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I said: "When I joined in 2000... I was too busy running the state of Texas to post."

You said: "“NO KIDDING! You took the reins from Dubya? So when exactly did Rick Perry come on board?" :-)”

I worked for the party to help elect Dubya, plus husband was a Republican County Chair, so we were in Austin with Dubya on a number of occasions while he was governor, we were with him, and also he came to the area where we lived. When he became president, I was on Perry's campaign list of workers and we met with him in Austin before the campaign started and I was with his mom all day that day and she is quite a lady. So, I worked in that campaign.

We were also working to turn our county from Democrat to Republican as husband was Republican County Chair, and I became an expert in Texas Election Law and I traveled Texas instructing county chairs in the law and also instructing many hundreds of election judges and clerks. My husband and I wrote a law that determines the process every county in Texas has to follow in counting votes on election night. That law passed both the Texas House and Senate without a dissenting vote and is in effect still today and always will be. We did turn our county from Democrat to Republican, electing the first Republican ever elected in that county and that was the District Attorney and the next election, we elected more Republicans to offices in that county. Husband was county chair for ten years until his health failed.

The above explanation is why I humorously said I was running Texas and couldn't devote time to FR.

Here is a story: We had an election judge in our county who looked exactly like Bush's mom, Barbara Bush. There was NO difference in their looks. We were with Bush one time after he made a speech and a man said to him there was a lady who looked like someone he knew - our lady stepped up and Bush threw his arms around her and said, “This is my mom!”

We were at a state Republican convention and our lady and some of us were going up an escalator to our district meeting. I heard a man several steps up on the escalator say to himself out loud, “Barbara Bush is here!” Well, unknowing to us, he rushed ahead of us into the huge room where all in the district delegates had gathered, and when we walked in, everyone stood up and started clapping for Barbara Bush! Our lady had to tell the large group she was not Barbara Bush.

Our lady told me one time that because she looked so much like Barbara, that she stayed aware of that when she was out in public in case people thought that and she wanted to purport herself as the lady Barbara was.

They eventually met and I have a picture of the two standing together and you cannot tell which is which.