{"id":2717,"date":"2013-07-17T03:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2013-07-17T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:10:34","slug":"pauken-issues-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"Pauken issues challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ll say it once again: Tom Pauken could add considerable spice to the Texas Republican governor’s primary campaign in 2014.<\/p>\n

Now all Attorney General Greg Abbott has to do is take Pauken — the former Texas Republican Party chairman — up on his debate challenge.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.beaumontenterprise.com\/bayou\/2013\/07\/16\/paulken-challenges-perry-lite-greg-abbott-to-serious-debate\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I like the idea of these two men going head to head across the state. They both want to be the state’s next governor and it’s a pretty good bet that one of them will get the job after the November 2014 election.<\/p>\n

Abbott has been anointed the frontrunner. I’ve also said this before, too, but Pauken deserves to be heard. He’s claimed there should be no “divine right of succession” to Rick Perry, who’s leaving office in January 2015 after serving since the beginning of time — or so it seems.<\/p>\n

Abbott and Pauken are two smart men. They’re trained in the law and they know how to argue their points … whatever they are.<\/p>\n

I’m one Texas voter who’s willing to learn more about what these men believe, what they stand for and how they intend to lead this state.<\/p>\n

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I’ll say it once again: Tom Pauken could add considerable spice to the Texas Republican governor’s primary campaign in 2014. Now all Attorney General Greg Abbott has to do is take Pauken — the former Texas Republican Party chairman — up on his debate challenge. http:\/\/blog.beaumontenterprise.com\/bayou\/2013\/07\/16\/paulken-challenges-perry-lite-greg-abbott-to-serious-debate\/ I like the idea of these two men going … Continue reading Pauken issues challenge<\/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-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}