“In ‘79, Jim [Hightower] came in and hired us to do his advertising, all that stuff was for the Railroad Commission race in ‘80… (H)e ran against Jim Nugent, otherwise known as The Snake, on the Texas Railroad Commission. And Hightower got 49 percent, almost won, and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to him because he […]
Fred Lundgren
“Reagan Brown (incumbent Ag Commissioner) was planning a news conference to talk about fire ants. So, not to be outdone, we set up a competing news conference for State Rep Dan Kubiak to do the same thing. Dan was chairing the Select Committee on Fire Ants and running for Land Commissioner. From our point of view, talking about fire ants […]