Burnt Orange Report is asking the question: has Texas' governor, Rick Perry, desperate to keep his job, undertaken Nixonian tactics?
Short answer: Sure looks that way. The Cameron Todd Willingham execution in 2004 has attracted attention -- but there're more examples, and the Willingham case appears now to be the one that's picked up public notice.
You may remember that I asked why he'd veto a bill the Lege had wrangled with for several sessions to make riding bicycles (which Perry does himself, and has a broken collarbone from a mishap this spring to prove it with), as well as walking, riding horses, or being part of a street maintenance or road work crew safer for all Texans. The veto surprised everybody ... and then word got out that maybe, possibly, it had some connection to the DUI / manslaughter case against a Perry booster's son, in which two Dallas-area cyclists died.
It's very tempting to wonder what else w's successor is trying to hide.
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More on Perry from Reuters
Here.
This is weird too.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dog Canyon says Perry maybe broke Federal law on the Willingham
execution coverup. Paul Begala wrote Dog Canyon back because of this post there, discussing Perry's actions. I picked up the links from Burnt Orange Report, but you should check out the Texas Observer too.
Weird?
Naah. Larry Don had a shotgun.
One of the Montague County deputies has pellets in his hand, and Larry Don is dead. This is what is known as suicide by cop in other jurisdictions.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18