What is Ronnie Earle Hiding?

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has an ugly history of abusing the power of his elected office to exact baseless political retribution against his opposition.

Ronnie Earle’s 1994 indictment against Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) was quickly dismissed and his charges in the 1980s against former Attorney General Jim Mattox (D)— another political foe of Earle’s fell apart at trial.

Ronnie Earle convened five Grand Juries in an attempt to indict Tom Delay. None of these previous five Grand Juries could so much as indict a ham sandwich, much less Tom Delay. Not to be deterred, Mr. Earle convened a sixth Grand Jury (and I was wondering why my taxes where so high here in Travis County last year) to finely get an indictment.

And now Ronnie doesn’t want to release details about his investigation of former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay — specifically, how he’s been spending taxpayer money to bring money-laundering charges against DeLay.

Ronnie is suing the state attorney general to make sure we don’t find out how much of our money he has wasted:

“The first obligation of law enforcement is the protection of the public,” Earle said in a statement Monday. “This opinion makes that job harder.”

You’re right Ronnie — the first obligation of law enforcement is the protection of the public. Except it’s you that the public needs to be protected from. Which is why it’s important for us to see exactly how (and how much) you’ve been wasting our money.

“Such premature revealing of often sensitive and sometimes life-threatening information could adversely effect public safety,” Earle wrote.

Life-threatening information, Ronnie? How much money you spent, and how you spent it, is life-threatening? The DA doth protest too much, methinks. Almost sounds like he has something he’s trying to hide.

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