Delay Succeeds At Judge Shopping

[Nbadan]

The Judge that had contributed to Democrats has been REMOVED from the case.

"State Judge Bob Perkins, who has made campaign donations to Democrats, will be replaced by another judge, said C. W. Duncan, the judge deciding the recusal motion by DeLay. That judge was not named Tuesday

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051101/ap_on_go_co/delay_indictment)

Immediately after, Tom Delay further assailed Prosecutor Ronnie Earl for Jury shopping.

[Useruser666]

Yeah, Delay is stupid for trying to win. I get it.

[Marcus Bryant]

Of course there would be no problem with someone who has supported DeLay's political enemies judging him. Don't be silly.

[Das Texan]

is there really going to be some unbiased judge out there?

delay will succeed at getting a hardline republican to be the judge, the democrats will complain, delay's camp will argue that he will be fair and impartial, pretty much the same arguement the democrat camp has made.

[Hook Dem]

As long as Dan is unhappy, it's good!

[exstatic]

He can get any judge he wants. It's still going to come down to selling the extremely reptilian Tom DeLay to a jury. Not an easy task, to be sure.

[Marcus Bryant]

I get it, it's bad when a Republican prosecutor goes after a Democratic politician but when it's the reverse, it's just 'justice'...

[Vashner]

Yea do it Dan's way... Commie style.. no Jury just a rigged panel and sentence...

[IcemanCometh]

uhm in Texas judges are elected as republicans or democrats, so basically what delay wants is a republican judge.

[Hook Dem]

uhm in Texas judges are elected as republicans or democrats, so basically what delay wants is a republican judge.
Ding! Ding! We have a winner! :lol

[Nbadan]

As far as I've seen, the dismissed Judge in this case gave to one political organization - moveon.org. That's not even a PAC or a Union. It's a non-affiliated political organization. What's next? Discriminating against a Judge that gave to the ACLU or the Red Cross years ago?

The real hypocrisy in all this though, is that Delay is doing (again) all the dirty political tricks in his defense, the smear campaign, the Judge shopping, that he is accusing Ronnie Earle of doing, although he's shown no proof against Earle. If Delay is truly as innocent as he says he is, then he should be able to prove his innocence to any Texas Judge, in any Court of Law, regardless of the political affiliation of the court.

Like in the Hutchison case, Delay’s attorneys figure that if they can get a friendly Republican Judge, he may make this State case against Delay much more difficult for Ronnie Earle to prosecute, and just like in the Kay Bailey case, Earle just might lose interest. Otherwise, it won’t be long before Delay is charged in the Federal Abrahamoff case, and Delay will be fucked anyway.

Fearing a scandal, a handful of Republicans legislators have already returned contribution money from Delay's network of corporate PAC's. If you care about your government, It's time that we all demand that TX politicians at the State and Federal level return every dime of this tainted money that is corrupting our political system, and silencing the true voice of the people.

[Marcus Bryant]

Problem is, that judge didn't give $ to MoveOn "years ago". It's funny how Nbadan's definition of justice consists of seeing a GOP politician indicted by a partisan Democrat prosecutor in a heavily Democratic jurisdiction with yet another partisan Democrat presiding as judge at the trial.

If you can't beat them at the ballot box...

[Nbadan]

Problem is, that judge didn't give $ to MoveOn "years ago". It's funny how Nbadan's definition of justice consists of seeing a GOP politician indicted by a partisan Democrat prosecutor in a heavily Democratic jurisdiction with yet another partisan Democrat presiding as judge at the trial.

If you can't beat them at the ballot box...

A prosecutor who has indicted and convicted more than twice as many Democratic politicians than Republican politicians, but that doesn't matter because Earle is a Democrat and he's the prosecutor in Travis County - the seat of State and Federal government.

:rolleyes

[Marcus Bryant]

Please. What Democratic US representatives and senators has Earle gone after?

[Nbadan]

Some things you ought to know about Ronnie Earl. First of all, since he got installed as the Austin prosecutor going after political corruption, he's indicted about twice as many Democrats as he has indicted Republicans. (12 (D) - 4 (R) to be exact)

He's been voted Texas' prosecutor of the year and the public administrator of the year for Austin. His office has been listed as among the top ten model offices in the nation by the National District Attorney's Association.

The Harvard professor who wrote "Broken Windows", the study that helped Giuliani clean up New York called his office "one of the most thoroughly problem-oriented agencies in criminal justice today".

Even Bill O'Reilly once singled him out for "innovative approaches to law enforcement".

He is not a crackpot and he's not a partisan. He's highly respected and he's a force to be reckoned with.

Here we go - A List of PARTISAN EARLE'S PAST VICTIMS:


"• Former state Rep. Gilbert Serna, D-El Paso. Pleaded guilty to charges of theft by a public servant in 2000.

• Former state Rep. Lane Denton, D-Waco. Found guilty of theft in 1995.

• State Rep. Betty Denton, D-Waco, pleaded guilty in 1995 to perjury charges.

• Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican, indicted on a charge of official misconduct. Earle in 1994 declined to present a case at trial. Hutchison received a directed verdict of acquittal.

• Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, Democrat, investigated in 1992 for political misuse of his agency for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. Earle found no "conscious pattern of misuse of state property for political or personal purposes."

• Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth. Pleaded guilty in 1992 of misdemeanor filing of false financial statements. Lewis in 1983 also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor failure to file a financial statement.

• San Antonio voter registrar Marco Gomez, Democrat, pleaded guilty in 1992 to tampering with a government record.

• State Rep. Charles Staniswallis, R-Amarillo, pleaded guilty to felony theft in 1990.

• Attorney General Jim Mattox, Democrat, found innocent by a jury in 1983 on charges of commercial bribery.

• Texas Treasurer Warren G. Harding, Democrat, pleaded guilty in 1982 to misdemeanor official misconduct.

• State Rep. Mike Martin, R-Longview. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge in 1981 for having lied about arranging to have himself shot to generate publicity.

• State Sen. Gene Jones, D-Houston, pleaded guilty in 1980 to a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct for using a state computer for political purposes.

• Travis County Commissioner Bob Honts, a Democrat who later switched parties, pleaded guilty in 1979 to misdemeanor misapplication of county property."

Washington Monthly (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/20...)

[Marcus Bryant]

Like I said.

[Nbadan]

Like I said.

:rolleyes

Please, If Delay wasn't from Texas, Ronnie Earle won't have a case against him.