Having paid close attention to politics and politicians for many years, I rarely get disgusted with a politician’s actions. But the thirst for power displayed by Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson through the years is both disgusting and astounding. Disgusting because of the fallout from her quest for power and astounding that Harris County Republican Party leaders and voters give her a pass on her actions.
Don Hooper has pointed out most of these actions in this post. And he’ll be doing a follow up with a few names behind the scenes. Such as using the same prosecutor who used a grand jury to no bill Dr. Douglas Karpen. Or having her office collaborate with the Planned Parenthood attorney. Or blaming the grand jury instead of taking responsibility for what her prosecutors presented as evidence to that grand jury.
No one who has watched the full versions of the videos that David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt produced can reasonably say that representatives of Planned Parenthood did not do exactly what the now indicted pair say they did. You can watch those full versions by clicking here – yes, it takes a lot of time but then you’ll know the truth. And the truth is that the “cut” or “short” versions of those videos are not deceptive or misleading.
But Devon Anderson knows full well the possibility of losing an election in Harris County during a presidential election year. She was a “victim” of the Obama voter wave in 2008, losing her job as judge of the 177th District Court. She fully understands that she is going to need Democratic voters to cross over and vote for her. She knows full well that without positive press, that won’t happen.
So let’s take a look at the press she’s getting today.
Columnist Lisa Falkenberg in the Houston Chronicle:
This isn’t the first time Anderson has made a tough choice. Under pressure from the police union to retry Alfred Dewayne Brown in a Houston police officer’s callous murder, Anderson decided last year there wasn’t sufficient evidence, and Brown went free.
Anderson has recently implemented reforms, including expanded diversions for first-time offenders, and spoke out in favor of a controversial idea to allow defense attorneys at probable cause hearings.
We know now that Daleiden is a fake, a phony. And so are politicians who find it politically expedient to pretend he’s not.
Devon Anderson, meanwhile, might just be the real thing.
From Paul Weber’s AP report titled Houston Prosecutor Has Angered Anti-Abortion Groups Before:
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, a Republican originally appointed by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is now watching her party fume after she announced a grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of misusing fetal tissue — and instead indicted the makers of undercover video widely embraced by the GOP. But those who know the former judge say she is no ideologue and won’t buckle to politics.
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“It’s really proof that she is out to do a job and not score political points,” said Gene Wu, a former Harris County prosecutor who is now a Democratic state lawmaker. “Because those things don’t pan out politically. If you’re a Republican and trying to give people a second chance on marijuana, I don’t think that sells very well on the Republican side.”
Brian Rogers’ report in the Houston Chronicle titled DA denies politics played role in Planned Parenthood case is full of truth about what really happened here.
“If anything, it kind of helps her in the long run, because it presents her as a more neutral actor who is willing to follow the law even if it has a potential adverse affect on her standing in the Republican party,” said Rice University political scientist Mark Jones.
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Because the issue of abortion is so politically charged, experts said, Anderson likely would have drawn a primary opponent had the indictment been handed down last year.
“This indictment would definitely have invited a Republican challenge,” Jones said. “The question would have been whether that challenge would have been by a credible candidate. This would not have been something that you would have wanted to do at any time in the fall.”
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On Tuesday, politicians on both sides of the issue wanted to look past Anderson and instead lay the decision at the feet of the grand jury, a group of 12 people who meet behind closed doors shielded by laws making it illegal to reveal their secret proceedings.
Typically, grand juries are rubber stamps for more than 100,000 felonies filed in Harris County every year.
That last line from Rogers’ article is key to understanding the process. As the old saying goes, a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if they want to. It all depends upon the evidence given to the grand jury and how the evidence was presented. For Anderson to blame the grand jury is simply nonsense. She is quoted as saying “The inconvenient truth of a criminal investigation is that it doesn’t always lead where you want to go.” While that may be true it is also true that the inconvenient truth of her actions in this case will result in more brutal abortion procedures by Planned Parenthood.
