Texas Lege

[John K. Taber]

There are no end of Texas Lege stories. About 1982, Martin from
Longview got elected as State Rep on a Creation Science platform.
That's ok in Texas, whatever convinces the folks back home is
good enough, but if you are a genuine idiot, the other
reps don't give you any good committees. So, Martin twiddled
his thumbs on the back bench.

Now that's a problem, because if you can't show *any* 
accomplishment back home, you're not going to be in the Lege
for long.

So, Martin talked his cousin into shooting him (shotgun loaded with
birdshot I think), then Martin claimed that fanatic evolutionists had
tried to assassinate him.

It didn't work. And he perjured himself to the Lege looking into
the case. He was permitted to resign without prosecution.

Jim Schutze reported this one in the old Dallas Times-Herald.

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Homines id quod volunt credunt.