healthinsp wrote:VMI77 wrote:healthinsp wrote:What he did was wrong. Plain and simple. He has been charged and indicted. He spent too long in office and his arrogance got the best of him.
So, you're in favor of drunk driving DA's who are contemptuous of law enforcement and seek special treatment for themselves remaining in office? Wow. Just wow.
A typical liberal too.....it's the cops fault for arresting her, not her fault for driving drunk. That attitude alone should disqualify her from holding any public office.
I'll respond to this once.
You are making baseless values accusations about me and you don't know the first thing about me other than I did post my political leanings in another post.
Perry used strong arm tactics to coerce a public official from office. If he had simply kept his mouth shut and vetoed the appropriations we wouldn't be here. Texas constitution allows him to do that. I agree, she should not be where she is. There should be a means for removing her from office. However, she pled guilty, served her time, and is now looking at going back on her statement that she would retire at the end of her term and is talking about running again.
I also believe, as I have stated before, there are people totally caught up in the politics of this, and if the affiliations were reversed would still be siding with their own political affiliations.
I will not respond to personal attacks again.
I don't like the borderline personal attacks against you either.
Your statement about Perry is wrong on at least two levels. First, what is did is not "wrong" either legally or morally. Have you looked at the two statutes he allegedly violated? If so, please tell us which specific provisions you feel he violated.
Secondly, you imply that Perry should have simply vetoed the funding bill without first trying to get the convicted criminal to resign. While he could have done just that, he took the high road by trying to avoid having the PIU shut down. Some think that's a laudable goal, but I don't because it shouldn't be in any county DA's office; it should be under the direction of the AG.
The only thing political about this is the despicable conduct of everyone involved in the indictment. Absolutely no person, entity or media outlet that I have seen has supported the indictment, but many all over the country have condemned it as a political assassination attempt by the Democrats. The Texas Democratic Party on one occasion called for Perry to resign, but when it quickly became obvious that Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, were condemning the indictments, even the Texas Democratic Party wisely shut up.
You imply that Lemberg has done everything an elected DA should do under the circumstances; i.e. plead guilty and "server her time." I doubt anyone other than Lemberg herself would agree that it's okay for a sitting DA to drive drunk, then not only stay in office, but also head the State's public integrity unit. If driving drunk and risking the lives of innocent people isn't enough to call her integrity into question, refusing to resign as DA simply because a Republican Governor would appoint a Republican to replace her most certainly does.
The fact that Democrats and liberals haven't been screaming for her resignation since the day she was arrested speaks volumes their character and integrity. This applies also to the Travis County Commissioners Court that could have and should have removed her from office.
Chas.