We spoke to Jake Bernstein this morning at the Texas Observer to follow up on what we'd heard was an interesting Open Records request filed to investigate the travel of certain Senate staff and the defrayed costs of somebody's birthday party.

Jake was pleasant enough, but said he wouldn't characterize this as the lead story he was working on. (YIKES...if this ain't big, y'all better be reading the Observer to find out what is!)

He suggested we file our open records request but after last night we feel dirty walking into the Capitol building today...and so should you Grusendorf. Plus, it'd mean we'd have to do 'actual reporting' and we like to leave that to people like Gardner Selby and the AAS.