Photo by Mark MangerMichael Johnston, with a certain President of the United States, circa May 2008.
On the surface, Michael Johnston might have seemed an unlikely choice to fill the seat of Peter Groff, the departing president of the state Senate. After all, Groff is an African-American, as are Rosemary Marshall, Anthony Graves and Renee Blanchard, the three candidates aside from the Caucasian Johnston for the position. And yet Johnston's profile has risen into the rarefield political air than
