Open Thread
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Random Updates for you today.
+ One of the two candidates (Edward Smith) to run in HD 106 in Dallas where Ray Allen has retired has now been kicked off the ballot since none of the addresses he gave were in the district, and he has only lived there 6 months. That leaves Kirk England to take on Katy Hubener in the special election and general election.
+ Matt creates a visual chart of why Lamar Smith is an Enabler to the Culture of Corruption. John Courage, running against Smith, has called for him to resign from his spot on the House Ethics Committee over on his blog.
+ David Van Os, running for Attorney General, has hired blogger PDiddie to be his new campaign manager.
+ Grits for Breakfast has not once, but twice now had his blog postings lead to major real world affects. The latest involved our blogging representative Aaron Pena.
+ Looks like former Rep. Keel might have a primary after all for his Court of Criminal Appeals seat which he knocked his opponents out of earlier this year.
+ Karen Felthauser, running for HD-52 up in Williamson County, makes the DF(A)-list. Check out her new website as well.
+ Google Video is freaking cool. Where else could you easily find such wonderfully useful things like this or see why Macs suck or have a world repository for digital fart films or see the clip from Stargate SG-1 with the Hatak fleet being destroyed.
+ Year end Google Zeitgeist is out.
+ "Champion" arrives at UT. IBMs latest ginormous supercomputer at 730 billion calculations a second.
+ Get your State of the Union preview on. Some funniness at MyDD.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at January 27, 2006 03:56 PM
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Corruption in Ft Bend County Texas
Here are a few interesting facts to prove that Fort Bend County leads the state in political corruption. To understand this you must know that this is the home of Tom Delay and the DA is under his control.
Elected officials and other public officials act without worry of criminal prosecution. Allow me to explain.
1. We had a director of Road and Bridge in Ft Bend who was caught by Bev Carter (local reporter)stealing from the county. He lost his job but the DA refused to indict.
2. A group of Rosenberg Police Officers put their careers on the line and made allegations of illegal conduct against the Chief of Police and others in the administration. Again the DA refused to take the cases to the Grand Jury. Those officers are all gone and the Chief and his boys are all still there. These allegations extend from theft to civil rights violations. But in the home of Tom Delay that is all OK
3. The county judge refused to disclose his interest in a company who does millions of dollars of business with the county. But that is OK also. Not to mention how much money he takes each year in political contributions which in this case may not be legal.
4. This week a Houston Fire Capt. who was charged with Intox Assault was able to pay $25,000 to the victim and the DA reduced the charge to a misd. Nice to know if you pay someone large sums of money you can get your case dropped from Pen Time to misd. probation.
5. One of his prosecutors has been accussed to tampering with a government document. The same exact allegations that Harris County JP Betty Brock Bell was convicted of last month. Yet, John Healey will not even allow an investigation to be conducted. I guess it is ok if you are one of his boys. Another example of a protected class.
In fact his First Assistant DA refused to take a mandatory drug test. No problem for our DA. Another one of the protected Class.
6. Then there is Tom Delay. Delay's lawyers and Travis County Da Ronnie Earle all claim and correctly so that an elected official can only be prosecuted in the county of their residence for violations of the election code. Yet the Ft Bend DA continues to do nothing. He will not even review the file. Just like the cases above.
7. But then comes the trail. Tom Delay's largest contributor is Will and Bob Perry. The same Perrys who financed Swift Boat Vets against Kerry and paid large sums to block legislation to regulate new home construction. (they own Perry Homes) The Perrys contributed large sums to TRMPAC (Delay is now indicted for). They also were John Healey's largest contributor and they held a fund raiser for him in their home at the same time Ronnie Earle was trying to indict Delay. Who thinks there was a reason for such a large contribution at this time in History?
Now, what other County in Texas is more corrupt than Fort Bend County.
Next time we will talk about the corruption in the Ft Bend City of Rosenberg and their Mayor and Tom Delay
