Former San Antonio State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte reflects on polarized politics

After winning the Women's Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this month, former state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte lamented the growing political divide in a discussion with the Texas Business Minds podcast. “We began to see over the progression in 2000 — certainly in 2011, 2013 — the beginnings of some real divisiveness [in the Texas Legislature]," the San Antonio Democrat said in a conversation with Ed Arnold, editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Business Journal. She continued: "The instant news cycle and the availability to communicate through social media has also made every single elected official at the state and local level somewhat a target of what's happening in national politics."
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