Chapter 524

The members on the right were so sure of victory; it did not look like they were going to choose the governor from Texas but the businessman from Utah. He was less controversial to the party's establishment. He was also richer than most of the 1%. It looked like he would win on the first ballot of their convention which was coming up in late October. The members on the left would hold their convention in early November. They were stuck in a quagmire with no clear contender.

On September 12, Julia Atwater appeared, 'RELUCTANTLY', on a morning television show called, "The Preview." It was supposed to be a cream puff interview, about her extended vacation, out of the political pressure cooker. For the first twenty minutes of the show that is exactly what it was. Then she dropped a political bomb. "I have to find something for that bored husband of mine to do. I have to get him out of my house. He's driving me crazy. If he brings one more contrac