Makes me so glum to report it. David Richards, one of our greatest freedom fighters, is leaving Texas. But maybe only temporarily, we think he’ll be back, he’s bound to come back, really, who’d want to live in Santa Fe forever when Waco beckons? I give him a year before he hollers “uncle” and comes back to freedom-fight where it counts. Meantime, we’ll have to stagger along without one of the best civil-rights lawyers and one of the best all-purpose battlers for justice this state has ever produced. (He promised he wouldn’t let my writing his political obituary affect his decision to return.) David’s ex-wife has gotten more publicity in recent years, but if you want to know the truth, David Richards has done more to make Texas a fair and just place to live than Ann has (term’s not over yet, Annie, keep working). One man–one vote, school desegregation, freedom of speech—the list of cases with David Richards’ name on them as attorney for those getting shafted by unfair and unconstitutional laws goes on and on.
