Travis county's elected officials, electors and grand juries are partisan thugs. So does 'hip' simply mean anti-democratic, illegal and sinister?

Its elected District Attorneys consistently show partisan bias, abuse their office, manipulate grand juries and prosecute things that are not against the law.  The people of Travis county should be ashamed for returning such corrupt little weasels to office time after time and then being manipulated by them in the Grand Jury room. Incidentally:  that leftist prosecutors can get away with the type of legal harassment of their political opponents described below is another reason why it is dangerous to put progressives into office - the lack of moral scruples among their supporters and their press enablers means no accounting.  That's how Detroit went bankrupt and why NYC, Chicago and LA will go belly up.  More here.

This is ridiculous.

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A grand jury has handed up an indictment against Gov. Rick Perry in connection with the investigation into an effort to force Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign.

Perry wanted Lehmberg to resign because she had been busted for drunk driving. It’s not good to have a drunk driver, captured on camera abusing the officers who arrested her, heading up the Public Integrity Unit

At the center of the issue is a complaint about intimidation stemming from Perry’s threat to veto of $7.5 million in state funding to the Public Integrity Unit run by Lehmberg’s office. The threat came after she pleaded guilty to drunk driving and served a 45-day sentence; Perry called on her to step down but she refused to resign her position. Perry then vetoed the funding for the PIU.

A grand jury was called to determine whether or not Perry broke the law when he threatened to veto the funding. As a result they issued indictments on two felony charges: abuse of official capacity and coercion of public servant. If found guilty on the charges, Perry could be sentenced to a maximum 109 years in prison.

The office is funded by the state. As governor, Perry has veto power. Full stop.

This indictment is political. Every bit as political as the kangaroo court charges that former District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, lodged against numerous Republicans over the years — both because that office is politicized, and Travis County is full of guttersnipes and fools.

But that doesn’t mean that the charges will get thrown out. The legal jeopardy to Perry is quite real.

Earle got former Rep. Tom Delay, Republican, convicted on crimes that were not even committed in Travis County, and were not even crimes at the time they were supposedly committed.

Those convictions were eventually thrown out, but not before Earle had totally destroyed Delay’s career and tainted the entire Republican Party — which was the goal all along.