Will Tom DeLay's Prosecutor Outfox His GOP Opponents?
By Bill Pascoe
CQ Politics
May 15, 2009
Former Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle -- whose 2005 indictment of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on money laundering and conspiracy charges began a chain reaction that led, eventually, to the end of DeLay's two-decade career in Congress -- is back in the news, telling the Austin American-Statesman that he's considering a run for state attorney general next year.
As the Texas Watchdog blog points out, this could make for an interesting coincidence -- even as Earle contemplates a new campaign to win the Attorney General's office, allies of DeLay have offered new legislation to strip his old office of its powers to prosecute most state legislators, and place that responsibility in the office of the ... attorney general.
State Rep. Wayne Christian's bill would remove from the Travis County D.A.'s office the power to prosecute state elected officials and officers, and transfer it instead to their home-county D.A.'s.
State Rep. Sid Miller's bill would remove the power to prosecute election fraud and campaign abuse from the Travis County D.A. and transfer it instead to the state's attorney general.
(More here.)
CQ Politics
May 15, 2009
Former Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle -- whose 2005 indictment of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on money laundering and conspiracy charges began a chain reaction that led, eventually, to the end of DeLay's two-decade career in Congress -- is back in the news, telling the Austin American-Statesman that he's considering a run for state attorney general next year.
As the Texas Watchdog blog points out, this could make for an interesting coincidence -- even as Earle contemplates a new campaign to win the Attorney General's office, allies of DeLay have offered new legislation to strip his old office of its powers to prosecute most state legislators, and place that responsibility in the office of the ... attorney general.
State Rep. Wayne Christian's bill would remove from the Travis County D.A.'s office the power to prosecute state elected officials and officers, and transfer it instead to their home-county D.A.'s.
State Rep. Sid Miller's bill would remove the power to prosecute election fraud and campaign abuse from the Travis County D.A. and transfer it instead to the state's attorney general.
(More here.)
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