We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

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S. He was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas the youngest Solicitor General in the United States and had the longest tenure in Texas history. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.