RickyBobby Not running for governor

[Das Texan]

You know, in 2000 I thought Perry couldn't be worse than Bush. So with that in mind, don't start counting on Texas government to improve any time soon tbh.

Dumb thinking on our part.


I'd long for the days of Bush back in charge of this state at this point.

[boutons_deux]

"Bush back in charge"

like RickyBobby, dubya-shrub was nothing but a useful idiot for BigOil, corps, 1% that drafted him.

[The Reckoning]

halle inlujah

[boutons_deux]

Fresh Doubts About Willingham Execution


A new report raises fresh doubts about a key witness whose testimony was instrumental in securing the execution ofCameron Todd Willingham. With the forensic evidence against Willingham now discredited, this forces to the fore again whether Texas executed an innocent man.

That witness, jailhouse informer Johnny E. Webb, says now on tape that he lied on the witness stand to get his sentence reduced, according to a report byMaurice Possley of The Marshall Projectpublished in the Washington Post. Possley also reported on newly discovered letters that show the prosecutor's actions aimed at keeping the informer from recanting.

Possley wrote, "The letters and do ents expose a determined, years-long effort by the prosecutor to alter Webb’s conviction, speed his parole, get him clemency and move him from a tough state prison back to his hometown jail. Had such favorable treatment been revealed prior to his execution, Willingham might have had grounds to seek a new trial."

These new questions crop up as Gov. Rick Perry raises his national profile in anticipation of a possible second run for the White House. Willingham was executed in 2004, while Perry was governor. And Perry has for years defended his decision to allow the execution to go forward "despite the report of a leading forensic expert that sharply disputed the finding of arson by a Texas deputy fire marshal," Possley wrote.

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/08/04/brief/