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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 02:11 AM Sep 2014

Abbott supports prosecutors’ unit (Public Integrity Unit) vetoed by Perry

RICHARDSON — Attorney General Greg Abbott on Tuesday said he supports keeping the state-funded unit of prosecutors investigating public corruption that Gov. Rick Perry vetoed, a move that later led to a felony indictment.

Speaking after a campaign event, the Republican candidate for governor said he believed it was important for state lawmakers to have “a watchdog with prosecutorial authority.”

“And I believe that when the sun sets on the next session, we will still have a Public Integrity Unit,” Abbott said in a brief interview.

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Abbott declined to support Perry’s call for the indictment to be dismissed. While he did not defend Perry as forcefully as other Republican officials in Texas have, Abbott said it appeared to him that the governor did nothing wrong.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/abbott-supports-prosecutors-unit-vetoed-by-perry/nhD22/

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Abbott supports prosecutors’ unit (Public Integrity Unit) vetoed by Perry (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2014 OP
"Abbott said it appeared to him that the governor did nothing wrong." malokvale77 Sep 2014 #1
Abbott is phrasing this same story differently, than he did in the Texas Tribune. Abbott is DhhD Sep 2014 #2

malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
1. "Abbott said it appeared to him that the governor did nothing wrong."
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 10:35 PM
Sep 2014

Of course. The investigation included Abbott's role at the "Cancer Research Center".

I hope that investigation starts anew.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
2. Abbott is phrasing this same story differently, than he did in the Texas Tribune. Abbott is
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 10:09 AM
Sep 2014

afraid to debate Democratic opponent, Wendy Davis. He might tell the wrong story.

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/03/brief/

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