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My head-shaking just won\u2019t stop in the wake of this week\u2019s stunning announcement regarding a North Texas congressman, a self-proclaimed conservative lawmaker who \u2014 I am going to presume \u2014 was proud of his \u201cfamily values.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican Van Taylor ended his re-election campaign Wednesday after disclosing he had an extramarital dalliance with a Plano woman, a so-called \u201cISIS bride\u201d who once was married to an officer in the Islamic State terrorist organization. Geez, that alone is enough to make me wonder about a lot of other things.<\/p>\n

Taylor was heading for a runoff after Tuesday’s GOP primary.<\/p>\n

What is so damn disturbing about this \u2014 actually one of many things that ought to disturb any of us \u2014 is the way Taylor characterized himself as a staunch conservative, someone who stood for strong values. The implication of those values statements is clear, that he is a devoted to his wife and children. Well, the way I see it, one\u2019s devotion must be complete, unequivocal and unconditional.<\/p>\n

Taylor has apologized profusely to his family and to his constituents. I am one of the latter and I will accept the apology and I will wish him well as he tries to rebuild his life. Whether he is able to rebuild his family is a matter for them to decide.<\/p>\n

My only concern \u2014 as a Third Congressional District\u00a0constituent<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 is that Taylor stays away from public service. I don\u2019t want him representing my interests at any level of government. You see, I don\u2019t much care for public officials who profess to be of a certain stripe, but who are hiding dark secrets that reveal them to be something quite different.<\/p>\n

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My head-shaking just won\u2019t stop in the wake of this week\u2019s stunning announcement regarding a North Texas congressman, a self-proclaimed conservative lawmaker who \u2014 I am going to presume \u2014 was proud of his \u201cfamily values.\u201d Republican Van Taylor ended his re-election campaign Wednesday after disclosing he had an extramarital dalliance with a Plano woman, … Continue reading Righteous among us tumble<\/span> →<\/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":[9,14],"tags":[1685,1941,2348,8271],"class_list":["post-50769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-family-values","tag-gop","tag-isis","tag-van-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769","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=50769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50770,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50769\/revisions\/50770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}