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

[matcom]

<snip>

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 — "Should we call it the Charles Wagon?" "Can we also designate the low-rider as the official state urban vehicle?" — 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.

http://www.statesman.com/hp/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/03/31Seliger.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. Yep. My state makes MatcomNews yet again.

I'm so proud. :sarcasm:

[matcom]

7. that tends to happen a lot

:rofl:

[yvr girl]

2. Clearly, you hate cheerleaders

Bastard.

[sui generis]

3. oh fucking hell

so a comment on "low rider" wasn't taken wrong by cholos in the mexican community but a ccmment about the sacred institution of cheerleading shocked everyone?

I don't get it - what a bunch of namby pamby people all mortified by the very implication of a bad poo poo expression that reminds them we really are hairless apes and have s-e-x, and mostly like it too.

sui could never run for senate -

[zbdent]

5. You beat me to commenting about the "low-rider" comment

Good call. I don't care which party used that. It's low (no pun intended).

[zbdent]

4. Whoever made the "low-rider" comment also should be smacked down

IMHO.

[mcscajun]

6. This is a 3-for-1 deal. He also took a cheap shot at people withTourette's

Syndrome.

Low-riders, cheerleaders and Tourette's all slammed in one day in the same place.

I Just Don't Get Texas.

:shaking head: