Editor’s Note: This article is part of an occasional series profiling the Texas lawmakers who make up the fringe of an already woefully fringe-y legislative body. These are the elected officials who tend to seek out provocation, anger colleagues, and make more noise than laws—for now.
Sleuths have been digging up dirt from public figures’ online lives since the internet’s conception. And politicians, especially those who grew up in the digital age, have repeatedly learned the hard lesson that you can never truly delete anything from the web.