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AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas Governor Rick Perry was booked on two felony counts of abuse of power for carrying out a threat to veto funding to state public corruption prosecutors. He was booked-in, fingerprinted and had his mugshot taken, which is standard procedure for every defendant charged with a felony.

His spokeswoman told CBS 11 News they didn’t ask for any special treatment.
Perry, who is mulling a second presidential run in 2016, reported to the Travis County Courthouse on Tuesday. The Republican has called the case a political ploy, and many top Republicans are supporting him.

The Republican has called the case a political ploy, and many top Republicans are supporting him.

Not only is this guy an idiot and a racist. Apparently, he is corrupt as shit too.

This guy was trying to be president  ::)

Dirty politicians. Should be jailed for the long term but he'll probably get a slap on the wrist.


Still resistant to the end.

Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) may not see eye to eye on many political and policy issues, but that didn’t stop Paul, a two-time Republican presidential candidate, from tearing into the indictment:

“This is pure politics, I tell ya. This is really a joke,” Paul told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday.

The former Texas congressman made sure to mention that he doesn’t “generally defend our governor very much,” saying Perry’s record on civil liberties and foreign policy is “a disaster.”

But in this case, he added, “the abuse of power comes more from the DA’s office than the governor’s office.”
Paul and Perry ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The two had an apparent confrontation during a commercial break at a September 2011 debate, during which Perry placed his right hand on Paul’s arm and held pointed his left pointer finger at his opponent in a lecturing manner.

Paul later played down the incident, telling a crowd of supporters that he couldn’t recall what he and Perry discussed.

Rick "Oops" Perry is an idiot, but these charges are BS.  Even Axelrod said so.

At least Perry gave up drinking, unlike the out-of-control sow of an Austin DA who trumped them up.

yeah i agree, he's pretty corrupt but this specific charge doesn't hold. he's on the palin/bachmann tier of dumb and uneducated politicians.

he's leaving office in january anyways.. so if this is a political game, why are they doing it now? it's not like he's a serious threat to become president. hell, i'm sure democrats would love for him to come out of the primaries.

Why are they doing it now?  To show what kind of game they are playing.

Rick Perry is an idiot?  Why that certainly explains why he agreed with the decision that Texas should have NO RULES on bitcoin.  No MTL, no MEL.  Of course, that's idiotic.  Texas should be like New York.

How many on this forum are calling the idiot governor of New York an idiot?

Wow....

he's lax on bitcoins, so that makes him not an idiot? wtf? nevermind all the repeated gaffes he makes, nevermind that he has to start wearing glasses to appear less dumb.

he's lax on bitcoins, so that makes him not an idiot? wtf? nevermind all the repeated gaffes he makes, nevermind that he has to start wearing glasses to appear less dumb.

here's a link wit the dumb stuff he's said. and yes, i know you're going to blame it on the liberal media bias.. but it takes two to tango. if you say stupid shit, the media will run with it. and if the media runs with it, does that mean you never said stupid shit?

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/Rick-Perry/a/Rick-Perry-Quotes.htm

he's lax on bitcoins, so that makes him not an idiot? wtf? nevermind all the repeated gaffes he makes, nevermind that he has to start wearing glasses to appear less dumb.

here's a link wit the dumb stuff he's said. and yes, i know you're going to blame it on the liberal media bias.. but it takes two to tango. if you say stupid shit, the media will run with it. and if the media runs with it, does that mean you never said stupid shit?

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/Rick-Perry/a/Rick-Perry-Quotes.htm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/parentwin/34-deliciously-ridiculous-rick-perry-quotes-c8nl

No, it's not necessary to blame it on liberal media bias.  I really don't see that it matters if someone can find dumb out of context quotes someone supposedly said.  Have fun with that stupid game.  By the way, gaffes make you stupid?  HELLLLLOOOOO, Biden.

Texas is by all accounts, a well ran and well managed state, and Perry has a fair part of that to his credit.  To the extent that any governor does.  That's just the way it is.    Texas leads the nation in job creation.  Legalizing bitcoin is a part of that general philosophy.  

Meanwhile, fascist clowns run places like New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts.  

