We had a lot to vote on in Texas this past Tuesday. In addition to the presidential race, we voted for the US House, Texas House, Railroad Commission, Board of Education, Texas Supreme Court, and way too many other courts to name them all here. The fact that many judges ran unopposed greatly simplified things, though, especially for lazy voters. The Supreme Court election may have been a little confusing, seeing as how both candidates had the last name Green, but it's simple enough when you consider that Green wins no matter what. Still, it's a lot to vote for, and some voters probably feel obligated to choose a candidate for every office on the ballot. Others either just don't know or care and will pick the first name on the list, even if that name is Deadpool or Puppy Monkey Baby.

Regardless of the reasons for lazy or ignorant voting, it's how we end up with the wrong people in office, a lesson the Travis County (the county that includes Austin) Republican Party is learning. The leadership is in an uproar over the election of Robert Morrow as their new chairman. Morrow has a head full of conspiracy theories about the Bushes, Clintons, and LBJ's role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On his Twitter feed, he calls former Texas governor Rick Perry a "bisexual adulterer," Barbara Bush a "drunk cuckold" who did porn, and the Republican National Committee a gay foam party (check Urban Dictionary if you need to). It's ironic that Governor Greg Abbott is among those who want to remove Morrow, considering that he fanned the flames of paranoia over Jade Helm 15.

Robert Morrow

Morrow's tweets are good for some laughs, but just imagine if Morrow had been elected to a position that matters. For some, that might be the State Board of Education, for which Mary Lou Bruner is campaigning for. The board is divided into fifteen districts and Bruner is the frontrunner District 9, which includes Houston County. Bruner believes the Grand Canyon could only have been formed by the Biblical flood, climate change is being caused by a shift from capitalism to socialism, and that President Obama was a gay prostitute who used his money to buy drugs in his twenties. It's not unusual for Board of Education members to be seemingly uneducated and out of their mind, but we should be more concerned when people like this may have influence over how we educate children.

Mary Lou Bruner

Our generation's solutions should not be to complain about how awful Texas is or move to California. Instead, we need to be better educated about what and for whom we're voting for in order to find better, more competent leadership at the state level.