{"id":4842,"date":"2014-02-23T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2014-02-23T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:03:04","slug":"george-p-campaigns-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"George P. campaigns in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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George P. Bush — nephew and grandson of two presidents and the son of a former governor — was thought to be a natural candidate for public office in Texas.<\/p>\n

Then he launched a campaign for Texas land commissioner and promptly hid from view, more or less.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/george-p-bush-snubbed<\/p>\n

He hasn’t submitted to lengthy interviews by newspaper editorial boards or made speeches from the stump of any substance. “P” — as he says he’d like to be called — makes brief appearances here and there and then drives or flies off to the next stop.<\/p>\n

Well, P, what gives?<\/p>\n

P was a huge hit at the 1992 Republican National Convention when, as a 16-year-old speaking for his grandfather — President George H.W. Bush — he exhorted the Houston Astrodome crowd with his enthusiastic “Viva Boosh!” declaration. P’s parents, of course, are Jeb and his Mexico-born mother, Columba and the then-teenager was thought to embody the GOP’s outreach to Latino voters.<\/p>\n

He brought that cachet to this year’s land commissioner race, or so many observers thought.<\/p>\n

As Paul Burka notes in the blog link attached here, the Austin American-Statesman endorsed businessman David Watts for the GOP nomination. The paper apparently was frustrated by P’s refusal to meet with the editorial board, which is a curious posture for a neophyte candidate campaigning for a statewide office, given that Austin is Texas’s capital city.<\/p>\n

I won’t predict how this land commissioner primary will turn out March 4.<\/p>\n

If P wins and then takes office in January, he’ll need to acquire some media relations skills, which would come in handy if he hopes to parlay a land commissioner post into something more visible.<\/p>\n\n

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