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Behind the No Shows at the Polls. by SAUL ELBEIN in THIS ISSUE on the COVER Illustration by Brian Stauffer WHO REALLY RUNS TEXAS? | JOB TRAINING FOR FARMWORKERS | SARAH WEDDINGTON ON ANN RICHARDS OCT05 |O 20BER | 2011 | 2012 Why Texans Don’t Vote Behind the no shows at the polls. BY SAUL ELBEIN IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN STAUFFER LEFT: Barbara Amador trains for electrical linework at Amarillo Community College. The training is part of MET, Inc.’s program to help farmworkers find more sustainable jobs. PHOTO BY JEN REEL 20NEW FIELDS by Jen Reel Photographer Jen Reel documents a job training program in the Panhandle that gives farmworkers the skills to succeed. NO SHOWS WHO REALLY RUNS TEXAS? by Saul Elbein by Dave Mann, Patrick Michels Why so few Texans bother to vote. and Forrest Wilder OBSERVER 08 16 The seven major donors who spend the most on, and get the most from, Texas politics. ONLINE Election Day is coming up. REGULARS 27 BIG BEAT 37 NOVEL AppROACH 40 THE PICTURE SHOW Don’t forget to 01 DIALOGUE Why Democrats Get Faith in a In Moonrise Kingdom, vote! And follow 02 POLITICAL Latinos Right Dead-End Town Anderson Taps His our coverage INTELLIGENCE by Cindy Casares by Robert Leleux Inner-Child of the General 06 TYRANT’s FOE by Josh Rosenblatt Election at 07 EdITORIAL 28 POSTCARDS 38 B OOK R EVIEW www.texasobserver.org 07 BEN SARGENT’s Corsicana’s ‘Killer A Populist and a 43 STATE OF THE MEDIA LOON STAR STATE Elephant’ Feminist Icon The Dallas Morning 26 STATE OF TEXAS by Robyn Ross by Bill Sanderson Advertorial? by Bill Minutaglio 32 DIRECT QUOTE 39 ESSAY In Search of a Home Ann Richards’ Legacy 44 FORREST FOR THE TREES As Told to Emily Mathis by Sarah Weddington Rivers Run Through It … For Now 34 CULTURE by Forrest Wilder Fehrenbach’s Texas by Saul Elbein 45 EYE ON TEXAS by Evan Prince A JOURNAL OF FREE VOICES since 1954 OBSERVER DIALOGUE VOLUME 104, NO. 10 A Winning Short Story FOUNDING EDITOR Ronnie Dugger EDITOR Dave Mann A wonderfully evocative story (“Graduation Day,” Aug. 17, texasobserver.org) reveal- MANAGING EDITOR ing surprising attributes that would never have been suspected by most writers, and Susan Smith Richardson PUBLISHER Piper Stege Nelson filled with telling details that make us see and feel the scene. MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Jen Reel Jimmie D. Davis WEB EDITOR Jonathan McNamara p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g STAFF WRITER Melissa del Bosque STAFF WRITER Forrest Wilder STAFF WRITER Emily DePrang The Real Radicals Abbott] not understand? How much tax money are he epublican arty is today the most radical STAFF WRITER Patrick Michels t r p these Republicans wasting to try to get their way? political party with its messages of violence and Jose Cazares CIRCULATION MANAGER Candace Carpenter racism (“Is Julian Castro the Answer to Democrats’ p o s t e d o n fa c e b o o k . c o m CONTROLLER Krissi Trumeter Prayers? Sept. 4, texasobserver.org). What I know about the Raza Unida Party is that it pales in com- ART DIRECTION EmDash parison. … It was labeled radical at the time because The Best Education COPY EDITOR Brad Tyer never before had any people of Mexican heritage thanks for the article concerning online educa- POETRY EDITOR Naomi Shihab Nye formed a political party at such a young age. … Even tion (“Randy best Is Going to Save Texas’ Public FICTION EDITOR David Duhr the name they took, Chicanos, was an unknown and Universities, or Get Rich Trying,” September issue). CONTRIBUTING WRITERS so threatening to those who had gotten used to call- It answered a number of questions I had concern- Lou Dubose, Saul Elbein, ing Mexican Americans anything they wished. ing [the University of Texas’] role—for example, Alex Hannaford, Steven G. Kellman, Robert Leleux, Bill Lily Rodulfo the politics concerning the $10,000 degree. I’m Minutaglio, Josh Rosenblatt, p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g a retired UT professor and was one of the first Ellen Sweets, Brad Tyer, Andrew Wheat to teach online at UT circa the early 1990s. You might be interested to know that I was able to do so CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Supporting Sarah Lim, Alan Pogue, because I did not ask permission. I got caught when Matt Wright-Steel Women’s Rights the UT course catalog demanded that I have a time CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS nothing affects a woman and her family more and room number listed for where folk would sit on Michael Krone, Alex Eben than her health and her money (“one Year Later, their butt for 15 weeks. DeLayne Hudspeth Meyer, Ben Sargent Cuts to Women’s Health Have Hurt More Than a u s t i n TEXAS DEMOCRACY Just Planned Parenthood,” Aug. 15, texasobserver. FOUNDATION BOARD Lisa Blue Baron, Carlton