January 03, 2006
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is trying to bully his way through the court system to further his own political ambitions, prosecutors said Tuesday.Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle said in court documents that the Republican is "attempting to leapfrog" over the usual court procedures by asking the state's highest criminal court to dismiss all charges against him or to order a trial right away.
DeLay was forced to step aside as majority leader after he was indicted on money laundering and conspiracy charges in September.
He has been pressing the state's highest criminal court to address the charges quickly because he wants to regain his post before his colleagues call for new leadership elections later this month.
The case has been on hold while prosecutors appeal a judge's dismissal of some of the charges.
Uh, excuse me. Where does Ronnie Earle, the politically motivated partisan prosecutor with a history of going after political opponents, have any business criticizing anyone for being a bully who is using the courts to further their own political ambitions? That is the life story of Ronnie Earle summed up in one phrase!
And Dick DeGuerin is spot-on in his analysis of why the case needs to be expedited.
DeLay attorney Dick DeGuerin said the case affects voters in DeLay's Houston-area congressional district and Republican members of Congress who elected DeLay as majority leader."A county prosecutor has thrown a monkey wrench into the functioning of the United States Congress, and that's something that needs to be resolved," DeGuerin said.
Filing for the primary ended yesterday. Ronnie Earle is trying to keep a cloud over DeLay through March -- and though November, if possible -- in an effort to orchestrate the defeat of a political enemy.
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Posted by: Drew at Tue Jan 3 17:20:22 2006 (dAk9Y)
Yeah, it is true that Earle has prosecuted more Democrats than Republicans -- but you have to look at which Democrats he prosecuted.
Go back 15 years or so, and the GOP was still pretty weak in this state. The power was concentrated in the hands of the Democrats, which were wracked with conflict between the conservative faction and the liberal faction. The GOP eventually siphoned off most of the conservatives (Bob Bullock being a notable exception), while the liberals took control of the Dems.
Would you care to guess which faction Ronnie Earle made most of those Democrat prosecutions against? The conservative faction that he opposed -- or, in one case, a liberal who was seeking the same higher nomination that Ronnie Earle was seeking.
In other words, as i said, Ronnie Earle has a history of persecuting political enemies.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Tue Jan 3 17:53:10 2006 (wzn7x)
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