{"id":37664,"date":"2019-06-25T02:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T02:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37664"},"modified":"2019-06-27T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:30:29","slug":"good-riddance-to-this-legislative-blowhard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37664","title":{"rendered":"Good riddance to this legislative &#8230; blowhard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23TexasLege%20%23TEAParty%20%23FreedomCaucus%20%23redlightcameras&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stickland_property_tax_MKC_TT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37665\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stickland_property_tax_MKC_TT-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stickland_property_tax_MKC_TT-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stickland_property_tax_MKC_TT-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Stickland_property_tax_MKC_TT.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to be among those who say <em>so long, farewell<\/em> and <em>good riddance<\/em> to a Texas legislative blowhard.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, a onetime member of the Texas Freedom Caucus, has announced he won&#8217;t seek re-election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2019\/06\/24\/jonathan-stickland-says-he-wont-run-reelection-texas-house\/?utm_campaign=trib-social&amp;utm_content=1561389084&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR3MyX2dNbc9u4ssunQBnsAhpkPA7zBwrcWABLwbqfIQhgeA2RhcHjl5138\">The Republican from Bedford<\/a> distinguished himself mainly through his fervent debates on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives. He got little legislation enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>Although he did finally score something of a win when the Legislature approved &#8212; and Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law &#8212; a measure that bans cities from using red-light cameras to help fight lawbreakers who run through street signals that order them to come to a complete and full stop.<\/p>\n<p>Nice going, pal.<\/p>\n<p>He quit the Freedom Caucus &#8212; a group aligned with the TEA party faction of the GOP &#8212; to concentrate on &#8220;grassroots issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, now he is soon to be gone from the Legislature. He represents a district on the other end of the Metroplex. Still, his votes matter to all of us, given that state laws cover everyone who lives in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I will not miss this man&#8217;s fiery objection to normal rules of order in the Texas House. Indeed, he managed to anger many within his party &#8212; and damn near lost to a Democratic challenger in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe he read something into those election results and decided to pack it in.<\/p>\n<p>See ya, dude.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23TexasLege%20%23TEAParty%20%23FreedomCaucus%20%23redlightcameras&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be among those who say so long, farewell and good riddance to a Texas legislative blowhard. State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, a onetime member of the Texas Freedom Caucus, has announced he won&#8217;t seek re-election in 2020. The Republican from Bedford distinguished himself mainly through his fervent debates on the floor of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good riddance to this legislative &#8230; blowhard<\/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":[9,18],"tags":[1941,4531,8664,4653],"class_list":["post-37664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-gop","tag-tea-party","tag-texas-freedom-caucus","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664","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=37664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37698,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions\/37698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}