{"id":53124,"date":"2022-10-01T01:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T01:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53124"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T01:47:28","slug":"did-beto-come-clean-on-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53124","title":{"rendered":"Did Beto come clean on cops?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/black-lives-matter-800x430.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15809\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/black-lives-matter-800x430-300x161.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/black-lives-matter-800x430-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/black-lives-matter-800x430-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/black-lives-matter-800x430.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke got the question I was hoping someone would ask him tonight in his debate with Greg Abbott down yonder in Edinburg.<\/p>\n<p>Does he want to &#8220;defund the police&#8221;? I asked O&#8217;Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor, to answer that one cleanly and crisply.<\/p>\n<p>He, um, didn&#8217;t. Is that a deal breaker? Does that mean I am pulling my support for O&#8217;Rourke? No.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked him straight up. His answer was that he &#8220;always&#8221; has supported law enforcement. Hold on. I heard him praise the Black Lives Matter movement for calling on communities to defund the police.<\/p>\n<p>Now he says he always has supported police fully? Not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>I am a strong supporter of the cops, too. I have said so many times on this blog and have expressed it verbally to police officers over many years. If O&#8217;Rourke is going to continue supporting the cops from this moment forward, I&#8217;m all in.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted him to clear up any misunderstanding on the issue. He didn&#8217;t do it.<\/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>Beto O&#8217;Rourke got the question I was hoping someone would ask him tonight in his debate with Greg Abbott down yonder in Edinburg. Does he want to &#8220;defund the police&#8221;? I asked O&#8217;Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor, to answer that one cleanly and crisply. He, um, didn&#8217;t. Is that a deal breaker? Does that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did Beto come clean on cops?<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688,9,18],"tags":[7043,5421,10020],"class_list":["post-53124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-beto-orourke","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-defund-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53124","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=53124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53125,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53124\/revisions\/53125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}