There’s a guy named Mark Jacobs running in the Republican primary for United States Senator in Iowa.  Only problems is – he’s a Texan.

Jacobs voted in Harris County from 2000 until the primary in 2012, where he made his first primary vote in all those years.  I suspect he just up and decided that Mitt Romney was his kind of guy but John McCain wasn’t.  Or Bush.

They seem a little peeved about it in Iowa but are completely clueless about Texas election law.  They say he’s eligible to vote in Texas until midnight on December 31st.  That’s incorrect.  In Texas, you re-register by voting.  Since he voted in 2012, he can vote again in 2014 unless he has notified the Texas Secretary of State that he’s moved.  In fact, double voting is kind of a tradition among Texas Republicans.

They also said he was a registered Independent in Texas.  In Texas, you do not register by party affiliation.  You are affiliated with a party when you vote in their primary.  I can switch parties without re-registering.

But, anyway, here’s the bottom line.  If Iowans want to elect a Texas Republican to the Senate, I say we send them Ted Cruz.  Hell, Honey, I’ll even buy his airplane ticket.