rough draft

“Journalism is supposed to be the first rough draft of history, and no one was writing that draft,” he said.

They’ve been living through Operation Lone Star, a multibillion-dollar campaign in which Gov. Greg Abbott, citing the failure of federal immigration enforcement, sent thousands of Texas troopers to the border in a sort of on-the-ground rough draft of S.B.

He said in an interview on WSB Radio last week that he’d had a rough draft of his ruling ready before he knew that anyone planned to challenge him in a May election and that “the result is not going to change because of politics.”

"But at home I'd painted a rough draft on cardboard. So later I took this and placed it by the memorial."

In a radio interview, Judge McAfee said politics would not influence his decision on Ms Willis, adding he wrote a rough draft of his ruling before Mr Patillo announced his challenge.