Nelson to Guv: “Get Back, Loretta”

Colleen McCain Nelson

I apologize for not mentioning this earlier when the item in question would have been easier to track down, but nevertheless here it is: The great Colleen McCain Nelson had a superb op-ed piece in Thursday’s Dallas Morning News pleading with Gov. Hair to quit his quixotic presidential quest and get back to Texas to do the job voters here elected him to do. Why should he worry about ruining the other 49 states in the union when he hasn’t even finished ruining his own?

"Call a halt to this clumsy campaign," Nelson wrote. "Cancel the ego trip to South Carolina. Use the money left in the bank to repay Texas taxpayers for their trouble. Get back to the business of governing this state."

That comment about repaying Texas taxpayers was a real eye-opener to me. It seems Hair’s quest is costing Texas taxpayers $400,000 a month. If the guv had a shred of decency left in his body — and, admittedly, I don’t think he has — he would direct that money to help fund our dying public school system instead of throwing it away on a vanity trip.

I would try to link to Nelson’s column, but because the News has erected a paywall, it would cost you to read it and I don’t want to direct any more funds into that paper’s coffers, the front page of which has shamed itself by being the chief cheerleader for Hair’s dismal campaign.