for Ending the Texas Two-Step Five days before his death, Jim Mattox testified to a Texas Democratic Party Committee on the Party's method of awarding presidential delegates based on a primary vote plus evening caucuses. Mattox said the system, known as the Texas Two-Step, was an embarrassment to the party. "Now let me tell you, folks," Mattox said. "This system we've got is an expensive system. It's an unintelligible system. It is an acrimonious system across the board. It is subject to misconduct, it is subject to fraud, it is subject to manipulation. It's unfair, it's uncertain, it's inaccurate, and it's an embarrassment to our party." Death In 2008, Mattox worked in Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He died eight months thereafter at the age of 65 of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Dripping Springs in Hays County west of Austin. Mattox's body lay in repose at the Texas House of Representatives chamber inside the Texas Capitol rotunda on Monday, November 24, 2008. Services were held on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at the First Baptist Church, 901 Trinity Street in Austin. He is interred at the Texas State Cemetery, 909 Navasota Street in Austin. References External links http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol17/issue26/pols.AGrace.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061108172637/http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue09/pols.attgeneral.html http://www.sanderhicks.com/reagan.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/finances/index.html?query=MATTOX,%20JAMES&field=per&match=exact http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n6_v15?pnum=9&opg=15543265 http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcd11 https://web.archive.org/web/20081201094733/http://changethecaucus.org/?p=172 Video of Jim Mattox Testifying Against the Texas Two-Step at Austin Hearing on November 14 http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/ 1943 births 2008 deaths Baptists from Texas Burials at Texas State Cemetery Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives People from Austin, Texas People from Dallas People from Dripping Springs, Texas Texas Attorneys General Texas lawyers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas 20th-century American politicians Dedman School of Law alumni 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century Baptists