Carl, org). We must provide ways for women to take Jen Cooper, Melissa Jones, responsibility for these areas of their lives. We must Abbott’s Jobs Susan Longley, Jim Marston, elect lawmakers who will support basic healthcare Mary Nell Mathis, Gilberto Ocañas, Ronald Rapoport, and employment rights for women. Right now Program Peter Ravella, Geoffrey Rips, you can google “Resendez petition” and support well, the bright side is that the money isn’t going Geronimo Rodriguez, [Rene Resendez’s] request for the state to hold a to support crony capitalism and it’s increasing the Sharron Rush, Ronnie Dugger (emeritus) public hearing on its proposal to exclude Planned demand for attorneys (“If You Want to Sue Till Your Parenthood from Texas Women’s Health Program. Heart’s Content, Run for Texas Attorney General,” OUR MISSION We will serve no group or Laury Adams Sept. 10, texasobserver.org). Heh, [Attorney party but will hew hard to p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g General Greg Abbott] is a “jobs creator” and doing the truth as we find it and the right as we see it. We his bit to help stop the shrinking of the American are dedicated to the whole THE MEN WHO CAUSED THIS TRAGEDY TO A QUARTER OF middle class. Mark Hayward truth, to human values above a million women need to pay dearly on Election Day. p o s t e d o n fa c e b o o k . c o m all interests, to the rights of humankind as the foundation Patricia Budak of democracy. We will take p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g orders from none but our own conscience, and never will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of A Discriminatory Law the powerful or cater to the this voter id law discriminates period (“twice ignoble in the human spirit. Sound Off This Week, D.C. Court Finds that Texas Law CONTACT US 307 W. 7th St., Austin, Texas Discriminates,” Aug. 30, texasobserver.org)! What [email protected] 78701, (512) 477-0746 part of that does [Texas Attorney General Greg or comment on facebook.com/texasobserver and texasobserver.org octobER 2012 THE TE xAS obSERvER | 1 POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT. OF RUNNING FOR HIGHER OFFICE Ag Dept. Gets Tough on Crime texas is an urban state, and commissioner of the to do with agriculture, well, Staples claims that drug Texas Department of Agriculture has become one cartels are threatening Texas farmers and, in turn, of the more obscure statewide offices. Most Texans our food supply. don’t regularly think about boll weevil eradication In late August, the ag commissioner was the key- READ more about Staples and Treviño at or irrigation issues, especially when they’re sitting in note speaker at a narco-terrorism conference at txlo.com/stap traffic on I-10. Ag commissioner just isn’t the political Angelo State University, where he plugged the debut stepping-stone it once was. So what’s an ambitious of his 16-part video series titled “Texas Traffic—True politician who wants to run for higher office to do? Stories of Drug and Human Smuggling.” The depart- For Todd Staples, the answer is to run the ment is posting these videos on the ag department’s Department of Agriculture like he’s Chuck Norris. ProtectYourTexasborder.com site. Each week, the Staples, a Republican who’s openly running for website features a new interview with a border resi- lieutenant governor in 2014, has made the threat of dent or law-enforcement official. Todd Staples narco-terrorism on the Mexico border his central At the narco-terrorism conference, Staples argued PHOTO BY PATRICK MICHELS issue. If you’re wondering what narco-terrorism has that the federal government hasn’t done enough to 2 | THE TE xAS obSERvER WWW.TExASobSERvER.org POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE secure the border. Among his solutions: triple the and probably winning. TRIVIATEXAS number of “boots on the ground,” send surplus mili- The ultra-conservative think tank has become one of Texas has rarely tary equipment from Iraq and Afghanistan to the the most influential groups in Texas politics, and enjoys been a swing state border, and categorize cartel violence as “terroristic a close relationship with Gov. Rick Perry and many in presidential activity by violent transnational organizations.” Republican state leaders. The TPPF portrays itself as elections. Since “It’s time for the federal government to answer the a “non-partisan research institute” and boasts that it 1972, every call of duty and provide sufficient protection for our “does not accept government funds or contributions to Republican citizens and resources,” Staples said in written state- influence the outcomes of its research.” nominee has ment to the Observer about why he created the video Funny thing, though: TPPF’s research just so hap- captured Texas, series and the website.
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