{"id":46311,"date":"2021-01-31T02:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46311"},"modified":"2021-01-31T02:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T02:56:22","slug":"hoping-to-de-fang-empower-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46311","title":{"rendered":"Hoping to de-fang Empower Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=EmpowerTexans%20%23TexasLegislature%20%23TexasGOP%20%23DrewSpringer%20%23ScottSanford&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/empower-texans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30537\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/empower-texans-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/empower-texans-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/empower-texans-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/empower-texans.jpg 950w\" 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>My wish list for the 2021 Texas Legislature is fairly modest, given the constraints the pandemic has placed before governing bodies all across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>I want to offer this modest wish for our legislators: Do not let Empower Texans call the shots on your agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Empower Texans, in my view, is a truly detestable political action committee. It is led by a guy named Michael Quinn Sullivan, a fellow I do not know but he is someone about whom I have heard plenty.<\/p>\n<p>He stuck a shiv in former House Speaker Dennis Bonnen&#8217;s back in 2019, recording a meeting he and Bonnen had in which Bonnen gave him the names of 10 Republican legislators that Empower Texans could target for defeat. He recorded the event with Bonnen&#8217;s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>He and his PAC have meddled in GOP primaries throughout the state, including in the Texas Panhandle, where I lived for 23 years before moving to Dallas area two years ago. He has sought to defeat fine legislators, friends of mine &#8230; so perhaps my anger is a bit too personal. But it is what it is, you know?<\/p>\n<p>I just want Empower Texans to be kept at arm&#8217;s length. The PAC is too rigid to suit me, as a taxpaying Texan. I do not want this outfit to &#8220;empower&#8221; me in any fashion.<\/p>\n<p>My plea, then, goes directly to two men: Republican state Sen. Drew Springer and Republican state Rep. Scott Sanford. They represent me in the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Stay away from Empower Texans. Got it? <em>Good!<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=EmpowerTexans%20%23TexasLegislature%20%23TexasGOP%20%23DrewSpringer%20%23ScottSanford&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com My wish list for the 2021 Texas Legislature is fairly modest, given the constraints the pandemic has placed before governing bodies all across the nation. I want to offer this modest wish for our legislators: Do not let Empower Texans call the shots on your agenda. Empower Texans, in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoping to de-fang Empower Texans<\/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],"tags":[1582],"class_list":["post-46311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-empower-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311","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=46311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46312,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions\/46312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}