I'm So Glad You Bring That Up, Because I Was Right There With You

i did opo opposition research as a job for a while, and i did 35 state house races in texas. One of the things that i could do is, no matter which way you voted on that bill, i could whack you for it. So if you compromised, i'm going to whak you for, ah, not, you know, fighting for whatever value. But if you didn't compromise, and there was some log rolling involved, then by the way, you refused to support a bill that would have built a new hospital in your district. All over some extreme principle. And so they were sort of pressured into acompromise because right now they can only