Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, and the woman who fed Flamin' Hot Cheetos to spider monkeys: Looking back at the worst Texans of the past 12 months.
A year ago, in this field, we called 2020 "the craziest, stupid, and shameless year in the history of Texas Monthly." A self-evident hypothesis-or perhaps a desperate The hope is that 2021 will prove to be at least slightly more rational than the wrong election year. That is how the matter? Well, six days after the calendar entered, droves of criminals (including dozens of Texans) landed in Washington, D.C. Six weeks later, Texas fell into a deep freeze and power outage, making us the laughingstock of the country and causing Hundreds of people died. Add some extreme legislation, an epidemic that makes us more alienated rather than united, and the usual entourage of felons, freaks, and playboys, and you have a year to proudly turn to 2020 and say, "Hold on My beer."
Six years after he became governor, we still don’t know what Greg Abbott wants to accomplish—except, as this year clearly pointed out, no matter how many Texans are harmed, they must continue to hold public office. read more
The junior senator from the great state of Cancun had a very, very, very bad year. Maybe he will blame this on his daughter. read more
An A-to-Z list of 25 Lone Star State residents who embarrassed themselves on January 6 last year. read more
The police said that when a man was released from the Killin City Prison, a small bag containing methamphetamine fell off his pants and he was arrested again at this time.
An employee of the Bank of Houston in the United States was fired for allegedly stealing nude photos from the mobile phones of two female customers who he assisted in online banking.
A man in Houston accidentally shot a friend in the abdomen while watching the Astros game because he forgot to make sure his room was empty every time the team scored before taking part in their "dry shooting" Gun pastime.
The CEO of a Houston pharmaceutical company was arrested on suspicion of a $134 million health care fraud scheme that allowed him to purchase a $1.5 million mansion, a Ferrari and a Bentley, and spend 1,500 on gambling and casinos Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (Lina Hidalgo) responded to a controversial decision to award a $11 million vaccine outreach contract to a Democratic data analyst who did not seem to be the most qualified choice. She offered a provocative "Come on!" The contract was eventually cancelled, and Hidalgo and all other commissioners' court members who chose the contractor received a subpoena for the matter.
A Hooks woman allegedly assaulted a policeman who tried to catch a pig that had fled her home.
A digital roadside construction sign in Flour Bluff was invaded by an unidentified perpetrator and reprogrammed to alternately read "Thank you very much Stacey" and "Now I have herpes".
On the flight to Houston, a drunk Global City woman allegedly vomited to herself, took off her pants, fought with another passenger, and tried to hit a flight attendant, forcing the plane to land in Alabama. Mobile.
The Luis Tussa Wax Museum in San Antonio removed the statue of Donald Trump because tourists kept scratching it and bashing it.
A Weslaco man who allegedly signed a traffic ticket "F-you" was accused of falsifying government records.
A former Houston police chief was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for investigating fraud allegations in the 2020 election. He allegedly rammed his SUV into the truck of an HVAC repairman, pointed a gun at him, and was charged with using it The deadly weapon carried out a severe attack and forced him to fall to the ground, believing that the man was the "planner" who transported 750,000 false ballots.
A Dallas woman whose husband was murdered and begged the public to help find the killer was later accused of plotting murder at the hands of her old high school boyfriend who had an affair with her.
In an event officially announcing that George P. Bush planned to compete with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican primary elections, his supporters handed out documents with Bush and Trump shaking hands. The illustrated koozies was accompanied by a sentence, "'This is the only Bush who likes me! Bush did it right. I like him.'-Donald J. Trump." Soon after, Trump officially supported Paxton.
In mid-July, dozens of Texas Democrats flew to Washington, D.C. to violate the quorum to protest the voter suppression bill. They were photographed on the chartered plane without wearing masks. Six of them were infected with the coronavirus.
During the tenure of the Democratic Party, there were reports that state representatives Jessica Gonzalez and Julie Johnson were on vacation in Portugal. "No one has provided evidence," Gonzalez said. "These are rumors, full stop. The story ends." Two weeks later, Gonzalez admitted that she was actually already in Portugal (as did Johnson) for her long-planned wedding.
