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Lawfare (Noun): Use of law or threat of law to control or eliminate ideological opposition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     Governor Rick Perry has been indicted by a rubber stamp grand jury (apparently there were no ham sandwiches around) for abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant.\u00a0 Just what was this dastardly deed?\u00a0 Exercising his constitutional right to veto legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

     This is just another example of “lawfare<\/a>” by the Left.\u00a0 They used it against Gov. Scott Walker, Gov. Chris Christi, and Lt. Gov. Krolicki.\u00a0 They are using it now.<\/p>\n

     So, just what happened<\/a>?\u00a0 The Travis County DA was arrested for alcohol related shenanigans and ended up being quite violent and willing to use here lofty status of District Attorney as a “get out of jail free card.”\u00a0 She was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 45 days.\u00a0 Because of this, Perry wanted her to resign, and bluntly stated he’s veto state funding that would be under her inebriated control.\u00a0 He followed through; The drunken D.A. was then presented with an indictment against the governor.<\/p>\n

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     The problem with the indictment is that the governor has the explicit power<\/a> to veto anything he darn well wants.<\/p>\n

     The first count of indictment claims that he “misused government property” by holding “such property” as the fiscal allocation to the drunken D.A. which has come into the D.A.’s custody.\u00a0 The thing is that that is factually wrong.\u00a0 The legislature passed the appropriation, but Perry vetoed that, which means that the money was never legally transferred to the D.A.’s custody since the allocation was never approved by the governor or overridden by the legislature.\u00a0 The second count assumes that the power of the governor’s veto is somehow limited because a drunken nutjob throws a legal hissy-fit.\u00a0 Too bad the state constitution disagrees!\u00a0 Is it really a crime to keep state funds from the drunken district attorney seen below?<\/p>\n