Because of this, I support Warren Chisum for the RR commission because that idiot needs to get the hell out of the legislature.

(Well, I’m pretty sure none, unless you slipped and fell, it’s still damn funny!)

Whizzing on fences in the Korean DMZ, however, is probably not an activity condoned by even the most permissive Scoutmaster.

However, you will recieve an electric shock to a sensitive portion of the anatomy.

In English, this is called being “shocked”.

People outside the state might not remember it, but Blago is our second Governor in a row to go to prison for corruption, with the first one being a Republican.  The guy Blago ran against was a politician named Jack Ryan, who got national attention when his ex-wife Jeri Ryan (yes, that Jeri Ryan) leveled some allegations at him about his sexual deviancy.  Since the conservatives here tend to be social conservatives, and some of those are union-supporting Democrats…well…

I’m an Illinoisan, and I got a good chuckle out of the image of Blago pissing on an electric fence. :->

I have a family member who uses a lot of “pissing on” metaphors. It’s a territorial language thing.

OTOH, maybe he hired Mike Gravel’s ad people?

Every political community has the equivalent of peeing on electric fences.

“Mr. Sledge’s one-minute ad illustrates the point, showing an actor intended to resemble the impeached and imprisoned former governor of Illinois, Rod R. Blagojevich, pretending to relieve himself on an electric fence and casting Mr. Sledge as Mr. Blagojevich’s polar opposite”

As a Texan, I saw that actor as representing our Governor Goodhair aka Rick Perry. Rick is exactly the kind of idiot to piss on an electric fence.

It was created in 1891 under Governor Hogg (father of the lovely Ima), who, if New York hadn’t refused to extradite, would have put John D. Rockefeller in prison.  In the ’30s, the TRC put limits on pumping (though the governor had to call in the militia to enforce the order), and helped get prices back up above 25 cents a barrel.

WP: “The three-member commission was initially appointed by the governor, but an amendment to the state’s constitution in 1894 established the commissioners as elected officials serving overlapping six-year terms.” …. “Effective October 1, 2005, … the rail oversight functions of the Railroad Commission were transferred to the Texas Department of Transportation. The traditional name of the Commission was not changed despite the loss of its titular regulatory duties.”

So the TRC no longer has anything to do with railroads.