plans.
Perry had been a Democrat and Rove had convinced him to change parties. Rove ran Perry's winning campaign while also constantly leaking information on the federal investigation to reporters. Hightower escaped indictment but the two senior administrators of his office were convicted of raising campaign money for the Democrat during after hours while traveling on state business. One long-time Austin political operative said that if that were a crime, it was "something that only happened about 1000 times a day in Texas."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/why-rick-perry-will-be-co_b_5686664.html
Well that settles it.
I hear the Huffington Post is Republican.
Case closed!
I hear that Arianna Huffington was once married to a Dirty
lowdown Republican so everything on that site comes from the Republicans. Liberals. And Democrats have nothing to do with it.
No Sirree!
I thought you were a lawyer in Texas.
I'm a licensed professinal engineer in Texas.
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