Green shame on both old and new Texas state reps, namely Helen Giddings and Lois Kolkhorst

Helen Giddings, state rep at my old newspaper company, and soon to be my new newspaper company, and Lois Kolkhorst, state rep at my current job, both didn’t score so well in Environment Texas’ biennial rankings of legislators on their environmental votes.

In the House, Giddings, a Democrat, theoretically, from DeSoto, only scored 50 percent this year and has a 61 percent lifetime rating. Kolkhorst, a Brenham Republican, was bad at 33 percent, though that’s better than her lifetime rating of 24 percent.

Of course, I haven’t considered Giddings a real Democrat ever since she sold out to House Speaker Tom Craddick over Tom DeLay’s Congressional redistricting meddling.

On the Senate side, South Dallas Democrat Royce West was good but not great at 71 percent; south/east suburban Dallas Republican Bob Duell was OK at 57 percent. Down here in southeast Texas, Republican Steve Ogden was at 43 percent.