Say that again?

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes someone to prove you wrong. Meet Robert Morrow, the recently elected chair of the Republican Party for Travis County (home to the city of Austin and the fifth largest county in Texas).

Morrow beat his opponent James Dickey by more than 6,000 votes, finishing with 56.44 percent of the total votes counted in the race. So what’s the problem?

Seems Morrow has been known to be a little edgy in his opinions. In some of his recent tweets, he said:

  • Marco Rubio of Florida is “very likely a gay man who got married”
  • The Republican National Committee was just a “gay foam party”
  • “Would Hillary Clinton swallow all of your cum or would it be more of a Lorena Bobbitt situation”

For years, Morrow has alleged that Rick Perry is secretly bisexual; in 2010, he referred to him as “Gov. Skank Daddy” in an email.

Precinct chairman Edwin Mallory told the Texas Tribune “Just because Robert Morrow is whacked out a little bit, you have to look at the other side of the book — those poor bastards are so afraid of losing power, they will say or do anything to hold onto it. They know Robert Morrow won’t play ball with them.”

Other members of the Travis County Republican Party are trying to figure out a way to remove Morrow from office. Murrow’s response? “Tell them they can go fuck themselves.”

If it bleeds…it leads

275px-KTRK_open Yesterday was a big news day here in Houston. There was Super Tuesday where many candidates were vying for their parties nomination.

Another big story was astronaut Scott Kelly returning to Houston after spending a record 340 days in outer space.

So when I woke up this morning, I was excited to catch up on all the news until I turned to ABC-13. Their 5:30 a.m. newscast began, not with the election coverage and not with Scott Kelly’s triumphant return. No, they decided the #1 story was regarding a chuck wagon race driver being thrown from his wagon during last night’s Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.

Being the respected Houston’s News Leader, the station did warn us the video was very graphic and might be disturbing to some views, but we’re going to show it anyways. I am not trying to make fun of the accident. I realize someone was hurt badly and I trust they will make a full recovery, but this is the lead story?

Did no one in the newsroom say, “Hey wait a minute. Wasn’t there some kind of election last night?”

Maybe the unfortunate rodeo mishap allowed the station to have a reporter do a live shot from the scene (I’m sure all the fun at the Red Neck Country Club was over by then), but as ESPN (who is owned by the same company as ABC-13) would say; “Come On Man!’