{"id":19506,"date":"2017-01-30T04:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19506"},"modified":"2017-01-30T04:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:26:59","slug":"amarillo-matters-to-whom-and-for-what-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19506","title":{"rendered":"‘Amarillo Matters’ … to whom and for what purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A new political action committee has popped up on Amarillo’s landscape.<\/p>\n

It’s called Amarillo Matters.<\/p>\n

I took a quick look at its website. I found a tab at the top labeled “About Us.” You see these things on websites all the time. The tab implies some information about the PAC, its sponsors, its intent, perhaps a statement or two about how it hopes to achieve whatever noble end it seeks.<\/p>\n

Here is what I found:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amarillomatters.com\/about_us\/<\/a><\/p>\n

OK, I’ve read the mission statement a couple of times. It’s noble, high-minded and — I’ll presume for a moment — well-intended.<\/p>\n

What I cannot gather, though, is its source. Who are the folks backing it, supporting it presumably with money or who this group intends to benefit?<\/p>\n

It says it intends to elect leaders with “impeccable character” and who are “focused on the needs and well-being of the citizens of Amarillo.” Well, duh? Who isn’t —\u00a0in their own heart and mind — focused on those things?<\/p>\n

I, too, want the best for our city. My wife and I pay our taxes, we enjoy the perks the city has to offer, we enjoy some of the quality of life accoutrements available to us? We want more of it.<\/p>\n

Amarillo Matters? Who are you?<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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A new political action committee has popped up on Amarillo’s landscape. It’s called Amarillo Matters. I took a quick look at its website. I found a tab at the top labeled “About Us.” You see these things on websites all the time. The tab implies some information about the PAC, its sponsors, its intent, perhaps … Continue reading ‘Amarillo Matters’ … to whom and for what purpose?<\/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":[9],"tags":[6892,6891],"class_list":["post-19506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-matters","tag-amarillo-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19506","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=19506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19509,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19506\/revisions\/19509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}