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2016 Presidential Hopeful, Texas Governor Rick Perry Indicted For Abuse Of Power
Texas Governor, and 2016 Presidential hopeful, Rick Perry has been indicted by a grand jury. Rather ironically, as AP reports, Perry carried out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption, promising publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit unless District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg (who pled guilty to drunk driving) resigned. He was indicted by an Austin grand jury on felony counts of abuse of official capacity (maximum punishment 5-99 years in prison) and coercion of a public servant (2-10 years in prison). Perry is the first Texas governor indicted since 1917. We have one word... oops!
A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century.
A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry's calls to resign.
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Perry was indicted on charges of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony with potential punishments of five to 99 years in prison, and coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 10 years.
No one disputes that Perry is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature, including part or all of the state budget. But the left-leaning Texans for Public Justice government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint accusing the governor of coercion because he threatened to use his veto before actually doing so in an attempt to pressure Lehmberg to quit.
"We're pleased that the grand jury determined that the governor's bullying crossed the line into illegal behavior," said Craig McDonald, executive director of Texans for Public Justice. "The complaint had merit, serious laws were potentially broken."
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Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. A video recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell and sticking her tongue out.
Lehmberg faced pressure from other high-profile Republicans in addition to Perry to give up her post. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving.
Lehmberg served about half of her 45-day jail sentence but stayed in office, despite Perry's assertions that her behavior was inappropriate.
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The indictment is the first of its kind since 1917, when James "Pa" Ferguson was indicted on charges stemming from his veto of state funding to the University of Texas in an effort to unseat faculty and staff members he objected to. Ferguson was eventually impeached, then resigned before being convicted, allowing his wife, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, to take over the governorship.
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That'll teach you not to smile when President Obama visits.
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"Finland will impose no additional sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s ban of food imports from some EU countries, said Finnish Prime Minister before the presidents of the two countries are set to meet on Friday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi."Finns must have finally realized they purchase 100% of their gas from Russia.
Yes, it's not worth freezing your balls off for Obammy.
So after Hillary becomes the first woman President, following the first black President, Perry can become the first prisoner President (and I will be even happier that I bought gold and silver today).
WTF, now they want to make me sympathize with this idiot, who did a right thing for once.
Just send in a Ferguson package of niggers to uncover the government fraud. Their qualifications include.
-Theft
-Looting
-Redistributing wealth
-Bridging wars to brand a one religion.
Slavery is the new normal for USD Government entitled Afro-American citizens.
If a branded slave tries to escape the plantation to cross the Republican fence, death by firing squad.
Explain, please.
You have to wait for us to contact via US Postal correspondence. Until then, don't leave the plantation. You're life can be endangered.
/sarc
LOL!
You get it.. Bravo!
ALL those who achieve power abuse it.
The last person who should be given power over others is he who wants it.
(not mine but can't give an attribution)
@logicalman
This is where I remember coming across it.
And thus our State which is also yours will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
Plato's Republic book VII
What's more shocking is that he hasn't accidentally killed himself while doing something trivial like chew gum.
Rick Perry.
Found guilty of being a heartless, brainless arsehole.
What's the penalty for that?
Oh, yeah, it's being Rick Perry.
Karma's a bitch.
Would someone please provide a list of natural resources in Martha's VinEyard?
That's it. My ancestors made a fucking mistake by coming here. I'm moving to Germany
Looking at Mars, myself.
From German grandparents myself...
We moved to Phuket...
"A little less talk, a lot more action."
Get the eff out while you still can!?
Texas should seceed. The US needs to be broken up. We should not be forced to live with progressives and blacks.
Progressives and blacks may feel the same about you.
This ISN'T about color! It's about FREEDOM!
Then why are black conservatives called "Oreos" and "Uncle Toms"?
Herman Cain, Dr. Ben Carson, Allen West, ...............................
Bullshit. I'm the one paying taxes. Fuck them.
Tell that to my black friends!
Stay classy.
Rick has popped one too many pain pills. Rosemary Lehmberg is no prize either.
Of course none of Obama's numerous executive orders expanding Obamacare in any way constitutes "abuse of official capacity".
Whether he's guilty of these charges or not, I have no sympathy for Perry.
A few years back, a lot of prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections were dying due to heat stroke.
Temperatures indoors were routinely reaching 140+.
Well, Perry shot down the idea of installing air-conditioning...
So fuck this elitist scumbag.
You know what, Texas taxpayers aren't going to provide A/C for our incarcerated scumbags. I know the discomfort for your conjugal visits must be tough. Chin up.
Each one that passed away saved the taxpayers thousands and removed a nuisance to society, can you explain why that is a bad thing?
Let's send you to prison for a 'mistake' (happens OFTEN in AmeriKKKa) and have YOU die from heatstroke, so we remove a callous, self-centered nuisance to society. Can you explain why that is a bad thing?
@Chtistophe2
How could I have been so wrong! You are right we have to organize a jail break immediately and free all the poor prisoners. They can all hide out at your place right? I'm sure all the ones that have just been put in there by mistake can stay in your kids room?
So with you it's either every prisoner is a criminal who should die, or every prisoner is a victim of the system whom we should bust out?
Let's just throw every 'criminal' we can in oven-prison, or maybe just genocide 'em like we did the natives? No skin off your back, eh? Let the lazy fuckers all just die in their *free lunch* 140F prisons! We can just assume that ALL of them are either 100% bad or 100% good, and since we're talking about 'them' vs. 'us', we'll just go with the 'all bad' option for 'them'. BRILLIANT!
"and have YOU die from heatstroke, ................ Can you explain why that is a bad thing?"
He is dead already, thus he can't respond to your stupid question.
50% of inmates are there for DWI and simple drug possession, most common drug, marijuana.
It's ridiculous that they're even locked up to begin with, but to treat them worse than an animal at the vet, is just shameful.
Now go fuck yourself.
Agreed. The number of people on here holding up rick perry as some scion of freedom is appalling. This indictment does seem to be bullshit. As you stated above, many of these people are in there for non violent bullshit charged, and many of them were put there by this thundercunt who does the exact same thing. These people are thrown in a cage for bullshit, and perry lets them die in prison of heat stroke. Want to save the taxpayer money, stop locking them up for non violent, victimless crimes. These same people like to talk about how Perry's Texas is some last bastion of freedom in the US. What a crook of shit. Land of the free, my ass.
I hear it's much worse than that...Word is Perry likes to dress up like Yosemite Sam and hunt the prisoners with his six shooters while screaming "die you varmit" and twirling his mustache.
I'm with you guys on people not being locked up for stupid shit, but being acquainted with a CO who works in CA, it seems as though most the guys are in there for hard core shit, not smoking dope and shop lifting. Apparently there is simply not enough room for anybody but the real assholes. Now Texas may be a different matter (although I doubt it), but I'm not about to shed a tear over some rapist or child molester who died of heat stoke, sorry.
@royal
Now go fuck yourself.
Now thats just a mean thing to say to somebody. You used to be such a nice boy.
I'll tell you what, lets me you and christo-whatever his name was go break out those poor prisoners ya? We can put them up at your guys house. You've instilled such a new sense of justice in me and I think now is the time to act, are you ready?
I get a kick out of guys like you, thanks for the laugh.
Which clown should I laugh at first, the Governor or the DA?
Those two are fall guys. Go up the food chain, then we can laugh.
Not a joke, go up the ladder. They will be pissing themselves on exposure. After, you exposed, go for the next level. These are cunts writing laws for lobbiest's and Congress.
Don't fear, they fear you.. FYI.
So he vetoed some funding that had nothing to do with him. Wanting the drunk to resign is his job. There is no case here. Pure smear.
Nope. Lehmberg, worthy or not, was elected by the voters of Travis county. Please show me in the Texas constituion or state law where it is the governor's "job" to depose elected officials.
The threat of veto wasn't tied to any reason other than deposing an elected official. If he wants to veto a bill on its merits, fine. That's not what he did. He didn't organize a recall, the normal route to remove officals for poor performance.
Imagine if a democrat governor deposed an elected republican county DA. Would you defend that governor?
So the story appears to be that a governor vetoed the spending of some taxpayers' money, under powers he has in his position, and this was done publicly.
But some lawyer on the public teat, aligned with the group who wanted to get their hands on that chunk of taxpayers' money arranged to get Perry indicted for feloniously NOT spending taxpayers' money.
And this was done through some kangaroo court where the accused is not allowed to mount a defence.
And none of this is political -- because everyone, especially lawyers, has a right to the taxpayers' money.
At least one of Perry's $450/hr lawyers is being paid by the state. Lawyers on both sides are grabbing the suckers' money.
Remember, don't give Al Sharpton your cut in the money protest revenueu. He is one of those crooked evidence of Crony Capitalism.
Save the Whale and Negros is as old as any Progressives can tell you. Speaking of the word Progressive.
I will never buy Progressive Insurance. Your collective policy will falter. I remember you in Solon, OH. Right near to Nestlé and Stouffer's.
The only progressive page of that company, Solon, OH gave them a tax abatement to occupy two commercial high rise buildings. Sure, it was early 90's.
