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The Texas Tribune has become one of Juanita’s favorite hanging-out places and this new dohicky is icing on the cake.

You get to see how lobbyists are spending $1.2 million to wine, dine, and gift our state legislators – and that’s just in the last two months.

On the day my state representative was sworn in, he was sent a jar of M&M’s with his picture on them.  This lovely and thoughtful gift was sent by the Texans for Tort Reform because everybody would trade their right to sue an incompetent doctor for cutting off the wrong leg for a jar of M&M’s!

Juanita told him not to eat those darn things because whatever is in them is probably what makes state representatives such sluts to the lobbyists.  Clever of them to hide it in a candy where you have to eat your face, huh?

Anyway, have fun at the Tribune.  It’s got a lot of good stuff.