Link: http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=2106

Having read in the 1960's about the sort of things that used to occur in Texas politics during the rise of LBJ (the first American President that we heard on the radio who could not pronouce "I" as "I"), I had long ago formed the opinion that Texas politics was, er, well, different (for different read seedy in many cases).
Here is one of the weirder stories that I have read about Texas politics.
What is more worrying is that a bunch of electors voted for the players in this saga, thus empowering them to behave like immature, petty horse's asses.
I hear people constantly complaining about the perceived poor quality of their elected representatives. However, it seems that when it comes to voting for those representatives, many electors are overcome by some dysfunctionality that totally disrupts their decision-making, allowing them to vote for the sort of people that (to use a delightful piece of old English vernacular) I wouldn't even cross the road to piss on even if they were on fire...