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Perry Names Sex Toy Hater to Parole Board

By Ed Brayton

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Here's one of those "only in Texas" stories. Gov. Rick Perry has named a woman named Shanda Perkins to the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles. She has absolutely no experience in criminal justice, of course, but she is a loyal footsoldier in the War on Orgasms:

As far as I can tell, Mrs. Perkins' sole experience in the criminal justice realm stems from a personal morality crusade against the sale of sex toys in Johnson County that led to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturning Texas' law on the subject.
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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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