I had read about a violent, militarized raid on a small Texas college town's head shop. The shop's owner was forced to sign an incriminating statement before she could post bond.https://reason.com/video/2014/10/21/the-purple-zone-raid-how-the-dea-got-the/ …
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I spent months reporting out this story as a written feature and a video doc — every stone overturned was creepier than the last. I went down to Texas, where Ponton said he would give me an interview, before reneging. But it was a small town and everyone knew what happened.
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TL;dr: Ponton was briefly sexually involved with the woman who ran the head shop. (He denies this.) During his time as DA, local and federal cops repeatedly tried to bust her for selling illegal synthetic marijuana (they never found any).
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That’s less cute
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He's going to go on TV and dispute the harassment story, as the cat.
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This meme is older than Joe Biden but sometimes it just fits
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Texas gonna Texas.
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Always ready to compete in the race to out-Florida, Florida.
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Now that's catty... Sorry. Had to. Not funny. I'll show myself out.
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