Grand Juror during the Rick Perry investigation is a delegate for the Texas Democratic Party convention

  This is certainly an interesting little twist into Rick Perry’s indictment on two felony charges for coercion and abuse of power; one of the Jurors who voted to indict Rick Perry is a delegate for the Texas Democratic Party convention.

Rho Chalmers, who disclosed to the Houston Chronicle yesterday that she was a member of the grand jury that indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was an active delegate to the Texas Democratic Party convention during grand jury proceedings.

  Of course she claims this did not influence her decision:

she claimed yesterday to the Houston Chronicle that her decision to indict Perry, a Republican, was not based on politics.

“For me, it’s not a political decision,” Chalmers told the newspaper. “That’s what a grand jury is about – take the emotion out of it and look at the facts and make your best decision based on your life experience.”

  Of course when part of your life experience is being involved heavily in party politics it takes the willing suspension of disbelieve to think that she was able to ignore this one portion of her life experience in order to render a non-biased decision. She should not have been allowed to sit on this Grand Jury.

  In every post I have written on this story I have gone out of my way to state that Rick Perry made a poor judgement call by using his veto to try to force Rosemary Lehmberg to resign, even though the demand for her resignation was justified. But that does not mean that the decision to indict Rick Perry was not politically motivated.

  In fact, I believe it was politically motivated and I think this lends credence to the claim. Even those who support Rick Perry’s indictment have to admit this does not look good.