Wash, rinse, and repeat.
First rule of politics:
You must keep the dues flowing to your masters.
Those that forget get smacked..
This banal indictment by the same Austin DA as in the Tom DeLay case, is the same trick (sue someone and they will not get votes) that they used on Tom. After 8 years Tom finally got the case thrown out by a higher court - instructing that the Austin DA was close to losing his law license for "shopping 11 or 12 grand juries. I guess they feel that since they were able to ruin DeLay's political career, why not go for something bigger.
Same office. I think that Dem scumbucket DA was Ronnie Earle. Same dirty perversion of the system used to attack Gov. Palin and Gov. Walker of Wisconsin.
This business model is getting old, it's now global. The architects are in full blown view. Bounty is coming after you. Blows kisses.
Obama has threatened to veto any Republican bill to repeal Obamacare. What would this same grand jury say?
Aw, come on now. So he doesn't want a special prosecutor who's been convicted of a felony. Shucks, who's left to choose from?
I live in Texas ( note that I do not say that I am a Texan) and I would like nothing better than to see this assholoe indicted, tried, convicted and sent to the slammer. By the way this whole episode stems from Perry being Tom DeLay's butt buddy. The only even more exciting outcome would be to see Greg Abbott (Texas AG) wheeled into prison alongside his big hair comrade.
At least that dumb cunt Wendy "Abortion Barbie" Davis will not be Gov of Texas.
If you don't want to be a Texan, then please get the fuck out and go back to the leftist shit hole you escaped from to come here. We really don't want or need any more smart ass leftists bringing their collectivist economic justice shit here.
Maybe you can get a VIP reservation to suck Abortion Barbie's (Wicked Wendy Davis) twat.
I live in Texas (note that I do not say that I am a Texan)
Then get the fuck out of here you shiteating carpetbagger.
I love these rabid Texans who can't see the elephant in the room. About half of the kids in public schools in Texas are Mexican now. In 8 years, 50% of them will be old enough to vote. In 12 years, all of them. They will just vote Mexican candidates into office in every town and city, every school board and tax collector's office, every state legislature. They will dominate every police force. You can't stop them. Texas will be the first state to return to Mexico.
Say hello to your Mexican overlords. Hope you like rice and beans.
I guess I'm a rabid Texan, but only because I want to rip your head off.
And I'd like to see you dead on the side of I-10 somewhere between Houston and San Antonio.
The buzzards gotta eat too ya know....
This saves us from yet another presidential candidate who is dumber than a box of sticks, hammers, and dryer lint.
Well I guess we are fucked then because everyone here seems to hate the dumb ones because...well..they're dumb, and they hate the smart ones because they are evil and they hate the honest ones because they can fight their way out of a wet paper bag. Jesus ain't coming to save us folks. We're going to have to set our sights a little lower if we are going to have a chance in hell.
No one can overtake the one you voted for last time and still in the WH so what's your point?
Really? That motherfucker Obomonkeyo can get away with the same shit. Nov 2014 is the line in the sand. Be ready bitchez!
YA. VOTE REPUBLICAN THAT WILL SHOW THEM!!
Kinda like that time a few years back when republicans had the White House, congress, and the senate? Remember all that great stuff they did for America? All the freedoms we got, all the wars we didn't fight, all the bullshit laws that were repealed, all the welfare entitlements those "small government conservatives" did away with, and how fiscal sanity finally reigned?
Me neither....cuz it didn't happen. why people still think if they can just get republicans in charge again, anything will change is hilarious. People who still think like this is the reason the Republican Party doesn't listen to you. They know they can put the establishment douchetards bag on the ballot and most of you rubes will still vote for him
"Romney isn't my first choice, but I'm still gonna vote for him to keep Obama out of office "
I think the GOP doesn't want to win a majority. They can't handle the responsibility. They would rather be the loyal opposition that simply screams about the horrors of the left while doing nothing to stop it yet enjoying the spoils of power and privilege. We conservatives have little choice but to vote for the lesser of evils as what little resistance they offer at least keeps hope alive. At least I think this has been their formula thus far but I think its over. Conservatives are not going to continue to watch this slide to the left. If we cannot get our principles represented by those who lay claim to them, then we will have no representation at all. Fuckem. Let the left own it all. Give them no cover of "obstructionist" republicans. Obama has used the republicans as a foil in every event. He is even trying to pin this latest immigration fiasco on the right and they are scurrying about to pass some type of amnesty for fear they will fail to get the Hispanic vote (like they have a chance in hell of winning over the FSA). It is simply embarrassing to admit voting for a republican now. People supporting a false profit look far weaker than those who support the devil. This is the contest.
well said. I don't read many whom understand GOP politics. The TP was the only thing positive and the establishment GOP has attacked them even more harshly than the socialist DemPervs.
