Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a potential Republican canidate for president in 2016, was indicted Friday in an investigation into an effort to force a local official out of office, NBC station KXAN of Austin reported. A grand jury in Austin handed up the indictment in a long-running investigation of Perry’s threat to veto state funding to the Travis County Public Integrity Unit unless District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg resigned.
The threat came after Lehmberg pleaded guilty to drunken driving and served a 45-day sentence last year. Perry called on her to step down, but she refused; Perry then vetoed the funding. The grand jury issued indictments (PDF) Friday on charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of public servant, both of them felonies.
Thus ends the shortest comeback in history.
And he was so killing it in Iowa.
LOL.
