Burnt Orange Report

Gene Seaman's Priorities

By Byron LaMasters

State Rep. Gene Seaman (R-Corpus Christi) certainly has his priorities in the state house. Are they yours? Watch the ad here (warning, probably not the best thing to open up at work). Practice What you Preach issued a press release today:

Today Practice What You Preach, a mainstream PAC organized around the notion that putting an existing ban on same-sex marriage into the Texas Constitution would be a hypocritical diversion from the clear and present dangers to the institution of marriage, today released ³Tool,² a web ad that shows a Republican state representative who voted to ban gay marriage imitating an erection on the House floor.

³I refuse to take marriage lessons from anyone who thinks it is a good idea to imitate an erection on the floor of the legislature,² said Jason Stanford, president of the Practice What You Preach PAC. ³Changing the constitution so that something that is now illegal won¹t happen will do as much to protect marriage as imitating erections does to reform insurance, taxing cookies does to make us all skinny, or taxing lap dances does to fund public schools.²

Texas Republicans have either done or attempted to do all of those things in the last couple of years.

On Monday, the House State Affairs Committee will hear testimony on HJR 6, a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, something state law already does.

Practice What You Preach envisions offering other ads on other representatives if the Republican leadership pushes for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

³The Republican leadership has to decide how many of their seats they are willing to lose over this,² said Stanford, a married father of two sons. ³It¹s time to make the Republicans pay a political price for using marriage as a wedge issue.²

Practice What You Preach is soliciting contributions to air ³Tool² in Corpus Christi (Gene Seaman¹s district). Saturating the media market would cost $22,000 at $22 a point, meaning the PAC has to raise at least $220 to get it on the air once.