re: Charges against Perry should wait until he is out of office - agree/disagree?

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Tying the continued funding of an office to the removal of someone would be questionable IF the person involved had no skeletons in their closet and it were clearly due to something they were investigating.

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It wasn't funding of an office. If was funding of the Public Integrity Unit - which was actively investigating CPRIT.
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What’s more, the Public Integrity Unit was in the process of conducting an investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. CPRIT received a ton of money from the Legislature to award grants to high-level medical research projects. The problem: a lot of that money was going to people who shouldn’t have gotten it. And some of those folks had close ties to Perry. Just a few months ago, Lehmberg’s office indicted CPRIT’s former director over his allegedly improper disbursement of an $11 million grant. But when Lehmberg got pulled over with the potato juice in her car last spring, the investigation was just underway.

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He was also simply trying to get a Republican to take her place - as he has the authority to appoint an interim DA.

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Tying the funding to removing someone who had threatened multiple officials *on tape* with their jobs if they didn't break the law to do what she wanted, though? Negro, please. That bitch should be the one getting charged instead of Perry.

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She didn't follow through on a single one of her threats and was over 3 times the legal limit. It would be extremely hard to convince a jury she made the threats with a clear mind. Hey go for it though. It doesn't even matter as far as the Perry case goes. You don't get to coerce public officials because they got a DWI.