Bless his heart, he’s just in the wrong place. The Legislature is not right for him. His conservative beliefs are too extreme, his suspicions are too easily aroused, his learning curve is too flat. The man isn’t dumb. He’s got an MBA from Harvard. They read books there. But he has no more clue about what it takes to succeed in the Legislature than the youngest schoolchildren in the gallery.Like an actor who has stumbled into the wrong theater, he delivers lines that don’t fit the play. During a House committee consideration of a bill allowing the University of Texas to obstruct a view of the Capitol with its soon-to-be-enlarged football stadium, Howard noticed that the bill stipulated that the height of the structure could…
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