Why Governor Rick Perry of Texas is in Trouble
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/politics/rick-perry-indictment/index.html
The District Attorney of Travis County in Texas Rosemary Lehmberg was arrested on charges of DWI. She was pulled over and had a blood alcohol level of .239 and had to be aggressively restrained while being arrested and put in jail. Being of such a high and respectable position in government she was asked by people in her District to step down. She refused to step down and continues to serve as the District Attorney.
How was Gov. Perry involved in all of this? He joined in all of the other voices demanding her to resign. When she refused he threatened her to cut out funding of the program she was involved in which ironically investigates wrong doings in public officials. Immediately after the threat extreme liberals and democrats of the state of Texas indicted Gov. Perry for over using his powers arguing that while he is allowed to veto and defund he is not allowed to use that to threaten people into doing things.
Many people are seeing this as a scheme being between democrats and republicans. Lehmberg a powerful democrat in the republican majority of Texas being threatened by Gov. Perry who is a hopeful for the republican presidential nominee. Gov. Perry being a republican being indicted by hard core democrats.
Gov. Perry has been indicted but the real question comes across is did he really break the law? Is it illegal for him to threaten to use his power and authority as governor? Did he overuse or misuse his power?
On this issue with so many questions looming I think overall everyone is not acting in the way they should be acting. Obviously Lehmberg shouldn't have be drunk driving and should step down from a respectable position. Gov. Perry went about the wrong way on trying to get her to resign which ultimately turned attention away from her and put it on him. The liberals who indicted Gov. Perry for something which honestly isn't against the law. Even though he didn't act with great respect or etiquette for the power but its not illegal and it seems they're just those people who linger around waiting for the bad in the world to come around just to exploit it. Gov. Perry should have never threatened to use his power because of the mess it caused and how irrational his threat was. But Lehmberg should step down. In such an important and public position such as that it is her responsibility to treat it with respect or suffer the consequences of being reckless while in that position.
I don't think he overstepped his bounds...he may not have done it gracefully, or in an appropriate way but he did do what I would have done. She's just being an idiot who needs to step down. Irresponsible...seriously, the attention should be on her and not him. He was an idiot for going about it the way he did but as governor he was right in saying that she needs to go away and giving her a little nudge out the door.
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