So Rick Perry is running for President. The Lieutenant Governor runs the state when Perry is out of the state. The Lieutenant Governor is David Dewhurst.
Oh wait, Dewhurst is running for the U.S. Senate. So, according to the Texas Constitution, that means that the President ProTem of the Senate runs Texas when both the Governor and Lt. Governor are out of the state. The President ProTem of the Senate is Sen. Mike Jackson, (R) of LaPorte.
Sen. Mike Jackson, a politician that Texas Monthly, in a recent article on the Best and Worst Legislators of Texas, labeled "Furniture". According to them, the term "furniture" was born "to describe those lawmakers whose level of participation in the legislative process was indistinguishable from that of their desks and chairs".
Is that who's running our state? Why, yes. Yes it is.
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