The Last Bass Outpost

This is the most PERFECT setup for a limited TV series that I've ever read!

https://news.yahoo.com/big-trouble-little-loving-county-115932346.html

•   It's in very, very, rural Texas (always a perfect setting for evocative drama)
•   Cattle theft is included
•   A County Judge arrested for cattle theft
•   Arrests made at a jury call
•   Family entanglements, including family insider info sharing
•   A Special Ranger with the TSCRA is involved (Texas & SW Cattle Raisers Association) and a trick of his led to the Judge's arrest
•   People who live outside the county voting in elections, sometimes more people voting than residents in the county!

After having lived in Texas for 13 years, I may find this more amusing and interesting than others, but this appears to be absolutely PERFECT for a broadcast or cable series.

What do you think??

I agree!

Someone needs to sort out the script, it's a bit much unless you do a series.

I'm also reminded of this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU

Quote from: uwe on August 03, 2022, 01:47:25 PM
Someone needs to sort out the script, it's a bit much unless you do a series.

Oh absolutely, it would make a great full season, possibly two seasons. Not just one show.

The Texas Rangers are definitely not people to screw around with, and you may or may not not know this, but the TSCRA agents are just about interchangeable with the Rangers.  They have a long history of badassery.  That would carry a big chunk of the story by itself.

And of course the County Judge would be named Skeet. Perfect!

Mentone has come a long way, the residents used to have to haul water in from the next county.

The non-resident voting issue is a big deal there now.

Quote from: Dave W on August 04, 2022, 04:35:49 AM
And of course the County Judge would be named Skeet. Perfect!

When it comes to Texas, not only "you can't make this stuff up," but in reality you don't have to make it up.  It's already there deepinahearta.

Voter fraud claims are heating up a battle for political control in an oil-rich Texas county (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/loving-county-texas-voter-fraud-claims-rcna35791)

Skeet is a method actor already, I kow'em when I see'm:

(https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-720w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2022-06/220628-Loving-county-Skeet-Jones-1x1-se-310p-3332b0.jpg)

I take it that we do not need to be unduly worried that Mentone might turn into a Democrat stronghold overnight and if only one person lived and voted there?

Incidentally, NBC News can make puns too:

"Judge Skeet Jones, 71, oversees the commissioners court, which steers a budget of about $28 million."

:mrgreen:

(https://media1.giphy.com/media/l4EpkXn6wTaVIyTra/200w.webp?cid=ecf05e47e8sdscec7ov50d196zaes52bqt2nl466r57fvg25&rid=200w.webp&ct=g)

That said, I think there is a simple explanation to all of this: The cattle was registered and voted too. Skeet just abducted a few of the elecattlorate which had not voted the way he liked.

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I take it that we do not need to be unduly worried that Mentone might turn into a Democrat stronghold overnight and if only one person lived and voted there?

Any rumors of live Democrats in Loving county would be unproven until actual evidence is provided.

The voting thing just makes it better.  That might be Season Two.

Quote from: Pilgrim on August 04, 2022, 08:43:25 PM

Any rumors of live Democrats in Loving county would be unproven until actual evidence is provided.

The voting thing just makes it better.  That might be Season Two.

I just checked the 2020 presidential election results. The Democratic candidate got 4 votes out of 66 ballots cast.

Never mind that there aren't 66 eligible voters in the county.

You can't make this stuff up.  Texas is often stranger than fiction.

Quote from: Dave W on August 06, 2022, 12:16:18 AM
I just checked the 2020 presidential election results. The Democratic candidate got 4 votes out of 66 ballots cast.

Never mind that there aren't 66 eligible voters in the county.

And those four votes were only due to those Hugo Chávez-post-mortem-controlled voting automats that flip everything round!


(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/12/07/USAT/72557c05-b263-4f9a-9e57-cb4d7cfb6e73-AP_Election_2020_Georgia_2.jpg?crop=4324,2432,x1,y419&width=3200&height=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp)