Buh bye, Bugman

The Texas Democratic Party has concocted a wonderful going away gift for the poster boy for bad government. The Texas Democratic Party filed suit against the republicans to keep them from replacing Delay on the ballot. Here's the language from the lawsuit:

The Texas Election Code permits a candidate to withdraw. However, the Legislature attached a cost to withdraw after a primary. If a candidate withdraws after his party’s primary, the party cannot substitute another candidate for the withdrawing candidate. The reason for this rule is simple – the Legislature did not want the candidates duping voters into contributing money and energy to the candidate in the primary, only to watch the candidate take the money and run, not in the general election, but to the bank. So the law places the burden on the party in whose primary the candidate ran – in this instance the Republican party – to make sure that candidates in the party’s primary intend to and will run in the general election. If the Party fails to impose this discipline, the penalty is that the Party cannot insert another candidate into the race for District 22.

And guess what? today Judge Darlene Byrne granted a temporary restraining order. The money shot is in her order:

"Plaintiffs are entitled to a Temporary Restraining Order because it is probable they will prevail against Defendant and obtain a permanent injunction . If the Temporary Restraining Order is not granted, irreparable harm is imminent, as the meeting (the local District Executive Committee) is expected to be called at any moment. My emphasis added.

Let the gnashing of teeth and wailing commence!!

Delay is a hideous, odious little fuck. No one in the world is going to miss him when he's gone.