Fiorina: A Texan by birth with a story to prove it
Carly Fiorina brings a Texas ranching legacy to the presidential campaign.
And one Texas rancher has come forth to help.
Although she’s known more as a California Republican, Fiorina was born in Austin to the Sneed family, Texans since 1839 and known for oil, cattle ranching, cotton farming and for an early 20th-century love-triangle feud and scandal.
In the 1960s, she grew up spending summers with her grandparents in a historic home in Calvert, between Waco and Bryan.
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Her father, the late U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed, came from the cotton-farming side of the family in Calvert. He also cowboyed on another uncle’s ranch before going to Southwestern University in Georgetown and the University of Texas Law School, staying as a professor.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article35834040.html#storylink=cpy
[font color=330099]Crap, she would have a connection to my alma mater.[/font] 