Thomas wished his intense color didn’t make him have to explain time and again that it was not necessarily an indication of his political point of view or his choice in music (although he was quite fond of Stevie Ray Vaughn, B. B. King and Marcia Ball) . . .
When asked which of the Democratic clients he would prefer, Bubba said either, just include lots of hot sauce and pickles . . .
Since everyone began calling the Republicans “red” and the Democrats “blue”, Howard had been pestered to run on the Republican ticket for everything from school commissioner to senator; he wasn’t Republican, Democrat, or even a good Independent. He just wanted to be left alone and not have the local talking heads ask him how his election plans were coming.
