{"id":45400,"date":"2020-12-04T00:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45400"},"modified":"2020-12-04T00:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:25:28","slug":"hey-lt-gov-patrick-have-you-awarded-any-dough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45400","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Lt. Gov. Patrick &#8230; have you awarded any dough?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23LtGovPatrick%20%23votefraud%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41867\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-patrick-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-patrick-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-patrick-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dan-patrick.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, one of the charter members of the state&#8217;s Republican Party loony bin brigade, recently offered a reward for anyone who could produce evidence of vote fraud in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>From what I have been able to gather, he hasn&#8217;t had to pay up.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that, eh? Why do you suppose Patrick has gone silent? I reckon it&#8217;s because no one has come forward with evidence of fraud. Not even a little bit of it, let alone &#8220;widespread voter fraud&#8221; of the type that Donald J. Trump keeps yapping about.<\/p>\n<p>Texas registered a tremendous voter turnout in this year&#8217;s presidential election, with more than 11 million of us casting ballots. Trump carried the state by less than 6 percent. In Collin County, where I live &#8212; a county known for its rock-ribbed Republican standing &#8212; Trump won by just 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The election was conducted with the usual professionalism that counties across the state perform.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there was Lt. Gov. Patrick making a big show out of the most hideous non-story of this entire election cycle. He dangled money in front of Texans seeking to lure someone to come forward with evidence of vote fraud.<\/p>\n<p>This is all part of the same sham and scam that Trump is unloading on the national democratic process. It&#8217;s the stuff of idiots, conspiracy theorists, dimwits, dipsh**s and certifiable loons.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Patrick can rest easy now. He won&#8217;t have to pay anyone a nickel.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23LtGovPatrick%20%23votefraud%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, one of the charter members of the state&#8217;s Republican Party loony bin brigade, recently offered a reward for anyone who could produce evidence of vote fraud in Texas. From what I have been able to gather, he hasn&#8217;t had to pay up. Imagine that, eh? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, Lt. Gov. Patrick &#8230; have you awarded any dough?<\/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":[7225,1255,9566,5131],"class_list":["post-45400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-2020-election","tag-dan-patrick","tag-texas-turnout","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400","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=45400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45401,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions\/45401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}