Houston’s incoming anti-death penalty District Attorney Kim Ogg notified 37 prosecutors in District Attorney Devon Anderson’s office that they are out of a job the day she takes office
Kim Ogg, an uber-liberal lesbian who is opposed to the death penalty, defeated incumbent Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, a Republican, in the November 8 election. Ogg won with the help of a $500,000 donation from George Soros and straight party-line voting.
For week after week, Ogg’s campaign ads blasted Anderson for jailing a rape victim to guarantee her appearance as a witness. Those ads popped up from morning until night during every commercial break on Houston’s local TV stations. That barrage of ads would not have been possible without the half-million bucks Soros gave her.
On Friday Ogg notified 37 prosecutors in Anderson’s office by email that they were fired. Most of those fired held management positions. Ogg said she wants a “culture change” at the district attorney’s office.
Ogg said:
“Because the district attorney's job is to be the guardian of justice and to seek justice over convictions, I pledged that we would not have a win-at-all costs mentality, that we would prize fairness and transparency and equality. And the leadership decisions that I made are directed to that view. I want individuals who, through their past actions and their professionalism, embody those very ideas. That's who I'm seeking to fill these positions.”
Anderson released this statement:
“Today, Kim Ogg fired by email 37 experienced prosecutors 9 days before Christmas. With her first act as District Attorney, Ogg is endangering the citizens of Harris County. The dedicated prosecutors let go today had a combined 685 years of service.”
By culture change, I am sure Ogg meant there will be few if any death penalty prosecutions under her administration. And during the campaign she promised there will be no prosecutions for the possession of ‘small’ amounts of marijuana.
The last I heard, the use and possession of marijuana is still illegal in Texas. I don’t suppose it ever occurred to Ogg that by not prosecuting pot possession cases, she is an enabler of illegal marijuana use.
1 comment:
Odd Ogg. Wasn't that a Christmas Toy for little kids about a million years ago? Just goes to show you, if you have a buttload of money you can fool a lot of people, even people from Texas. We had a similar D. A. in the People's Republic of San Francisco. Kamala Harris. She promised she would never prosecute a death penalty case if she was elected. She kept her word, even cop killers never faced the death penalty in S.F. She got elected to be the A. G. for the state and promised to enforce the death penalty as that was the law, even though she was personally opposed to it (as is Governor Brown). How many executions have taken place in CA since then. That's right, zero. She has just been elected to the U. S. Senate. I, for one, am happy to see her go. One liberal idiot in a sea (OK, maybe a pond) of liberals can do less damage there than in the real world (as much as CA is the real world, which isn't much).
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