Marilyn Schwartz died in hospice care Feb. 25 in Houston. She was 89. And in her long and rewarding life we find a reminder of this frequent and happy occurrence: Interesting folks often find other interesting folks and get married.
Marilyn was married to the legendary A.R. “Babe” Schwartz, who spent 20 years representing Galveston in the Texas Senate (after four years in the Texas House) until he was ousted by Republican J.E. “Buster” Brown in 1980. What’s not to like about an election pitting a Buster against a Babe?
Babe was a progressive back when progressives were called liberals. And he was a liberal back in 1980 when the Reagan wave swept lots of folks like that out of office.
Editor: The Fourth Estate (with rare exceptions), has turned its back on over half of the U.S. population (Biden did not win by a landslide) by playing the harlot to