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Jun 20, 2007

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I don't think the (exceedingly obvious) corruption of the DA has any relevance to the situation with Perry though. The kind of cronyist corruption of trying to weasel your way out of a DUI by name dropping your friends in the PD and throwing around empty threats of jail time is a little more, I don't know, benign? than what Perry is doing which is pretty objectively an abuse of power. In my view it should have nothing to do with political party or consistency of prosecution or whatever, if politicians break the law we need to start nailing these fuckers.

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Jun 20, 2007

ASS GAS OR GRASS
No One Rides for FREE
In the Trumplord Holy Land
It seems to me that the case of the DUI is irrelevant because abusing your power as governor is an illegal action in and of itself, regardless of whether he was illegally abusing his power to punish someone for themselves committing a crime, or because he didn't like their particular department, or because he didn't like her stupid face. It doesn't matter does it? Similar to how murdering someone for catching them raping your wife is still a crime, is attempting to coerce the resignation of a government employee by threatening to veto funding for their department a crime, or isn't it? (actual question, not just rhetorical)

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