Thread: Texas Gov. Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat

http://www.alipac.us/f12/texas-gov-s...er-wall-74547/

Rick Perry To Be Booked, Fingerprinted, And Have His Mugshot Taken

August 18th, 2014
Shar
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge opted Monday not to issue an arrest warrant against Gov. Rick Perry, but the Republican still faces the unflattering prospect of being booked, fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken — and has assembled a team of high-powered attorneys to fight the two felony counts of abuse of power against him.

Leading conservatives around the country have mostly lined up to support the longest-serving governor in Texas history, and Perry’s aides said the case won’t derail his busy travel schedule, which includes visits to several key presidential battleground states as he continues to eye a second run for the White House in 2016.

“This is nothing more than banana republic politics,” Tony Buzbee a Houston-based defense attorney who will head a cadre of four lawyers from Texas and Washington defending Perry, said at a news conference. “The charges lobbed against the governor are a really nasty attack not only on the rule of law but on the Constitution of the United States, the state of Texas and also the fundamental constitutional protections that we all enjoy.”

Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/rick-...fsfCIL6PVf1.99

Jail video show Lehmberg kicking cell door




Published on Apr 19, 2013
On the day Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg was sentenced to 45 days in jail for driving while intoxicated, video released from the night she was arrested shows her kicking a a jail cell door and yelling at jail staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9WGKnhXdE

Gov. Rick Perry turns himself in on public corruption charges

The Texas Republican went to the Travis County courthouse in Austin for booking and fingerprinting.

Perry faces felony corruption charges stemming from a veto he issued last summer that denied funding to a prosecutor that he had demanded should resign.

BY ADAM EDELMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 2:30 PM
Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 6:17 PM

RODOLFO GONZALEZ/REUTERS

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has denounced the felony charges filed against him and has vowed to fight them.

No apologies for Gov. Rick Perry.

The Texas governor, facing felony public corruption charges, turned himself in to Texas state authorities Tuesday afternoon to be booked on charges of abusing his power when he vetoed funding for prosecutors investigating public corruption.

"If I had to do so I would veto funding for the public integrity unit again," Perry said at a press conference before walking into the Travis County courthouse for booking.

Perry was indicted last week by a state grand jury on the charges, which he said were "nothing short of an attack on the constitutional powers of the office of governor."

Perry's lawyers told CNN Tuesday that the governor will go to the Travis County courthouse in Austin later in the day for his booking. He will also be fingerprinted and have his photo taken for a mug shot, KVUE-TV reported Tuesday.

Perry faces one charge of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, and one charge of coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony.

Both charges stem from a threat Perry made last summer to veto $7.5 million in state funding for the public corruption unit of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg unless she resigned after a drunken driving charge.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...#ixzz3AsbtF1uN

I wonder if he winked for the Democrats in his mugshot.....

Close.

See How Rick Perry Won His Indictment Booking




BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
August 19, 2014 6:41 pm

Gov. Rick Perry (R., Tex.) drew a sharp contrast against President Obama this afternoon. As Obama scurried away from Washington to resume his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, Perry voiced his rousing defense before strutting inside a Texas courthouse for his booking for a grand jury indictment.

Perry was defiant, echoing comments Sunday that the charges are nothing more than a political attack and that he would again defund the anti-corruption unit that earned him his mugshot.

RICK PERRY: I’m here today because I did the right thing. I’m going to enter this courthouse with my head held high, and not only were the actions that I took not only lawful and legal, but right. And if I had to do so, I would veto funding for the integrity unit again. You think any governor, Democrat or Republican, would expect this important unit with jurisdiction over state officials, be led by someone who lives up to the high standard of conduct and personal integrity. And this issue is far bigger than me. It is about the rule of law, about the constitution that allows not just a governor but every citizen to speak their mind free of political interference or legal intimidation. [ cheers and applause ] This indictment is nothing but an attack on the constitutional powers of the governor. There are important fundamental issues at stake, and I will not allow this attack on our system of government to stand. I’m going to fight this injustice with every fiber of my being. and we will prevail. and we’ll prevail because we’re standing for the rule of law. [ cheers and applause ]

This is the look of a man who just won his news cycle.


tplohetski ✔ @tplohetski
Follow
BREAKING: Perry booking photo
5:36 PM - 19 Aug 2014


http://freebeacon.com/politics/see-h...tment-booking/

Perry Indictment Not Thought Through

August 22, 2014 By Tom Thurlow

Photo credit: Office of Texas Governor Rick Perry (Public Domain)

