WP: In Texas, Leading His Final Big Charge (Ronnie Earle)

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In Texas, Leading His Final Big Charge
For Earle or DeLay, an End Is in Sight

By Juliet Eilperin and Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 2, 2005; Page A01

AUSTIN -- Ronnie Earle, the Texas prosecutor vilified by Rep. Tom DeLay as a "rogue district attorney" and an "unabashed partisan zealot," has heard worse.

There was the time, for instance, that a prominent Texas Democrat vowed to murder him.

"He would hold all these press conferences and say terrible things about me," Earle said, referring to Bob Bullock, the future lieutenant governor whom Earle investigated for allegedly misusing government resources in the 1970s.

"I know at least twice people took guns away from him when he said he was going to kill me."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101471.html

[skeeterintexas]

1. ahhhhh.....Gotta love Texas politics! n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. I don't like Texas politics. I want to drown it in a bathtub. n/t