Dallas author Jason Stanford knows what it’s like to be the target of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s ire. Two years ago, the Texas Republican politician worked to get a promotional event canceled for a book that Stanford co-wrote, Forget the Alamo. But when Stanford learned that a Texas A&M University professor had been put on administrative leave after supposedly criticizing Patrick during a lecture, he felt horribly for her. “They have inflicted real trauma on her.”