Harris County Republican Party leaders are also responsible for this mess. They are the ones that encouraged Gov. Rick Perry to appoint her after her husband died. They are the ones that persuaded people not to run against her because “we need the female vote”. They were the ones telling voters that she was the “real deal” when those of who knew better warned people. Heck, current Harris County Republican Party Chair Paul Simpson sent out a press release yesterday blaming abortion law instead of placing it squarely where it belongs. He’s up for re-election, you know.
And to further the disgust in this case, former Harris County Republican Party Chair Jared Woodfill, a plaintiff’s attorney, has announced that he is representing the defendants. That’s right, the defendants have placed their lives in the hands of a man with no criminal law experience (search the District Clerk’s website with Woodfill’s bar number 00788715). My guess is that they want to use this as a platform for their issue. That is a huge mistake and only reinforces the idea that the entire movement is a farce. Woodfill is now attacking Anderson in the press which is completely hypocritical considering that he is the one that presented her to the HCRP Executive Committee as “the one”.
Like I said I’m disgusted by this entire case and by the politics of a woman who will do anything to remain in office. Don’t bother trying to convince me that the Democrat running against her in November could be worse.
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I am going to say something nice about Devon here, so listen up Devon. You have inspired David to put pen to paper on a cause I know he believes in very passionately, and for this I thank you!
I find this statement by Faulkenberg absurd: “We know now that Daleiden is a fake, a phony. And so are politicians who find it politically expedient to pretend he’s not.”
The fact that Daleiden used a phony ID doesn’t change anything that was video taped.
The video tapes are quite compelling and the fact that none of the indictments discredited the video evidence leads me to believe that either the prosecutor failed to present the case properly or those 12 citizens on the Grand Jury are incompetent. The latter alternative seems less likely to me. I’m sure that citizens and voters will draw their own conclusions in this very important matter.
The fact that the Grand Jury did not find sufficient evidence for an indictment against Planned Parenthood is sad and somewhat disturbing. But I might be willing to accept that they just didn’t find it sufficiently compelling.
The fact that the same Jury then found it advisable to indict Daleiden and Merritt I frankly find frightening. The Jury would not have even discussed such a charge unless they were prompted by the District Attorney. Trying to claim that the Jury didn’t see a crime in those tapes is ridiculous. If they didn’t see a cause to indict, it’s because the prosecutor was incompetent or was working to make sure that they didn’t.
Ms. Anderson’s comments on the affair have been disingenuous at best. She may say that she is pro-life but her actions in this and other cases indicate a much different mindset.
We have met the enemy, and they are us. Pogo
The truism, a prosecutor can use a Grand Jury in indict a ham sandwich is conversely more true:
a prosecutor ( Gov. Abbott sock puppet DA Devon Anderson via her DA office sock puppets) through her corrupt Key Man Jury System exonerates ham sandwiches of being ham sandwiches, while indicting anyone who publicly calls a ham sandwich a ham sandwich.
I documented this absurd truism last August on my Blog, Holytransparency.wordpress.com:
DEVON ANDERSON, WHO EXONERATED ABORTIONIST DOUGLAS KARPEN SUPPRESSING VIDEO TESTIMONY LIKEWISE WILL EXONERATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD I-45 SUPPRESSING CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS VIDEO EXPOSE
A no brainer, 2 +2 =4, (in this case Obama/Bush Core Curriculum math 2+2 = 5) this blog said exactly what Devon Anderson in cohoots with fellow Dr. Douglas Karpen exonerator then Texas AG Greg Abbott to save Rich Perry’s good name from legal discovery in a criminal conflict of interest by signing the completely fraudulent HB2 bill into law as Texas Governor written by Perry’s sister Mila Perry Jones, a United Surgical Partners lobbyist, would do months before Devon exonerated Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast I-45 and indicted Center for Medical Progress’s David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. Like Hitler in Mein Kampf, Devon Anderson told in an August press conference exactly what she was going to do to David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of Center for Medical Progress in exonerating Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast I-4. And last Monday annouced that she did it while scape goating her Key Man Grand Jury in doing so. This blog has been receiving hundreds of views at Holytransparency. wordpress.com since Monday. The whole history of the HB2 fraud, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast I-45, Annise Parker, Cardinal Dinardo, Rick Perry, Tilman Fertita, The Bushes, Pope JPII and Fr. Maciel and Carlos Slim Helu’s Sinaloa Federation drug, arms, and child sex slaving cartel for the last three years has been researched and documented at Holytransparency.wordpress.com. Learn the truth!
