Flub flummoxes Senate into rare silence

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Flub flummoxes Senate into rare silence


Texas 79th LEGISLATURE


Amarillo lawmaker's cheerleader crack reverberates.

Austin AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Thursday, March 31, 2005

The debate was supposed to be about chuck wagons, not cheerleaders.

But before the Senate on Wednesday could vote to designate the frontier icon as the official state vehicle, a good-natured debate went just a tad off the trail. Off into a ditch, actually, and the Senate was briefly left dumbfounded.

The verbal misstep occurred as Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, was debating his resolution about the chuck wagon, invented by Charles Goodnight in 1866.

After a fusillade of joking and derisive questions on what he thought was a serious bill Ñ "Should we call it the Charles Wagon?" "Can we also designate the low-rider as the official state urban vehicle?" Ñ Seliger shot back over the microphone when asked if he would answer another question:

"I've already yielded more than a cheerleader at a drive-in."

The Senate Chamber was hushed. Jaws dropped. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst quickly admonished the Senate to move ahead. Dewhurst later said he had not heard Seliger's comment.

After the resolution was approved, an embarrassed Seliger then blamed his remark on "incipient Tourette's syndrome," though he said he doesn't actually have the disorder.

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, a former cheerleader, said she didn't hear the remark, either. "But I'm sure he meant nothing by it."

"I think the next bill I do will be for motherhood," Seliger later said.

[crispini]

1. Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee.

Now that's some funny sh*t. :thumbsup: And free, too, unlike MOST of the comedy coming out of our Lege!

[Richardo]

3. So he buries himself deeper with the Tourette's remark...

WTG, idiot!

[Gothmog]

2. Texas is such a fun state to live in

You got to love Texas.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Hehehehehehehehe!

Nice going, doofus.

[VelmaD]

5. Ohhhhhh...he's in trouble now...

cheerleaders are a Texas institution. Kay Bailey Hutchison was a cheerleader. Can't wait to see them come down to the capital en masse and spell out "Fuck you, Seliger" with their pompons. :)

[Longhorn]

6. So was Governor Good Hair

at A&M.

Okay, Aggies, don't flame me. I know they're called yell leaders.

(As far as I know, Perry is not in this photo.)

[tanyev]

8. Don't forget our glorious Cheerleader-in-Chief!

[tammywammy]

7. rotflmao

I'm dead tired, and I have to work all day.

Thanks so much for posting this, and giving me a laugh.

:rofl: