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Texas' Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat

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her behavior requires removal from office according to texas law, the leftist skank refused to comply. Perry will walk and the males with vaginas here will remain butt hurt.
 
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compuwiz1 said:
Anyone who supports this president's lawless defacto amnesty of illegals is an idiot. I suspect you are one of them, so kiss my ass. I know what this shit is and my sifter works pretty well. Rick Perry is being retaliated against for this and that is what it is. If he broke the law, then he will be tried and proven guilty. The justice system still works and in this country -he is innocent, until proven guilty. When did this board go so far left anyway? I was away for many years.
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wtf does the president have to do with this?
 
row said:
her behavior requires removal from office according to texas law, the leftist skank refused to do comply. Perry will walk and the males with vaginas here will remain butt hurt.
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Could you make your post a bit more misogynist? I'm not quite getting that "I hate women feel."
 
DominionSeraph said:
You should read it before you quote it.

"This line of argument is silly. Under it, any line item veto of anything the lege passes would be abuse of official capacity."
This is missing the relevant part: with intent to obtain a benefit or with intent to harm or defraud another

The shilling is strong to overlook it.
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now that i'm fully awake:

the count alleges that perry misused government property, being the $200,000 the lege had appropriated to lehmberg. problem is, that property doesn't exist until the budget bill becomes law, and it obviously isn't law when perry vetoes it.
 
Jaskalas said:
It is in the public interest to see a criminal drunk removed from office. Perry was pursuing the public interest in his capacity as Governor.
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And here we see the danger of conservatardism: Anything and everything is permitted if it furthers their agenda. There are no rules but tribalistic convenience. Morals are relative. The means gain justification in light of ideological ends.

The People of Texas have not granted the governor dictatorial control. His office does not govern the result of the DA election. She does not serve at his convenience. His use of his veto power to try to influence her job placement because it disagrees with his personal priorities is an abuse of power. That you agree with his personal priorities and would individually grant him any power to carry out your wishes ("You know you have made God in Your own image when He hates the same people You do") doesn't mean that in the system we have where methods are controlled that he has been granted use of those means.

If you want a DUI to trigger a removal from office, write the law that way.
The problem you conservatards have in doing so is that such absolute definitions in written law cramp your self-centered governing style. You don't want a DUI to remove someone from office, you only want to remove who you personally want removed because you personally disagree with. A Republican gets a DUI and you'd breeze right by it because, "He's doing God's work." But if it's a Democrat, now you want it applied. Pretty hard to write a law that way: "In the moment, I am always right, so the law is whatever I feel it is, and if I change my mind, that's the new law, and illegality is whatever I disagree with right now."
 
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DominionSeraph said:
If you want a DUI to trigger a removal from office, write the law that way.
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From a pile of !@#$ I found a nugget. We agree, that's not a bad idea.

As for Perry,

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Jaskalas said:
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A boss has the authority to fire an employee. Threaten to fire an employee because she won't give you a blow job... and... well... the People rather put a cap on that one. Carry out the firing and... whoo boy.

The boss is using his power to fire as leverage in another realm. While we grant him the right to do business, we don't grant that those rights extend indefinitely and that they cross into all other realms.
Same with the veto/signing power. If a mother wants a stop sign put in at the intersection by her house and Perry goes, "I'll agree to it if you sleep with me," even though he has constitutional authority to authorize/veto anything coming out of the legislature, it's an abuse of his power to use it to gain further benefit for himself. Same with a legislator or judge selling their services.
Perry wants the DA removed. The People of Texas haven't granted the governor's office the power to override an election. To use his veto power to try to extend his power into overriding an election is an abuse of power.
 
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Jaskalas said:
From a pile of !@#$ I found a nugget. We agree, that's not a bad idea.
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Axelrod on Breitbart? Really?

Do you actually believe him about anything, or is this shill quoting shill in the echo chamber?

Axelrod quit believing in anything except big money long ago, if he ever had any integrity at all. He'll toe any line to get it, too.
 
UberNeuman said:
So, a DUI should preclude a person from becoming President of the United States?

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If said President committed the DUI while in office and tried to use their position to mitigate the damage then yes. If the Watergate break-in happened before Nixon became President and tried to use the power of the office to get out of trouble for it, that crime probably wouldn't have prevented him from being elected POTUS or forced him out of office after he was elected.
 
