New Information Might Help Send Rick Perry Straight to Prison

[ErikJ]

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Naturally, Perry has denied these allegations. He’s claiming that his actions were within the law when he threatened to, and ultimately did, veto $7.5 million in funding to the Travis County Public Integrity. He did so because District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg refused to resign from her position at the TCPI following a DUI conviction.

And as it just so happens, Ms. Lehmberg was investigating Perry’s office for possible corruption charges during the time of her DUI. Which is where the real heart of this entire story lies. Because had she resigned from her position at the TCPI, Rick Perry would have been the person who chose her replacement.

Well, a new bit of information coming from the Dallas Morning News might very well be what strips all credibility from Perry’s “defense” of his actions, proving he did indeed abuse his power as Governor of Texas. It seems that during Perry’s time as governor there have been two other District Attorneys who were convicted of DUI’s, but Perry didn’t push for them to resign.
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So we have four different individuals who were convicted of driving drunk while Rick Perry has been governor. Three of those individuals were Republicans, one was a Democrat. Two of the three Republicans were District Attorneys who weren’t asked to resign by Rick Perry. While the third was actually allowed to take a prominent legal position within a state agency. But when it came to the fourth, the Democrat investigating Rick Perry for corruption, he used threats and blackmail to try to force her to resign from her position so that he could personally choose her replacement.

.............................- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/new-information-might-help-send-rick-perry-straight-prison/#sthash.m78R8kJt.dpuf

[The Magistrate]

1. Now That, Sir, Is Very Interesting....

[BaggersRDumb]

2. If Perry was a dem, prison would be a sure thing

[mucifer]

8. Here in Illinois we send both dem and repub governors to prison.

It's an equal opportunity state.

[nxylas]

28. Reminds me of this meme

[hughee99]

49. If he were a Dem, there would be people

Defending him here.

[yeoman6987]

4. I feel sorry for the AG(?)

She is being rejudged for the DUI from a year ago. They are showing the footage of her all over the place many times a day. I know she made a mistake but to live it again in public is horrible.

[mucifer]

9. I always think about the people she could kill. This is better.

[yeoman6987]

10. Well you certainly have a point

[calimary]

39. Well, those others also. They were DUIs too, and just as capable of reckless killing.

But they weren't threatened or leaned on - to resign. Ol ricky boy probably just snickered and gave 'em the "boys will be boys" treatment. To her, not so much.

And then, of course, there's this, too:

And as it just so happens, Ms. Lehmberg was investigating Perry’s office for possible corruption charges during the time of her DUI. Which is where the real heart of this entire story lies. Because had she resigned from her position at the TCPI, Rick Perry would have been the person who chose her replacement.

Makes a whole lotta difference, doesn't it? Installing one of his little pals in her place might make it awfully easy to turn that corruption probe into a little puff of smoke just vaporizing into the air and vanishing without a trace...

[7962]

16. It'd be different if she hadn't been such an ass while in custody. nt

[metalbot]

42. This

A DUI isn't a huge deal for a politician - you apologize publicly, act contrite, and promise to get help. However, her arrest video and behavior in the jail ("CALL GREG!&quot are pretty atrocious. To add to that, she also got a sentence that nobody else who gets a DUI is ever going to be offered (do a couple days in jail, then no probation).

[nikto]

24. The videotape of her is irrelevant to this case, and is intended as a distraction

The media displays its whoreship every time they show it.

They need to show THIS instead:

[ReRe]

33. That's right...

... we need to learn how to keep our eye on the ball.

[nikto]

50. Keep your eye on the ball, or better yet...

Know what propaganda smells like.



I've got a good nose.

Sounds like you do too.

[ReRe]

51. Eyes, ears and noses, nikto

Eyes, ears and noses.

[nikto]

52. WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE ON THIS THREAD GETTING DISTRACTED BY THE DA'S DUI??

It is irrelevant to the Perry case.

Maybe some folks need to start a thread just focusing on the DEM DA.


All the things Perry is accused of happened later.

Unless, ofcourse, the "Cancer Fund" turns out to be a slush-fund for Perry cronies. Then, a
whole new avenue of charges will spring up, in addition to the present Abuse-Of-Power charges using the Veto,
upon which, by the way, a former (DEM) Governor (Ferguson) was already removed from office for, back in 1916


Only GOP trolls would use the already resolved DA's DUI case as a distraction from Perry's apparent ABUSE OF POWER.

(As if folks didn't know that around here).

[Ghost in the Machine]

34. She "made a mistake"??? Wrong answer! She *chose* to break the law by driving drunk, probably with

the same thought as other elected/appointed officials, cops, and the "entitled".... thinking she was ABOVE THE LAW!.

I don't care if they are a Dem or Repig, they have to follow the same laws the WE do. I was no choir boy in my younger years, and I *chose* many a time to break the law and drive drunk. I'm very lucky that I never hurt anyone else...or myself... because I can remember being partying in Ft. Lauderdale...and waking up on a beach in Key West... with no memory of how I got there, except that my vehicle was there. That being said, I'm not judging her because...well... how could I?? I'm just saying it was a CHOICE she made, *not* a MISTAKE.

I look back at some of MY choices I made when I was younger... and wonder how/why I'm still alive and/or not in prison.

Peace,

Ghost

[Dont call me Shirley]

36. The real point is Rick Perry is the one who has a bad case of entitlement thinking

And the bulk of the republican party

[DhhD]

38. The Texas AG-Attorney General Gregg Abbott.

On the Texas Group there is an OP about Politics of Perry and Attorney General Gregg Abbott which includes a video.

