Dan Patrick’s predecessor in the TX Senate was Jon Lindsay:
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=5922
Thanks, name sounds very familiar...he may well have been the jerk that treated Patrick and his busloads like garbage in Austin.
They thought they were cute, after all, what power could the owner of a small-time radio station in Houston have, against the people sitting at the highest levels of power in the state government (and a big state government at that)? They must have gotten a BIG LAUGH out of watching Patrick having a tantrum up there in the Senate Visitors’ Gallery. Now they answer to him.