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entire marriage. Of course, it
helps when you’re in love with
your husband.”
“Gail is like American
Express. I never leave home
without her,” said Larry.
“He’s right,” Gail Fowler
said. “During the campaigns
I go to everything with him. I
think that’s the way it should
be. Being in politics is not a
one-man show. You rarely see
one of us without the other.
That’s the way it should be.”
Now, Mike Prince’s time
is filled with meetings and
events, either linked to the
Republican Party or charitable
events. He’s not a man with a
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E
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ton of free time on his hands,
yet, he’s quick to point out that
he wouldn’t have it any other
way.
“If we can just persuade the
right people to keep paying it
forward,” he said. “I’m blessed
that Zan and I met each other.
At the end of the day, we try
to focus on the positive. If
you can’t talk about what you
bring to the table, go home. If
you’re going to sling mud, go
home. It’s what drives so many
people away from the process.
We’re working for the future.
We want to influence the right
people to step up and make a
difference.”
JERRY
BUCKNER
REPUBLICAN
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Brandi Buckner, Treasurer
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mudslinging and the long hours
of door-to-door campaigning?
”It’s simple,” Pat Deen said.
“You have a wife that loves
you…You can’t control the
things that come your way in a
campaign, but you can control
how you react to them.”
Pat Fallon, who is running
for the Texas Senate, says
he doesn’t have a hard time
coping with the mudslinging.
He believes the old adage,
attributed to German philoso-
pher Friedrich Nietzsche, “That
which does not kill us, makes
us stronger.”
“It thickens my skin and
makes me tougher,” he said.
His wife Susan constantly
reminds him, “Texas is worth
it.” He has to agree with her.
Willow Park Mayor Doyle
Moss says he’s far less both-
ered by political trash talk than
is his wife Linda.
“I think I take it a little better
than she does,” Doyle said.
“The mudslinging is hard to
take, especially when it’s not
true. When I decided to run,
I asked the guy I was running
against to have breakfast with
me. You just can’t take it
personally. If you want to make
a difference, I believe that you
can.”
How do you keep the
romance going through the
hectic and sometimes nega-
tive climate of a political
campaign?
Linda said, “We’ve kept
the romance alive through our
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