After winning the Women’s Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this month, former state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte lamented the growing political divide in a discussion with the Texas Business Minds podcast. “We began to see over the progression in 2000 — certainly in 2011, 2013 — the beginnings of some real divisiveness [in the Texas Legislature],” the San Antonio Democrat said in a conversation with Ed Arnold, editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Business Journal.