Texas Monthly Magazine February 2005 Tom Craddick Daniel Johnson New

Description: This is a brand new and unread issue of the February 2005 Texas Monthly Magazine featuring Tom Craddick, Speaker of the House on the cover. Any story (or series of stories) about power is predicated on a definition of the concept. Senior executive editor Paul Burka offers his in the February issue of TEXAS MONTHLY. Mine goes something like this: Power is the ability to get things done. Power is the ability to get things not done; that is, to single-handedly prevent things from happening that you don’t want to happen, much as a person standing in the middle of a train track with a train barreling toward him at full speed imagines holding up a single finger and stopping the train cold. And power is “screw-you-ability,” which is an inelegant way (but more elegant than it might be said) of saying that the mere thought of someone and someone’s likely displeasure is enough to prevent something from happening in advance. The two definitions, Paul’s and mine, square reasonably well, and so there you have, in a nutshell, the basis for inclusion on what he helpfully reminds us is the third power list that we’ve published in what is exactly 32 years in business. We set out to identify the 25 people with the most clout in politics, at the Capitol, and, in a general sense, in the way Texas is run. To that end, executive editor S.C. Gwynne does a very nice job, I think, of explaining the many aspects of House Speaker Tom Craddick’s power—and why they and it make him the guy with the greatest surplus of clout at the moment. Writer-at-large Jan Reid’s profile of Travis County district attorney Ronnie Earle, who has been called out by Tom DeLay and therefore rates a frequent mention in all sorts of national publications that care not a whit about Travis County, shows how the long arm of the law carries with it enormous clout all its own. Paul and writer-at-large Patricia Kilday Hart weigh in on the other 23 men and women on our top 25, and the remainder of the list is as revealing for who’s on it as who isn’t. Rather than reveal our choices here, I’ll make you open the magazine, but I’ll say this: At least two statewide officials who missed the cut while their staffers made it are going to feel as Barbra Streisand did the year The Prince of Tides garnered Oscar nominations for everyone associated with it but her. “What,” she famously complained, “the movie directed itself?” Also in this issue: senior editor Patricia Sharpe ranks the best new restaurants in Texas; senior editor Michael Hall hangs out with the best-loved songwriter in the alternative rock universe (Daniel Johnson), who happens to be a 44-year-old manic-depressive living with his parents; executive editor Mimi Swartz exit-interviews the headmistress of Dallas’s Hockaday School; and senior editor Anne Dingus cops to her longtime dye job. This magazine is brand new and unread. inkfrog terapeak

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