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Well, we have just completed our every two years, bi-annial legislative session of 150 days every two years.

We're not a full-time state legislature.

And you know what happened out of that.

The governor has called special sessions to deal with several bills that will begin in about three weeks.

One of the leaders in the House who shot to prominence pretty early is a lawyer by the name of Mitch Little,

who came to statewide fame as one of the lawyers defending Ken Paxton in the impeachment hearing, the impeachment case that was brought before the Senate. After that he ran for state rep. He won

against all odds. Very sharp guy, very sharp mind, obviously, and was welcomed by the grassroots in Austin as this is the kind of people we want to be attracting to the state legislature.

So we're going to talk to him about what just happened.

We're going to talk to him about whether this being the first day after the end of the finance filing date,

when we're seeing candidates jumping into these races with the Ken Paxton exit from the AG's race,

whether he will be a candidate in that.

And third, he is the lawyer, which is what he does in his day job,

representing Kim Ogg in a case that has been brought against her, really when you get down to it,

by Rodney Ellis through Sean Tier, the district attorney over the Jocelyn Nungari case.

But let's start with the state rep side of his life and the legislative session that just

finished.

Mitch, having been a freshman legislator being considered by pretty much every group that

measured who the stars of the, especially the newcomers, as being the star of this

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