STAFFORD, Texas _ When the top Democratic presidential candidates gathered in Houston last week, they debated a radical healthcare overhaul and mandatory gun confiscation while striking an uncompromising tone toward President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
About 15 miles away, the message from a lesser-known but still-important Democrat was decidedly different.
"I see that over and over again, where people treat folks on the other side of the aisle not like Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan, where they could sit down and talk about things, but as you're an enemy of my country and an enemy of me," Sri Preston Kulkarni, a Democratic candidate for a House seat in eastern Texas, said in an interview.
