{"id":4628,"date":"2014-02-04T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2014-02-04T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T03:37:11","slug":"abbott-davis-race-gets-ugly-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Abbott-Davis race gets ugly early"},"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>Oh my.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what we can expect for the next, oh, 10 months in the campaign for Texas governor?<\/p>\n<p>The two major parties already have their presumptive nominees: Republicans will nominate Attorney General Greg Abbott while Democrats will nominate state Sen. Wendy Davis. This will occur in March during the party primaries. Then we&#8217;ll get to watch these two bright individuals hammer at each other over things that likely will have little to do with public policy.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/02\/03\/democratic-spies-overhear-abbott-davis-controversy\/<\/p>\n<p>The latest is this: An audio recording has surfaced that suggest Abbott urged his supporters to keep stirring the pot over a controversy involving Davis&#8217;s rather fuzzy personal history. You know the story by now, right? Davis said she was a single mother, divorcing her first husband when she was 19. Turns out her divorce wasn&#8217;t finalized until she was 21. Then came other details about who got custody of her children and some other things. These details were revealed in a Dallas Morning News article written by veteran political reporter Wayne Slater.<\/p>\n<p>The recording says this, according to the Texas Tribune: &#8220;We\u2019re going to heat up this campaign, and it\u2019s going to turn red hot as we keep Texas red.\u201d That reportedly is Abbott speaking in January at a fundraising event in Wimberley. <\/p>\n<p>The problem with the recording is that Abbott had clammed up when the controversy broke, maintaining a statesmanlike silence in public. <\/p>\n<p>So, the question is this: Which Abbott are we going to see as the campaign unfolds further? The circumspect AG or a GOP gutfighter?<\/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>Oh my. Is this what we can expect for the next, oh, 10 months in the campaign for Texas governor? The two major parties already have their presumptive nominees: Republicans will nominate Attorney General Greg Abbott while Democrats will nominate state Sen. Wendy Davis. This will occur in March during the party primaries. Then we&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott-Davis race gets ugly early<\/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":[1],"tags":[1243,2006,5218],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","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=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}