{"id":2239,"date":"2013-07-03T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2013-07-03T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:39:48","slug":"is-this-challenger-credible-well-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"Is this challenger credible? We’ll see"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elaine Hays, an Amarillo businesswoman, has decided that 20 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives is enough, so she\u2019s running to replace Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon,\u00a0in the People\u2019s House.<\/div>\n
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I don\u2019t know Hays. I understand she had about 75 people attending her campaign kickoff announcement at the Ambassador Hotel in Amarillo.<\/p>\n

She talks about the nation being $16 trillion in debt and I suppose she\u2019s blaming Thornberry for that huge debt load.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s most interesting to me is that she has been endorsed by newly elected Texas State Board of Education member Marty Rowley, a fellow Republican who attended Hays\u2019 event at the Ambassador. I would have thought Rowley would be in Thornberry\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

Whatever.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping someone along the way asks Hays this simple, direct question: Will you pledge to serve only two, maybe three, terms in office and will you leave office after that time?<\/p>\n

Thornberry keeps getting hammered \u2014 unfairly, in my view \u2014 by those who think he\u2019s reneged on a term-limits pledge. He never promised to serve the number of terms prescribed in the Contract With America, which Thornberry endorsed when he ran for his first term in the House in 1994. He\u2019s voted for the constitutional amendment every time it\u2019s come up; the amendment simply has failed to gather the required number of votes needed to send it to the states for ratification.<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0I\u2019ll be the first to ask Ms. Hays:\u00a0Will you hereby make that term-limits pledge and will you bow out of public office after six years?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u00a0 Elaine Hays, an Amarillo businesswoman, has decided that 20 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives is enough, so she\u2019s running to replace Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon,\u00a0in the People\u2019s House. http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=916936#.UdRBWkoo6t8 I don\u2019t know Hays. I understand she had about 75 people attending her campaign kickoff announcement at the Ambassador Hotel in … Continue reading Is this challenger credible? We’ll see<\/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-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","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=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}