Don't Delay your response Matt

[Peter_Puget]

So the more we find out about the Delay indictment the more I realize it is a farce that will backfire. Ignoring Delay for the moment Matt I ask how proud you are of Earle’s actions as outlined below:

 

1) He is making a movie of his prosecution. Giving them access to investigative info while a secret grand jury investigation is underway. Allowing the film crew to read proposed indictments before the grand jury. Allowing the to film the grand jury. How does being involved in a film impact his ability to be even handed?

 

2) Earle attended partisan fundraisers a spoke about his ongoing grand jury investigations against a then uncharged public official to raise money.

 

3) Writing an editorial 11/23/04 in the NYT about the political fallout from his Delay investigation. Delay was uncharged at this time.

 

4) Secretly shopping for a grand jury that would indict.

 

5) Ignoring Democrats using the same techniques.

 

I would also throw in his attempts at blackmailing companies into making contributions to his favorite causes to avoid a drawn out legal fight.

[mattp]

Sounds like some mud-smearing B.S. counteroffense to me.

 

I have no idea if Earle is a slimball or not, or whether any of what you list is true, or what the significance of it may be.

 

But HELLO: DeLay is being indicted on some serious charges here and you'd have me debate whether Earle is an ethical guy? Last I checked, the Republicans controlled both houses, the White House, and quite a few State legislatures and governorships -- including Texas if I am not mistaken. There are plenty of strongly partisan Republican prosecutors around. If, as you say, the Democrats violate campaign rules just as much as the Republicans, lets see the indictments. I'm all for equal justice under the law.

 

Did you get this stuff from Drudge?

[Jim]

Earle has a long list of Dems he prosocuted. Notice that none of Delay's recent character assinations on talk radio actually denied the charges. This will get interesting soon, especially after the second indictment, which carries stiffer jail terms that can be held over the head of Delay's pawns. Soon to be followed by the investigation of Frist over his Martha Stewart imitation on selling stocks, soon followed by the report on the Valerie Prine outing by the White House. This is what happens when you get a bunch of folks in control that just want the power and have no convictions for governing.

[Peter_Puget]

Sounds like some mud-smearing B.S. counteroffense to me.

 

I have no idea if Earle is a slimball or not, or whether any of what you list is true, or what the significance of it may be.

 

But HELLO: DeLay is being indicted on some serious charges here and you'd have me debate whether Earle is an ethical guy? Last I checked, the Republicans controlled both houses, the White House, and quite a few State legislatures and governorships -- including Texas if I am not mistaken. There are plenty of strongly partisan Republican prosecutors around. If, as you say, the Democrats violate campaign rules just as much as the Republicans, lets see the indictments. I'm all for equal justice under the law.

 

Did you get this stuff from Drudge?

 

 

Matt you surprise me. This stuff has been all over the news. I find it an truly sad that if my assertions are true you see no "significance" to them.

 

 

 

The Movie I think I even heard about this on NPR.

 

Fundraising from the Houston Chronical:

 

Fundraising:

 

From the Houston Chronicle:

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who denies partisan motives for his investigation of a political group founded by Republican leader Tom DeLay, was the featured speaker last week at a Democratic fund-raiser where he spoke directly about the congressman.

A newly formed Democratic political action committee, Texas Values in Action Coalition, hosted the May 12 event in Dallas to raise campaign money to take control of the state Legislature from the GOP, organizers said.

Earle, an elected Democrat, helped generate $102,000 for the organization.

In his remarks, Earle likened DeLay to a bully and spoke about political corruption and the investigation involving DeLay, the House majority leader from Sugar Land, according to a transcript supplied by Earle.

 

Blackmail

 

The Defendant, after discussions with the District Attorney, has decided to provide Fifty Thousand and 00/100 dollars ($50,000) to financially support a nonpartisan, balanced and publicly informative program or series of programs to The LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas - Austin. [/quote

[mattp]

Did I say I saw no significance?

 

Spin it, Peter... spin it!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Earle has a long list of Dems he prosocuted.

 

They were all his political enemies.

[Peter_Puget]

Well true. You did say that you had no idea what the sigificance would be. . Certainly you know I was asking for your opinion regarding the ethics of this behavior. I was not spinning. You certainly are evading. Very similar to Bush's behavior the other day. How did NPR describe it.....How did you describe it?

[cj001f]

I was not spinning. You certainly are evading. Very similar to Bush's behavior the other day. How did NPR describe it.....How did you describe it?

How true to form you are Peter. Browbeat others for evasion, snidely deriding others opinions, while contributing little but turds. What a good gadfly you are for the revolution

[JoshK]

I can just PP simling behind his monitor as he cuts, pastes and adds some fluff to yet another right wing blog blurb.