Ronnie Earle, from the Washington Post, about a Texas pol who has been dead since 1999:

There was the time, for instance, that a prominent Texas Democrat vowed to murder him.
“He would hold all these press conferences and say terrible things about me,” Earle said, referring to Bob Bullock, the future lieutenant governor whom Earle investigated for allegedly misusing government resources in the 1970s.
“I know at least twice people took guns away from him when he said he was going to kill me.”
Earle, a Democrat, was laughing as he recounted the story in the Travis County district attorney’s office last week. And like many sagas in Earle’s career, the Bullock episode comes with a footnote.
Earle couldn’t persuade the grand jury to indict Bullock, who was then the state’s comptroller and struggling with a drinking problem. But years later, once Bullock had sobered up, the two men were recounting old times at Bullock’s kitchen table.
“You know years ago when you investigated me?” Earle recalled Bullock telling him. “I was guilty as hell.”