Gee, Jerry makes a recruiting trip to East Texas to drum up support for the Republican Party in the upcoming election.
Bush must be running way, way behind in whatever polls the Republicans are using to guide their campaign strategy, to send Jerry to an area that's already as saturated with religious right wing extremists as it could ever possibly be. Lufkin is like the ultimate in right, right wing Christianity and politics, the national headquarters of the Pentecostal Church of God, along with their Bible college, a J. Frank Norris Baptist radio station and Bible college and probably a few snake handlers scattered around. Either that, or Bush wants to keep Jerry out of the limelight and keep his distance.
Perhaps he's heard that there is a movement here in Texas, supported by the African American churches and the NAACP that has rented a fleet of vans and busses with the goal of getting 2 million additional African Americans to the polls in Texas than they got in 2000. Maybe that's where he got the idea.