You Are Paying for the Criminal Defense of Rick Perry

[TexasTowelie]

By now you've heard that a grand jury has been seated to hear a criminal complaint against Governor Rick Perry. It all goes back to his making good on a threat to veto public funds if another elected official did not resign.

A writer at the Dallas Morning News calls this "hard-ball politics on the edge of illegality."

We're simply calling it #Briberygate

And in fact bribery is one of the reasons the complaint was filed by Texans for Public Justice. The organization believes Perry's threat and subsequent veto violates state law pertaining to criminal abuse of office, bribery, coercion of a public servant and official oppression.

Whew! All of this is starting to sound fairly serious...and apparently the Governor thinks so, too. Because he has since lawyered up by hiring the former president of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.

And Texas taxpayers are paying the bill at $450 an hour.

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15127/you-are-paying-for-the-criminal-defense-of-rick-perry .

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