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As I think we’ve told you before, Juanita’s Beauty Salon is dangerously close to Houston.  “We try to stay out of their politics,” Juanita admits, “but sometimes it just spills into the river and floats on down here.”

You’ve probably heard that a group of old white people called The King Street Patriots and Jello Eaters (okay, so I made up the Jello part) are flashing their gang colors and trying to intimidate voters in minority precincts.

Chad Dunn, the most excellent lawyer for the Texas Democratic Party reports, “We’ve gotten a number of reports — quite a few out of the Houston area — that poll watchers, King Street Patriot training poll watchers, are following a voter after they’ve checked them out and stand right behind them.”  There’s at least a dozen reports that they could confirm with witnesses.

“That stuff is gonna end,” Juanita promises.  “That group of old white guys is gonna tangle with a mess of really hacked off women armed with hairbrushes and cans of hair spray.  We all have proper training and a permit to carry hair gel.  You do not want to piss us off,” she warns.

“Now, you’d think it would be enough that every damn one of the voting machines in Harris County – the home of Bill White – mysteriously burned to the ground last month.  But, noooooo.  They gotta follow up with intimidation.  Hell, why don’t they just stage a rattlesnake show at minority voting precincts — Snakes On A Ballot Box!”

“Juanita, babe,” Thelma hollered, “don’t give them ideas. Hon.  Six of them are probably out collecting snakes right now.”