A little bit of this, a little bit of that…Tumblr (3.0; @tomesnyder)http://blog.tomesnyder.com/<p>The first sentence of book one of my political trilogy:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">November 2, 1982</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It was a miracle—not a walking-on-water, parting-the-Red-Sea type of miracle, but a miracle nonetheless: Paul Davidson Silverman, a 32 year old economics professor, seeking public office for the first time, running for arguably the most powerful office in the state without his party’s support against the incumbent Democrat in a largely one-party state had just been elected Lieutenant Governor of the State of Texas while the incumbent Republican Governor, the first since Reconstruction, had been defeated.</p>http://blog.tomesnyder.com/post/121943036http://blog.tomesnyder.com/post/121943036Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:34:00 -0500