Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:I've read it as well. And if the prosecutors (everyone of them a republican) are saying there is fire underneath the smoke and what the locals are saying is different from the national echo chamber (be it left or right), well who are you going to believe.?
Maybe left of where you stand, Logan. I know that the Texas Tribune is non-partisan and the quote used by Salon is simply stating the facts... which are quite telling.Quote:Not a single Democratic official was involved at any point in the process, except to recuse him or herself. That’s what the victim of Perry’s “offers,” Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, did. So did District Judge Julie Kocurek.So, while I get that the material might be leftist (IYA! IYA! DEMOCRAT FTAGHN!) it seems like they're just presenting the facts. Unless one of those Republicans directly involved with the prosecution has gone on record saying that the charges are BS, I don't think they're putting a lot of spin on this.
Kocurek referred the criminal complaint to Judge Billy Ray Stubblefield, a Republican and Perry appointee. Stubblefield could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he assigned it to Judge Bert Richardson, also a Republican. He, too, could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he appointed conservative, well-respected former federal prosecutor McCrum as special prosecutor. Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison once recommended McCrum for the job of U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. McCrum could have dismissed the complaint. Instead, he took it to a grand jury.
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