Texas Gov. Rick Perry Indicted For Abuse Of Power

[Ibentoken]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for 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, which is run by Travis County District Rosemary Lehmberg's office. Several top aides to the Republican governor appeared before grand jurors in Austin, including his deputy chief of staff, legislative director and general counsel. Perry himself wasn't called to testify.

He was indicted by an Austin grand jury on felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Maximum punishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. The second is two to 10 years.

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Doesn't sound good for Ricky's presidential ambitions. How many years will Ricky spend in prison? Will he have "romantic" relationships? Will he join a gang?

This indictment stinks of BS. Even David Axlerod (of all people!) thinks it's "Sketchy"

Perry's "coercion" has to do with him trying to get a convicted criminal to leave a high-powered position.

Exactly, and the leftist trash are too cowardly to admit what her job was. The Democrats are morally bankrupt and desperate.

 

[RoadVirus]

Grand jury indicts Gov. Rick Perry on two charges
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TEXAS Governor Rick Perry, the presidential aspirant, has been indicted on two counts and will be fingerprinted and booked next week. The Special Prosecutor was a Republican.

The Texas Democratic Party has issued a press release on this matter.

Perry Needs to Step Down | Texas Democratic Party

Only if the drunk bitch he tried to oust resigns first.

 

[dilloduck]

Texas really is a shitty state.

Democrats love to go jury shopping for Texas

They do and it doesn't get any easier than where Perry was indicted. Political hit all the way. Perry's not presidential material imho but then again neither was Obama so it's a wash.

 

[Ibentoken]

The Texas Democrat party can kiss his ass. We're from Texas, screw you.
"Screw You We're From Texas" Is What You Tell Lib…:

 

[RoadVirus]

Perry is of course innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, something he and undocumented immigrants in Texas have in common.

Bigotry is the republican core value.

And Bullshit is a Democrat core value.

 

[RoadVirus]

another one goes down....

He shouldn't have withheld that funding from the Public Integrity Unit in Austin. That was wrong of him to do in order to go after District Attorney Lehmberg and of course once it was done it WILL bite you right back and quite harshly and just at the most inopportune time while he is still a sitting governor and a presidential aspirant. And that can't be good for him.

No... It won't bite anyone. Everyone in Texas knows who and more importantly, WHAT these 'people' are. And for those keeping score, "WHAT they are..." is a joke. They'll be laughed out of court, AGAIN!

And hopefully laughed out of office.

 

[RoadVirus]

Getting indicted by a grand jury always enhances a politicians standing.

In Texas for sure.

Tell us what it did for Bill Clinton and Marion Barry.

Marion Barry....
He could kill a man in cold blood, confess to it and still get elected for some sort of political position.

 

[RoadVirus]

Perry could be impeached if he doesn't resign.

By the time they get around to that, it'll be November and a moot point.

 

[RoadVirus]

Texas really is a shitty state.

California and Illinois are worse.

Hopefully we here in Illiinois will see better if Quinn get's booted out in November.

 

[Manonthestreet]

This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous
By Jonathan Chait The theory behind the indictment is flexible enough that almost any kind of political conflict could be defined as a “misuse” of power or “coercion” of one’s opponents. To describe the indictment as “frivolous” gives it far more credence than it deserves. Perry may not be much smarter than a ham sandwich, but he is exactly as guilty as one. Rick Perry Indictment Is Unbelievably Ridiculous -- NYMag

 

[percysunshine]

Perry is of course innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, something he and undocumented immigrants in Texas have in common.

Bigotry is the republican core value.

And Bullshit is a Democrat core value.

Actually, lying is a Democrat core value. Which is why they always accuse Republicans of doing it.

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[PaintMyHouse]

If you know nothing of the women then what in the hell are you posting in this thread? Find out what's going on, dumb ass.

I don't need to know anything about her, to know that Perry broke the law.

He's the first governor in 100 years to be indicted. And it's not that he had the power to veto that got him in trouble, what reports are saying is that it's the way he went about it and the things he said that got him in trouble.

Yeppers...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Texas really is a shitty state.

Which is why major corporations are flocking there.

Yep, see how that works now? When it's about making a buck, you go with the low bidder who fucks the labor and country...

 

[Vigilante]

Texas really is a shitty state.

Which is why major corporations are flocking there.

Yep, see how that works now? When it's about making a buck, you go with the low bidder who fucks the labor and country...

....and provides jobs that don't exist there now.... YOU sir, are one dumb asshole!

 

[Chris]

The thing that is so amazing about this story is the Perry threatened the DA publically.
He is clearly guilty of coercion.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Which is why major corporations are flocking there.

Yep, see how that works now? When it's about making a buck, you go with the low bidder who fucks the labor and country...

....and provides jobs that don't exist there now.... YOU sir, are one dumb asshole!

No little man, I understand what most Americans don't, capitalism...

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Chris]

Texas really is a shitty state.

Which is why major corporations are flocking there.

Yep, see how that works now? When it's about making a buck, you go with the low bidder who fucks the labor and country...

The kind of low unemployment Republicans crave.....

In 1860 30% of the Texas state population of 604,215 were enslaved. In the statewide election on the secession ordinance, Texans voted to secede from the Union by a vote of 46,129 to 14,697 (a 76% majority). The Secession Convention immediately organized a government, replacing Sam Houston when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.

 

[Chris]

The Kansas experiment fails...
Advised by Arthur Laffer, the father of supply-side economics, and supported by special interest groups backed by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, Republican Gov. Brownback pushed through legislation that cut taxes and spending, eliminated state jobs and denied far more applications for welfare assistance — not to mention that he tightened abortion regulations and loosened gun rules.
Brownback promised that the efforts would drive economic growth, create jobs and stabilize the Kansas budget. But the state is reporting a more than $300 million revenue shortfall. The poverty rate increased. The state’s economy expanded 2.3 percent in inflation-adjusted terms over the past two years, half the rate of its four neighbors. And Kansas’s credit rating has been downgraded.

 

[Ibentoken]

Texas really is a shitty state.

Which is why major corporations are flocking there.

Yep, see how that works now? When it's about making a buck, you go with the low bidder who fucks the labor and country...

What's your background in business?