During her run for Texas governor in 1990, Ann Richards invoked the theme of bringing about a New Texas, where cronyism and good-old-boyism were things of the past and women and minorities could take the reins of power. She was 55 when she ran, and the last time a woman had won the governor’s office was the year that Richards was born, in 1933. “I know what it is like to find the door closed to you,” Richards told a church congregation on the Sunday before the Democratic primary. “Not because of the color of my skin, but the fact that I was born female.”Richards won the governorship that year, but her vision of a New Texas lasted just a single term; she lost re-election…The post Could Lupe Valdez (or Oprah?!) Be The Key to a New Texas? appeared first on Texas Monthly.