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Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose
I'm sure that's how a lot of people see this situation - as nothing more than "politics as usual" - and I won't argue that some measure of "gotcha/one-upsman politics" isn't at play here. However, I don't think folks who look at this issue rationally can honestly say that Gov. Perry, in threatening to use his veto power to force Mrs. Lehmberg to resign using the power of purse as it were to pressure her to leave and then carrying out that veto threat, didn't abuse his power as Chief Executive. That's the part you guys continue to purposely overlook. He didn't do this in the best interest of the State of TX. He did it for his own self interest and that's wrong. There's really no other way folks can :spin: this as being justified.
They went after DeLay...he's free. They went after Kay Baily...no conviction, they won't get one for Perry either.
Ronnie Earle was a POS and so is Lehmberg. That whole unit needs to be squashed. It's nothing but a partisan political attack machine disguised using the moron Travis county Leftist jury pool as a watchdog.
I'm sure that's how a lot of people see this situation - as nothing more than "politics as usual" - and I won't argue that some measure of "gotcha/one-upsman politics" isn't at play here. However, I don't think folks who look at this issue rationally can honestly say that Gov. Perry, in threatening to use his veto power to force Mrs. Lehmberg to resign using the power of purse as it were to pressure her to leave and then carrying out that veto threat, didn't abuse his power as Chief Executive. That's the part you guys continue to purposely overlook. He didn't do this in the best interest of the State of TX. He did it for his own self interest and that's wrong. There's really no other way folks can :spin: this as being justified.