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There’s a guy in Colorado who ran for Secretary of State but apparently forgot to look up the salary of that office before he ran.  Poor guy, the job only pays $68,500, and this guy has to support himself, his wife and daughter and an elderly parent on that salary.  Do the math, that’s just impossible.

“You can’t live on that,” Juanita says.  “Hell, that isn’t even minimum wage, is it?”

So, this guy decided to be both Secretary of State and work for a law firm that does business with the Secretary of State.

“You know, the Republican method of government,” Juanita explains.

Gessler, a Republican who defeated Democratic incumbent Bernie Buescher in November, said he’s going to be working about 20 hours a month for the Hackstaff Law Group, formerly Hackstaff Gessler, one of the most well- known elections and campaign law firms in town, and distinguished for representing many Republican soft-money organizations. Gessler, who will earn $68,500 as secretary of state, said that salary wasn’t enough to support his family.

But, take heart, at least he never made a campaign promise that he wouldn’t sell-out the Secretary of State’s office.

In response, Gessler said he never promised to “set aside his past associations” while campaigning. While there are no media accounts prior to the election of Gessler saying he would be moonlighting, he says he never hid that fact.

He said he is asking Attorney General John Suthers, also a Republican, to “review” his decision to work part time for his old law firm. Suthers’ office said it would not comment on the matter.

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The Texas Senate will consider voter ID today.

Since the last election, Juanita has rethought her position on voter ID.

“The Texas House is now two-thirds Republican, and at least half crazzzzy people.  I want voter ID to find out who the hell elected them,” Juanita announces.

“It’s not that kinda of ID?”

Never mind.

I was out on the town, as we chicas from The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. are apt to do a Friday night and so I totally missed Keith Olbermann’s last show.

I’m sure that Juanita will have plenty to say about this when I get the beauty salon later today, but meanwhile please feel free to holler bad things about Comcast (which Al Franken warned us about) right here in the comment section. Keep it clean; Momma’s watching.

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Long time customer, Don A. in Pennsyltucky, found the most wonderful Louie Gohmert comment this morning in the New York Times.  Don has named Gohmert “Louie the Lip.”

The writer is making the argument that having more guns in Tuscon would not really have helped matters.

But the Tucson shootings should discredit the canard that we need more guns at school, in the workplace, even in Congress. Yes, Congress. The Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert has proposed a bill to allow fellow members to carry firearms into the Capitol Building.

Gohmert has enough trouble carrying a coherent thought onto the House floor. God forbid he would try to bring a Glock to work. By his reasoning, the Middle East would be better off if every nation in the region had nuclear weapons.

Oh.  Damn.  That’s good.

Really good.

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You just gotta read Harold Cook this morning.  You will laugh yourself silly.

I got to wondering why there are so many funny Texas liberals and not one damn funny Republican.  Think about it.

Thelma says it’s because the Republicans give us so much free material to work with.

She’s right, you know.

Most Republicans in Texas are standing around trying to figure out whether they found a rope or lost their horse.