Laura Thompson will only serve in the Texas House for a few short months. And with the Legislature out of session, she won’t even get to take a vote. But her election to fill former Democratic state Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon’s seat in San Antonio has still made recent Texas history. That’s because Thompson, a 58-year-old freelance writer, is the first candidate not affiliated […]
Author Archives: Madeline Conway and Aneri Pattani, The Texas Tribune
Madeline Conway is a summer 2016 newsletters fellow at the Texas Tribune and recent graduate of Harvard University. Aneri Pattani is a summer 2016 reporting fellow who will graduate from Northeastern University in May 2017.
