{"id":178,"date":"2013-05-23T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/23\/abbott-is-betting-perry-wont-run"},"modified":"2013-05-23T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T22:57:00","slug":"abbott-is-betting-perry-wont-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Abbott is betting Perry won\u2019t run?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m just guessing this one out loud, but my hunch is that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott knows something the rest of us don\u2019t know about Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s political plans.<\/p>\n

He might know that Perry won\u2019t run for re-election to an umpteenth term as Texas governor.<\/p>\n

That is why he\u2019s plowing ahead with his own run for governor, or so it seems.<\/p>\n

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It always had been understood that no one would challenge Perry if the governor sought another term. That wasn\u2019t the case in 2010, certainly, when then-U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison ran against Perry in the Republican primary, only to get trounced by the governor.<\/p>\n

Perry has this strange appeal to Texas voters that \u2013 to be totally candid \u2013 astounds me. I\u2019ve been in Texas long enough to have acquired a pretty good feel for the state\u2019s political pulse. Gov. Perry seems to be unbeatable at a state level. After thumping Hutchison in the 2010 GOP primary, he went on to hammer Democratic nominee Bill White, an astute business-minded former Houston mayor. <\/p>\n

Is there any reason to believe Perry would be vulnerable in 2014? The major event that harmed his brand was that disastrous 2012 GOP presidential primary run that came crashing to Earth before if ever got started. I don\u2019t hear much grumbling about that effort now as the statewide election season begins to crank up.<\/p>\n

The only thing that makes sense to me is that the attorney general knows something. The same can be said for former Texas Republican Party chairman Tom Pauken \u2013 a longtime friendly acquaintance of mine \u2013 who also is planning to run for governor in 2014. Pauken was appointed head of the Texas Workforce Commission by, that\u2019s right, Gov. Perry. So one would think those two guys would be big-time political pals. Pauken, though, wants Perry\u2019s job.<\/p>\n

The Perry Era may be coming to an end, yes? <\/p>\n\n

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I\u2019m just guessing this one out loud, but my hunch is that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott knows something the rest of us don\u2019t know about Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s political plans. He might know that Perry won\u2019t run for re-election to an umpteenth term as Texas governor. That is why he\u2019s plowing ahead with his … Continue reading Abbott is betting Perry won\u2019t run?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}