In an interview with CNN on the strategy of breaking the quorum, State Representative Michel Beckley tried to provide a straightforward answer. "Everything is a moving puzzle," she said puzzledly. "We do have a plan. This is not something we can tell you at will today." Five weeks later, the group gave up and returned to Lege, sitting helplessly when the "election integrity" law was passed.
In the distressing moment captured in the video during the House of Representatives debate, Republican State Representative Brisco Kane learned from Democratic State Representative Rafael Anchia that Cain is passing legislation restrictive voting rights including A phrase, "the purity of the ballot box," was used to prove the deprivation of the rights of blacks in the time of Jim Crow.
Representative Louis Gommert stated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that Marxists like Bernie Sanders would either send their billionaire donors to the Gulag or put them to death.
A Houston man was arrested during bail. He was allegedly accompanied by a tiger to escape from the police in a car.
Allen West, the unvaccinated former Republican state chairman who competed with Greg Abbott in the Republican governor primaries, has been against COVID- for most of 2021. 19 Vaccines-then hospitalized due to pneumonia caused by the coronavirus and dangerously low oxygen levels.
According to the police, a drunk man in El Paso stole a Krispy Kreme truck, then ran into a pedestrian, collided with multiple cars, hit a house, stolen 7-11, led officials to hunt, and then Resist arrest.
A Southwest Airlines pilot who was taxiing in San Jose, California, was attracted by the roar of a popular microphone in the Bay Area, calling its residents "damn liberal fs" and "f-ing weirdos" who "maybe driving around" Walk around" in f-ing modern. "
A Southwest Airlines pilot shocked passengers on a flight from Houston to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He said over the cabin PA: “Let’s go, Brandon”, this is “F-Joe Biden” The conservative code name.
A Southwest Airlines pilot was cited for allegedly assaulting and assaulting a flight attendant in a dispute over wearing a mask.
After Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick pressured the Bullock Texas State History Museum to cancel the virtual appearance of the two authors of revisionist history, forgetting the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of American Mythology, the museum withdrew from the event's organizers. The book became a bestseller immediately.
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Midway Independent School District, located outside Waco, demanding the implementation of a mask-wearing rule even though the school district does not have a mask-wearing rule.
Jason Collier resigned from the Stinnet Police Commissioner shortly after his wife and his girlfriends (who thought they had an exclusive relationship with him) learned of each other's existence from a Facebook post Job title.
Two Lubbock postal contractors were arrested on suspicion of stealing more than 8,000 pieces of mail (including cash, gift cards and checks), valued at more than 4 million U.S. dollars.
A woman climbed into the fence of the El Paso Zoo and tried to feed Flamin' Hot Cheetos to spider monkeys by hand.
A school district administrator in Southlake suggested that teachers who had books about the Holocaust in the classroom also provide books with "opposing" views.
The Texas Department of Public Safety accidentally sent out a test message, naming Chucky, the horror character in the children's game movie, as the suspect of kidnapping children.
An American Airlines passenger tried to open the cabin door in the air while flying from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Charlotte, and then bit a flight attendant.
A convenience store in the Waco area accidentally charged a man with nearly $1,300 in excess of biscuits and Monster energy drinks.
A man was arrested at the Paso Del Norte border crossing in El Paso. He tried to smuggle 31 rolls of Bologna and 2 rolls of turkey ham under the blanket, under the car seat, and inside the center console. America. A duffel bag.
Dissatisfied with the state magistrate Mary Lou Alvarez's ruling during the Zoom court session, a family law attorney in San Antonio responded: "What a bitch"-apparently not sure she did not Mute, more than a hundred participants can hear her, including the judge temporarily banned her from appearing in court.
William Neal "Doc" Gallagher used the slogan "See you at church on Sunday" in an investment company advertisement for Christian Radio. He was sentenced to three life imprisonments by a Tarrant County District Court judge on charges of fraud. Nearly 100 people in two Ponzi schemes of $23 million.