Ho ho ho, the Republican party is best at taking Barry's dick up the ass, giving Harry a BJ, and collecting a paycheck.
In fact that's all they do.
The republicans have NEVER had a better platform for political advantage yet they are stumbling, bumbling and wandering through a crisis made to order for them and if they win back the senate, it will be an accident. This too stupid to be stupidity. A republlican minority sustains the status quo, which ultimately is what everything is about.
I'm with you, Carl.
I think Obama's doing a terriffic job.
And 9 out out 10 Reggies agree.
Nothing will happen to little Rickeh.
Just like Bush.
NOMUTHERFUCKINGTHING.
Because TPTB got his back.
I'd like nothing more than to see little Rickeh, Clinton, Bush and Obama shackled together, shuffling into a corporate prison.
He should've shaked his hand...
And the shiv in the back strikes again.
Rick Perry is a moron of epic proportions. Anyone who defends this descendant of the trollish bloodline is an even bigger moron and a waste of human life.
Rick Perry should go back to having sex with his male chef. His wife is not going to blackmail him since they made that deal.
Maybe he could even toss his salad.
Dick
Skum
If you follow Texas State politics, one is aware that the Travis County DA's office (State Capital), it is an almost exclusive Dem bastion and its use as a Dem political tool is infamous. It's known as the place where a ham sandwich can be indicted.
perry already signalled that he won't run in the november 4 gubernatorial election.
besides, having committed a crime never stopped someone running for president.
i wouldn't be surprised if ted cruz is behind this op.
Perry and most of the entrenched state legislature needs to be replaced. Too entrenched.
Gov. Perry: Texas Cowboy who got thrown off his horse one too many times!
I guess Perry can't just cut the budget of the Tejas Judicial Branch, huh?
This is all part of the attack on Texas being orchestrated by the Usurper, who is attacking the Texas border with illegal aliens, and since Perry didn't like it (he wants to send the National Guard) they are attacking him. This is how "Community Organizers" and their fellow travelers roll. All political theater designed to obscure what is happening at the border.
Obama, the domestic enemy Usurper, and his minions and puppeteers are a disease inflicted on America.
Rosemary Lehmberg - goodness gracious - some peeps posting here finally found a Jew they like.
You know there's got to be a Joo in the woodpile somewhere....
Let me get this straight...
It's ok and legal if I punch you in the face but if I tell you I'm going to punch you in the face first , then it is coercion?
Well ain't that the doggonest thing?
I'm no fan of him but there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7y7oJ266qI
So typical of those who seek to rule us...they see themselves as superior and their "cause" as giving them exemption from rules of decency. Booze usually provides a pretty good window on the soul and hers is dark indeed. You can only imagine the abuse and fear she has imparted to those around her, especially those on the ladder beneath her.
Sounds to me like the DA should resign. And it sounds like Rick Perry committed an indictable offense, overstepping the limits of the Governor's authority. The voters are the ones who make these decisions.
Watch the politicians, and pay no attention that someone is alienating your rights. Enjoy the show.
Obama and Holder next. All has to do with blocking illegals from entering the country.
To summarize the defenses of Perry:
1) Obama! Perry shouldn't be charged because Obama has done worse!
2) DA Lehmberg is a drunk! Perry can break the law to get rid of a county DA.
3) Payback for Perry sending National Guard to the border. That makes Perry innocent.
4) Travis county is full of democrats. That makes Perry innocent.
None of these are legal defenses.
Hope this is not felonious.
Texas you have got a real problem down there and Perry is the least of them. I can smell the fucking rot in Austin north of the Red River. And when it gets mixed in with stench coming out of OKC, well, I prefer napalm.
You really need to have the stuffing beaten out of you.
The indicting prosecutor group are the same Austin based Leftwing assholes who indicted Tom Delay for the same purpose: neutralizing a political enemy. Although found guilty at trial by a group of these same Leftwing assholes, on appeal the indictment was dismissed for not even stating a cause of action. Result: Win for the assholes. Delay is out of the picture, although innocent. Why not run this same shit again?
No matter how much you may dislike Perry or disagree with his politics, you should not condone this abuse of power. It could be turned on you next. As long as it works, why not expand its application?
To you.
What was the abuse of power again because he cut the budget of the district attorney who spend time in jail for drunk driving and doesn't want to resign? WTF, this is nothing but bullshit lawsuit and bullshit grand jury. This should be thrown out of the court because the governor has the power to cut expenses in the State budget wherever he wants.