You Know It’s Bad When… (Goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon)

Every year, Texas Monthly publishes their Bum Steer Awards, naming the worst of the worst statewide. It’s not a list anyone wants to make, much be Bum Steer of the Year. Past winners include an ugly cast of characters like Dick Cheney, Rick Perry, Jerry Jones, and none other than 3 time winner Tom DeLay. Ugh.

The 2021 Bum Steer Awards came out last night and the Bum Steer of the Year? None other than our own Texas Democratic Party; management of the Salon agrees. Worse, they beat out COVID-19 and Ken Paxton for Worst Honors. In granting the award, Texas Monthly had some choice words like these:

“Since 1992, their fortunes have been in decline, and since 2002 they’ve been kept at arm’s length from control of both the Texas House and the Texas Senate, as well as from the Governor’s Mansion and any other statewide office. The party has a long history of launching failed comeback attempts, but all of them have either failed disastrously or come up short in a way that seems designed to demolish morale and crush hopes.”

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