Two different reminders today that not every fucked-up elected official is in Washington D.C.
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Texas lawmaker caught on video dropping envelope of cocaine turns himself into authorities
... an arrest warrant was issued for Rep. Alfonso “Poncho” Nevárez, D-Eagle Pass for felony drug possession…
Nevárez announced last week that he would not seek re-election in 2020, saying it was “time to come home” and put his “family and health” first. The news raised questions about why the four-term lawmaker and committee chairman would step aside from politics just as he was gaining clout and increasingly important leadership roles in the Texas House.
Then, on Wednesday night, the conservative website Direct Action Texas published an affidavit that claimed Nevárez dropped an envelope full of cocaine at an Austin airport in September.
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I couldn’t resist putting these two stories together, even though judges aren’t necessarily elected officials.
I probably shouldn’t be as amused as I am with a story that involves two people getting shot, but they survived to be embarrassed by the situation.
A night of drinking, a closed strip joint and a White Castle shooting bring suspensions for 3 judges
A drunken brawl then erupted between the men and two of the jurists, who were shot and seriously wounded in an unseemly spectacle that resulted in the Indiana Supreme Court temporarily suspending them without pay this week for their less-than-honorable actions early in the morning of May 1.
"Respondents' actions were not merely embarrassing on a personal level; they discredited the entire Indiana judiciary," the state Supreme Court said its Tuesday ruling.
The ruling said the judges -- Andrew Adams of the Clark Circuit Court 1, Bradley B. Jacobs of the Clark Circuit Court 2 and Sabrina R. Bell of the Crawford Circuit Court -- engaged in judicial misconduct and behaved in "an injudicious manner" during the boozy fisticuffs in the restaurant's parking lot in downtown Indianapolis.