Because He’s Way Too Busy
Most of you people – even those from foreign states – know about Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He’s the guy running for Governor against Wendy Davis. He’s a nincompoop.
He brags that every day he gets up, has breakfast, and then sues Washington. It’s kinda not a joke because he really does that. The good part for us is that he’s a bad, bad lawyer and he loses every damn time.
So, he filed another request for an extension today on cases that are the business of the people of Texas who are not running for Governor. Do you want to know they needed an extension? Of course you do.
“Mr. Mitchell,” who is Jonathan Mitchell, is just one of about 10 very high level lawyers in the office. If you go here, you can see that there are 74 pages of employees of the Texas Attorney General’s office with about 30 names per page. You have to get to page 10 before you start running out of writ twits.
I do not want to hear whining.
According to this document, Mr. Mitchell has 4 other cases. That’s all he can do for $146,000 a year plus expenses, travel, and overhead?
Damn wussy.
If Greg Abbott doesn’t have time to take care of the people’s business because he’s too busy grandstanding in his quest to be the dumbest governor since Rick Perry, then somebody needs to holler at him and remind him that he has a job.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Scratching my head here. Uh, now exactly why do we need an attorney general if all those folks are doing his job?
1The waste of money is astounding.
2Fermented cabbage for brains Abbott and his frivolous law suits need to be tallied, then handed to the Wendy Davis campaign. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s Texas, but really, Wendy Davis should be leading that fool by double digits. C’mon Wendy, get some fire in your belly and douse that louse!
3An overpaid, underworked lawyer? Whoda thought?
4Mitchell probably has to work really hard to defend the reasons Texas is underwater in lawsuits like those.
5I’m off to foreign parts for a few weeks, JJ. Don’t let the Republicans mess things up too much while I’m gone.
6Oh, there’s nothing wrong with Texas’ voter ID law. It is only keeping this legally born U.S. citizen and Texas resident from voting on a stupid snafu that has its roots in an old Southern Jim Crow tradition. It took two states to pull it off. One which won’t issue a driver’s license without a certified birth certificate from the second state, and the collaborating state, which won’t send a certified birth certificate without a certified copy of the driver’s license from the state of residence. Would you believe, both states are Red?
7Wut the f…. do they find to keep that many busy? 25 per page. Page 6 before salaries go under $100K. Page 8 before under $90K. Page 14 before under $80K.
I was going to look at how many mmen/women were in the price ranges but I got bored.
And they need an extension? What a pile of bullpucky
8O, Lordy. Here’s the deal. I knew there were private law firms, some here in D.C., that employed up to 700 lawyers in one spot and then had branches in cities of certain sizes all over the world with just as many lawyers. For one thing, these law firms handle cases in and from different countries on subjects such as international law, trade and junk. I can see that. But I can’t see any AG office anywhere in this country than looks as if it is a wannabe private law firm. Suing just for the sake of suing, as in having something to do even if it ain’t fun, is well, criminally insane. There ya go, A-butt. Smoke that.
9Meanwhile the public defender has more trials scheduled than that on any morning calendar.
10I just want to have a drink with Cleopatra DeLeon. I’ll bet it will be worth my picking up the entire bar tab.
11Great points, maggie. Would be interesting how Gregg the infernal eternal litigant stacks up with other states with serious border issues.
CA has an entry border. My google search responded with nada, zilch, nyet for lawsuits against the federal government over immigration policy.
AZ, land of Crazy Jan, sort of a wash. She isn’t suing, as AZ wing nuts are under the microscope and losing.
At current count there are a few million hard working undocumented workers contributing to our economy.
As for the current border ‘issue,’ Reagan and Bush1 broke it. Republicans, Central America is your debacle. Own it, and if you truly view yourselves as Christa ins, then honor American and International law.
Children, you morons, escaping the hardships of your moronic foreign policies. Buy a windmill, a solar panel or a clue for real. Your corporate sponsored greed did this. Now pay for it through corporate taxes.
12Ann-Marie, are you SERIOUS? Which states do that? Are all the anti-medicaid states collaborating on the driver’s license/birth certificate snafu?
13I never ever want to hear that twit spout off about teacher pay again! Seriously got me riled up after seeing all the assistants to the assistant, etc.
And before this goes off track, yes I’m aware there is also waste in school district offices. I’m talking about the actual teachers in the trenches.
14Meh. Proof positive that having a real job does not equate to doing your real job. Texans should demand that he return all his AG salary.
15Upon reflection, after he is out of office is A-butt even capable of being an ambulance chaser? Shucks! He’d have to work on his own. Don’t think thats possible.
16Too busy,hardly. Too dizzy is more apropos.
17Maggie, unfortunately, there will be plenty of work for this turd. ALEC, the Kochs, or a lobbying firm will snatch him up.
18Ann-Marie, this is the biggest Catch-22 I’ve seen in some time! I would be absolutely going stark raving mad if I had to attempt to get these two states, and their government employees, to see the stupidity of their actions! How are you going to resolve this issue? I’d take it up with you local newspaper/TV news team which should have a person who takes on these types of stories and tells the world about the stupidity – and gets the job done so you can vote! Hope it works out in time to vote in 2014. Let us know what happens please. This is just the most stupid thing I’ve heard in some time.
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