[DFW.CBSLOCAL] 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.
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A witch hunt--literally by a witch in this case.
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"I'm now a C-List celebrity in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. Come join me and become famous too by playing on iPhone!" the EPA proudly declared of the mobile game that allows you to join a cartoon version of Kim and friends on a red carpet adventure, performing tasks to increase your celebrity standing.
Not surprisingly, this tweet raised eyebrows and was soon retweeted over 3,000 times in a matter of hours. (In case you were wondering, the EPA Water's Twitter feed normally focuses on decidedly less glamorous "achievements," such as the government's efforts ensure clean water or sharing updates about coping with pollution issues.)
Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, from Texas was more blunt. "I hope the Kardashians don't mind being associated with something that spends millions without contributing to society," he wrote. Ouch!
First read about this in a (non-linkable) proprietary newsletter, which goes into much greater depth about what pathetically transpired. This is the best publicly available report I could find.
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[THEHILL] President B.O. went back to his vacation on Martha's Vineyard Tuesday evening following less than 48 hours in Washington, leaving people puzzled over why he came back in the first place.
Obama's two days in Washington were mostly quiet, and concluded with the president receiving his daily national security briefing in the morning, and joining Vice President Biden to huddle with members of his economic team in the afternoon.
Administration officials have insisted for weeks that the president just wanted to return to the White House for a series of meetings, but the explanation was met with a healthy dose of skepticism, since Obama rarely interrupts his vacations.
Judicial Watch estimates the extra roundtrip cost $1.1 million. Only daughter Malia accompanied Obama back to Washington.
Speculation for why Obama returned focused around the possibility of a secret foreign leader meeting or the roll out of a new administration initiative on immigration or corporate taxes.
But no such explanation materialized.
The most unusual deviation from a normal day at the White House was Obama's dinner Monday night at Sam Kass's home. The president, joined by deputy chief of staff Anita Breckenridge, spent nearly five hours at the White House chef's Dupont Circle duplex apartment.
It's possible that the party may have been a celebration of Kass's impending nuptials to MSNBC host Alex Wagner. The couple announced their engagement last September. But the White House provided no details of the meal.
White House officials have bristled at repeated questions over the decision, even as the story has popcorned across the Internet.
"WH claimed Obama can do everything on the Vineyard, so why did he need to fly back to WH to meet with staff?" tweeted Joseph Curl, a Washington Times columnist and editor of the Drudge Report. "So wait, both Obama AND Holder flew from the Vineyard to DC so Holder could update Obama on Ferguson? Something very fishy going on here."
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There is something always fishy going on with this administration. No credibility, no honesty, no transparency, and little to no policy that favors the American people.
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Or the rioting in Ferguson caused him to go back for optics. Not that it's good optics to have an
American lose their head and THEN go back on vacation...
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Cheese and Rice, just let the man eat his wafflefinish his vacation.
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Only Obama can go to vacation from his vacation from his vacation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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