Armes Puts Foot in Mouth

The recent debate as to the adoption of House Rules for the 53rd Legislature resulted in many questionable comments, and Rep. Don Armes of Faxon, who represents Comanche and Tillman County, made the following statements which candidly revealed his opinion of his constituents:

Representative Don Armes (R-Faxon) - “We all have constituents in our district that may not be the, well, the brightest and the best, for lack of a better term. They may not understand some of the things that we see in this chamber, the political process of making laws. And we’re at a coffee shop and that constituent says ‘there ought to be a law, dadgumit, there ought to be a law that’s ridiculous.’ Wouldn’t you agree that sometimes those people say there ought to be a law and they expect us to take it up to the capitol and try to pass it and then at that point, really, the best thing for everybody concerned would be for that to get killed somewhere? You need, sometimes, as a state representative, the protection of that committee chairmen, to go to him and say, “I’ve got a guy, I promised him I’d introduce this bill, it’s a terrible idea, how do I stop this train before we change the law in a negative way?” And I’m not being facetious with that.”