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In 1994, Bronaugh got a call from Lindsay, who told him that Harris County and the City of Houston were prepared to support the coalition and were willing to put together three hundred thousand dollars to hire a lobbyist.

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The year before, there had been clear evidence of intrastate strife: Louis Bronaugh, the mayor of Lufkin and the leader of the Texas contingent to the Mid-Continent Highway Coalition, complained to the Houston Chronicle that the city had yet to produce a representative.

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Bronaugh is a shorter man, with a full white beard cut round, a bald head, and glasses.

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At the first meeting of the Mid-Continent Highway Coalition, Bronaugh was one of only four Texans, and Lufkin was the southernmost city represented.

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Texas remained a nominal part of the coalition—and Bronaugh remained the head of its delegation—but after the fight over lobbyists and money, the fabric of the organization was frayed forever.

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John Caruthers had found a compatriot in Louis Bronaugh, the mayor of Lufkin and an optician by trade, and the two became fast friends.

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“Randy DeLay got his ass in a crack because he was using the weight of his brother as Speaker of the House to achieve certain things,” Bronaugh said.

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“The problem with the big cities is they start ruining the stuff that little cities need,” Bronaugh complained.

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For instance, the Louis Bronaugh Regional Mobility Complex also known as Jennings Station, where locals catch buses to the nearby towns of Diboll, Crockett, Livingston, and Nacogdoches.

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Bert Bronaugh: Just get ubuntu 9.04 and install it.

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