I suspect you’ve heard by now that Texas Attorney General and Republican Gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott got hoisted on his own petard.  In one of those fabulous instant karma moments, the man behind Texas voter ID only got to vote through an amendment passed by Wendy Davis.

Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican who’s expected to get the party nod to face the Democratic senator next year, also will have to attest to his identity when he votes, according to campaign spokesman Matt Hirsch.

That’s because, like Davis, Abbott has a different name on his driver license than that on the voter rolls.

On his driver license, he’s Gregory Wayne Abbott, Hirsch said. In the voter registration file, he’s simply Greg Abbott.

Under the law (through an amendment offered by Davis, D-Fort Worth, to the measure she opposed), voters whose recorded names differ slightly in this way can vote if they sign an affidavit.

Were it not for Wendy Davis, Greg Abbott wouldn’t have gotten to vote last week.  Let’s pause for a moment and try to decide if Davis did the right thing or should have kept her mouth shut.

And now there’s this:  90 year old Texas legend and former Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, Jim Wright, was denied a voter ID card by the department of public safety.

Former House Speaker Jim Wright was denied a voter ID card Saturday at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.

“Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn’t give me an ID,” Wright said.

The legendary Texas political figure says that he has worked things out with DPS and that he will get a state-issued personal identification card in time for him to vote Tuesday in the state and local elections.

He had an expired driver’s license and a TCU facility ID card, but those things helped him diddle squat.

Luckily, Wright has an assistant and a personal driver to help him wade through the paperwork.  Not many Texas Democrats do.

And that was the whole plan.