I Have Mixed Emotions About This………

I think that Texas Governor Rick Perry is a truly evil person, he has presided over the dubious executions, as well as the obstruction of the investigations of these questionable executions.

Additionally, I think that his handling of Texas retirement funds have been clearly corrupt.

I also get the fact that they got Al Capone for tax evasion.

But I have mixed emotions about the abuse of power allegations against Rick Perry:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was indicted on felony charges Friday by a grand jury in Austin for allegedly abusing his veto power to force the resignation of a Democratic prosecutor.

The grand jury indicted the 2016 presidential hopeful on two felony counts – coercion of public official and abuse of official capacity, according to The Associated Press

Perry, 64, must turn himself in to the Travis County Jail, where he will be booked, fingerprinted and have his mug shot taken, according to KVUE-TV.

The charges stem from an ethics complaint filed last year by Texans for Public Justice, a left-leaning government watchdog group, claimed that Perry abused his official powers by threatening to veto money for public corruption prosecutors in the state in order to pressure a local district attorney to resign.

The public integrity unit is housed in the Travis County district attorney's office. Perry called for the resignation of District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg after she was arrested and pled guilty in April 2013 to drunken driving.

Lehmberg, a Democrat, did not resign. Perry eventually made his veto threat a reality. The special prosecutor on the case worked to show evidence that Perry's threat to veto $7.5 million over two years was unlawful.

I do not think that Governor Goodhair is on the side of the angels. 

Travis County is both one of the few strongly Democratic counties in Texas, and because the capitol, Austin, is located in Travis County, it also runs the state public integrity division.

Were Lehmberg to resign, it is clear that Perry would replace her with a political crony who would do their level best to ignore the ethical cesspool that is Texas politics.

On the political or social merits, it is clearly a good thing that Rick Perry is looking at some time in the hoosegow, but I am a bit dubious as to the underlying legal theory:  It seems to me that a governor's veto should be accorded a wide amount of respect, even if the governor in question should not be accorded any respect.