Texas Standard For December 6, 2017

No Democrat has been elected to statewide office since 1994. But the state’s first openly gay Hispanic Sheriff says she’s ready to be governor. It had been rumored that Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was mulling a bid to challenge Governor Greg Abbott, but now that the shoe has dropped, do Democrats have a serious contender? We’ll explore. Also: A Texas police department takes aim at the Grinch offering an alternative to leaving holiday parcels on the front porch. And: It started in Chicago, got revived in Austin, and has gone global: the story of the real life roller derby queens. Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard: