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re: Charges against Perry should wait until he is out of office - agree/disagree?
Posted on 8/18/14 at 10:23 am to Rex
Posted on 8/18/14 at 10:23 am to Rex
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I read the statute yesterday, and although I'm not a fan of Rick Perry's I think this indictment is pure baloney that does not comport with the intent or spirit of that law.
The obvious purpose of that law is to keep officials from being coerced into performing something foreign to the public interest, or to keep officials from being coerced into neglecting something that would be in the public interest.
Coercing a person to perform or refrain from a particular duty is not the same as coercing her to step down... after which there is NO particular action to perform or neglect. The latter type of coercion is not meant to provoke a particular discharge or mischarge of a public duty, and is not the type of coercion addressed in the statute.
Perry seems to be well within his gubernatorial rights to withhold funding by veto power from an agency he thinks suffers from poor leadership.
Rex ftw
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