Keep in mind that this is all about the Governor of Texas asking a bureaucrat to step down after being convicted of drunken driving. When she didn't, he threatened to cut her funding.
This was spun by the left as an attempt to stop an investigation into the Governor's appointees to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The reality is that there was an investigation of some people at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, but none of them were appointed to their positions by Rick Perry.
In other words, the entire basis for the indictment is bogus.
From http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/08/liberal-texas-newspaper-debunks-dems-attack-on-rick-perry.php:
Why would Perry want to stop the CPRIT investigation? Because, the theory goes, his appointees were under investigation for helping Peloton Therapeutics obtain a grant without proper review. A Peloton investor had contributed to Perry?s campaigns.
But the Austin American-Statesman, a strongly left-leaning newspaper, undercuts Elleithee?s narrative:
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Elleithee?s email. . .left out some key details about the CPRIT investigation ? including that two months before Lehmberg?s arrest, she told reporters that none of Perry?s appointees to the CPRIT board were ?under suspicion in the investigation.?
Lehmberg made this statement in January 2013. It meant that her investigation was focusing only on CPRIT staff members, none of whom was appointed or hired by Perry. And Perry knew this when he vetoed the funding months later.
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In sum: (1) when Perry vetoed funding for the Public Integrity Unit, he knew that it wasn?t investigating his appointees, (2) the veto did not halt the investigation or prevent the PIU from issuing indictments, and (3) the sleazy and dishonest attack on Gov. Perry by the Democratic National Committee is too much for the liberal Austin American-Statesman to stomach.
18 Aug 2014, 10:47 am
