{"id":33459,"date":"2018-11-12T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33459"},"modified":"2018-11-12T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:21:10","slug":"there-goes-my-favorite-speaker-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33459","title":{"rendered":"There goes my favorite speaker candidate"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Texas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33377\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Texas-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Texas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Texas-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Texas-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, dadgummit anyway!<\/p>\n<p>Four Price of Amarillo, as fine a legislator as I&#8217;ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, has decided he doesn&#8217;t want to be the next speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>OK, in the interest of full disclosure, I&#8217;ll acknowledge that Price also is a friend of mine. I&#8217;ve known him almost from the day I arrived in the Texas Panhandle way back in January 1995.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected to the Texas House in 2011, succeeding another Republican lawmaker, David Swinford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/four-price-300x202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32103\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/four-price-300x202-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted Price to run for speaker after Joe Straus announced he wouldn&#8217;t seek re-election to his House seat from San Antonio. I said so a time or three. Then Price decided to go for it.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s out. He&#8217;s thrown his support to Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/11\/11\/four-price-drops-speaker-bid-1541966769\/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">The Texas Tribune reports<\/a>: <em>On Sunday, \u2026 Price announced he was exiting the race, saying he and Bonnen had &#8220;had a number of candid and productive conversations about our vision for the future of Texas and how we can work together to make that future as bright as possible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you know Four Price, you get the unmistakable sense that he means precisely what he told the Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>That he is dedicated to the state&#8217;s future and wants the best for it.<\/p>\n<p>It happens to be one of the reasons why I wanted him elected speaker of the House when the Legislature convenes in January.<\/p>\n<p>If Four Price is up to <em>remaining<\/em> in the Legislature, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be in the hunt for the speakership at a later date. That, too, would be good for Texas.<\/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>Well, dadgummit anyway! Four Price of Amarillo, as fine a legislator as I&#8217;ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, has decided he doesn&#8217;t want to be the next speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. OK, in the interest of full disclosure, I&#8217;ll acknowledge that Price also is a friend of mine. I&#8217;ve known him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There goes my favorite speaker candidate<\/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":[18],"tags":[1783,2519,4644,4653],"class_list":["post-33459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-four-price","tag-joe-straus","tag-texas-house-speaker","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33459","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=33459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33460,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33459\/revisions\/33460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}