Do not trust Greg Abbott, Elizabeth Graham’s Texas Right to LIfe, Dan Patrick and other two faced liar “Pro life” abortion political and financial contribution profiteers who all said nothing publicly about Douglas Karpen’s exoneration by Devon Anderson’s Chip Davis Key Man Grand Jury orchestrated by Greg Abbott attempting to save Governor Pony Boot’s bacon from Karpen’s Attorney, Chip Davis’ trial discovery. CIA Dave Dewhurst thanked Devon in the Chronicle – December 12th, 2013-for exonerating Karpen and protecting Texas women and unborn children by doing so. 1984 Double Think you think, of which CIA Dave is well programmed! “Pro-Lifer” Dan Patrick who stole credit for the Texas Sonogram Law actually supported Devon Anderson for election after she exonerated Karpen, as she supported Dan the Sham against CIA Dave Dewhurst. We have met the enemy and they are us. Look at Tea Party darlings: Paul Rino, Gold Sacks slave ( Goldmen Sachs -Rothschild Neo Con Federal Reserve banking front bankrolls same sex marriage legalization throughout the world along with PP International LBGT agenda and Sterilization, Contraception, and Abortion in conjunction with the Bush/Clinton CIA) and natural born Canadien Citizen Ted Cruz (renounced his Canadien citizenship in 2014 to run for President) and Anchor Baby, Marco Rubio. Marco lived with high school sweetheart after graduating high school, cruzing Miami parks for teenagers. Rubbiio’s high school flame later started a porno production business filming anal sex between young Black and Hispanic males. Besides this, Marco, Tea Party presidential darling, gets sex for play as Miami’s Senator from a DC lobbyist, and has children with a NFL cheerleader other than his NFL cheerleader wife. Marco dreamed of playing in the NFL in high school… Marco suffered house foreclosure this year, and credit card insolvancy always (at waynemattson.com) I have more assets than Marco Rubio, and I have a vow of poverty.
Wake up! The anti-christ comes from among us. Do not be like David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of Center for Medical Progress indicted by Devon Anderson choosing Jared Woodfill, who supported Devon’s appointment by Guardisil Rick as Harris County DA as their Defense. Attorney. Newsflash to David and Sandra- dump Woodhead, get Chip Davis, If this is the way you roll, Chip is cynical enough to do it, and you will be exonerated for sure. It’s a no brainer! 2+2 =5 everytime in Devon’s Criminal Justice Key Man Grand Jury System.
And to further the disgust in this case, former Harris County Republican Party Chair Jared Woodfill, a plaintiff’s attorney, has announced that he is representing the defendants. That’s right, the defendants have placed their lives in the hands of a man with no criminal law experience (search the District Clerk’s website with Woodfill’s bar number 00788715). My guess is that they want to use this as a platform for their issue. That is a huge mistake and only reinforces the idea that the entire movement is a farce. Woodfill is now attacking Anderson in the press which is completely hypocritical considering that he is the one that presented her to the HCRP Executive Committee as “the one”.
