Texas Republicans Can't Be Trusted

The latest craziness from the special (and when I say special, I mean fucking retarded) session that's going on in Tejas:

A House Republican (Jim Pitts) who told Rep. Dawnna Dukes before she left for France that he would not vote on a major piece of tax legislation changed his mind and cast the deciding vote anyway.

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House rules allow lawmakers to "pair" their votes and make the kind of arrangement that Pitts and Dukes had. They signed a written agreement, but it was never officially filed with House clerks. Pitts said he did not have the paperwork after he signed it.

"I felt bad about this," Pitts said. "But this is something that I understand is done all the time, that people change their minds, that the other person that's out of town changes their mind."

First of all, Dukes should have known better than to fly off to France and trust a Republican to keep his word. Having said that, what a fucking bullshit thing to do - Pitts actually signed a written agreement. The Statesman even has an scanned version of it posted online (see below, mad props to the Statesman for putting actual source material online, btw).

Pitts is a liar who can't be trusted. You can send him an email telling him where to shove it on his official Web site.