A Texas legislator once told Jody Richardson that, if she wanted to talk to him, she would have to run. And he took off at full speed down a Capitol hallway. With eight marathons on her vita, the lobbyist not only kept up the pace, she had her say. For her 60th birthday, the Allen Boone Humphries Robinson public finance lawyer climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Mountain climbing is just one example of Richardson’s proclivity for uphill challenges, which continues in the current legislative session.
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