What do yall think about the Rick Perry Indictment

[Star_Cards]

Well the claim is not just the veto. It's the threat of trading the funding for her resignation. All of that said, anything short of an email or an audio or video tape I find this will be very hard to prove. To me it seems a bit like the Rob Blagoivich when he tried to trade the Chicago senate seat. I'm not sure what evidence they had on him to convict him, but seems like they will need 100% concrete evidence that Perry did try to force her to resign since vetoing is within his normal power as governor.

[duane1969]

Funding issue aside, he has the right to try and force her to resign. A teacher that gets busted for DUI or drugs is fired or forced to resign. A cop that gets busted for DUI or drugs is either forced to resign or fired. This woman is a public servant in a government job, she deserves no special treatment.

What's more, why should millions of dollars be spent to fund a "public integrity unit" when the person running it is a drunk driver and acting belligerent and threatening towards officers? Call me crazy, but shouldn't the person running the integrity unit have exemplary integrity?

The true irony in all of this is during her arrest she tries to use her position to manipulate the system by repeatedly demanding that they "Call Greg" (Greg is the sheriff) and asking if Greg authorized them arresting and processing her. Abuse of power??....

[Star_Cards]

I can see what you are saying with having the right to persuade her to resign, but does he have the right to hold funding over her head. As far as comparing the situation to a teacher, aren't their contracts different. Do politicians even have contracts in the same sense as other employees getting fired for breaking a law that the company can use to fire that person? I'm not sure exactly.

I have not looked into the integrity unit or if I think it should be funded or not. I don't think that has any relevance in this claim. I do agree that it is very ironic as her actions had little integrity.

lol. I agree, her trying to get out of it because of her relationships and power is shady.

[Wickabee]

Funding issue aside, he has the right to try and force her to resign. A teacher that gets busted for DUI or drugs is fired or forced to resign. A cop that gets busted for DUI or drugs is either forced to resign or fired. This woman is a public servant in a government job, she deserves no special treatment.

What's more, why should millions of dollars be spent to fund a "public integrity unit" when the person running it is a drunk driver and acting belligerent and threatening towards officers? Call me crazy, but shouldn't the person running the integrity unit have exemplary integrity?

The true irony in all of this is during her arrest she tries to use her position to manipulate the system by repeatedly demanding that they "Call Greg" (Greg is the sheriff) and asking if Greg authorized them arresting and processing her. Abuse of power??....

Kind of like how cops should follow the law?

Just transfer her somewhere else and sweep it under the rug. It's worked for the RCMP.

[87sluggo]

All of you, and you know who you are, who like to bleat on and on about The Constitution and how the United States is a "Nation of Laws" suddenly saying that this is nothing more than a political witch hunt because what Perry did was just political business as usual.......well that's pretty much the height of hypocrisy.

If the Clintons did indeed murder half of Arkansas along their way to the top and then off Vince Foster as icing on the cake, if President Barry is indeed defying The Constitution and ruling by tyrannical edict, if Dubya did in fact try to ruin Michael Moore, well then they're smarter than the people who were/are investigating them, aren't they? Rick Perry, the glasses whut talks like a man, isn't however. I can only assume that since a grand jury was convened and returned an indictment that there must be some evidence that Perry did indeed try to coerce or blackmail the Travis County DA into quitting before going ahead and vetoing the funding. Which is abuse of power. Which is a felony.

Whatever you may think of Lehmberg (I don't think too much of her myself for whatever that's worth) the Governor has no power to fire her as she's a locally elected official, and has no "right" to try to force her to resign.

[sanfran22]

All of you, and you know who you are, who like to bleat on and on about The Constitution and how the United States is a "Nation of Laws" suddenly saying that this is nothing more than a political witch hunt because what Perry did was just political business as usual.......well that's pretty much the height of hypocrisy.

If the Clintons did indeed murder half of Arkansas along their way to the top and then off Vince Foster as icing on the cake, if President Barry is indeed defying The Constitution and ruling by tyrannical edict, if Dubya did in fact try to ruin Michael Moore, well then they're smarter than the people who were/are investigating them, aren't they? Rick Perry, the glasses whut talks like a man, isn't however. I can only assume that since a grand jury was convened and returned an indictment that there must be some evidence that Perry did indeed try to coerce or blackmail the Travis County DA into quitting before going ahead and vetoing the funding. Which is abuse of power. Which is a felony.

Whatever you may think of Lehmberg (I don't think too much of her myself for whatever that's worth) the Governor has no power to fire her as she's a locally elected official, and has no "right" to try to force her to resign.

He does have the power to veto any funding I do believe. I believe Perry stated thet the public integrity unit could not be effective with this women in charge. Just like Tom Delay, they are trying to take out a possible threat and create a narrative for the elections.

[87sluggo]

He does have the power to veto any funding I do believe.

Yes he does, but that isn't the issue. The issue is the events that occurred before the funding veto.

Following the announcement, a split has emerged among press covering the story. Much of the Lone Star State media has covered it as a valid legal proceeding and part of a greater picture of misconduct, while national media are treating Perry's indictment as mere politics.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08...-take-p/200500

[sanfran22]

Yes he does, but that isn't the issue. The issue is the events that occurred before the funding veto.




http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08...-take-p/200500

So the lady runs the Integrity unit. A watchdog group for misconduct. She herself lacked integrity and was asked to step down. How do you get rid of someone who is lacking integrity but leading an integrity watchdog group? Was she asked to stop being a DA?

[87sluggo]

I don't know if the people of Travis County can push through some sort of recall or if they're even trying, she's already said she won't be running for re-election in 2016. Short of that, unless something about her being a drunken idiot with no personal integrity has caused her actual job performance to go sideways or unless someone can prove professional misconduct, then she can legally serve out the rest of her term.

[JustAlex]

I think I have a better chance to be President that Rick Perry and thus this story is irrelevant.

And in the off chance the GOP become literally beyond repair and elect Perry as their candidate, than I expect Hillary to walk into the White House in 2016 without a single drop of sweat.