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Rick Perry Under Investigation

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Thursday, April 17, 2014 15:01
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:19 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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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-
about-perrys-co/nfRf4
/


Rick Perry decided to punish Travis County financially until Lehmberg resigns. He used his line-item veto power to specifically target her. If she were to resign, Perry would get to name someone to replace Lehmberg (a Democerat). Furthermore, since he would get to handpick the new DA, he’d be able to bury an ongoing investigation by Lehmberg’s office into one of Perry’s economic incentive programs ( https://www.texastribune.org/2014/04/08/prolific-perry-donors-are-behi
nd-governors-marketi
/).

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:16 PM

AURAPTOR

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Don't drive drunk.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:14 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


...or break the law speeding or try to get out of a ticket:



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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

So I guess, by the same measure, then Perry should have...not run for governor? resigned as governor? What?


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Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:42 AM

REAVERFAN


Christy, now Perry.

Looks like Jeb has a shot. You'll get the choice of another Bush or another Clinton. Choose your ruling family!

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014 11:51 AM

CHRISISALL


Perry, yet another humility-challenged man in power who believes he is above the laws designed for the little people.

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Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:57 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
...DASHCAM IN THE TROOPER'S CAR SHOWS FIRST THE DRIVER AND THEN PERRY EXITING THEIR SUV...



So riding in a speeding car is a crime now? Or only if you're a Republican?


"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:24 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


No, trying to get out of a ticket shows the hypocrisy of someone who would WITHHOLD PUBLIC FUNDS FROM TAXPAYERS to force a resignation. And, of course, I'm sure Perry didn't KNOW the person in his employ was speeding, especially given the argument they were "just" late for a meeting...riiight.

Man, you will weasel amazingly for anyone on the right, wontcha?


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Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:32 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
No, trying to get out of a ticket shows the hypocrisy of someone who would WITHHOLD PUBLIC FUNDS FROM TAXHOLDERS to force a resignation.



You should go out for the 2016 Olympics in the logical broad jump.


"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Thursday, April 17, 2014 1:07 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


So Geezer

Do you have nothing to criticize about Perry witholding public funds for political reasons? Is that OK with you?

Do you have nothing to say about Perry trying to use his office to subvert the law? Is that OK with you?

Just checking, because you are silent on the topics of this thread.


To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine The American Crisis
OONJERAH - We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
"You, who live in any kind of comfort or convenience, do not know how these people can survive these things, do you? They will endure because there is no immediate escape from endurance. Some will die, the rest must live."

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Thursday, April 17, 2014 1:55 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Shall we take bets on whether Geezer will answer those questions? Or should we even bother...

Somehow I'm pretty sure he'd have a LOT to say about it if it were a Democrat...


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Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:01 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


The only difference between Perry's behavior, and that of any other person trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket, is that Perry was trying to use his celebrity status. No harm, no foul. No blood, no crime.

But it does indicate his character- he does think of himself as more important than the law, he is humility-challenged, as CHRIS suggested, or arrogant.

He coulda said, " Officer, please write the ticket quickly, we're late. We will pay it, we'll be good the rest of the trip, but we ARE in a hurry. "

As to the D. A. thing: probably legal, but political blackmail none the less.
That's what's wrong with line-item veto-- it opens the budget process up to political pressure and manipulation by the Executive.

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