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Parole board vacancy: Insert dildo joke here

(UPDATED) The full Texas Senate today will consider the nomination of Shanda Perkins, the anti-sex toy crusader from Burleson who Governor Perry has nominated to serve on the parole board despite having no apparent experience regarding criminal justice besides the effort to ban dildos from Johnson County. (I know, I know, it can't be done - they're indigenous.) The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later overturned Texas' statutory sex toy ban.Hard to know what to say about this that's not been said before, so see prior, related Grits posts:More disapprobation for Shanda Perkins nominationSenate should reject sex toy activist for parole boardNomination of anti-sex toy activist to parole board draws more criticismGovernor appoints anti-sex toy crusader to parole boardPerkins says her role in the sex-toy prosecution was overblown and she only passed around copies of the law she thought should be enforced and tried to pass a resolution to ban short skirts worn by her nemesis, the dildo saleswoman, to local Chamber of Commerce events...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).