By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--August 18, 2014
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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. Perry’s general counsel, Marry Anne Wiley, defended the governor’s action. “The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution,” she said. “We will continue to aggressively defend the governor’s lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail.” The unit Lehmberg oversees is the same that led the investigation against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican who in 2010 was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for taking part in a scheme to influence elections in his home state.By the way, if you want to see why Perry wanted Lehmberg to resign, here you go: Perry is leaving office at the end of this year anyway, and this indictment will likely be laughed out of the courts. Whether he wants to run for president again I have no idea, but my guess would be that something like this won't make him less likely to do it. If anything Perry would run against the type of politically motivated prosecutorial abuse that this represents. Herman talked a few weeks back about the larger trend that this is part of - Democrats trying to sue and investigate their way to power. As this idiotic indictment against Perry shows, they care nothing about the fact that they're abusing the legal process for political purposes. All they know is: They can, so why not. Rick Perry will more than beat this. He'll obliterate it. And the guess here is that he ends up more influential, not less, as a result.
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