Terms it ‘political witch-hunt’.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has strongly denounced the indictment of fellow Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas by a grand jury for “abuse of power,” terming it a “political witch-hunt.”
The four-term Texas governor and a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012 was indicted Friday on two charges for trying to force a district attorney, a Democrat, to resign from her post after she was arrested for drunk driving.
The two counts against Perry are “abuse of official capacity” and “coercion of public servant,” and they carry a maximum sentence of up to 99 years.
According to the indictment, Perry first threatened to veto funds for the public integrity agency that was headed by Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg unless she resigned from the post, and later defunded the agency.
However, Jindal, like many other Republicans who have rallied behind Perry since his indictment, says the Texas governor was merely exercising his constitutional authority.
“The lawsuit against Governor Rick Perry is a blatant misuse of the judicial system by liberal activists who couldn’t defeat him at the polls,” a statement posted on Jindal’s Facebook page said. “Governor Perry exercised his constitutional authority and this circus is simply a political witch-hunt. I stand behind him in his fight for honest government and I am certain he will prevail in this partisan suit.”
Like Perry, Jindal is also likely to run for Republican nomination for president in 2016.
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Politics aside, the fact remains that the at “the time of Mr. Perry’s veto last year, prosecutors in the unit had been investigating a state agency called the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The agency — one of Mr. Perry’s signature initiatives — came under scrutiny by state lawmakers after accusations of mismanagement and corruption; a former official there was indicted last year for his handling of an $11 million grant.”
This, in itself, can be deemed as an effort “to thwart the investigation into the cancer-research agency” — and it confirms that “he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason.”
As such, the indictment is not at all “sketchy.”
All politicians are the same.
However, it is obvious that Jindal, on this one point at least, is that the Texas state democratic party certainly appears to be covering their own rears.
However you frame the potential scam of the cancer non-profit funds, their potential lawsuit had better not have the same ring to it that this current fiasco of a lawsuit sounds like.
Because if it does, than I fail to understand why they were not trying to bring their own allegations and consequences on their now beleaguered boss.
If they have proof that he did in fact use this DUI as a conveniently timed cover for abuse of non-profit racketeering; then I suggest, as an independent who is looking to cast a vote that they get hot and show it.
Right now, I don’t want another Obama term for the economy. So Hillary’s record from her time as first lady of Arkansas, to former Secretary of State reaks of abuse, and inept management. Like her former boss on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Hpwever, as an independent, I see no one on the other side that is appealing either.
I am sick of so many weak candidates who stick to their respective party’s talking points, but keep their head firmly welded up their own …..