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Or at least one town in it.

(via abcnews.com)

KENNEDALE, Texas June 4, 2004 — Patrons of the XXX Super Store and the Fantasy Foxx strip club have been getting a souvenir in the mail recently: an I-know-where-you've-been postcard emblazoned with a photo of the customer's car parked outside one of the adult businesses.

The card reads: Observed you in the neighborhood. Didn't know if you were aware there is a church in the area."

Oakcrest Family Church pastor Jim Norwood and his followers have been snapping the pictures and mailing out the cards, a campaign that helped Norwood get elected mayor of this Fort Worth suburb last month with 66 percent of the vote.

Norwood said porn and drugs were part of his "wild days" in the 1960s and '70s but that his lifestyle hurt his relationship with his children, so he became a Christian.

He and a few church members, digital camera in hand, take turns staking out the businesses about once a week. Then they go online to find the owner's name and address from license plate records, which are public in Texas.

Mark Wright, who served as mayor for six years, does not dispute he lost the election, in part, to Norwood's crusade.

FTF and their crusades. Is there any possible way in which this "campaign" would not constitute stalking and harassment at the very least, misuse of the mails (a Federal rap), blackmail, and terroristic threats?

But this is Texas. And he's a "Christian" and a "pastor" besides. And since he "found Jeeeezus" his two decades of indulging in drugs and porn himself is miraculously forgiven. Instead of throwing him in jail as a public nuisance, and possibly arranging a psych consult, they elect him to civic office. Remind you of anybody?