In the seven-plus years I’ve worked at two newspapers in the southern Dallas suburbs that make up the Best Southwest, I don’t think the Best Southwest Chamber of Commerce has yet invited a Democrat to speak at one of its quarterly luncheons when a politician has been the speaker. Maj. Gen. Kathryn Frost, former director of AAFES and wife of former Congressman Martin Frost, was the closest it has come.
Both U.S. Senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, have spoken. But, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson hasn’t. Neither did Martin Frost before he was redistricted out of a job.
In 2006, independent gubernatorial candidates Carole Keeton Strayhorn (when she was still a Republican) and Kinky Friedman spoke. Democrat Chris Bell didn’t.
Are you seeing the pattern yet? I am, and I don’t really like it.
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