Written by: Beck

I'm not sure which to be more surprised by--that Texas Governor Rick Perry's head of Texas-Mexico relations turned out to be a Mexican citizen, or that the state is now trying to crush the whistle blower who has brought it to the peoples' attention. Actually I take it back--I'm not genuinely surprised by either fact. Perhaps I should in fact be surprised that the issue has generated so little interest. I only found out about it because Reason Online brought up the story as published by the Houston Chronicle in their Daily Brickbats section.

Essentially, this is what has happened. A conservative activist by the name of Mary Williams received confidential documents demonstrating that the Gov's head of Mexican relations, Helena Colyandro, is a Mexican citizen. The conflict of interest here proclaims itself so loudly it scarcely deserves mention. Afterwards, a slew of anonymous letters went out to influential Texans with some rather exact copies of said documents. Then the state demanded she hand them back, saying they should not have been released. Williams denies sending the anonymous letters, and states further that she hasn't even read a copy. Somewhere around this point, a slew of heretofore non-disillusioned Texans' heads exploded. At least I'm assuming that's what happened. Nearly happened to me, and I'm disillusioned in spades.