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Jeff Blackburn Hagiography

A blogger writing under the nom de plume "Harry Homeless" last month posted a notable hagiography of my boss Jeff Blackburn, the Legal Director at the Innocence Project of Texas (who incidentally will be in town this afternoon to testify on innocence legislation moving at the Lege).The writer recounts his relationship with Jeff going back to the 1980s when the blogger worked as a contract janitor in Amarillo and he turned to Blackburn during an hilarious dispute with an ex-employer, who was then running for Mayor. The post includes several admiring tales of Blackburn's civil rights work in Amarillo; I've known Jeff for nearly a decade and there was much in this piece I'd never heard. But then, Jeff Blackburn is a man with a lot of war stories so I'm sure for the price of a beer or two he'd be willing to elaborate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).