Call on Harris County DA to resign

[johncoby2]

What does it take for the incompetent Chuck Rosenthal, the Harris County District Attorney, to step down? Well, if you want to encourage him, send an email to his office at [e-mail]

This email address has since been removed from his website, but I was able to find it!

The incompetent, gross, horny, unethical crook of a District Attorney has soiled all of Harris County. he needs to go. Demand his resignation.

[e-mail]

[sonias]

1. Oh boy now you've done it

You've gone and outed his e-mail for all those spammer's lists.

There is nothing illegal about being horny by the way, as long as all participants are willing and of legal age. If he had kept his little love emails on his personal home computer, we couldn't care less.

On the incompetent and unethical part, I'm with you all the way.


Sonia

[hobbit709]

2. "There is nothing illegal about being horny"

True, but I learned a long time ago that you "should never play where you get your pay".

[sonias]

3. We agree on that

Trust me I am not defending the "family values hypocrite".

I'm just making a distinction that his real "crimes" at the D.A.'s office are his ethics crimes. Using government owned property for his campaign, and public paid staff to work on his campaign. Those are the crimes he can be tried and convicted for.

Rosenthal is an idiot.

Sonia

[Yanez Houston Jordan]

4. Rosenthal must go!

[cloudbase]

5. It just keeps getting better.

Today's news had reports of his assistant and former lover getting a huge pay increase. Stay tuned, the surface has only been scratched.

We could have had McKamie, but I guess integrity didn't matter to the majority of voters in Harris County.

[sonias]

6. DA may testify about e-mails today

Houston Chroncile 1/31/08
DA may testify about e-mails today
Judge expected to decide whether Rosenthal will be held in contempt

By BRIAN ROGERS
Jan. 31, 2008, 12:12PM

The man who runs the Harris County district attorney's e-mail system underwent a grilling this morning by attorneys and the federal judge who will decide whether to hold the district attorney in contempt for deleting thousands of e-mails that had been subpoenaed in a federal civil rights case.

Gary Zallar answered technical questions from U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt for more than hour about the backup capabilities of the e-mail server in the district attorney's office.

The hearing, in which plaintiff's attorney Lloyd Kelley has asked Hoyt to hold Chuck Rosenthal in contempt, relates to a federal civil rights case lodged by two brothers against the Harris County Sheriffs Office.

Kelley and Rosenthal's attorney, Ron Lewis, each had 45 minutes to question Zallar, who estimated that about 2,000 e-mails that Rosenthal deleted are unrecoverable.

I hold Rosenthal in contempt whether or not the court does.

Sonia

[sonias]

7. Houston prosecutor has long history as loose cannon

AAS article 1/31/08
Houston prosecutor has long history as loose cannon
Rosenthal to appear in federal court to answer for destroyed e-mails.

HOUSTON — When people ask Chuck Rosenthal how he's doing, one of the most powerful prosecutors in Texas has a trademark response: "I'm blessed." And for most of his bulletproof career, he seemed to be.

He could have been fired for lighting firecrackers in a stairwell at the district attorney's office as a prank shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing. Or disbarred for violating a gag order to discuss the Andrea Yates murder trial on "60 Minutes." Or run out of office for reluctantly returning a $2,500 campaign donation from the owner of a company he was prosecuting.

Rosenthal survived all three episodes. But now, with the release of dozens of pornographic, racist and political e-mails sent from his government address — as well as love notes between the married prosecutor and his secretary — his career has taken a nosedive.

Sonia

[sonias]

8. Rosenthal aide says DA erred in deleting e-mails

Houston Chronicle 1/31/08

Rosenthal aide says DA erred in deleting e-mails

By BRIAN ROGERS

One of Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal's top lieutenants told a federal judge Thursday that the prosecutor should have known better than to delete some 2,500 e-mails after they were officially requested for a civil rights case.

"The better practice would have been to not delete them," Scott Durfee, Rosenthal's general counsel, said in a hearing to determine whether the county's top prosecutor should be held in contempt. "He said he deleted the e-mails and assumed I had saved them or that they were saved in the system."

The district attorney should have known not to delete the e-mails because they were evidence, Durfee told U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt.

Great video footage of some protestors outside of the federal court linked to the story above.

"Whose gotta go?"
"Rosenthal!"
:applause:

Sonia

[sonias]

9. Rosenthal takes stand, says he has little computer training

Rosenthal drops the "computer ate my e-mails" excuse!

Houston Chronicle 2/1/08
Rosenthal takes stand, says he has little computer training

Rosenthal said he's had minimal training with computers and often asks his secretary or his IT department to fix mistakes he makes with computers.

He said he has never paid bills online, never made a chart or graph on the computer and the letters he writes are short.

"I still don't know how to type," Rosenthal said.

KHOU 2/1/08
Inside Rosenthal's hearing: He takes the stand
10:55 a.m.

During questioning by Judge Hoyt, Rosenthal said he deleted several thousand e-mails from his computer shortly after his attorney left his office.

The attorney, Scott Durfee, had been in Rosenthal’s office to make a list of e-mails subpoenaed by the same judge in a civil rights case.

The deleted e-mails include thousands of messages sent and received by Rosenthal between July and October. Rosenthal testified that in addition to moving those items to his "delete" folder in Microsoft Outlook, and then "hard deleted" the items out of the delete folder.

The DA’s IT director testified Thursday that the “hard delete” rendered thousands of e-mails unrecoverable.

He claims he doesn't know how to use a computer very well, but he knew not only to deleted them from his Outlook application but to then go empty the recycle bin folder. Yeah, he's a newbie all right. :sarcasm:

Sonia

[sonias]

10. Judge abruptly postpones Rosenthal hearing

Houston Chronicle 2/1/08
Feb. 1, 2008, 2:12PM
No date set for resumption of contempt hearing

The federal judge hearing testimony in Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal's contempt hearing abruptly postponed the case this afternoon at the request of the DA's lawyer.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt did not give a reason for his decision and admonished lawyers on both sides against discussing the case with reporters. Hoyt did not say when the hearing might resume.

Attorney Lloyd Kelley, who has asked that Rosenthal be held in contempt for deleting thousands of e-mails subpoenaed for a civil lawsuit, said he was "stupified" by the delay.

:wow:

Sonia