This is a companion post to my post at my Examiner blog. Because Mr. Flores has been a significant topic of late on American Writes, I think it is important to be detailed here so that readers who may not follow my Examiner posts can still be up to date and, as the Examiner blog is supposed to more newsworthy than personal, I have made the editorial decision to put the article here and link to it from Examiner.

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I had the pleasure and honor to speak with Texas 17 Congressional Candidate Bill Flores today as he was riding through a storm on the way to Granbury. My phone call to him was in response to his request that I call him after I had sent an email to all campaigns requesting an interview for the Examiner blog. Mr. Flores was the first to respond to that request.

Mr. Flores wanted me to call to discuss some ground rules for the interview and so that he could assure himself that he would get a fair shake from me. (more…)