Slideshow: Photographer Captures Texas' Democratic Days
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![Portrait of Jim Hightower with bull, 1981.
A quest to illustrate Hightower’s “No More Bull” slogan during his 1982 campaign for agriculture commissioner took Newton to the YO Ranch in the Hill Country west of San Antonio.
Newton said that before the photo shoot, he knew exactly the image he wanted — Hightower standing with a bull in the background.
“We all got in the pen and he was shuffling by like bulls do, but he wasn’t posing,” Newton said.
As the animal began to notice his company in the enclosure, that changed.
“We’re telling [Hightower], 'no, he’s not charging you, no, he’s not charging you,’ while I’m moving trying to keep him in this position,” he said. “Soon after that he started getting a little bit menacing and we had to get out of there."](https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/NdVd79PFjEjnDMVS8xCuD1q4j6U=/850x570/smart/filters:quality(75)/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/11/18/HightowerBull_O-155-36a.jpeg)
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