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2005-09-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by 3dc 2005-09-28 14:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 shitheads comming out of the woodwork alert.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-28 14:35|| 2005-09-28 14:35|| Front Page Top

#2 New York Times asks Cindy Sheehan for a comment on this in 5...4...3...

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-28 14:50|| 2005-09-28 14:50|| Front Page Top

#3 When I click on the headline I go back to page one.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-09-28 14:51|| 2005-09-28 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Deacon, - because it was on Cable TV news chans. Go to any of them.

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-28 14:55|| 2005-09-28 14:55|| Front Page Top

#5 A copy of the indictment is here.

Posted by Raj 2005-09-28 15:16|| 2005-09-28 15:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, that's just Ronnie Earle down in Travis County. He's one of the most partisan Democrats in the country. His 1994 indictment against Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was quickly dismissed and his charges in the 1980s against former Attorney General Jim Mattox-another political foe of Earle-fell apart at trial. He's just trying to smear Tom. I believe Ronnie is also a good friend of Bill Burkett.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-28 15:19|| 2005-09-28 15:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Tom Delay has been indicted by a very partisan Travis County DA (Ronnie Earle) who has been been on a witch hunt ever since Texas was re-districted to favor the Republican Party. He has drawn his grand jury from the Austin area; again, a Democratic stronghold.

I think the quote from DeLay's spokesman hits it squarely on the head "This indictment is nothing more than prosecutorial retribution by a partisan Democrat."

Posted by Secret Master 2005-09-28 15:25|| 2005-09-28 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's the Bloomberg story.

Note that the article repeatedly identifies the Travis County Grand Jury as the source of this indictment. Ever hear of a Grand Jury that went a'huntin' all by itsownself? Think about that for a second...

The article does not identify, until about 3/4 of the way into the piece - look for 'Partisan Vendettas', the man who runs the Travis County Grand Jury as his personal private legal gang: DA Ronnie Earle. Obviously County DA's run Grand Juries - everything they do, see, hear is at the direction of the DA. Why wait so long to identify who is actually looking for the indictment? Justice is blind, they say. Not by a long shot - especially in Travis County.

Texans all know and love / hate Earle. He has a very special career: hitman. He has one purpose in life: take down people he doesn't like or with whose politics he disagrees. He's been at it for decades.

I feel rather sorry for the residents of Travis County - though since the DA is an elected official it's self-inflicted - Earle's only interested in BIG fish - statewide fish, Republican fish - the local villains of Travis County aren't worthy of his attention.

So we have a hit piece, hiding the game afoot, about a hit man DA with a political agenda operating under legal cover. Typical Texas politics.

If you re-read the story, with this in mind, and look at how it is constructed, all but convicting DeLay (not a favorite of mine, BTW) in the first 5 paragraphs, it reads quite differently and raises questions not only about the partisan hitman Earle, but about the Bloomberg editors - MSM all the way.

Posted by .com 2005-09-28 15:26|| 2005-09-28 15:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Oops, sorry - Steve and SM nailed it while I was typing.

Posted by .com 2005-09-28 15:27|| 2005-09-28 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 From American Spectator 9/23/2004:
If nothing else, you have to give Travis County Democrats credit for thinking big, like real Texans. Apparently undaunted that the assault on President Bush's National Guard service blew up in their faces, they are now trying to bring down House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. All roads in the CBS memo scandal traverse Travis County. Dan Rather was the special guest at a 2001 fundraiser for the Travis County Democratic Party, and his daughter is active in the organization. Former National Guardsman Bill Burkett, the unstable Bush-baiter, who now claims he was the source of the forged documents, is represented (and many believe directed) by David Van Os, the former Travis County Democratic Party chairman. Now Travis County district attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat with a history of bringing politically motivated indictments, has indicted three DeLay aides who ran a political action committee called Texans for a Republican Majority PAC. Perhaps recognizing that indicting DeLay himself 41 days before an election would be just too transparent, Earle instead indicted the three underlings for allegedly directing corporate contributions to Texas legislative candidates in 2002.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-28 15:47|| 2005-09-28 15:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Is a federal gand jury inditement of Ronnie Earle forth coming? 2 can play this game. If his cases like this have blown up on him in the past it's evidence of misconduct and trying to deny people of their civil rights by abusing the grand jury process. Keep him so busy with depositions and discovery in federal court he will not be able to wind his watch.

I really could care less as I don't have a dog in this fighjt but I think the Dem's need to be dipped in their own shit.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-28 16:12|| 2005-09-28 16:12|| Front Page Top

#12 They are really having a feeding frenzy over at Arianna Huffinpuff's place. Tom Delay is as good as in jail and Bill Frist is guilty of insider trading. all of this without any trial or investigation being complete. But they still think Sandy Burgler was railroaded.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-09-28 16:31|| 2005-09-28 16:31|| Front Page Top

#13 I wrote to K-Lo at the Corner that the date of the check shown in the indictment just happened to coincide with the very last day that a charge could be filed under that law (look at the page after the check's shown for the date this indictment was filed). That, and it looks like they're only talking about a single check. On those two alone the indictment stinks halfway to high heaven.

Posted by Raj 2005-09-28 18:39|| 2005-09-28 18:39|| Front Page Top

#14 This is not a problem. Either Delay did something wrong or he didn't. Let things proceed and we'll find out what the deal is.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-28 23:08|| 2005-09-28 23:08|| Front Page Top

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