This ongoing live coverage of the Texas Governor's Mansion investigation/restoration is keeping me away from the blogging and instead standing outside on street corners. Apologies.

Just a quick update on the controversial anti-Obama button that is shown here, and was sold at the Texas Republican Party convention last week. Here's the AP:

The Texas GOP says it'll donate to Midwestern flood victims the proceeds of a vendor who sold a racist campaign button at the state convention last weekend.

A vendor called Republicanmarket.com sold a button that said "If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?" The button was sold in a pavilion adjoining the Houston convention hall where the state Republicans convened last week.

Besides donating the $1,500 rent the party collected from the vendor, the state GOP also will bar it from booth space at future events. State GOP spokesman Hans Klingler says the party wants to encourage the vendor "to clean up his act."

State GOP officials also have alerted the Republican National Convention in hopes that the vendor, Jonathon Alcox, won't be allowed to sell merchandise at the national Republican convention.

The vendor who sold a racist pin at the Texas Republican Party convention last weekend in Houston apologized today and said he had no intention of creating the firestorm that has ensued.

"It's just been crazy," said Jonathan Alcox, who runs republicanmarket.com and had buttons and other items for sale at the GOP gathering. "The point is we made a mistake. I realize that now. And I apologize."

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