White also brings a low-key, thoughtful approach that seems like just what Texas needs now. There's nothing like high-decibel rhetoric to get folks excited around election time. But today's problems — education, transportation, health care, jobs, a massive projected state budget shortfall, etc. — are best solved by thoughtful deliberation, not overheated rhetoric.
It's also not the time or place for know-it-all politicians who think they have all the solutions and can single-handedly put them in place.
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We also find something comforting and confidence-inspiring in the sort of anti-charisma that White exudes. It's so, well, grown-up. It's also devoid of the unattractive overconfidence that many of today's politicians harbor as they promise us no-cost solutions to all of our high-dollar problems.
