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Rosenthal Resigns

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Peggy O'Hare reports on the Houston Chronicle website, "Rosenthal resigns as district attorney amid e-mail scandal."Chuck Rosenthal resigned as district attorney today amid an e-mail scandal that recently forced him to abandon his re-election campaign and a lawsuit filed today that sought his removal from office. Bill Delmore, chief of the D.A.'s legal services bureau, which oversees the general counsel's office, confirmed that Rosenthal issued a press release in which he says he contacted the Governor's office to tender his resignation. "Although I have enjoyed excellent medical and pharmacological treatment, I have come to learn that the particular combination of drugs prescribed for me in the past has caused some impairment in my judgment," Rosenthal wrote in his resignation letter...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).