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Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat [W:613/629]

Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose

As I posted earlier today, Perry is the longest serving Governor in Texas history. The voters approved of the way he ran the State and kept him in that position - and I would venture a guess that if he were to run again for Governor, he would win again! He runs a business-friendly State, which is why many businesses fleeing California and other states relocate to Texas, and there's lots of wide-open spaces to welcome them. I understand that Tesla is considering Texas as a site for their huge new "gigabattery" plant which will employ 6500 people. The last I heard, a decision is expected by the end of the year on which of the four States that are bidding will be the winner.

Greetings, Erik. :2wave:

You know nothing about Texas. Even conservatives begrudgingly voted for Perry. They really don't like him. Tesla is considering Austin, the liberal mecca here in Texas, but that has less to do with "business friendly" and more to do with the highly educated populace that Austin has to offer, thanks to it's long-term investments into education, something that Republicans despise.
 
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So you are saying that having the 8th largest GDP in the world is not something to trumpet? Yet, you wish to trumpet the Texas economy above and beyond California's economy which, as you noted, is behind California's economy? I don't follow your logic.

Texas economy is booming and no debt, California is in debt, why? Why are businesses moving out of California. Better think about it.
 
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the people voted to elect that particular district attorney and she refused to step down because perry wants to appoint a republican in her place.

and maybe you should reaserch your states laws.

one of the charges perry was indicted on was "coercion of a public servant or voter".

and according to Texas's statuary law



TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 36.03 : Texas Statutes - Section 36.03: COERCION OF PUBLIC SERVANT OR VOTER

Of course her being drunk had nothing to do with it or even competent. You see in the liberal world it is management that incompetent and lower level employees are never wrong.
 
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Were you not the first to bring up the subject of a bribe? If not, fine, if so and its not relevant then why do it?

I mentioned in response to another poster's claim that a Governor can veto a law for any reason he wants to.

That claim is obviously untrue, as my question revealed. Since my question revealed the untruthfulness of his claim, that proves that it is relevant
 
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You know nothing about Texas. Even conservatives begrudgingly voted for Perry. They really don't like him. Tesla is considering Austin, the liberal mecca here in Texas, but that has less to do with "business friendly" and more to do with the highly educated populace that Austin has to offer, thanks to it's long-term investments into education, something that Republicans despise.

LOL, of course the economic conditions had nothing to do with it. If it was all about education they would relocate to the Ivy League area and the brilliance of the Northeast. You simply cannot accept the reality that it is business environment not the highly educated populace that drives business decisions.
 
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Of course her being drunk had nothing to do with it or even competent. You see in the liberal world it is management that incompetent and lower level employees are never wrong.

by that logic, idaho senator Mike Crapo should have resigned after he received a D.W.I 3 years ago, and yet he is still in office.
 
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I mentioned in response to another poster's claim that a Governor can veto a law for any reason he wants to.

That claim is obviously untrue, as my question revealed. Since my revealed the untruthfulness of his claim, that it is relevant

In addition to never answering direct questions you are delusional, a Governor can veto a bill for any reason he wants and that veto can be overridden.
 
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by that logic, idaho senator Mike Crapo should have resigned after he received a D.W.I 3 years ago, and yet he is still in office.


Sounds like a state issue to me
 
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No, you implicated that he did. A cheap backhanded implication with a cheap backdoor escape to crawl back under the rock, should anyone object to it, such as quite a few have. An attempt at guilt by implication. A favored tactic by progressives / liberals / Democrats.

The only cheap thing I see is your lies.
 
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Vetoing a bill isn't a crime

TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 39.02 : Texas Statutes - Section 39.02: ABUSE OF OFFICIAL CAPACITY

(a) A public servant commits an offense if, with intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud another, he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) violates a law relating to the public servant's office or employment; or
(2) misuses government property, services, personnel, or any other thing of value belonging to the government that has come into the public servant's custody or possession by virtue of the public servant's office or employment.

- See more at: TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 39.02 : Texas Statutes - Section 39.02: ABUSE OF OFFICIAL CAPACITY
 
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Of course her being drunk had nothing to do with it or even competent. You see in the liberal world it is management that incompetent and lower level employees are never wrong.

This doesn't make any sense at all.
 
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I mentioned in response to another poster's claim that a Governor can veto a law for any reason he wants to.

That claim is obviously untrue, as my question revealed. Since my revealed the untruthfulness of his claim, that it is relevant

You are incorrect. You asked "can".
You didn't ask if "legally allowed".
Two separate things there. Which is your fault.
 
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and perry is interfearing in local issues by demanding that the district attorney resign simply for driving drunk.

That DA requested Taxpayer money and that made it a state issue. Why would any Governor give taxpayer money to any department under control of this lunatic?
 
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This doesn't make any sense at all.

Perry would be upper level controlling Taxpayer money, the DA would be lower level requesting it and then spending it. what would you do? TX has the line item veto that can be overridden. Why would anyone give taxpayer money to this DA?
 
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The point is that coercion of public officials is not a crime. It's the job of other public officials.
(a) A person commits an offense if by means of coercion he:
(1) influences or attempts to influence a public servant in a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty or influences or attempts to influence a public servant to violate the public servant's known legal duty;
- See more at: TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 36.03 : Texas Statutes - Section 36.03: COERCION OF PUBLIC SERVANT OR VOTER
 
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Perry would be upper level controlling Taxpayer money, the DA would be lower level requesting it and then spending it. what would you do? TX has the line item veto that can be overridden. Why would anyone give taxpayer money to this DA?

