Reply #28: I was in a room with * before he was Governor of Texas,

[Ron Green]

and I knew at that time what sort of person he is. Entitled to special treatment because of his family connections, and deeply insecure at the same time, precisely due to the lack of any personal achievement on his own part. It plays out as that self-effacing, "hail fellow, well met" kind of frat-boy shucking and jiving, which works OK up to about the junior executive level but is absolutely criminal in the job in which he's been installed.