In Judicial Picks, Perry Reaches Past Executive Branch
Jeffrey Boyd will become the newest Texas Supreme Court justice, an appointment that scrunches the foreheads of Rick Perry critics who think it odd that the governor would name his chief of staff to the state’s highest civil court.
It’s the latest brick in a wall Perry has been building for a dozen years — a period that has seen him appoint 224 Texans to state district and appeals court judgeships.
His hold on the executive branch is well documented and regularly noted; Perry has been in office long enough to twice go through the entire cycle of six-year ...
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JC DemocratofTejas
Hmmmmm I remember another main squeeze of rick's named Geoffrey--I'm sure Anita remembers too. Just saying.
WHY DOES RICK PERRY HATE CHRISTMAS? Why can't he decorate the downtown streets in the Austin like in the past? Did all the money go for his $10,000 a month gated community homestead for the last 4 years, while the mansion was being rebuilt?
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Comparing Perry to a bricklayer ain't fair, bricklayers do honest work for a living
Hollis Morton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Governor Rick Perry appointed one of the appeals judges that says that it is o.k. to violate the contract that I purchased my house under and also to racketeer in property tax fraud which funds our public schools. Please see court room documents. http://hm21.wordpress.com
Amanda Winters via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Democrats...come together!! Democratic Xmas Charity Bash: Next Wed, 12/5:
Join the Capital Area Progressive Democrats, the South Austin Democrats, the North by Northwest Democrats and the Travis County Democratic Party for their holiday party.
When: Tues, 12/5/12 5-7pm
Where: The Texas AFLCIO, 1106 Lavaca St. #200, Austin TX 78701
This year, the holiday party will have a charity drive for The Trinity Center, a homeless shelter.
Trinity Center’s simple wish list: jackets or sweatshirts (Large and XL), knit hats and gloves, socks, blankets and new or gently used sleeping bags. Don’t have time to shop? Just make out a check to Trinity Center. Donations are tax-deductible; small amounts go a very long way! Gifts can be brought to the party.
Trinity Center is a small-budget charity (501c3 but housed in St. David's Episcopal Church basement) launched with funds from the Barbara Jordan Foundation and with the guiding hands of longtime Democratic activists Diana and Doug Bell. The Center provides breakfast, clothing, computer training, counseling, social services and other basic services to thousands of Austin's downtown homeless people every year. Homeless people can use the Center as their mailing address and have access to email and phone service. In response to the brutal murders of several homeless women, Trinity has recently spearheaded a rotating venue among several downtown venues to host 50 women for "safe sleep" each night.
Thanks for allowing good Democrats to stand up for the least among us!
Suzy Hagar via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Please urge your Texas legislative representatives to set term limits for our executive branch.
Jim Vance
Well, there might be no telling what appointees will do once the appointment is made and confirmed, but it's very, very unlikely that anyone in that position will take a position which counters or opposes that of the person making the appointment.
An independent judiciary is a fundamental and essential component of a legitimate democracy, to which Perry doesn't even bother to give lip service but stacks the courts and every other position for which he has an opportunity to do so with cronies and favored insiders. Whether history will record his Gubernatorial tenure as a further extension of what Bush started in the mid-1990s and among the most corrupt in Texas remains to be seen, but I've long considered it to be so.
Pat Wood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
When you look at the ideology of both Perry and those he has appointed, that pretty much assures a stacked deck for many years to come. Term limits can't come soon enough, but it will take a couple of decades to work our way out out of this mess Perry has made.