Jill Dutton has a title next to her name … Texas state representative in House District 2.

I trust she’ll get comfortable with it quickly. She’ll need to because it is highly possible she’ll lose it when they count the ballots for the next election in a couple of months.

Dutton, a Republican from Van, defeated fellow Republican Brett Money of Greenville in a special election called after Bryan Slaton of Royse City was expelled from the Texas House over his hideous conduct with an underage staffer, a young woman with whom he had sex after plying her with booze in an Austin apartment.

HD 2 is a reliably Republican district. Dutton and Money finished one-two in an earlier election and then and engaged in a runoff to determine who would fill the unexpired term. Dutton won.

Here’s the catch. It was an open primary, meaning Democrats could vote in it. They also could vote in the runoff, which reportedly helped push Dutton across the finish line — barely — in front of Money.

The March primary will be closed to Republicans only and Money figures to do better head-to-head against Dutton. Money has the endorsement of the former POTUS who’s also on the ballot this spring. I suppose that carries some additional weight in North Texas’s heavily GOP legislative district.

Whatever. The good news for District 2 voters is that they no longer are represented by someone who preaches the family values line but behaves like a scum-bucket.