{"id":15199,"date":"2016-06-12T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2016-06-12T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T00:14:09","slug":"stand-tall-rep-ted-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15199","title":{"rendered":"Stand tall, Rep. Ted Poe!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve been critical of some members of the Texas congressional delegation of late.<\/p>\n

They haven’t distinguished themselves at times while standing under the national spotlight.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Humble — near Houston — however, has made me proud.<\/p>\n

Poe took to the floor of the House of Representatives to demand that the judge in a notorious rape case at Stanford University recuse himself.<\/p>\n

You no doubt have heard of this case. Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a young Stanford athlete, swimmer Brock Turner, to six months in prison and three years probation for raping a young woman.<\/em><\/p>\n

The light sentence outraged Poe –who was a former prosecutor and trial judge before being elected to Congress. He said: \u201cThe judge should be removed and the rapist should do more time for the dastardly deed.\u00a0I hope the appeals court … overturns the pathetic sentence and gives him the punishment he deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here’s the story as it was reported by the Texas Tribune:<\/p>\n

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You might ask: What business is it of a Texas congressman to order a California judge to remove himself from a case being adjudicated under another state’s laws?<\/p>\n

I don’t care if he has no business.<\/p>\n

Rep. Poe has spoken for a lot of Americans who are outraged over the shamefully light sentence given to a young man who sexually assaulted<\/em> another human being. He committed an act of extreme violence.<\/p>\n

The Tribune reported:<\/p>\n

“Persky said he chose not to impose a harsher punishment because ‘a prison sentence would have a severe impact on [Turner].’<\/p>\n

\u201c’Well isn\u2019t that the point?’ Poe said in his speech to the House. ‘The punishment for rape should be longer than a semester in college.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Severe impact? On a criminal? What about the impact that the crime Turner committed had on his victim?<\/p>\n

Ted Poe had a reputation in the Houston area of being a no-nonsense judge, perhaps owing to his prior work as a prosecutor.<\/p>\n

I’m glad to know he has used his federal office as a bully pulpit to take up for the victim of a violent crime.<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve been critical of some members of the Texas congressional delegation of late. They haven’t distinguished themselves at times while standing under the national spotlight. U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Humble — near Houston — however, has made me proud. Poe took to the floor of the House of Representatives to demand that … Continue reading Stand tall, Rep. Ted Poe!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[6310,6309,4728,4964],"class_list":["post-15199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-political-news","tag-stanford-rape-case","tag-ted-poe","tag-texas-tribune","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}