What a buffoon. This state (Texas) is a cultural insane asylum, a political monkey house, and a cheap labor sweatshop. It wasn’t always like this. Remember when the great Anne Richards was governor? It wasn’t that long ago. In the 70s we had a really effective and smart governor in the person of my old neighbor Preston Smith, may he rest in peace. Today, radio talk idiocy and barroom braggadocio are the norm. Stop the “plain folks” shtick, Texas politicians, the plain folks here are superstitious morons.