{"id":15781,"date":"2016-07-08T19:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:02:45","slug":"lt-gov-patrick-shows-off-his-mean-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15781","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Gov. Patrick shows off his mean streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I had planned to keep quiet about this display of intemperance from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.<\/p>\n

Then I thought I’d speak out.<\/p>\n

While the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, was appealing for calm, unity and peace, the state’s No. 2 elected official took quite another approach.<\/p>\n

Dan Patrick decided to attack the protestors in Dallas last night for running when they heard gunshots. They sought protection from the people whose activities they were protesting, Patrick said.<\/p>\n

He called the frightened protestors “hyprocrites.”<\/p>\n

How in the world does this individual justify such mean-spiritedness in light of what happened in Dallas?<\/p>\n

Five law enforcement officials — four from the Dallas Police Department and one from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority — have been shot to death.\u00a0Seven others are injured, some of them seriously.<\/p>\n

The city, state and nation are in\u00a0utter and complete grief over what has happened.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/beta.dallasnews.com\/news\/dallas-ambush\/2016\/07\/08\/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-calls-dallas-protesters-hypocrites-running-snipers-bullets<\/a><\/p>\n

And the state’s lieutenant governor hurls epithets at those who — until the gunfire erupted — were engaging in a peaceful march to protest the shooting deaths of two young black men in other communities by police officers.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Patrick has disgraced himself … and the state he represents.<\/p>\n\n

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I had planned to keep quiet about this display of intemperance from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Then I thought I’d speak out. While the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, was appealing for calm, unity and peace, the state’s No. 2 elected official took quite another approach. Dan Patrick decided to attack the protestors in Dallas … Continue reading Lt. Gov. Patrick shows off his mean streak<\/span> →<\/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":[18],"tags":[6400,1255,2006],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-dallas-shooting","tag-dan-patrick","tag-greg-abbott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","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=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}