FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
28 October 2005
Libby Indictment: Hutchison Must Renounce Perjury
Texas Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Barbara Ann Radnofsky called on her Republican opponent to renounce perjury now that I. Lewis Libby has been indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Kay Bailey Hutchison called perjury a technicality on "Meet the Press." On Monday, her spokesman said, "Senator Hutchison was not commenting on any specific investigation. She was expressing her general concern that perjury traps have become too common when investigators are unable to indict on any underlying crime."
Her spokesman followed that pronouncement with a letter to the Houston Chronicle on October 26, claiming that prosecutions based on "finding any shred of inconsistency" do not constitute perjury.
Radnofsky insists, "Lying to a grand jury is a crime."
"Now we have a sitting U.S. Senator saying that perjury is a technicality, then through her spokesman dismissing perjury," says Radnofsky. "No elected official should tolerate or excuse perjury. I call on Kay Bailey Hutchison to renounce perjury. She should resign if she tolerates it," Radnofsky said.
Contact: Seth Davidson, Communications Director,
seth@radnofsky.com
713-865-0416
Just posting the followup to the press release I diaried the other day. As long as KBH tries to deny that perjury is perjury, and that perjury is a crime, Barbara is going to remind her that, "Lying to a grand jury is a crime."
Criminals and their apologists should not be making the laws.
