Well, Governor Rick Perry was indicted by an Austin Grand Jury for abuse of power. While it's not unusual for a federal grand jury to indict a state elected official, state juries typically don't do so.
In any case, that and the following trial will certainly doom his presidential bid.
Like he had a prayer anyway
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Other prosecutors, and even a lot of liberals and liberal media outlets, are calling his indictment absurd and malicious prosecution. It's all the result of Perry refusing to fund the prosecutor's office of Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg, who had been arrested for DUI and showed the behavior you see below in the video. He felt she had lost all credibility and needed to resign and was completely within his rights to not fund her office.
