Author Introduction: George Phenix

Meet George:

GEORGE PHENIX has spent his life in press and politics. After leaving KRLD News, George returned to Austin as a boy lobbyist for the Texas Municipal League, where he wrote speeches and television shows for a number of political figures, including Governor Preston Smith. Congressman J.J. Pickle recruited him to run his Washington office, where Phenix wrote more than 250 speeches for the legislator in a single year. After four years in the nation's capitol, he returned to Texas as Executive Assistant to US Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

After a career as film-maker, speech writer, and political consultant, Phenix published several weekly newspapers in and around Austin. He co-founded Texas Weekly, the state's oldest and largest political newsletter, and for more than twenty years he has served as its publisher.
Phenix, an avid bicyclist, invited his four children to join him on a twenty-six-mile ride to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.

They allowed him to come in third, and he plans rematches.

Comments

[Jared Hightower]

George,
I love the Blog. Your Friend in Dallas (County).
Jared