CHAPTER 9
Engaging in the Game of Politics
Priscilla plunged into her new life.
Settling into the high stress political environment was, for her, duck to water. Her new lifestyle and profession were inextricably linked. The essence of her life was now political, an essence for which she had already been unwittingly conditioned. Adjunct and unknown to almost all those who knew her, she thrived on the sheer rush of an occasional storm, which life and work in the Ohio capital provided in abundance.
She had heard more than one of her A.A. colleagues, as well as the legislators themselves, call her “that new girl in the Ohio Senate with that smashing suntan.” But she shared little of her background with them. Many seemed to know she had most recently been teaching political science somewher