So let me see if I understand this correctly: if the Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, had just waved through the $7.5 million taxpayer funding for the public integrity unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s office, an office led by a convicted drunk driver with an astronomical .24% alcohol level, then Perry would not now be facing “abuse of power” felony charges. Had Gov. Perry just put down his veto pen, and sent the money to this particular Democrat District Attorney, he would not be facing almost 100 years in state prison. Do you see how ridiculous that sounds?
And have you seen the video of the prosecutor in question? It would be funny if it weren’t a lead prosecutor of a very important Texas county, Travis County. The video, which has been making the rounds on the Internet, shows District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg at different times claiming that she was not drunk, which was obviously not true, kicking her jail cell door, calling the case against her stupid, and topping it off with a kind of “do you know who I am?” routine. That didn’t work for former United States Senator Larry Craig when he was busted for lewd sexual conduct in a men’s restroom, so why should it work for Lehmberg? Ms. Lehmberg can even be heard mumbling “this is the end of my political career,” making at least some sense in her extreme drunken state.
But she was wrong there, too! A local court later decided that Lehmberg was just fine to stay where she was as Travis County District Attorney, prosecuting other drunk drivers and even available to prosecute other public officials as part of the office’s public integrity unit. From that point on, any prosecution, especially any “public integrity” prosecution, led by Ms. Lehmberg was suspect.
Here’s why: if anyone is arrested for drunk driving and is prosecuted by DA Lehmberg, a fair question to be asked would be “maybe she is being so hard on that defendant and his drunk driving because she wants to show that she has extra regret for being caught doing the same thing.” Or “maybe she is going easy on that drunk driver because she wants to show that what she did was really no big deal.” Or if she prosecutes a public official for some misdeed in office, “maybe she is being so harsh or lenient (take your pick) to compare that case favorably with her own case or to show that she really regrets what she did.”
See how that works? No one is perfect, but anyone prosecuting other people for crimes or public officials for their misdeeds at least needs to be above such questions and have nothing in their background that prompts a discussion like this. And “public integrity” prosecutions are supposed to be a serious discussion of an accused public official and whether they broke the law, not some scorecard to be compared with the prosecutor’s own personal past.
In context, Gov. Perry’s funding veto makes perfect sense. To the contrary, had Gov. Perry not vetoed the funding for Lehmberg’s office, it would have looked like Perry was being irresponsible.
“Oh, but this charge is being led by a special prosecutor, with no direct connection to the Travis County District Attorney,” the defenders of this prosecution might say. But it is no secret that these charges were first suggested by Texans For Public Justice, a liberal Texas activist group that specifically targets Republican office-holders. And according to the Dallas Morning News, the special prosecutor in this case, Michael McCrum, was almost appointed to be the local U.S. Attorney by President Obama. The Travis County District Attorney’s office also has a habit of criminally prosecuting prominent Republicans: first, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, then Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and now Republican Governor Rick Perry.
Recently, the members of the grand jury that signed onto the indictment have shown their partisan colors as well. Five members of the grand jury were shown to have been consistent Democrat voters while one member was even found out to be a Texas Democratic Party delegate while the Perry proceedings were going on.
If this prosecution ever goes to trial, it will be impossible for the trial jurors not to notice that
this case is being prosecuted by a DA’s office that was denied funding by the defendant, Gov. Perry.
Even some Democrats agree that this indictment is a bad idea. Former Obama adviser and prominent Democrat David Axelrod tweeted “unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry’s indictment seems pretty sketchy.” Liberal columnist Jonathan Chait, of New York Magazine, calls the Perry indictment “unbelievably ridiculous.”
In fact, this prosecution is so bad that instead of defending it, some Democrats have invented new theories of the case. As was reported in the blog Powerline, a Democratic party official sent out an e-mail arguing that Perry’s funding veto was in part because the Travis County DA was investigating a group with close ties to Gov. Perry. However, a report in the newspaper Austin American-Statesman, points out that the friends of Perry in the group in question were cleared long ago. So this argument is a total red herring.
In the end, this has a big possibility of backfiring on Democrats. If there is a verdict of “not guilty,” it is conceivable that a similar “abuse of office” charge could be brought against the special prosecutor, which would be funny, but Gov. Perry could use the acquittal in his presidential campaign, just like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will use his recall victory in his presidential campaign. Republican voters like candidates who fight, and a few battle scars on a candidate are appealing.
If, on the other hand, the jury somehow convicts Gov. Perry, the conviction will eventually be thrown out on appeal, as was the conviction against Republican Thomas DeLay a few years ago. Not only that, but Republican prosecutors in other Texas counties will begin to catch on that if Texas someday has a Democratic governor, similar criminal charges could be brought against that governor. Only a few years ago, Texas actually did have a Democrat governor, Ann Richards, and she issued a few vetoes.
It could also work out that being prosecuted for something will become a kind of rite of passage for either side: Republican governors will be criminally prosecuted by the Travis County District Attorney, while Democrat governors will be criminally prosecuted by district attorneys in any of the various Republican counties in Texas — maybe in succession!
No, this indictment against Gov. Perry was definitely not thought through. As they say in Texas, this case is “a dog that won’t hunt.”

http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2014/08/perry-indictment-not-thought-through/

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Perry is an open border traitor

so I don't really care who does what to him.


. . . The Secure Fence Act of 2006 was passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2006.

The government of Mexico and ministers of several Latin American countries have condemned the plans.[15] Rick Perry, governor of Texas, also expressed his opposition saying that instead of closing the border it should be opened more and through technology support legal and safe migration. . .


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%...States_barrier

A person might not like the man but the method is dangerous.

Perry vs. Lehmberg

Comment | Share

Comment | Share

---

The Most Drunk Democrat in Texas

Comment | Share

The issue here is:

Did Rick Perry violate the law?

What some drunk lady did or didn't do is a different issue.