Featured Texas Attorney General in legal trouble

Yep. And don't forget, the DA that sought the indictment is a rabid, radical, leftest who also got the former governor indicted, which was dismissed once a court got a look at the indictment.

Just Texas politics as usual. In the county I live in the last three men to hold the office of Sheriff are all three in prison.

 

Yes, we know.

Yes, we know, after dismissing 28 of the 32 counts of the indictment.

Precisely Texas politics at play. Both were politically motivated and put in play by the Austin/Dallas Democrat political machine.

Do you remember Tom DeLay? In 2005, DeLay was indicted in Austin on criminal charges of conspiracy to violate election law in 2002 by a Travis County grand jury after having waived his rights under the statute of limitations.

The trial court's guilty verdict was overturned by the Texas Court of Appeals on September 19, 2013, with a ruling that "the evidence in the case was 'legally insufficient to sustain DeLay's convictions'", and DeLay was formally acquitted.

The State of Texas appealed the acquittal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which heard oral arguments on June 18, 2014. On October 1, 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the appellate court decision overturning DeLay's conviction, concluding in an 8–1 ruling that the state failed to prove that the corporate contributions at issue violated the Texas Election Code.

Yep, Texas politics as usual.

 

If you would do a little research you would discover all of these events originated with the same group. "Texans for Public Justice."

This group lodged the original complainant that led to the now overturned conviction of former US Representative Tom Delay, as well as current Texas Governor Rick Perry's widely criticized August 2014 felony indictment.

"Texans for Public Justice" has been accused of being "funded by out-of-state foundations and rich individuals to specialize in “lawfare” against state officials of whose policies they disapprove". (George Soros.)

Craig McDonald, of Michigan, founded the organization and is its current Director. He began his career on the political left via the public interest movement in the late 70's working as a "community organizer." Working for Ralph Nader's Public Citizen activist group in 1984, he went on to create the Texas office of Public Citizen in that same year. According to TPJ, its board of directors includes, in addition to McDonald, two other veterans of Nader’s Public Citizen; a former aide to the late Texas Democrat Gov. Ann Richards who was also a Clinton-Gore organizer; and a journalist who has written for numerous progressive publications.

McDonald claims that TPJ only reveals its institutional funders and doesn’t reveal its individual investors for fear of political retaliation. He said he doesn’t consider that policy in conflict with the group’s work in highlighting the impact of money in politics.

The group receives monies from George Soros, Open Society Foundations (founded by, yep, you guessed it, George Soros), the Piper Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, the Winkler Family Foundation, and Good Jobs First.

Still think this is not "Texas politics as usual?"