{"id":28495,"date":"2018-03-07T04:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28495"},"modified":"2018-03-07T04:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:29:01","slug":"price-cruising-to-re-election-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28495","title":{"rendered":"Price cruising to re-election &#8230; good deal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Take that, Empower Texans!<\/p>\n<p>The far-right political action hack, er, group has decided that state Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, wasn&#8217;t their kind of legislator. So it backed a fellow named Drew Brassfield, the Fritch city manager, to challenge the up-and-coming lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Price appears headed for a smashing victory against Brassfield, dashing the hopes of Empower Texans, which has been stalking a number of incumbents &#8212; many of them Republicans &#8212; throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>This victory means that GOP voters in Texas House District 87 don&#8217;t like being dictated to by political interests who (a) are based far away from the Texas Panhandle and (b) have no interest and\/or knowledge of the issues that are unique to this region.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Empower Texans had funded a campaign that distorted and lied about Price&#8217;s voting record in the House.<\/p>\n<p>My hope was that Rep. Price would squash Brassfield&#8217;s bid. With a healthy chunk of precincts reporting, Price is leading by about 50 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>I consider that to be a serious squashing.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take that, Empower Texans! The far-right political action hack, er, group has decided that state Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, wasn&#8217;t their kind of legislator. So it backed a fellow named Drew Brassfield, the Fritch city manager, to challenge the up-and-coming lawmaker. Price appears headed for a smashing victory against Brassfield, dashing the hopes of Empower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Price cruising to re-election &#8230; good deal!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1582,1783,4622,4653],"class_list":["post-28495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-empower-texans","tag-four-price","tag-texas-gop","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495","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=28495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28496,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28495\/revisions\/28496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}