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Originally Posted by Pooka
There was no political fame to be gained here. The prosecutor made it clear he was not running for office after his term expired and that's what some observers of this think made the rest of DeLay's co-defendents cop a plea.
If they had gone to trial they feared he would throw the book at them.
And I would not call it political pressure. More like just letting one of their own skip out.
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Oh really?
Immediately after Ronnie Earle announced his retirement as District Attorney of Travis County in December 2007, he began being mentioned as a possible statewide candidate.[13] In the spring of 2009, Earle's name began being mentioned specifically in context with a race for either Texas Attorney General or Texas Governor.[14]
Earle has said he is considering a run for one of the two posts.[15] On June 30, 2009, an Internet draft movement, DraftRonnie.com, was launched to urge Earle to run for Texas governor.[16] The Draft Ronnie website and draft movement ended in September, 2009, when Democrat Hank Gilbert entered the race for Texas Governor as the founder of the draft site announced his support for Gilbert and went to work for him as a high-level staffer.
On December 18, 2009 Ronnie Earle filed to run for Lieutenant Governor of Texas.
On March 2, 2010 Earle was defeated for the post of Lieutenant Governor in the Democratic primary by Labor leader Linda Chavez-Thompson.[17]
Ronnie Earle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia