Playing Possum: The Tale of the River Card, Round I

When Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill in May 2009 authorizing the Brazos River Authority to sell the entire inhabited shoreline of Possum Kingdom Lake, not many people questioned it. But the odd thing is that the property in question had been sold exactly one month earlier to a good ol’ boy that had earned the nickname “the River Card.”

While the Texas legislature had been busy considering the will of the people, the Brazos River Authority had been busy selling the land. The final sale p...