Best State Legislator

Kirk Watson

It could have become Watsongate, but the laconic former mayor laughed off his little slipup on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews to become the Tito's Vodka-sippin' hero of the Texas Democratic Convention. But beneath the bonhomie is the sharp political mind that is already making a mark in the Texas Senate.

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