In case you haven’t been paying attention, Governor Rick Perry has been indicted over his attempt to force Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg from office by threatening to veto state funding for an anti-corruption unit in her office unless she stepped down after being arrested for DWI. Perry would have named Lehmberg’s replacement. The special prosecutor in Perry’s criminal case is arguing that Perry “abused his authority, and he improperly used the threat of a veto to indirectly achieve what he had no power to do directly.” This of course is a vicious political prosecution that is somehow being led by a Republican special prosecutor and overseen by a Republican judge.
All of this raises the issue of how our poor idiot Governor treated other officials with similar issues. At least two other DA’s have been convicted of DWI – but they were good god-fearing Republicans so naturally the Governor did not see the need for any action.
And now it is revealed that Wayne Roberts, who heads up the Governor’s signature creation, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, was convicted of driving while intoxicated in 1990 and 2006. And he was charged and fined for public intoxication in Virginia in 2000.
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