See the letter I sent to the Chronicle on Friday, just after the Alamo story initially appeared. The CEO of the Alamo Trust quit the next day. Let’s see if they will run it.
Poor Dan Patrick! Blocked from the governorship by Greg Abbott, a politician who masterfully plays to the same delusional base of constituents, our lieutenant governor takes out his frustrations and asserts his right-wing bona fides by calling for the sack of Kate Rogers, head of the Alamo Commission (“Patrick Eyes Exit for Leader at Alamo,” October 24). Her offense? She apparently doesn’t share Patrick’s Walt Disney/John Wayne fairy tale views of the Alamo and Texas history that prevailed in the 1950s when the then Dannie Goeb was growing up in Maryland.
I want to make a public offer to Lt. Governor Patrick: enroll in my college class in Texas history and learn the warts and all truth about the Texas Revolution from a native Texan and professional historian. I want to warn you though sir, that I’ll make you turn off your phone and pay attention, that I’m not an easy grader, and that I’ll hold you to much higher standards than voters have in the years since you left sports journalism and entered politics.