Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry turns himself in for grand jury indictment
Mug Shot.
Geeez could get 100 years if convicted.
Mug Shot.
Geeez could get 100 years if convicted.
One less republican putz and counting.
Says who? He's going to get a bump for this.
The Dems are going to have this filled with holes.
Cutting funding to group lead by someone who tried to use her position to call in favours to get off on a 2nd degree felony who refuses to step down is a bad thing?
She is doing the exact thing the watch dog group is supposed to oppose. That alone is a conflict of interest.
She is doing the exact thing the watch dog group is supposed to oppose. That alone is a conflict of interest.
That's another reason why Perry's lawyers are going to shoot this case full of holes.
I think the Dems just wanted a mugshot of him for 2016 but that didn't work out so well.
The Travis County district attorney is not prosecuting Perry. The state district judge in the case is a Republican appointed by George W. Bush when he was governor. The judge selected San Antonio lawyer Mike McCrum as the special prosecutor in the case. McCrum served as a federal prosecutor in the administration of President George H.W. Bush and was supported by Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison as a potential U.S. attorney candidate.
As Christy Hoppe reports today, when two other district attorneys faced the same charges under similar circumstances, Perry did nothing. One involved a Kaufman County district attorney arrested in 2009 after driving the wrong way down a street and hitting another car. It was his second conviction for DWI. The other was a Swisher County district attorney convicted and jailed after a family called police to report him swerving into oncoming traffic and running off the road.
One difference is that Perry had leverage over Lehmberg, whose office contains the state-funded Public Integrity Unit. Another difference, Lehmberg is a Democrat. The other two district attorneys were Republicans
Why the conventional wisdom in the Rick Perry indictment story might be incomplete | Dallas Morning News
As Christy Hoppe reports today, when two other district attorneys faced the same charges under similar circumstances, Perry did nothing. One involved a Kaufman County district attorney arrested in 2009 after driving the wrong way down a street and hitting another car. It was his second conviction for DWI. The other was a Swisher County district attorney convicted and jailed after a family called police to report him swerving into oncoming traffic and running off the road.
One difference is that Perry had leverage over Lehmberg, whose office contains the state-funded Public Integrity Unit. Another difference, Lehmberg is a Democrat. The other two district attorneys were Republicans
Why the conventional wisdom in the Rick Perry indictment story might be incomplete | Dallas Morning News
Were they running a watchdog org that outs power abusers and trying to use their position to get off using the "call a friend" option?
Where is Greg? I want to talk to Greg.
Yup.
Texas has seen a 19 percent growth in real gross domestic product since 2007 and one f-ck of a population boom.
ust how good has Texas's economy been under the leadership of Rick Perry compared to the United States as a whole and to neighboring California? Here are seven indicators.
Unemployment Rate. The unemployment rate in Texas in June, the latest data available, was 5.1 percent. True, it is seven tenths of a percentage point higher than at the start of the recession, in December 2007, but compares favorably to the United States as a whole (6.3 percent) and California (7.4 percent). California's unemployment rate is 1.6 percentage points higher now than at the start of the recession and America's unemployment rate is 1.2 percentage points higher.
Labor Force Participation Rate. Since the beginning of the recession, discouraged workers have left America's labor force, leaving it three percentage points lower than in 2007. The labor force participation rate-the percentage of people who say they are working or looking for work-is at 1978 levels, before the decade when millions of women marched into the labor force. But Texas with its stronger economy is faring better, with labor force participation rates only half a percentage point below 2007 levels. In California, the rate is four percentage points lower.
Real Gross Domestic Product. Texas has seen a 19 percent growth in real gross domestic product since 2007, compared with 3 percent for California and 5 percent for the United States. Some say that this is because Texas is fortunate to sit on oil and gas reserves. California also has extensive oil and gas in the Monterey Shale, but it has not been as aggressive about exploring and developing these reserves.
Migration. Over the 5-year period from 2005 to 2010, Texas gained, on net, 636,639 residents from other states, according to the Tax Foundation. These new residents brought, on net, $14.4 billion in adjusted gross income. California was by far the biggest loser-the state lost 161,852 net residents to Texas and $3.2 billion in net AGI. This made up a substantial amount of the net loss of 664,294 Californians (nearly the same as residents gained by Texas) and $15.8 billion in AGI.
Debt Per Capita. According to State Budget Solutions' Fourth Annual State Debt Report, Texas has total debt of $341 billion ($13,000 per capita), $244 billion of which is from unfunded public pension liabilities. In contrast, California has total debt of $778 billion ($20,500 per capita), $584 billion of which is from unfunded public pension liabilities. The U.S. average per capita state debt is $16,000.
Credit Rating. Standard and Poor's gives Texas has a AAA rating, the highest available. Its ranking increased from AA to AA+ in 2009, and reached AAA level in 2013. In contrast, California earns an A credit rating, the second-lowest among U.S. states. This remains the case even though California's finances are slightly improved compared to the last decade.
Business Climate. One reason that Texas is ahead is that its business climate is unusually favorable. It has encouraged the development of its energy sector, as has North Dakota, another success story. It is one of nine states that do not tax earned income. California has an income tax rate of 13.3 percent of income over $1,000,000, for both singles and couples. Its income tax rates do not just soak the rich: singles earning $40,000 and couples earning $58,000 are already in the 8 percent tax bracket