I'm already on record as saying the indictment is BS.

I was referring to your fantasy about the "liberal world."
 
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You know nothing about Texas. Even conservatives begrudgingly voted for Perry. They really don't like him. Tesla is considering Austin, the liberal mecca here in Texas, but that has less to do with "business friendly" and more to do with the highly educated populace that Austin has to offer, thanks to it's long-term investments into education, something that Republicans despise.

It's Houston, not Austin, that would be the location of the new plant, as I understand it, and a "begrudging" vote, as you state, counts exactly the same as an enthusiastic one. Fact is he won often enough to hold the record he has as the longest serving governor in Texas history. P.S. Most of my family lives in Texas.
 
Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose

That DA requested Taxpayer money and that made it a state issue. Why would any Governor give taxpayer money to any department under control of this lunatic?



But what did Perry do, exactly?

He threatened, publicly, to use his line item-veto power to zero out the Public Integrity Unit’s budget. Since that part of the Travis DA’s office played a statewide role, it was funded by the state. This kind of threat isn’t unusual. Executives use veto threats all the time to get what they want. The difference this time was that Perry had the audacity to do it all publicly. It’s unusual for an elected official to bully another elected official into resigning. And when threats didn’t work, he followed through on it. At the end of last year’s legislative session, Perry eliminated the entirety of the Public Integrity Unit’s funding–some $8 million over two years. Money that was going to investigate, in small part, his own party’s mismanagement of state government agencies, including alleged corruption in CPRIT.

That seems pretty slimy.

It does. The Travis County Commissioners Court pitched in to restore about half of the Public Integrity Unit’s annual budget, which allowed the unit to continue operating at a reduced pace and continue the CPRIT investigation. Residents of the Austin metropolitan area remain very grateful that money didn’t go to road maintenance or a library or whatever.

Everything You Need to Know* About Rick Perry's Newest Scandal - The Texas Observer
 
Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose

by that logic, idaho senator Mike Crapo should have resigned after he received a D.W.I 3 years ago, and yet he is still in office.

Very different circumstances, only one of which was the blood alcohol content (Crapo's was 0.14 while Lehmberg's was nearly three times over the legal limit). Crapo also apologized and appeared remorseful and embarrassed. Lehmberg, on the other hand, was belligerent, and she also had to spend 20 days of a 45-day sentence in jail.
 
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Liberal arrogance won't let blue states do what? The most arrogant people I've ever known in my life were all conservative republicans. Republicans won't let liberals better this nation (better known as the Party of No), and in fact are entirely responsible for the economic meltdown known as the Great Recession. Obstructionists is what you folks in the Republican Party are known as. You dodged my question posed earlier. What were the specific polices that Republicans put forth to make Texas an economic success? I already told you that it wasn't lowering taxes or the cost of living, since Texas Republicans sent property taxes through the roof. And I don't know what you mean by personal responsibility, unless you are saying that you can only benefit from things if you already have money.

Like I said before. You don't know what you are talking about.


LOL !!

" The party of No "......

There are NUMEROUS GOP House bills sitting in the Senate waiting for a vote that will never come thanks to Harry Reid. In those jobs bills are the same type of investment incentive initiatives that are responsible for Texas' economic success.

And NO, the Republicans are NOT the reason we had a Sub-Prime collapse in 2008. You can thank Clinton's full on attack on " racist banks ", his HUD regulatory mandates that increased sub-prime quotas for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac his numerous executive orders comprised in his 1995 Homeownership Strategy and and his co-opting of the GSE's into the Sub-prime business for the 2008 collapse.

The " Great Recession " is due to millions of easily influenced Americans equating empty platitudes and bumper sticker slogans to Presidential qualifications in 2008 and 2012.
 
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You're right. My bad.



No, he was taking prescription meds (not aspirin) for a non-medical reason, at least according to him. Look up the facts for yourself if you don't like the implications. What was the third branch of government that he will shut down? I forgot. "Oops!" said presidential candidate Rick Perry.

I don't want to look it up. I don't care enough to look it up. You are the one making the statement so it isn't up to me to look it up. Like I said, I don't really like the guy anyway. This is entertainment to me. I don't have any dogs in this fight yet. That might change as more information comes out.
 
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The " Great Recession " is due to millions of easily influenced Americans equating empty platitudes and bumper sticker slogans to Presidential qualifications in 2008 and 2012.

Wait, WHAT? The recession, which started before the 2008 election, was caused by people voting for Obama?
 
Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose


Rick Perry Indicted: Another Democratic Party Dirty Trick | Power Line

"A grand jury in Travis County, Texas, indicted Governor Rick Perry today. Why? For exercising his constitutional prerogative by threatening to veto, and then vetoing, an appropriation to support the public corruption unit in Travis County’s district attorney’s office. This followed the arrest of the county’s district attorney, Democratic Party activist Rosemary Lehmberg, for drunk driving, after she was found “with an open bottle of vodka in the front passenger seat of her car in a church parking lot in Austin.” Ms. Lehmberg served 45 days in jail.

The Travis County district attorney’s office has long been a cesspool of corruption. It was that office, controlled by the Democratic Party machine, that infamously indicted Tom DeLay for nothing. "
 
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