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The Capitol’s Ultimate Insider Has Seen It All
Harvey Kronberg’s phone keeps playing the sad-trombone sound. Every time he gets a text—and he gets a lot—his device lets out a loud womp-womp-womp. The sound effect, he explains, is an artifact from last year’s Texas Republican primary, a bloodbath for a lot of his friends and sources in the state House, who were wiped out by a tsunami of spending by Governor Greg Abbott and a vengeful mood among the GOP’s Jacobin base. The news the longtime Capitol insider kept getting via text was so bad, he figured it ought to be heralded with an appropriate sound effect. Almost a year later, he hasn’t changed the noise. “All the news is still bad!” he says, laughing.Kronberg—or “Harvey,” as he’s almost universally known around the…The post The Capitol’s Ultimate Insider Has Seen It All appeared first on Texas Monthly.