You can come down here to trade your bitcoins, fellas.  Down to Rick Perry Territory.  

We'll buy the beer.
LOL....

you mean texas the state that is leading the nation in minimum wage "job creation"? http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/16/246892/perry-minumum-wage-jobs/

and do you know who the governor of new jersey is?

it's not really that hard to figure out why texas attracts so many jobs. many immigrants willing to work for minimum wage and lax regulations http://www.cbsnews.com/news/probe-of-texas-fertilizer-plant-blast-finds-industry-under-lax-regulation/

....just curious, why do you need to politicize everything?

And no, minimum wage jobs are not key.  We've put on over 60,000 jobs in the south texas Fracking industry in the last several years, average pay 80-100k per year.

And the governor of New Jersey is a real jerk.

As for immigrants?  Los mejores por nosotros aqui, los otros por usted, senor.

LOL...

are you referring to me talking about the governor of new jersey? because let's be honest here.. he fits your ideology a lot better than any governors from the other states you mentioned. talking about fracking is a whole nother issue that i'm thinking neither of us want to get into.

if you think you lack an ideology, then i probably know more of your ideology than you do. you are basically a libertarian/republican. if you mean i am liberal by the fact that i think man-made pollution is bad, education is good, and that there are real racial tensions in america.. then yes, i am a liberal. i can guarantee you i'm not voting for a democrat in 2016 or any time in the foreseeable future.

Perry is a competent and smart administrator as governor.  You don't hear much if any disrespect for him around here.  Clinton was also a competent and smart administrator as governor.  You want a really, really bad POTUS?

You haven't spoken to ME about Rick Perry have you? :D

Meanwhile the Governor of NY is twiddling his thumbs while his administrators propose rules on Bitcoin that criminalize behavior of people dealing with Bitcoin if they don't submit to the rules of NY, even though they be located halfway around the world or in another state.

NY can prosecute people halfway around the world? Has this actually happen yet?

Go fuck yourself American, I'm an Anarchist/Libertarian and I don't fit neatly into your two sided over-simplified political system.

I guess what irritates me is that there is this totally manufactured demigod, the PerryMonster.  It has zero relation to reality, and is nothing more than a supervillian in a comic book.  And not even a good one.    Here we're getting a massive influx of people from California and New York.  They are joining the influx from Mexico.

Education is irrelevant because it's largely socialization, and the internet has made expensive books and libraries obsolete.  Racial tensions are being manufactured all the time for political reasons, best thing to do is ignore "the issue they tell you to be concerned about".

What I'm trying to say is that for a fair number of issues, politicizing them is an obstacle to understanding, not an assist.

Perry is a competent and smart administrator as governor.  You don't hear much if any disrespect for him around here.  Clinton was also a competent and smart administrator as governor.  You want a really, really bad POTUS?

Elect one with no business or administrative experience.  Hello, Mr. Bamster.

Perry can't honestly claim responsibility for the healthy Texan economy.  Eagle Ford hydrocarbons did that, not him.  ....

The regulations have not gone into effect yet.  But given the total absolute craziness of what NY is doing here, and the fact that Rick Perry and Texas have explicitly said "No Regulation for Bitcoin" the contrast is so striking that I can't but bring up these comparison facts.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/new-york-to-bitcoin-startups-get-permission-or-get-out/

So what exactly do the BitLicense regulations cover? Here are some of our (least) favorite things that they would require small startups to do:

    Submit fingerprints of all founders (and employees) to the FBI and disclose personal financial information of founders and officers to NY State.
    Require them to hold an undetermined amount of U.S. dollar funds in bonds or trusts. Startups will not be able to predict the bonding or capitalization requirements until after they apply, making it difficult to project expenses or raise money.
    Conduct expensive audits and security testing that no small startup could afford.
    Hand over any untouched user assets to NY State after five years as “abandoned property.”

Worse, the regulations would require every bitcoin and virtual currency-related startup to get permission from NY state before releasing any new product or service. So yes, if I have a bitcoin technology startup and I want to start selling T-shirts, I would have to get the permission of the state of New York

Does this mean we can start bitcoin business in Texas without having to comply to NY bitlicense?