{"id":49328,"date":"2021-09-25T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49328"},"modified":"2021-09-25T20:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:54:40","slug":"abbott-panders-to-ex-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49328","title":{"rendered":"Abbott panders to ex-POTUS"},"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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49317\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/R-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is a weak Governor openly and shamelessly taking his orders from a disgraced former President. Governor (Greg) Abbott is wasting taxpayer funds to trample on Texans&#8217; freedom to vote, all in order to appease his puppeteer.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat, in response to the governor ordering an audit of votes cast in Dallas County in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>All told, four of Texas&#8217;s most populous counties, are going to have their votes audited in a fashion that seeks to find evidence of vote fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert: <em>They won&#8217;t find any such vote fraud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other counties are Tarrant, Harris and Collin. County judges in Tarrant and Harris counties have blasted the governor&#8217;s decision to knuckle under to the demand of the twice-impeached former POTUS, who lost his re-election effort to President Biden. All three of those counties cast most of their votes for Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but what about the judge who presides over Collin County, where my wife, along with our son and daughter-in-law, also reside? He has been silent. Judge Chris Hill, another Republican, has yet to speak out about this nonsensical demand. I also should point out that Collin County voted narrowly for the former POTUS in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>We are witnessing in real time a shameful exercise in intimidation by the former president of the U.S. of A., who continues to promote The Big Lie about widespread voter fraud &#8230;<em> that does not exist!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>&#8220;This is a weak Governor openly and shamelessly taking his orders from a disgraced former President. Governor (Greg) Abbott is wasting taxpayer funds to trample on Texans&#8217; freedom to vote, all in order to appease his puppeteer.&#8221; So said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat, in response to the governor ordering an audit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott panders to ex-POTUS<\/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":[7225,5129],"class_list":["post-49328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-2020-election","tag-vote-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49328","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=49328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49329,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49328\/revisions\/49329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}