Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal recently forwarded an email poking fun at first lady Michelle Obama and referring to her as “Mrs. YoMama.”

The Lawrence Journal-World reported Thursday that O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, sent the email from his personal account. The email also has a photo comparing Mrs. Obama to the Grinch and the subject line, “Twins separated at birth?”

The photo has been circulating on the Internet and shows Mrs. Obama’s hair being swept by the wind. O’Neal wrote that he had “had worse hair days, but this is pretty funny.”

Alyson Rodee, the speaker’s spokeswoman, says O’Neal was poking fun at himself while forwarding a lighthearted political cartoon about the first lady spending taxpayer money during difficult economic times.