The Texas Lege got all fancy pants about moving around the dates of the primary and filing deadlines.  (As a side note, all of this may be totally screwed by the redistricting mess that the GOP got us into.)

Texas also has an odd law that an officeholder must resign his current job if he announces for another elective office more than one calendar year before the new job would start.

So, with moving all the filing dates, we also had to amend the Texas Constitution to allow officeholders to announce for another job 13 months ahead of time instead of 12.  It passed in November 8th election.

The problem is that we can’t seem to chase down Rick Perry to get it signed into law.  Elected officials all over Texas who want to run for another office are screwed glued and tattooed until Rick Perry moseys his silly butt back to Texas to sign it into law.

The bottom line: Any county official who files for a different office before Perry signs the election results would automatically lose their job.

To add a cherry on top, this information has been pretty much kept secret, so nobody has a head count yet of how many elected officials in the state lost their job by announcing for office this week, which they were supposed to be able to do except for that Rick ain’t here thing.

And yet, here is the Texas Governor, running for one office while campaigning for another — like no one else in Texas is allowed to do.

Rick’s in California.  He sure the hell ain’t riding no wave, so no tellin’ what he’s doing.  Maybe Dancing With the Stars will have an announcement soon.