{"id":23354,"date":"2015-04-22T08:13:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23354"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:16:50","slug":"texas-house-votes-to-defang-runaway-travis-county-public-integrity-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23354","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Votes To Defang Runaway Travis County Public Integrity Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More good news from the Texas legislature: The Texas House has voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/texas-house-approves-public-integrity-unit-move\/nkyfs\/\">remove jurisdiction over statewide elected and appointed officials from Travis County&#8217;s corrupt, partisan Public Integrity Unit<\/a>. Instead, such investigations would be handled by the unimpeachable Texas Rangers rather than the likes of Ronnie Earl and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=16994\">Rosemary Lehmberg<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It was only a historical fluke that Travis County managed to exercise such authority in the first place, and given the Public Integrity Unit&#8217;s willingness to pursue abusive vendettas against Republican political figures such as Tom DeLay and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=21019\">Rick Perry<\/a>, removing that responsibility was long overdue. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats will no longer be able to get revenge against Republicans from the Travis County prosecutor&#8217;s office for what Republicans and voters have done to them at the ballot box over the last two decades&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More good news from the Texas legislature: The Texas House has voted to remove jurisdiction over statewide elected and appointed officials from Travis County&#8217;s corrupt, partisan Public Integrity Unit. Instead, such investigations would be handled by the unimpeachable Texas Rangers rather than the likes of Ronnie Earl and Rosemary Lehmberg. It was only a historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102,17,18,12],"tags":[2864,2865,200,2062,1907,2629,2716,2061,683,2711],"class_list":["post-23354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-crime","category-democrats","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-democrats","tag-republicans","tag-rick-perry","tag-ronnie-earle","tag-rosemary-lehmberg","tag-texas-84th-legislative-session","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tom-delay","tag-travis-county","tag-travis-county-public-integrity-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23365,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354\/revisions\/23365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}