Judge for DeLay Case Recuses Himself

Step 1. Remove Democratic Judge from DeLay's case. Done. Check.

A new judge will preside over the conspiracy case against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, after a motion was granted Tuesday to remove the appointed judge because of his donations to Democrat causes.
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Judges are presumed to be impartial," Reed said.

If (Judge) Perkins was left as the presiding judge, it could create an impression and public perception that he could not be fair, defense attorneys said.

Richard Keeton, an attorney for DeLay, said in closing arguments that too many unanswered questions remain even without putting (Judge) Perkins on the stand to explain his contributions to Democrats.

"We don't have (Judge) Perkins' testimony ... all we have is numbers of donations he made," Keeton said.

Since Perkins avoided (ie. refused) taking the stand to address the motion, "those facts ring loud," Keeton added.

Step 2. Get an impartial Judge.

Step 3. Successfully defend DeLay against a felony charge and win.

Step 3. Sue and charge D.A. Ronnie Earle for "Prosecutorial Misconduct."


And now to this, I keep hearing, again, about D.A. Ronnie Earle's past indictment history that he indicted 12 Democrats and 3 Republicans making him seem to be NOT the partisan guy he is by going after most Democrats in Texas. How little do you know. First off, you really need to know a little bit (a lot really) more about the history of Texas politics.

Now, three parties exist in Texas. Conservative Democrats, Liberal Democrats and Republicans (especially since 1980, you can thank Rove for that....ooooh...evil Rove!). The dominant political group in Texas has been Conservative Democrats for so long you can ask anybody who have lived in Texas for awhile. Texas has always been known as a conservative state...not liberal. That would be Massachusetts. Texas had always been a one party state, liberal Democrats versus conservative Democrats in the past until around the 1990s when Republicans started to make headways in Texas politics.

Remember, Republicans do not really mind working with Conservative Democrats since both of these parties share similar ideologies. In fact, Zell Miller is himself a Conservative Democrat. He was the one who did the famous "Spitball" commentary at the 2004 RNC to re-elect George W. Bush. He even wrote a book called, "National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat." Changes the picture doesn't it?

For as long as anyone can remember in Texas, politics in governement were run by mostly Democrats. And they fought among themselves to get the votes. And they were just as nasty to each other (liberal Democrats vs conservative Democrats) as Democrats versus Republicans. You might as well call many of the conservative Democrats as Republicans. Here's one short history about it.

Take a note here: EARLE PROSECUTED DEMOCRATS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF STATE GOVERNMENT...and not the little guys. Most of them were conservative Democrats AND Republicans. See below:

Bob Bullock (Conservative Democrat, served 24 years as state comptroller and lieutenant governor), he was a GW Bush campaign consultant who helped GW Bush build a great governorship. Bullock escaped indictment but not Earle's scrutiny.

1994 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican.

1992 - Texas House Speaker, Gib Lewis (Conservative Democrat). Charged with gift-reporting and financial-disclosure violations.

1983 - Attorney General for Texas, Jim Mattox (Conservative Democrat). Attempted to prosecute him for commercial bribery in 1983, only to see the controversial, hard-fought case end in a jury acquittal. It's been known that Jim Mattox was a conservative Democrat and a political enemy of Earle. Mattox was indicted on felony bribery charges. He was acquitted afterwards.

1982 - State Treasurer, Warren G. Harding (Conservative Democrat). Indicted on two felonies for political misuse of office. Pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges. See something different here? "Felony" and a "misdemeanor."

1980 - Sen. Gene Jones (Conservative Democrat). Indicted for official misconduct. Entered plea bargain for misuse of state computer.


Now, look at this picture of Texas voting results from the last presidential election. See that little blue spot in the middle of all that red? That is Travis County. It is liberal, it has been liberal, it will always be liberal. That's where Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle resides. The rest of the state is conservative. Also, in the map, the little blue spots along the Mexico border? All are relatively unpopulated areas.

A big change in party demographics was shifted in the 1990s when there were more Republicans than Democrats. Ronnie Earle's days are numbered until the day he can no longer get the people's confidence of Travis county to keep him as District Attorney of Travis county.

Something to think about. Remember, D.A. Ronnie Earle took 7 separate grand juries in 3 years just to come up an indictment. That's like getting tried for the same crime in a court of law 7 separate times with a different jury each time. Only this time, DeLay cannot defend himself while Ronnie Earle influences his grand jury to give him an indictment. On the 6th try, a bogus indictment came up which shows Earle's ineptitude in court, and then finally 24 hours later convinced coerced a 7th grand jury for an indictment against DeLay.


Kokonut Pundits blogs on DeLay:

Hey! No fair! DeLay's smiling!
Smile, Tom DeLay. Smile!
DeLay File for "Prosecutorial Misconduct" Against Earle.
DeLay's First Charge Won't Stick, then Ronnie Earle Changes the Charge.
Politics 101 - Indictments