(Guest Opinion) Richard Juday: BillyBob meets the Colonel (and you meet your candidates)

(Guest Opinion) Richard Juday: BillyBob meets the Colonel (and you meet your candidates)

Whom I shall call soothsayer BillyBob spoke as colorfully and persuasively as any I have heard. Country boy from the East Texas pineywoods. Showed up in Houston at a public presentation by the Army Corps of Engineers of plans for their proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir. I write in his voice today. “This here Colonel Strait sittin’ in front of you today, he wants to be a Gin’ral, and you don’t git to be a Gin’ral ‘less you build a dayum. He’s gon…