Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is just plain goofy.

Like every other Republican state official in the whole damn country, he’s trying to restrict voting opportunities for people who generally vote Democratic.

In the last election, Harris County tried drive-through voting, citing COVID as the reason. It was wildly successful, with over 127,000 people using the centers.  And Dan Patrick is crying us a river over that.

Dan Patrick: “If they’re worried about people of color — on the Democrats side who came up with this drive-in voting — statistics show that more people of color don’t have cars than not. So how do (drive-thru voting centers) help those folks?”

Cringing grammar aside, statistics show no such thing.  Patrick is trying to contend that half of people of color in Harris County don’t have cars. The newspaper called his office to see those statistics but he’s not returning phone calls.  Because he just pulled those numbers out of his big wiggly butt.

Going to the Census Bureau —

Among the state’s 3.4 million African Americans, 88% own at least one vehicle, according to the 2019 American Community Survey, an aggregation of five years of data, the most recent available.

Quit pulling stuff outta your butt, Dan.  It stinks. And it’s generally racist.