I wasn't a friend of Molly Ivins' but she made me feel like I was. She called me one day back in 1991 and asked if I would mind if a CBS news crew came by the Green Mesquite BBQ on Barton Springs and tape a segment for "CBS Sunday Morning." She had published "Molly IvinsCan't Say That, Can She?" and the CBS News crew were going to tape her in her natural habitat, I suppose. I said it was no big deal and that she and the "Yankee TV Folks" were welcome. Soon after the taping I received a "hate" letter from a White Supremacist Group, The KKK, warning me to be more careful than allowing a "jew lover" like Molly Ivins to be associated with my businesss. Well. the letter freaked my wife and I out quite a bit and the next time I saw Molly I showed her the letter and she began laughing out loud immediately upon reading it. "Tom Davis, I don't think you have anything to fret over. They spelled your name wrong, my name wrong, and your business name (green meskeet) wrong. I get a bunch of these everyday. They still can't help confusing "Ivins" with "Evins" and these dorks think "Evins " is a southern Jewish name." She then proceeded to tell me to sit down, relax and have a beer. I had my beer and tore up the letter a few minutes later. Bob Bullock liked Molly and tried to ask her for a date. Bob told me that while she was about to unlock her hotel room, and Bob was right behind her, she turns to Bob and says "Sorry, Bob, but you are still a dirty lying politician...goodnight." Bob Bullock laughed and said, "Molly got me again!" Classic Molly, We will miss you. The Texas Observer obituary.