Brainonska511 said:
Could you make your post a bit more misogynist? I'm not quite getting that "I hate women feel."
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aw, someone discovered a new word 🙂 doubtful, but who knows, given time you might learn how to use it 🙄


Moonbeam said:
He was probably unaware of how obviously sick he is. Wipe your shoes off and move on.
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and another verbal bowel movement by irrelevant intern in training. i admire you tenacity, give yourself another decade and 52,000 more posts, you'll reach that personal nirvana yet 😉


anyway, back on topic.

travis county local government code has 3 rules that if broken require the removal of a district attorney, incompetency - official misconduct - intoxication on or off duty due to consumption of alcoholic beverages, the process is apparently lengthy. for those who wish greater clarity please contact the department responsible for local codes and regulations, travis county commissioners court. the court meets each tuesday at 9:00 a.m. in the commissioners courtroom on the first floor of the travis county administration building at 700 lavaca, austin, the public is welcome. i'm sure they'd be happy to answer your questions.
 
row said:
aw, someone discovered a new word 🙂 doubtful, but who knows, given time you might learn how to use it 🙄




and another verbal bowel movement by irrelevant intern in training. i admire you tenacity, give yourself another decade and 52,000 more posts, you'll reach that personal nirvana yet 😉


anyway, back on topic.

travis county local government code has 3 rules that if broken require the removal of a district attorney, incompetency - official misconduct - intoxication on or off duty due to consumption of alcoholic beverages, the process is apparently lengthy. for those who wish greater clarity please contact the department responsible for local codes and regulations, travis county commissioners court. the court meets each tuesday at 9:00 a.m. in the commissioners courtroom on the first floor of the travis county administration building at 700 lavaca, austin, the public is welcome. i'm sure they'd be happy to answer your questions.
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Linky-linky. You should know the drill.
 
row said:
travis county local government code has 3 rules that if broken require the removal of a district attorney, incompetency - official misconduct - intoxication on or off duty due to consumption of alcoholic beverages
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Strange that the item that I bolded above was not brought up in the court case. That would have made it an open and shut case if it were the local law.

I cannot find the referenced law online.

Here is the court case with a verdict stating that she could remain at her job:

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/...-testimony-begins-in-rosemary-lehmberg/ncHfh/

My 2 cents: She should be in jail for DUI. There should be no 2nd, 3rd or whatever chances. DUI should be in jail for a lengthy time.
 
row said:
travis county local government code has 3 rules that if broken require the removal of a district attorney, incompetency - official misconduct - intoxication on or off duty due to consumption of alcoholic beverages, the process is apparently lengthy. for those who wish greater clarity please contact the department responsible for local codes and regulations, travis county commissioners court. the court meets each tuesday at 9:00 a.m. in the commissioners courtroom on the first floor of the travis county administration building at 700 lavaca, austin, the public is welcome. i'm sure they'd be happy to answer your questions.
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Where does it say that breaking those rules requires the offender be removed. Don't you mean they are grounds for removal and that those charged with the power to remove didn't do so? Where does that give Perry the right to try to blackmail the county to remove her or remove her himself.

The Texas Local Government Code, in Chapter 87, allows public officials like district attorneys to be removed from office for "incompetency, official misconduct, habitual drunkenness, or other causes defined by law." The 1987 revision to the law added a single incidence of intoxication on or off duty as a potential cause for removal.

However, because Lehmberg is a Democrat, elected in Travis County, one of the most Democratic-heavy areas of the state, and Governor Perry, a Republican, would be able to pick her replacement, other Democrats quickly rallied to her defense. Other prosecutors who worked under Lehmberg publicly supported her remaining in office, as did State Senator Kirk Watson (D-Austin).

You may find the politics sickening as I do, but that doesn't entitle you to invent your own facts. It also doesn't entitle Perry to break the law to right what he saw as a wrong.
 
row said:
her behavior requires removal from office according to texas law, the leftist skank refused to comply. Perry will walk and the males with vaginas here will remain butt hurt.
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It's sad in this day and age people still use female attributes as an insult. It's so....sharia.
 
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