Essay: Remembering Paul Burka and his lessons on Texas politics
Texas Gov. George W. Bush congratulates Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock, a Democrat, after Bullock took his oath of office iin 1995. It's been a long time since a Democrat won a statewide election.The statewide results of the mid-term election in Texas didn’t deviate much from the last three decades of Republican dominance, but one difference was the absence of one of the state’s most admired journalists. For years, Paul Burka’s writings appeared monthly, but his wisdom was timeless.
Yet Burka knew and conveyed that the process wasn’t supposed to be about the lawmakers themselves but about those they represent, and the list’s labeling of ineffective lawmakers as “furniture” was not out of spite but of out of concern for constituents being well represented.
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