A 61-year-old woman from Rockwall participated in the Independence Day parade on her tractor before the police arrested her for misconduct. She was said to have come uninvited.
In January of this year, a man allegedly caught stealing truck tires in Houston drove away from the police, hit a tree, then jumped into the mouth of the Buffalo River, where he had to be rescued after his hypothermia .
At the end of 2020, Dan Patrick tried to support Donald Trump’s controversial claim that the election was controversial, providing at least $25,000 to anyone who provided evidence that led to someone being convicted of voter fraud award. Eleven months later, there was only one claimant: a Pennsylvania Democratic poll worker whose tip led to the conviction of a Republican who voted twice in the election.
Two days after the riots in Washington, the "Taylor Morning News" published a photo of protesters invading the Capitol, with the caption "Members of Antifa dressed up as supporters of President Donald Trump climbed to the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday West Wall."
Hey @Tylerpaper You might want to check your photo description. HT @mzMichGarcia pic.twitter.com/iQb6kP12uE
A woman who renewed her driver's license in Texas discovered that she was charged with a felony after failing to return the VHS rental of the teenage witch Sabrina more than two decades ago.
After protests in Washington, DC, Texas attorneys Paul M. Davis and Kellie SoRelle filed a lawsuit requesting the U.S. District Court (a) to declare the United States Congress is illegal, (b) invalidating Joe Biden's confirmation, and (c) preventing law enforcement from arresting Davis and SoRelle for their actions in the Capitol. The judge nominated by Trump to hear the lawsuit (using "Lord of the Rings" as evidence) dismissed the lawsuit, saying it was "unfounded."
The Halloween decorations in the Richmond Women’s front yard include skeletons posing for pole dancing strippers.
Hundreds of QAnon followers gathered in Dealey Plaza, waiting for John F. Kennedy Jr. to come back from the dead, and announced that he would become Donald Trump's running mate in 2024.
A man in the San Antonio area claimed that he wanted to scare people away from some local grocery stores to slow the spread of the coronavirus. He was sentenced to more than a year in prison after falsely claiming on Facebook that he paid people infected with the virus. COVID-19 licking food in the store.
The lawyer who defended Donald Trump’s former election attorney Sidney Powell in Dallas in a $1 billion lawsuit argued that she has repeatedly claimed that the machine created by Dominion Voting Systems was manipulated to throw the election to Joe Biden, this is not slander, because they are so "weird", "a reasonable person will not accept such statements as facts."
After Powell and other lawyers filed an erroneous lawsuit in an attempt to deny the results of the 2020 presidential election, the judge who tried the case sanctioned Powell and his colleagues, stating that “despite the haze of chaos, riots, and chaos, the lawyers By deliberately attempting to file this lawsuit, one thing is very clear: the plaintiff’s lawyers flouted their oaths, flouted the rules, and tried to undermine the integrity of the judiciary in the process."
Austin media tycoon and former homeless man of the year Alex Jones brought all four cases against him for conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre and were deemed breaches of contract. He is likely to have to pay compensation to the family involved.
Former rock star Ted Nugent (Ted Nugent) is a famous pandemic denier who refused to get vaccinated. He has contracted COVID-19. "I have had flu symptoms for the past ten days," he announced in a video. "I thought I was dying. I mean, just a clusterf—. I got Chinese—."
A Lubbock man drove a car dealer's BMW loan to the bank, robbed the bank, and then tried to use his stolen money as the down payment for the car. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
After he used a bottle of Moderna vaccine that was about to expire to vaccinate several people who were not at the official vaccination site, a public health doctor in Harris County was fired, and Democratic District Attorney Kim Ogg sued him for theft. Once the case was dismissed by the judge, he pointed out that DA's affidavit was "full of sloppiness and error." Ogg's office announced that it would submit the case to the grand jury, and the grand jury refused to prosecute.
A Houston woman allegedly stole most of her cousin's $1 million prize from a scratch-off Texas Hold'em lottery ticket and even forged lottery officials' paperwork in an attempt to persuade him to win only $20,000, but was unsuccessful. He will only receive $13,436 in cash for taxes.
