Steve Toth

And I only knew one person.

There were like eight people in that race.

And there was only one person that was kind of emerging as the person that was going to win.

And he was kind of a rhino.

He was very weak.

And this guy comes along that says, look, I'm going to upend the apple cart.

I'm going to be a disruptive influence.

I am going to absolutely stand against the swamp, or as Ted Cruz called it, the Washington cartel.

I'm going to stop it.

I'm going to fight it.

And so we got behind him and... Damn, I would have voted for him too if you said that.

So...

I encouraged our local tea party to mail into the district to spend money into the district and help them raise money to move mountains to get Dan Crenshaw elected.

So I feel a sense of responsibility for this major screw up because no sooner did he get there than he became part of the problem.

It's self-interest more than anything.

You see this revolving door.

on the part of people in Congress that line themselves up for lobbying positions as soon as they leave Congress.

And so in order to get those kind of cushy jobs, you've got to do the lobby's bidding upfront early on.

He's a young guy, right?

Yeah.