{"id":52830,"date":"2022-09-06T03:27:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52830"},"modified":"2022-09-06T03:27:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:27:31","slug":"so-many-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52830","title":{"rendered":"So many villains"},"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>Texas has the unfortunate title of being home to too many political villains, all of whom &#8212; it&#8217;s safe to say &#8212; happen to belong to a single party.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. They&#8217;re Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>What do you expect? Every elective office in this state is held by members of the one-time Grand Old Party. There was a brief moment just about four or five years ago when a sitting judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals changed his party affiliation Republican to Democrat; then Larry Myers got beat for re-election &#8230; by a Republican, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The ranks are so full of villains, it is difficult for me to single many of them out.<\/p>\n<p>I have to mention three obvious villainous pols:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gov. Greg Abbott, who has concocted this goofy illegal immigrant busing program, only to blame President Biden for what Abbott labels an &#8220;open-border policy.&#8221; Foolishness.<\/li>\n<li>Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has served as the state&#8217;s top law enforcement officer almost entirely while being under felony indictment right here in Collin County. Preposterous.<\/li>\n<li>Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the leader of the Texas Senate, who just manages to piss people off every time he opens his pie hole. Idiotic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Will Democrats ever be able to break the GOP stranglehold? I keep hearing about how Texas is believed to be &#8220;trending&#8221; toward a more competitive political environment.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I hope that&#8217;s the case.<\/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>Texas has the unfortunate title of being home to too many political villains, all of whom &#8212; it&#8217;s safe to say &#8212; happen to belong to a single party. Yep. They&#8217;re Republicans. What do you expect? Every elective office in this state is held by members of the one-time Grand Old Party. There was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So many villains<\/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":[9974,2006,2652,4622],"class_list":["post-52830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-2022-midterm-election","tag-greg-abbott","tag-ken-paxton","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52830","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=52830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52831,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52830\/revisions\/52831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}