she will do less damage than the majority of her ReThug colleagues who supposedly have all their faculties.

she had this clever way of not being present for votes if the bill was something off the wall during Trump's first term.

Just from what I see, I think he is worse than her.
Rated "unfriendly" by Texans for Public Education.

Writes about "liberal, woke agenda" etc.

She probably "hid" to avoid a special election. If her successor got in, it could derail what little influence her "not being there" could have.

He is an arch conservrative, and has been as long as I have known anything about him. I was in his State House District, until the maps were redrawn in 2021. He was on the redistricting committee, and he cut 5 consistently Democratic precincts out of his district (HD 97). We are all stacked up on the map in sort of a vertical row. I heard that he wanted us out of 97 because he "didn't want all those Democrats in his district". Well we are actually better off for it because we are now in HD 90 which is solid blue - so blue that our State Rep has run unopposed the last 2 elections.

I do not expect anything good from him. I don't think he is as looney tunes as Sporkfoot, or Gym Jordan or Gomer Comer but it would really surprise me if he broke ranks

in life, but this didn't happen very much. I've known of a very, very few that went to such facilities, for their collapsed mental state, and of them, a very, very, few of them (so in short, a very, very, very, very few end up in such facilities).

Perhaps today it's better, w/ perhaps better drugs, better (and more expensive care), etc. I'd say of all of the people I've known in my life (70 years now), perhaps two people were like this (out of 10s of thousands I've known throughout my career and personal life). It does happen but not often (recovering enough to function again in the 'real world').

It's sad and terrible in any event. I always had a hard time dealing w/ these people when the last time you saw them, they were the totally 100% normal, be happy personality and then WHAM! They're gone. No memories of who you were, etc. I had only one person who did remember me.

Remember the good parts about these people, and especially help those that are their companions, helping them out (in a few horrible cases, families stole all of these people's money (they didn't know what was going on of course), and cast them adrift. Other good friends, thank God, stepped in and took over care (former Exs, etc.).

and sometimes they are wild, because too many people file to run