The Perry Indictment: A Texas Farce
The governor’s only crime is partisanship. And Democrats are guilty of that, too
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Rosemary Lehmberg, the Democratic district attorney in Travis County, Texas, spent three weeks in jail last year for drunken driving, prompting Republican Governor Rick Perry to call on her to resign. She refused—and now her supporters hope to have the last laugh by sending Perry away for a lot longer. The criminal case against him is a farce. The state should work faster than a prairie fire with a tail wind to dismiss it.