{"id":3522,"date":"2013-09-17T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2013-09-17T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:14:44","slug":"waiting-on-texas-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Waiting on Texas Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As I watch the 2014 Texas political campaign take shape, I keep waiting for some news — any news — about Democrats.<\/p>\n

So far, I’m hearing none.<\/p>\n

There likely will be a change in one race, the one for governor, if state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, jumps into that contest.<\/p>\n

But to date, all the interest, excitement and anticipation are on the Republican side of the ballot.<\/p>\n

This tells me at least two things:<\/p>\n

The Texas Democratic Party is as near-dead as ever before and the Texas Republican Party is feeling its oats while the opposition continues to flounder.<\/p>\n

I wish the Democrats could somehow spring to life, if only to challenge the Republicans and to hold them accountable for the policies they keep enacting into law.<\/p>\n

The Republican side is so exciting, actually, that there’s some talk simmering about whether some “mainstream” GOP officeholders will be challenged by tea party candidates. U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, a Republican member of Congress, is facing such a challenge. There’s been talk of the tea party zealots challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. Good luck with that one.<\/p>\n

Democrats? They’re virtually nowhere to be found. <\/p>\n

The Dems keep talking bravely about staging a comeback. Hollow talk, though, won’t get the job done.<\/p>\n

As for the Republicans, they might have their hands full trying to maintain some semblance of control within their own ranks. Hold on. It’s likely to be a bumpy ride through GOP Land. <\/p>\n\n

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As I watch the 2014 Texas political campaign take shape, I keep waiting for some news — any news — about Democrats. So far, I’m hearing none. There likely will be a change in one race, the one for governor, if state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, jumps into that contest. But to date, all … Continue reading Waiting on Texas Democrats<\/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":[2526,3573,4531,4603,4693,5218],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-cornyn","tag-pete-sessions","tag-tea-party","tag-texas-democrats","tag-texas-republicans","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}