Comment on Democrats' field growing crowded as filing for 2018 races ends Monday

It happened at lunch in the eighth grade. Andrew White admits he threw the piece of broccoli and hit the wrong kid, setting off an epic food fight that got him and many of his classmates an in-school suspension for several days. Three decades later, White, now 45 and a successful Houston entrepreneur, is running for governor as a conservative, pro-life, pro-business, common sense Democrat, a contradiction in terms that has many of the party faithful girding for another fight, a political throwdown over the future of the Texas Democratic Party -- especially if White should be successful.