In Mr. Texas, a novel by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, 2023), a Speaker of the Texas House is giving advice to a newly elected member. He says:
”Behave yourself. Pay attention. And don’t believe in fairies. Good things only come to those who earn them.....Let me offer you a word of advice something a wise man said. ‘In politics some folks grow, others swell.’ Learn to tell the difference and you’ll be all right.”
It occurred to me that he might have been talking about my own state representative Doyle Heffley, who has been in office for over a decade. He does not grow in office. He simply swells.
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