It's not often that the state Senate rejects a gubernatorial appointment, but they did yesterday when they voted against Rick Perry's choice of Shanda Perkins for the state parole Board.You could argue that the Senate rejected her 27-4 because she was horrendously underqualified for the $95,000-a-year position: She's an unemployed "banker" without a college degree, and has never really been involved in criminal issues.Except those involving dildos.As our sister paper the Dallas Observer describe
