{"id":1078,"date":"2010-06-21T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/21\/republican-madden-backs-democrat-white"},"modified":"2010-06-21T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:55:00","slug":"republican-madden-backs-democrat-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Republican Madden backs Democrat White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The cat&#8217;s out of the bag downstate, with reporting today in the Houston Chronicle that Wales Madden Jr. is crossing the partisan divide to support Democrat Bill White&#8217;s candidacy for Texas governor.<\/p>\n<p>Madden is a longtime Republican stalwart who supported Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison&#8217;s gubernatorial bid in the GOP primary. Hutchison lost and now Madden is backing White, a mountain-climbing pal who has worked with Madden on nuclear issues relating to the Pantex arms assembly and storage plant in Carson County.<\/p>\n<p>Madden has been a longtime lawyer and businessman in Amarillo. He&#8217;s a big hitter in this part of the state and he joins a number of other Republicans who are crossing over to support White&#8217;s challenge of GOP incumbent Gov. Rick Perry.<\/p>\n<p>The question of the day, though, is this: Will this support among the movers and shakers translate to actual votes among Republicans in November?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7059718.html\">http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7059718.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cat&#8217;s out of the bag downstate, with reporting today in the Houston Chronicle that Wales Madden Jr. is crossing the partisan divide to support Democrat Bill White&#8217;s candidacy for Texas governor. Madden is a longtime Republican stalwart who supported Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison&#8217;s gubernatorial bid in the GOP primary. Hutchison lost and now Madden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republican Madden backs Democrat White<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}