In August, the "New York Times" published an online report about New Braunfels with the headline "How a remote town in Texas became one of the fastest growing cities in the United States." After being ridiculed for describing a town near Austin and San Antonio as "remote," the newspaper changed the headline to "How a remote town in Texas became one of America's fastest-growing cities." After further depreciation, the New York Times changed it to the relatively harmless "How this small Texas town became one of the fastest growing cities in the United States".
The New York Times headline news about Texas, divided into three acts. pic.twitter.com/OrytCzC98t
An Edinburgh High School football player was charged with a misdemeanor after he made a blind tackle on a referee who had just expelled the player for unsportsmanship.
A man who allegedly stole an ambulance that had been dispatched to answer the phone in southwest Houston was arrested when he was found — emergency lights were still flashing — in the driveway of an area where Jack was in the box.
A Houston postal carrier who wanted to be assigned to a different route admitted to falsely claiming that he was robbed at gunpoint while delivering mail.
A Laredo man admitted to having 24 kilograms of methamphetamine in the fire extinguisher.
A Dallas employee of the ADT Alarm Company was sentenced to jail after admitting that he had hacked into more than 200 secure video sources and watched female nudes or had sex nearly 10,000 times.
The state’s most famous conservative think tank, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, tweeted a list of "buzzwords" and then deleted these "buzzwords" if they were worried that their children would be taught to criticize Race, parents should "watch out". theory. The list includes terms that are difficult to avoid in any historical discussion, such as "anti-racism", "colonialism" and "power structure."
What an unfortunate body placement pic.twitter.com/seVUqvBYrQ
A former San Antonio City Council member who successfully pushed for strict restrictions on sex shops and strip clubs-including legislation to force strippers to wear ID cards-was arrested on suspicion of soliciting customers.
Two customers at the McDonald's Drive-in restaurant in Harris County allegedly drew guns at the restaurant manager because they were angry with the amount of salt on the fries.
A man in Wichita Falls allegedly stole a car, returned it a few hours later, and then told the police that he was joking and he was charged with theft.
An ideologically motivated “no mask” policy in a bar and grill in Rowlett, a suburb of Dallas, expelled a couple who wore a mask, even though they explained that it was for their four-month-old immunocompromised child Need to be cautious.
A Houston man pleaded guilty to dumping tires illegally in February and was arrested two months later for dumping tires illegally again-this time wearing an ankle monitor required by his previous plea agreement.
A woman stole a package from Houston's front porch and suffered a wardrobe malfunction after she ran so fast that her breasts fell from her shirt.
Brisket family tradition pic.twitter.com/VbJry2rcfZ
Greg Abbott credulously reposted Elon Musk's second-year statement that he was considering establishing the Texas Institute of Technology and Science, or TITS for short.
After the Texas Supreme Court refused to review the US$900,000 judgment against Houston oil giant Apache, the company provided US$250,000 to PAC to support the re-election of the two judges in the case. The court subsequently agreed to hear the case-it usually only approves less than 3% of such requests-and ruled that Apache prevailed.
A passenger at Houston's Hobby Airport was arrested on suspicion of trying to pass through a security checkpoint secretly concealing methamphetamine in breakfast tacos.
Dan Patrick tried to refute the state Senate’s view that the cancellation of drive-through voting would harm communities of color. He falsely claimed that "statistics show that there are more people of color without cars than [have]. Then [drive to vote] Center] How can we help these people?"
say what? ! That's not the Mayor of Houston. pic.twitter.com/d6cZeqX3T1
An 8-year-old Primera boy was taken to the hospital after eating a biscuit containing marijuana under the care of his mother.
The CEO of a Plano medical staffing company claimed to have been cheated of $40,000 by Brad Pitt's imitators, but failed to sue the real Brad Pitt for $100,000.
Democratic State Representative Harold Dutton (Harold Dutton) allegedly in retaliation for his strong support of the repealed education bill, relaunched a bill that would restrict the teams that transgender students can participate in—this is A measure that his party publicly despised, and he had previously abstained from voting. (Dutton denied that he restarted the bill in retaliation, but it ultimately failed.)
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