While many national outlets are dismissing the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry as political payback, Texas journalists warn that such claims are misguided, incomplete, and the product of a "rush to judgment." On August 15, news broke that Perry was being indicted for "abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant," both of which are felonies. The charges relate to Perry's threatened and completed veto of $7.5 million in state funding for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit. The case claims that the threat and veto were retaliation against Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat and the head of that unit, who ignored Perry's call for her to resign after she was convicted of drunk driving.