Gov. Rick Perry Indicted by the Office Whose Ethics Perry Was Criticizing
The leftist effort to get Perry for actually going after corruption.
ABC
A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first indicted governor in nearly a century.
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, which is run by Travis County District Rosemary Lehmberg’s office. Several top aides to the Republican governor appeared before grand jurors in Austin, including his deputy chief of staff, legislative director and general counsel. Perry himself wasn’t called to testify.
He was indicted by an Austin grand jury on felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Maximum punishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. The second is two to 10 years.
Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and plead guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. A video recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell and sticking her tongue out.
Wild Thing’s comment..……..
Total Bullshit !
When is the Obama indictment coming …?
This is Chicago tactics (Holder & Oblamer) getting back at Perry for deploying the National Guard to the border.
The Uber Libtards are alive even in Estados Unidos Texas! This is timed perfectly because in 80 days the SENATE will be GOPHERS and it will be one year until ELECTION DAY!
I watched Jimmy Fallon the other night taking shots at Gov Perry. That told me he’s one the liberals fear the most.
A Grand Jury inditement doesn’t mean crap. Our county prosecutor said you could indite a piece of paper as you don’t have to provide a burden of proof to get an inditement. Unfortunately the low information voter doesn’t know that and will think Perry a criminal when he was well within his authority to do what he did.