Texas State Representative Jeff Leach (R) has become the latest lawmaker to fall victim to the fake name prank.
After a third grade teacher it was pronounced Against an anti-trans bill submitted Wednesday to the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee, Leach asked other voters whose names had been registered to comment.
Is there a Connie Lingus here? she asked herself, as the people in the room laughed.
“What about Anita Dickenmee? Or Holden, Holden Middick? she added herself.
“OK. Are there three of those people here?” Leach asked, seeming to know full well that they were definitely not present.
“Okay,” he added. “You have your moment. I hope you enjoy.”
Leach took the gag in good spirits, saying mediaite he hoped “to meet Connie, Holden and Anita soon”.
Like members of a Virginia school board in 2021, when Phil McCracken, Eileen Dover, Wayne Kuhr, Suk Mahdik, Ophelia McCaulk and Don Kedick appeared.