In 2012, Woodfill faced a collection lawsuit from a New York City firm which claimed that he owed nearly $30 million for a loan on which he defaulted in 2010. The money was obtained to finance a suit filed by Woodfill against the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway on behalf of some residents of Somerville in Burleson County, who claim that BNSF caused their health problems. Woodfill and Pressler procured a loan of $5 million in March 2006 from a hedge fund that went out of business in 2010. Because of interest and other fees, the amount owed ballooned to more than $29 million. (Sounds like Marco Rubio)
If anyone reading this has any contact with David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of Center for Medical Progress (I tried long ago and had no response ever. The information I researched and documented could have saved them from painting themselves into this corner) tell them to get another attorney immediately! One that has nothing to do with the Establishment Bush Republican Party or Tea Party in Texas (unless it’s Louis Gomer – he would be perfect) or Elizabeth Graham’s Texas Right to LIfe and the phony “Pro-life” procontraception anti natal movement in general. If they go with Woodhead, It’s another no brainer, 2=2 =5, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of Center for Medical Progress they will be sold down the river and convicted by the same Rockefeller/Bush Republican cabal behind the exoneration of Dr. Douglas Karpen.
Like the morons in Oregon who arrogantly set themselves up only to be “bitches” used for Barak’s ISIS Jihadi gang rape by executive order of the Second Amedment, likewise David and Sandra’s conviction will be used to lionize Planned Parenthood, and destroy the First Amendment as well as the Right to LIfe. As my grandmother always said, “The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. Get a competent, uncompromised lawyer-fight for the First Amendment or you will be convicted and all of your best intentions for the Center for Medical Progress’s Planned Parenthood expose will pave the road to Hell for unborn and born alike..
I was at Planned Parenthood I-45 last Saturday, and they are processing baby parts again just as they did before the CMP expose in the wake of Devon’s exoneration of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast i-45 and indictment of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of Center for Medical Progress. And why not, they get even more millions from Paul Rino. Who’s going to stop them now or even cares. Nobody except Mary with God. Newflash! Devon Anderson’s Key Man Grand jury is Greg Abbott’s and AG Paxton’s investigation. Devon works directly for them both. Of course she does. PP’s renewed baby processing Includes 5 to 9 month old babies aborted alive by Dougals Karpen who doesn’t spoil the meat by ringing their knecks at his United Surgical Partners Aaron Clinic and sold to PP – I-45 Gulf Coast for hundreds and thousands of dollars.
Baylor Medical School. INC. owns through United Surgical Partners stock Karpen’s clinic as well as being medical partners with Planned Parenthood I-45. Baylor Medical School supplies abortionists to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast I-45. I guess since it is in house- different branches of the Cardinal Dinardo’s abortion/child sex slaving medical logistics conglomerate that Baylor Medical school does not pay for their fetal body part specimens like the other four Texas Universities. Just asking.
Deus Providebit!
Mr. Jennings,
This is a very well-written and convincing article (presenting both sides of the issue while tying the package up very neatly at the end). Marry your points to the fact that Ms. Anderson is on record of having accepted over $25,000 from the attorney of Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen and one might conclude she is not as pro-life as she claims.
I know first hand that she has no business as Harris County District Attorney. She doesn’t represent herself in a manner inside a courtroom that is profession enough, or even smart enough to hold that position. The only way she has it is because of her dead husband sacrificing himself for her. Then she goes behind the scenes and cuts high school deals with Judges – like 179th Judicial District Court Kristin Guiney.
I SO wish politicians would stop with “we need a woman to run to get the women’s vote.” I refuse to vote for a person just because that person has female genitalia! I vote for a person based on his OR her beliefs on the issues at hand. I don’t care about color, gender, gender identification, or any other “diversity trait.” I want someone who thinks, feels, and believes as I do and that may not be a person of my gender, my ethnicity, race, creed, religion, etc.! I did not vote for Devon because she was a woman. I voted for Devon because I believed she would continue the work her husband, Mike, started. Having known Mike, I felt that she would be the best candidate because she knew the direction he was going. However, that doesn’t mean I will continue to support her if her actions do not match what I think are in the best interests of the conservative community.