{"id":47878,"date":"2021-05-03T21:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47878"},"modified":"2021-05-03T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:43:39","slug":"legislator-earns-high-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47878","title":{"rendered":"Legislator earns high praise"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/OIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47879\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/OIP-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/OIP-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/OIP.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan Huberty should take a bow and accept this small expression of support for a courageous act he took today on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Republican acknowledged to his colleagues that he is an alcoholic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My name is Dan and I am an alcoholic,&#8221; he told fellow legislators in an emotional speech in Austin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/05\/03\/texas-dan-huberty-dwi-legislature\/\">Texas state Rep. Dan Huberty apologizes to House after DWI arrest | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huberty was charged with drunken driving on April 23 after he crashed his car into a minivan and failed a sobriety test. The incident occurred just outside of Austin. He told his colleagues today he has been struggling with alcoholism his entire adult life.<\/p>\n<p>He apologized to them and to his family and acknowledged that he has completed three of the Alcoholics Anonymous&#8217; 12-step program toward sobriety.<\/p>\n<p>Huberty&#8217;s colleagues responded with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>It was richly deserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlcoholism is a serious disease,\u201d Huberty said. \u201cOne that is becoming a pandemic in itself.\u201d Yes. It most certainly has become a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often that we see politicians lay open their emotional wounds in such a candid manner. Rep. Huberty isn&#8217;t my representative, but I want to applaud him for showing the courage it takes to find his way out of the darkness.<\/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>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Dan Huberty should take a bow and accept this small expression of support for a courageous act he took today on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives. The Houston Republican acknowledged to his colleagues that he is an alcoholic. &#8220;My name is Dan and I am an alcoholic,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legislator earns high praise<\/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":[9697,246,9698,4653,4728],"class_list":["post-47878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-aa","tag-alcoholism","tag-sobriety","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878","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=47878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47880,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878\/revisions\/47880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}