Governor Rick Perry of Texas and his supporters would have us believe that his indictments are about a funding veto. They are not. They are about a governor presuming to have the legal right to coerce an elected county official to resign his/her position so that he could appoint someone more friendly to his politicl agenda.
Perry's actions (his personal threats coupled with his veto) carried a personal message to the Travis County D.A., that if you do not resign and allow me to appoint your replacement, I will defund one of the agencies you head, rendering you unable to perform all the duties the people of Travis County elected you to do. Perry can claim that he has the right to control who is the D.A. of Travis County, but a judge and jury do not have to believe it! And neither should we. A Texas governors is no Caesar!
And this is not about “a prosecutor with a partisan political agenda.” This is about a governor with an over-sized ego and political agenda colliding with the legal right of the citizens of Travis County to have an official of their chosing...and the limits to a governor's constitutional powers...even if he is a former Aggie yell leader!