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POINT OF IEWS CORRUPTION IN TEXAS RANDY QUIROGA-KING PUBLISHER Oklahoma's #1 Hispanic News pa per, Website, Yellow Pages, Attorney & Health Guides and Metro Magazine! 300 SW 25th ST | OKC, OK 73109 www.noticiasoklahoma.com Los artículos que se publican aquí, son responsabilidad de quién los escribe. Las cartas deberán contar con el nombre del autor y un teléfono para confirmar. The opinions expressed in articles published are not necessarily those of El Nacional. Letters should must have a name and phone for verification purposes. SUBSCRIPTIONS/ SUSCRIPCIONES $96 Year. Mail check or money order: Attention Subscriptions $96 por año. Envíe el cheque o mo- ney order: Atención Suscripciones OKLAHOMA OWNED. HISPANIC OWNED. 405.632.4531 REPRESENTANTES DE VENTAS PERRY KEPFORD VICTOR VILLAR ALEX COMEZ DISEÑO GRAFICO SAMUEL CARDONA MARCO SANTA MARÍA EDITOR DE VIDEOS MATTHEW COON EL DE OKLAHOMA NACIONAL Oklahoma's Trusted Spanish News Source. 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California, for exam- ple, is rife with Hispanic Democrat political corrup- tion that reaches from small towns/cities like Bell, where city managers and council people paid them- selves hundreds of thou- sands of dollars, to Los Angeles City Council people that are convicted of felo- nies and await prison, to the California State Sena- te where long time Hispa- nic and Chinese American politicians await trials and prison for using political offices and campaigns to fill their pockets with bri- bes and political extortion. Most elected and appointed officials fatten themselves at the public's expense by simply stea- ling money. For example, my former congressman -- Vietnam War fighter ACE pilot Duke Cunningham corruption wasn't very devious-- he accepted cash, over two million in cash from friendly defense con- tractors that paid him to insert contracts into pro- curement bills a procedure that bypassed Congressio- nal budget processes. Corruption over clan- destine cash is the norm. There is, however, a diffe- rent type of corruption-- that of political and judicial manipulation. That kind of corruption has reared its ugly head in Texas again, again in Travis County which contains the state capitol in Austin. This corruption is spawned by and directly connected to Texas Demo- crats. There is a history of these grand jury shenani- gans. In 1993 State Treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison won the Republican nomination for the Special Election to replace Senator Lloyd Bentsen who left the Sena- te to be Bill Clinton's Trea- sury Secretary. She won the seat by a two to one margin and did extremely well with Texas' Hispanic voters. She was the first and only woman ever to represent Texas in the Senate. Tra- vis County District Attor- ney Ronnie Earle, who him- self wanted the U.S. Sena- te seat, convinced a Grand Jury to indict Hutchison for official misconduct in office (while State Treasu- rer) and for allegedly orde- ring state employees to destroy evidence. When time came for trial, Democrat District Attorney Ronnie Earle did not present any evidence. The judge ordered a jury empanelled and informed them that Earle refused to enter any evidence; he directed the jury to acquit Senator Hutchison so she could not be indicted or tried again on any similar charge. Here we are again. A Travis County Grand Jury has indicted another His- panic friendly Republican – Governor Rick Perry cham- pioned in-state tuition for public college students in the U.S. illegally who had graduated from Texas high schools. Like the Hutchi- son indictment this one is as phony as Ronnie Earle's indictment of the best vote getter in Texas history (2000 election – 4,078,954 votes that produced a 65% victory for Hutchison's ree- lection). The charges are "abuse of official capacity" and "coer- cion of a public servant." Specifically, Perry is criminally charged becau- se he vetoed an appropria- tion for the Travis Coun- ty District Attorney's Offi- ce of Public Integrity. Its leader ( a Democrat) had been arrested, tried, con- victed and sent to jail for a flagrant "drunk" dri- ving episode. She refu- sed the Governor's request to resign. He insisted she resign and if she didn't he would veto the appropria- tion that funded her job. He did this publically. Article IV, Section 14 of the Texas state Cons- titution states "if any bill is presented to the gover- nor contains several items of appropriation he may object to one or more such items, and approve the other portion of the bill." That is the veto power. Only the governor has it. The Constitution does not prohibit the governor from announcing a veto before the act, nor does it prohibit a public/politi- cal veto threat of any sort. Thus, unless the threat is done behind closed doors there can be no crime. Despite Texas Demo- crats cheering on the indictments, the political nature of the indictments is obvious to Democrats as well as Republicans. President Obama's close advisor David Axel- rod tweeted that the indictments were "sket- chy." Another Obama man, Jonathon Price says, "Have to say Perry indictment seems nuts." Liberal writer Matt Yglesias says, "Hard for me to imagine Rick Perry charges sticking… Does anyone think this Perry indictment makes sense?" Nonetheless, Gilberto Hinojosa, Chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, has abandoned the Ame- rican principle of "inno- cent until proven guilty" by declaring, "Rick Perry should step down, imme- diately. This type of crony politics has got to go in Texas…Governor Perry has brought dishonor to his office, his family and the state of Texas." Perhaps lawyer Hino- josa should read the Constitution's 14th Amendment particularly the part that guarantees "due process" of law. Perry's indictment is like Hutchison's was 20 years ago. Nothing…Nada! A-2 EL NACIONAL DE OKLAHOMA JUEVES 21 DE AGOSTO, 2014 • www.noticiasoklahoma.com OPINION

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