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The El Paso Mayor

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"Mayor Cook on guitar against Texas's death penalty," is the title of Brandi Grissom's profile of John Cook in today's El Paso Times.  Here's an excerpt from the beginning:In a dark blue pin-striped suit, crisp white dress shirt, snug red tie and shiny brown dress shoes, El Paso Mayor John Cook sure didn't look like any folk singer. But he slung one knee over the other, braced his guitar and belted out a couple songs Wednesday night in Austin just as he has in five other cities across the state, playing with a variety of musicians promoting abolition of the death penalty in Texas. "I don't think we, the state, should have the right to take a person's life," Cook said in an interview before he took the outdoor stage at Scholz Garten in Austin...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).