Gregg Abbott is a frontdoorsman. He is the TX Gubernatorial candidate.

[rhett o rick]

3. I hope he spends time in prison. nm

[Skink]

5. So what was the result of the corruption investigation

Was he up to no good anyway?

[Fred Sanders]

6. As clear an abuse of power as you can get, to rid the one after him on corruption which is endemic

in Texas GOP politics.

[BillZBubb]

7. Yep, the Perry "cancer research" money funnel is at the heart of this whole affair.

Perry, of course, will claim those others didn't disrespect the police who arrested them, so that's why he let them slide. That will be enough to convince the right wingers that Perry is innocent despite the disparity.

But the tie to the money operation is what the prosecutor has in his back pocket. Is it enough to get a Texas jury to convict? Probably not, but it should be. Even if convicted the Texas higher courts are almost 100% republican, so like Delay, he'll get out on appeal.

[Laelth]

14. Interesting insight. Thanks. n/t

-Laelth

[rurallib]

11. what a tasty little morsel at bedtime. Thank you.

[Thinkingabout]

12. He is trying to let this appear as abuse by a Democrat DA but it was a special prosecutor

Who is Republican, appointed by a Republican judge who was appointed by a Republican judge. The Democrat involvement is the DA in which he was trying to get to resign so he appoint a Republican to do the investigation of his friends. The real story needs to get to those claiming it is abuse of power against Perry, he wanted control into the investigation of his friends.

[Vincardog]

40. Wrong he wanted control into the investigation of himself.

[whereisjustice]

13. Amazing...

Kaufman County

In June 2009, Kaufman County District Attorney Rick Harrison was arrested in Seagoville after driving the wrong way down a street and hitting another car.

It would become his second conviction for DWI, following one in 1994 when he was a Dallas County prosecutor.

Bill Baker, the Kaufman County GOP chairman, called for Harrison, a fellow Republican, to resign.

“We all make mistakes, but it was to the point where myself and others involved in the party felt that he was not a good representative of the party,” Baker said in an interview Tuesday.

He said the governor’s office and the state GOP had no involvement.

“We just felt like it was a local issue,” Baker said.

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Swisher County

In November 2002, Swisher County District Attorney Terry McEachern was arrested in New Mexico after a family called police to report him swerving into oncoming traffic and running off the shoulder of the road.

He failed a field sobriety test and refused a breath test.

He was found guilty of aggravated DWI in June the next year and sentenced to two days in jail and a $300 fine.

McEachern was already under fire as the prosecutor in the notorious Tulia drug busts. The drug sting, aimed primarily at Tulia’s black residents, unraveled after questions were raised about the sole undercover agent. The agent was subsequently convicted of perjury.

Perry issued pardons for the 46 people a few months after McEachern’s DWI arrest.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20140819-travis-das-drunken-driving-arrest-riled-perry-others-didnt.ece

[AlbertCat]

15. Hubris

He really shoulda studied Greek Tragedy more (or even a little) in High School.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. ...

Where is the :cookedgoose: smilie?

~littlemissmartypants

[mrdmk]

27. Ummmm, does this work?

[littlemissmartypants]

31. Ouch.

Yes, thank you.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Kicketty. Kick. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Taken down with a dose of feminist justice.

#FJL

Women are coming.

~littlemissmartypants

[Cha]

20. I had heard this.. good for more exposure! thanks EricJ

[ErikJ]

21. And now he says the system doesnt work? hmm

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Ironic

[Cha]

22. Oh yeah, when his metaphorical head is in the docket.

[nikto]

23. This chart helps lay it out

PLEASE----Spread this chart around (re-post it) as much as possible:

[blkmusclmachine]

25. I suspect Perry will wind up at George W. Bush's hideaway in Paraguay.

[Unknown Beatle]

26. Coming to a theater near you:

Hideaway in Paraguay - A true story about republican hubris and corruption. They are running away from justice being served on them, and instead of facing prison time, they hid in a Hideaway in Paraguay. In black and white because that's the way republicans see things.

[joshcryer]

29. Perry is fucked.

[Delphinus]

43. Fingers crossed

that you are right.

[get the red out]

30. I figured Perry was a crook

I knew he wasn't smart.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

32. They probably asked him...

... if he wanted in on their deal to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, which just add's to Rick's consternation.

[Demeter]

35. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE IT SO!

[PatrynXX]

37. fairly sure this is why the Grand Jury did what they did

they know more than the rest of us. Austin people might be left leaning but the state and city is more or less red and this one compared to the Benghazi witch hunt is not politics..

[dorkzilla]

41. Thank you for posting this!

It certainly is an eye-opener. The DA in this case didn't help things by being VERY drunk and belligerent on top of it. Perry's actions do not make what she did any better or mitigate them in any way.

That said...I hope to see this asshole in shackles soon, followed by Walker and Christie.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

44. Seriously? Abuse of power?

That seems to be acceptable now. And the more power you have, the more acceptable it seems to be. This is a dangerous and wildly unethical trajectory.

[Dopers_Greed]

45. Even though this makes his guilt even more obvious

The jury will likely be instructing not to consider this, since the other DUIs are unrelated to this case.

[ErikJ]

47. It relates to motivation though so maybe they will.

The fact he ignored the others DUI's and went after the one that was investigating him proves motive.

[myrna minx]

46. K&R nt

[GarColga]

48. If you've never read it

Or even if you have, Matt Taibbi's expose on Perry from about three years ago is worth revisiting:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rick-perry-the-best-little-whore-in-texas-20111026