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Heâs got a point. Iâm no Rick Perry fan, but this is a ridiculous indictment.
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I donât see how it is.
Why is it ok for a governor to take away money from state officials unless someone he doesnât like resigns and he gets to replace them.
Would it also be ok if he demanded that Dallas have their mayor resign and he gets to pick the new one?
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Thatâs how you know Perryâs scared: citing Axelrod. And I spit upon Alan Dershowitz and his opinions. The indictment is not âridiculous,â because it was not the action Perry took which is the problem; it is the threat. And that was illegal.
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That is to say there is little chance that any corruption will be uncovered by these charges.
I am sure the court plans to do a pundit poll to make sure they get this right. Good Luck with that line of reasoning Rick I hope it works for you
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Democrats are always trying to be sanctimonious instead of shutting their mouths and appearing weak, that is why the Republicans donât give a damn about him. He was indicted by a Republican Attorney appointed by Republican judges. Allan is not a liberal democrat.
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Perry conveniently ignores âfor other than his stated reasonâ in Axelrodâs tweet. Perhaps that âother than his stated reason,â was Perryâs veto, which according to Slateâs Dave Weigel, âneutered, to the tune of $8 million, an investigation of fishy grants disbursed by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.â http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/08/15/rick_perry_indicted_after_cutting_the_funding_for_a_state_corruption_investigation.html
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Well now if Axelrod seems itâs sketchy âŚthatâs good enough for the people of TexassâŚright Little Dumber Boy?
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Hooo-boy! When a nut-job Texan Governor defends himself by wrapping his ass in David Axelrodâs words, you know he is in some deep shit.
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Got you up late a night now guv eh ?If it is so frivolous donât talk about it just ignore it,right ?
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What itâs more like would be Perryâs threatening to cut off state funding for some important Dallas-centered project if the Mayor doesnât resign. Itâs not about one person, itâs about threatening to defund an entire program because he doesnât like a particular person involved in that program. Thatâs why itâs an abuse of power. This sort of thing happened a lot in an agency I used to work for. Important programs got cut or eliminated because a manager didnât like the person running it. Itâs not fair and itâs not professional and itâs illegal.
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i like David Axelrod but he is the one that really made Obama look bad when he got on TV after Obama was elected and passed the
Economic Stimulus bill and Axelrod predicted an early end to the recession which was wrong and that put the administration on the defensive since so he is not always right.
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Is David Axelrod an attorney ?
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For someone who thinks this a farce and would do the same thing again, he sure is running around trying to circle the wagons around himself.
I wonder why that is?? lol
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The special prosecutor interviewed 40 people and conducted an investigation spanning several months. Lets not be calling the indictment âsketchyâ or âoutrageousâ until the facts are in. Perry knows what evidence the special prosecutor has. He is nutty over thisâexactly the opposite response of someone who doesnât have any reason to worry. (P.S. Can we quit calling Dershowitz a liberal? Just because he does criminal defense doesnât make him a liberal.)
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Yup sketchy enough to be indicted
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And Karl Rove thinks Romney won the election ⌠the glasses arenât helping.
I agree that the indictment seems sketchy. There are so many reasons to disdain Perry, why focus on a bogus one?
and its not just about not liking a particular person, the person in question was the head of a group that was investigating his friends. Kicking her out and putting in his own person solves that issue.
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