Jerry Patterson is the Texas Land Commissioner and in the cake walk of Texas politics he’s decided he needs to move up to Lt. Governor, a position being sought by 4 Tea Party Republicans who are fully prepared to cook and eat each other.

There will be blood.

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who run the day-to-day operation of the Alamo, have never allowed demonstrations on the Alamo grounds.  They still oppose it but they ain’t boss any more.  In 2011 the Texas Land Office took over the care, loving, and protection of the Alamo.  That would be Jerry Patterson.

Last August San Antonio police ticketed three men for “causing alarm” as they were carrying loaded semi-automatic weapons and wearing cammo at a damn Starbuck’s coffee shop.  The owner asked them to leave but they wouldn’t and customers felt threatened.  They were there to strut their weapons and scare crap outta people.

Jerry Patterson, who often fondles guns in an unseemly manner, was hacked off about it.  Add that to insatiable desire to be Lt. Gov. and you get a big damn mess at a Texas shrine.

Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a gun-toting Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is to headline a gun-rights rally Saturday on the state-owned Alamo grounds, where demonstrations historically have been banned — until Patterson’s office took over the shrine.

Okay, here’s the deal.  He’s head of the shine and he’s the featured speaker at the first demonstration allowed at the shine.  I dunno.  I know goats with bags of three day old crawfish who smell better than that.

It’s gonna get worse before the primary in March.  I promise.  There’s gonna be virgins sacrificed and Gods you ain’t never heard of prayed to.  This is going to be a tea partypalooza.

Thanks to Michele for the heads up.