Reddit reviews Oil & Gas and the Texas Railroad Commission: Lessons for Regulating a Free Society

He has a pretty impressive resume as well as a book out (about the Texas Railroad Commission), so I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to figure out what he would do as a commissioner.

Republicans claim they are for smaller government and privatization and that sort of thing but they only get excited to really push for it when they have a chance to set up a friend or corporate sponsor with a plum crony capitalism deal. Meanwhile they take our tax money (as do the Democrats) to defray the cost of their prime time promotional events (aka national conventions.) I did not know that the Feds also kick in millions to provide security for these things but it does not surprise me.

Now I know you were just kidding, but please stop playing into the 'bash the other guy' game. It only ends up supporting the dinosaur parties. If enough people can get past their fears of "the other horrific candidate" and start supporting an honest unbought outsider, we would have a chance over time to rescue this largely broken country of ours.

P.S. I know it is the inferior voting system that leads to the two party system, but since we don't have initiative rights here in Texas, changing that is not an option. Thus the only option available option is to stop supporting Republicans and Democrats wherever that is possible.

If you can't do that, at least vote for Mark Miller for Oil & Gas (aka Railroad) Commissioner. He is by far the most qualified candidate having written the book about the agency and taught oil engineering at UT for almost 20 years.