Yep, there are more liberal minded folks in Texas than most people realize. Most of them are concentrated in the urban areas, which should also not really be a shock.
The DA is a she, by the way. And it seems that the faked documents are forged ID cards that allowed the accused criminals to get into the PP office as people allowed to get the material.
The right is very much the end justifies the means kind of people, aren’t they?
So she is–I thought “Devon” was a male name, but looks like it’s unisex. Learn something new every day!
But AFAICT, Devon is a Republican appointed by Rick Perry, so your last sentence is kind of belied by Devon’s own actions. PMC is absolutely ends-justifies-the-means, though, and on balance I’m pretty okay with their getting dinged for forging ID cards. Even though undercover journalism is important and there shouldn’t be laws designed to target it (as there are in NC now), journalists shouldn’t get some sort of exception from laws that are otherwise good public policy. If more journalists start forging government documents in order to gain access to places they shouldn’t have access, it undermines the trust in those very documents. Knowing that people are prosecuted for gaining such access serves as a deterrent and therefore as a means of strengthening the value of those documents.
I said right, not Republican, since I was aware that she was a Republican. Maybe I should have said far right. There are still a few Republicans who believe in the rule of law. I don’t agree with Jeb! at all, but at least he is not a slimeball like Cruz or Carson. And I don’t include Trump because I still think he might be a Democratic mole.
Fair enough. I still harbor hopes that principled people can wrest control of the Republican party back from the fluffernutters at the wheel now, so I want to give props where they’re due :).