This post has been updated.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who was indicted last week for abusing the powers of his office, surrendered to the Travis County Courthouse to be fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken.
After he surrendered, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office released his mugshot:
Before entering the courthouse, Perry delivered a fervent statement about his indictment.
“I’m here today I believe in the rule of law. I’m here today because I did the right thing,” he began, assuring his supporters that he would enter the courthouse with his “head held high.”
Perry called his indictment “nothing short of an attack on the constitutional powers of the office of Governor.”
“There are important fundamental issues at stake,” he said during his statement, which started to sound more like a rally. “I’m going to fight this injustice with every fiber of my being, and we will prevail!”
And once Perry left the courthouse, he got some ice cream:
And then, ice cream cone at #Sandy‘s pic.twitter.com/rDYW6HvoS5
— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) August 19, 2014
Note to pRick: You never had a chance of becoming President. This indictment is just frosting on the cake. You are Lyndon Johnson without the finesse. Your “All Hat No Cattle” schtick might, just might, work in Paintbrush, TX, but it doesn’t play to a wider audience.
Yep. He pulled a Delay. What an asswipe.
“There are important fundamental issues at stake,” he said during his statement, which started to sound more like a rally. “I’m going to fight this injustice with every fiber of my being, and we will prevail!”
Fighting injustice just comes naturally to Rick Perry, like when he vetoed the Texas bill that would have banned the execution of retarded prisoners.
Ass, meet hole.
What…wait…that can’t be Rick Perry? Rick Perry wears serious glasses and is a noted intelligent guy.
My fellow Americans, I give you: the face of arrogance. And don’t forget, folks, that this man is no ‘victim’. Not even close. He is a perpetrator (of some white collar crime) if there ever were one. And now, one Ricky Perry is, by virtue of this booking, as close to being a real con as he may get. And with that, he can fulfill the first syllable of ‘conservative’: ‘con’.