I recently came across a roast of Ann Richards on C-SPAN that took place in Port Arthur in 1992. It seemed like something out of another era—that brief time when George H. W. Bush was president and Richards was governor. It had been four years since she wowed the Democratic convention with her gibe that the forty-first president had been “born with a silver foot in his mouth,” and she was well on her way to icon status. But this southeast Texas event was clearly one held among friends, mostly among the good ol’ boys whom Richards had tolerated and cajoled and bullied to get her way in the statehouse. Once-powerful Democratic state senator Carl Parker was there, as was the crazy-rich East Texas plaintiff’s lawyer…The post Why We Need Strong Texas Women appeared first on Texas Monthly.