{"id":17634,"date":"2018-07-19T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17634"},"modified":"2018-07-19T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:09:45","slug":"dumb-de-dumb-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17634","title":{"rendered":"Dumb de dumb dumb."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dumb de dumb dumb…<\/p>\n

The stories I am about to link to are true. I haven’t changed any names, because none of these people are innocent.<\/p>\n

Dumb: threatening a judge.
\nDumber: threatening two judges.
\nDumbest: threatening two judges, one of whom was already shot and wounded by another idiot three years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have every right to hang your (expletive),\u201d Holgate said in a message according to the affidavit. \u201cYou have every goddamn right to be afraid of me. I am the law and you shouldn\u2019t have crossed me.\u201d <\/a>
\nIn another message, Holgate threatened to kill one of the judges, according to the document. <\/a>
\n“I have the right to (expletive) kill you. You understand that?\u201d He said. \u201c…But we will see if we can resolve it. I don’t think we can, I think we are just going to hang your (expletive).”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And by the way…<\/p>\n

…his arrest affidavit said he identified himself at the beginning of each of his threatening messages.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, over in Williamson County, the relatively new sheriff and prolific tweeter Robert Chody<\/a> is in a micturition contest with one of the county commissioners, Dan Gattis.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Chody has opinions about how county government is run, especially when it comes to sewage leaks, and does not hesitate to share them. This, in turn, seems to upset Judge Gattis:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe stuck his finger in my chest \u2014 he didn\u2019t actually touch me \u2014 and said, \u2018Tell that sheriff if he doesn\u2019t quit tweeting, I\u2019m going zero his budget out,\u2019\u201d Chief Deputy Tim Ryle told the American-Statesman on Wednesday. \u201cMy comment to him was, \u2018Judge, are you sure you want to say that?\u2019 He said, \u2018Yes, tell him to stop tweeting about me and my people.\u2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This little spat wouldn’t be noteworthy to me, except for what happened next:<\/p>\n

Gattis\u2019 alleged threat crossed a legal line, say Williamson County prosecutors, who filed a misdemeanor official oppression charge against him. Law enforcement officials issued a summons for Gattis to appear in state District Court in lieu of being arrested.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, you read that correctly: the WillCo DA filed criminal charges against a county commissioner (who, by the way, is not running for re-election this year) because he shot his mouth off.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think they’re all idiots: the sheriff’s office and the DA for filing charges over a political disagreement, and Judge Gattis for making empty threats. (“I\u2019m going zero his budget out”. Yeah, Judge, you’re going to zero out the sheriff’s department budget. Call me when the pigs start flying.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dumb de dumb dumb… The stories I am about to link to are true. I haven’t changed any names, because none of these people are innocent. Dumb: threatening a judge. Dumber: threatening two judges. Dumbest: threatening two judges, one of whom was already shot and wounded by another idiot three years ago. \u201cI have every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,64,45,176,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wcda","category-willco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}