Equality
I want you to meet Justice of the Peace Russ Casey from the Fort Worth area. He’s a Republican.
Russ Casey
Casey was indicted for and pled guilty to tampering with a government document. It seems that Casey forged signatures on his petition to secure a place on the November ballot. In short, he fixed an election.
Casey was sentenced to two years in jail, probated over five years. He went home that day and will never see the inside of a jail.
And then there’s Crystal Mason, in the same damn county as Casey. Mason was on probation for a tax fraud conviction. Her mother pushed her to go vote on election day and she did. Her name was not on the voter list, so she voted a provisional ballot, which was never counted.
Crystal Mason
The state said she should have known she couldn’t vote while on probation.
She will spend five damn years in prison. Not probation, prison.
Also, in the same damn county, Rosa Maria Ortega is a green card holder from Mexico and has lived in Texas most of her life. She voted in the 2014 Republican primary and received eight years in prison for it. In the same damn county.
Casey was the only one to walk away. The newspaper added that Casey was no angel even outside of his recent conviction.
Casey, first elected in 2007, has a history of making headlines.
Last year, he was reprimanded for having an “improper sexual relationship” with a former clerk by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
It seems to me that there is something connected in all these cases. But one walked free. I wonder why?
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
Which crayon in the Crayola box? And how much cash has the crayon got? These are not unrelated questions.
1Tarrant County. In my lifetime, this on-going criminal conspiracy goes all the way back to Amon Carter and his Seventh Street Gang who “ran” Fort Worth and Tarrant County from the bowels of the Fort Worth Club. If you look in the dictionary for a practical definition of “white male privilege” you’ll likely see an image of this very group of criminals.
2I kinda wondered about Ft. Worth when they wouldn’t let Jim Wright vote because his driver’s license had expired. Surely they knew who he was.
3Love the Sesame Street song, “One of These Things Is Not Like the Other” which comes in handy every once in awhile.
4Let’s see, two minority women vs. one white male. The scales of justice have a big white thumb on ’em, so whitey wins no matter what. Where’s that rubber hose?
Casey is muy blanco. Need to know more?
5Unfortunately, they are all an embarrassment of our system of Justice. Though, obviously, for different reasons…
6That’s why we need voter photo ID, boys and girls, because we can be sure that the guy who we’ve seen voting for 40 years, is for sure who he has said who he said he was. And moving polling places to remote sites is a marketing tool, you know, like in the grocery store when they keep moving products around so you might see a dozen kinds of shampoo you’ve never used before because you might find one you like better.
7Right?
What I’m curious about is details on why some people need passports to go from one state to another. Maybe they’re criminals. Or lobbyists. Or something.