scott comes from a long-standing prominent austin family.
his grandfather keeton was a law professor at ut. there’s a street named for him.
scott’s mo, carole keeton strayhorn rylander... (she married many times) grew up in this connected political household.
carole was the first woman mayor of austin.
carole went on to be the state of texas comptroller. at some point she changed parties and became a republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Page_Keeton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Keeton_Strayhorn
As soon as I remembered that “One Marxist Grandma” was his mom, it all made sense to me.