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Was a Texas State Legislator Held Captive? No, Not Really. But She Got Our Attention.
One of the worst things about spending time at the Texas Legislature, apart from the fact that it makes you a little bit insane, is that it turns you into a pedant. There’s so much specialized knowledge to pick up that it’s easy to start looking askance at folks who have a slightly less developed sense of House procedure or don’t remember David Simpson, Republican from Longview. You start talking like Tom Hanks at the beginning of Cloud Atlas.That is to say, I will admit to some initial confusion when the overnight stays of Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier at the Texas Capitol became first a national and then an international news story and journalists from around the country started to get in touch to…The post Was a Texas State Legislator Held Captive? No, Not Really. But She Got Our Attention. appeared first on Texas Monthly.