Hope When Patrick Hope moved to the nation's capital from Texas roughly two decades ago to go to grad school, he knew he wanted to enter politics. That is exactly what he did, although probably not the way he expected. "I came to Washington, D.C.— I think like a lot of people—to work on Capitol Hill, go to law school and get that experience," he said. "And I think a lot of people want to do all those things, take over the world and go back home. One thing led to another and I stayed here." Now Hope, 43, has two jobs, both of them political. At his day job, Hope is executive director of the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance, a division of the National Electrical… Read More