“Welcome
to the show,” Mr. Kronberg said with a smile many years ago when I had just
started as a contract writer for Quorum Report during the 2013
session. A battle over cracking down on payday lenders had just gone sideways
on then-Sen. John Carona and the debate – back when those were allowed
in the Senate – had been entertaining to say the least.
It was during those early years that I first started my working relationships with so many of you and I learned just how special and important the community in and around the Texas Capitol truly is.
A few
years later in 2015, Harvey promoted me to Editor of this publication. Hard to
believe it’s been a decade, right?
Somewhere in
all of it, the bosses at the Houston Chronicle asked if I would
partner with them to create a Texas politics podcast. At first, I thought I was
simply going to help them get it started and then the Chronicle folks would
take it over. But instead, I led the Texas Take podcast to became
the number one politics podcast in this state over the course of the last
decade alongside my work here at QR. I appreciate that so many QR readers have
also enjoyed the show each week.
But my former
co-host, Jeremy Wallace, has become increasingly hostile to the insider
crowd in Austin. In other words: You. On a recent episode of the show, he
ranted that “we’re not here” for the insiders in Austin. Some of you reached out
to me to ask why this was happening. Well, Jeremy has apparently come under increased
pressure from his corporate ownership to change the direction of what he does.
I don’t know the details of their conversations, but the public result has been
this hostility toward you, my readers.
He’s free
to do what he wants of course but our subscribers at QR come first for me.
So, my
involvement in that podcast is over but the show will go on here in the pages
of QR, on the numerous radio and TV shows around the state, and for those who
want a podcast – and it’s many of you – there’s a new project in the works.
Stay tuned
and thank you so much for reading and listening – SB
By Scott Braddock
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