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Another asshat telling all of us what is "absolutely biblically correct." Praise the Lord. -Every damn thing is your own fault if you are any good. | |||
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"Dr Mitchell! Paging Dr Mitchell! your scheduled rotten butthole is ready and waiting for you in the Proctology Department!".  | |||
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The only part of that proctology stuff that applies here asshole is where you suck the shit out of my ass Scott. -Every damn thing is your own fault if you are any good. | |||
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Doc Mitchell, you are so well versed and professional in the rotten butthole department I couldn't imagine bringing my novice skill to your practice. | |||
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Herein is the problem with all these government lawsuits… they solve nothing, and don’t punish the guilty party. In this case, what does the $3M do? It would have been much more effective to levy $50,000 in judgement that the AG personally has to cover than a $3.3 M that the state pays via insurance (that everyone who buys insurance pays some of, and the tax payers get the bill for more immediately.) While it won’t make folks rich, that isn’t the point- the point is stopping it from reoccurring. I can see actual physical damages need to get compensated, but I doubt that anyone working in the Texas AG’s office actually takes home 3.3 million over 10-20 years, and more directly should just get their job back instead of bilking the taxpayers who have no control over what these “public servants” do. | |||
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What the settlement does is guarantee the next or another AG will think relieve before firing someone under false pretenses and retribution. It should cause voters to pause who try best with power. How do you or I know the economic hs of loosing these positions did not excuse to this damage over a working life. The settlement covers at least 3 people. My economic work life of taking from me would hot 1 million. Yours would too. | |||
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If you or I lose our jobs, then we go and get a different one. I could see some sort of marginal loss relating to damaged reputation, but 7 figures for (presumptively) middle aged attorneys? (So what, 10-15 work years left?- so over $100K pay differential a year, and likely they get their previous job back if they want it???) Heck, they probably will get MORE due to this history with the right private firm. As to stopping a future AG due to these results, be real. They will be convinced of their own rectitude and say “that’s different!” The voters really don’t have much control over getting good information about the personalities and history of the candidates. Admittedly they had it in this case, but the change in tax rate is minimal per capita and the result does not impact the vast majority of voters in time to be input. | |||
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If you or I are fired illegally, we sue for the compensation that was due to us, the compensation lost, the benefits lost, and the damage to reputation that affects our employability in the future. Those are real economic damages. I am being real. When your actions cost the State 3.3 million folks take notice. Me. AF if you do this given this fact pattern, you can expect to cost the State x dollars. Voters knew Paxton was being sued, why, and that he was under Federal Indictment. Maybe next time the fiscal conservatives will think twice before blindly supporting someone like position of Paxton in the Primary and General Election. | |||
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Get real. The only reason the AG's office paid that much was to make sure the facts didn't come out at trial. You can't blame the plaintiffs for wanting fair compensation for their damages, which LHeym has described. | |||
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More reason to stay away!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I was pulling your leg. I don't really know any Texans. When I came to Alaska, they were telling Texan jokes here. There had been a lot of pipeline workers from that state. Sort of like the Polish jokes people used to tell. Or the West Virginian jokes we used to tell in Ohio. Seems to me that most of those ethnic and regional jokes have disappeared. | |||
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And once more…I supported Eva Guzman. Then I bit my tongue and voted for Bush. I did finally cast a vote for Paxton. I am glad he is there vs. a (D). Reality sucks sometimes but it can always suck worse.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Zero offense taken Roland. You are one whom I know is a good guy at heart. But the old saying is correct: Texas is not just a state…it is a state of mind! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I think it's more the system than the people. When the winner takes it all, the system drives polarisation. A sensible (to them) Republican might appeal to some Democrats, but not more than a Democrat. Same the other way, a sensible (to them) Democrat, appeals less than a Republican. Over the year the gap between the candidates has grown, to the point that now both sides are pretty extreme. Now we're at the point that a center candidate of either party is seen as too far left (for Republicans) or too far right (for Dems). And people on either extremes of the spectrum are loons. I don't know how that spiral can be broken without a big conflict, apart maybe from an outside conflict which unifies the country (but that will probably then only be a temporary fix). | |||
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