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Stopping short of saying he thinks a crime was committed, a special prosecutor said he is troubled by the actions of Gov. Rick Perry in carrying out a threat last year to withhold state funding from Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg’s office unless she resigned after a DWI charge.

"I am very concerned about certain aspects of what happened here,” San Antonio attorney Michael McCrum said in an interview with the American-Statesman and KVUE-TV. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/prosecutor-says-hes-very-concerned-
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June 28, 2000 --WHEN THEY WERE PULLED OVER BY A DPS TROOPER FOR GOING 75 MILES AN HOUR IN A 55 MILE AN HOUR ZONE A TAPE RECORDED BY THE DASHCAM IN THE TROOPER'S CAR SHOWS FIRST THE DRIVER AND THEN PERRY EXITING THEIR SUV TO TALK TO TROOPER DORI LIVINGSTON AFTER THE TROOPER ASKS PERRY HOW HE IS DOING, PERRY IS HEARD TO REPLY THAT IF YOU WOULD JUST LET US GO, WE'D BE BETTER PERRY'S AIDE APOLOGIZED TO THE TROOPER FOR SPEEDING AND EXPLAINED THAT THEY WERE LATE FOR A MEETING IN AUSTIN PERRY GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE AGAIN A FEW MINUTES LATER AND ASKED IF THE TROOPER WAS WRITING A TICKET LIVINGSTON SAID SHE WAS WRITING A WARNING AND AT THAT POINT PERRY SAID WHY DON'T YOU JUST LET US GET DOWN THE ROAD? A PERRY SPOKESMAN SAID PERRY AND THE AIDE WERE NOT TRYING TO ESCAPE A FINE BUT SIMPLY TRYING TO GET TO THEIR MEETING

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