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Gary O’Connor of Powderly
To the Editor:
In her Aug. 21 column about Governor Perry’s indictment, Mary Madewell was uncharacteristically generous in her assessment. Let’s take a look at “the rest of the story.”
Perry and his apologists characterize the indictment as purely political and tied to Perry’s call for the Travis County DA to resign following her conviction for DUI. While I do not condone Lemberg’s drunk driving or subsequent behavior, the fact remains that Perry was silent about DUI convictions of two Republican DA’s, one of whom has two DUI convictions.
Secondly, when the complaint that resulted in the investigation of Perry’s Cancer Prevention and Research Institute was filed by Texans for Public Justice with the Travis County DA’s office, Lemberg recused herself and her entire office and declined to investigate. In fact a Republican judge from another county impaneled the grand jury which didn’t know the case they would consider, and appointed a non-partisan special prosecutor, also from another county.
The bottom line is that Lemberg’s office had nothing to do with the investigation, hardly the political retaliation promoted by Perry’s defenders.
Perry and has cronies have a history of questionable deals that benefit his major contributors ranging from attempting to require a specific vaccination for all Texas female teenagers to increased state mandated testing to the shady dealing with the cancer research center that funneled millions to a Perry contributor with little or no oversight or results.
Entirely politically motivated? I think not, and that, my friends, is “the rest of the story.”


i saw this in the local paper... due to you have to be subscriber i cannot post a link to it so i copied out of the letters to the editor section...
just thought it might be interesting, i dont know how the person researched it or if its true or not..