Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples at TribLive on May 12, 2011.
Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples at TribLive on May 12, 2011. Jacob Villanueva
Audio: Todd Staples at TribLive

At last Thursday’s TribLive conversation, I interviewed Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples about the impact of drug-fueled violence on border farmers and ranchers, what he thinks about the Senate’s two-thirds rule, his nascent campaign for lieutenant governor in 2014 and more.

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Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...