tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post8944495304088118406..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Vote for me and I'll enact policies that raise your taxes! An unlikely issue for the GOP primary.Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-84116596299863900662011-12-02T21:51:33.246-06:002011-12-02T21:51:33.246-06:00anon 01:10
I've know Anderson well, personally...anon 01:10<br />I've know Anderson well, personally and professionally, for more than 20 years. There is nothing corrupt about him--what you see is what you get. I'd love to know what you think is corruption, and be careful, because defamation is a word I do know the definition to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-348579427565890172011-12-02T09:59:59.217-06:002011-12-02T09:59:59.217-06:00Tangentially, it occurs to me the reason coppers n...Tangentially, it occurs to me the reason coppers need to rely on unions is same as regular folks' problems in today's America: a lot of times, government entities are incompetent and crooked. So unions help balance the fight. <br /> Part of the reason for cop corruption is the climate where THEIR leaders/oversight & political bosses lead the way in corruption. Pressure from above.<br /> Corporations are a more efficient kind of crooked than in 1900--where the corps seek out (read: pay off) government as biased support, and there's no one to balance that for the regular folk---because their "representatives" are also bought off. (Ha, and the mainstream major media, too, so who's going to report "the rest of the story"--just Grits and a few talk radio or online watchdogs? Pretty much nobody on the biggest engine: TV.<br /> With the collapsing economy, gov abuses their workers in order to raise revenue--typically off the back of the peasants. Workers do mostly what their bosses tell them! High crack pipes and misdemeanors.<br /> That's not going to get better until we stop the appointees and unelect the incumbents. And it will have to happen over more than one election cycle. But can the economy last that much longer? <br /> Any specific neglect, crime or other issue is diversionary from the systemic corruption--now multiplied by the economic collapse.<br /> But I'm probably wrong; everything is rosy.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808884177035705472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-46558916325748981982011-12-02T09:18:53.264-06:002011-12-02T09:18:53.264-06:00Lykos will win re-election.Lykos will win re-election.Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-65145649446713836882011-12-02T07:50:41.948-06:002011-12-02T07:50:41.948-06:00Let's see a measurable amount and it's adu...Let's see a measurable amount and it's adulterates. Heck test a pipe and you have at least an ounce or more, if you call the pipe an adulterate. Just added to my felony conviction rate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-37416411124453202011-12-01T14:23:15.329-06:002011-12-01T14:23:15.329-06:00Nowif they would quit arresting, booking and prose...Nowif they would quit arresting, booking and prosecuting petty possession of marijuana. Somewhere around 8% of all bookings are for the petty possession of drugs in Harris County. Talk about wasting money!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-38398531685113189302011-12-01T13:10:25.308-06:002011-12-01T13:10:25.308-06:00At the police UNION news conference reporters aske...At the police UNION news conference reporters asked if they could provide ANY statistics or facts to back their assertion that Lykos was not accepting charges at intake. Then the UNION officials brought up the crack pipe residual issue. <br /><br />Lykos has been a very good friend to law enforcement officers while DA. She could have, and indeed should have filed charges on the hundreds of cases where officers were caught committing perjury or filing false information on government documents. Hell, there have been a dozen cases where unarmed citizens were murdered by officers that she didn't file charges on. Several of whom were found to have been shot in the back according to autopsy results.<br /><br />Anderson doesn't stand a chance. Corrupt to the gills, he makes Cluck Rosenthal look like an angel in comparison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-51837368559651991162011-12-01T12:40:20.347-06:002011-12-01T12:40:20.347-06:00The crack pipe issue is what the media picked up, ...The crack pipe issue is what the media picked up, not the main push. If you watch the newsconference held by the police, you'd see their biggest complaint is the irrational decisions being made at intake where cases must arrive proven beyond a reasonable doubt before an ADA will accept them. The legal standard is probable cause to charge an individual. The media coverage, unfortunately, focused on the subject they understood and that could be explained in seconds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-26607624696636095782011-12-01T09:32:50.891-06:002011-12-01T09:32:50.891-06:00They don't do trace cases so they won't cr...They don't do trace cases so they won't crowd the jail, yet Harris County issues hundreds of arrest warrants for technical probation violation and use all 10,000 law enforcement officers as process servers and debt collectors for the courts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-22919916128805129052011-12-01T08:47:36.459-06:002011-12-01T08:47:36.459-06:00Grits, speaking of prison healthcare, have you hea...Grits, speaking of prison healthcare, have you heard anything new on the UTMB contract with TDCJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com