Will Ronnie Run?

Courtesy Austin Political Report  Fri, 11/30/2007 - 1:36pm

Will Ronnie Run?

The quadrennial guessing game is in full swing: will Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle run again or at long last hang up his spurs?

The inscrutable Democrat, a former state lawmaker who was elected to his current post the same year Jimmy Carter won the White House, has confounded would-be successors before.

But speculation about his retirement has intensified in recent weeks.

First, Earle turned 65 in February of this year, a traditional milestone...


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