{"id":53773,"date":"2022-12-16T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53773"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:06:43","slug":"lgbtq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53773","title":{"rendered":"Legislator hires lunatic"},"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>Suffice to say that Texas has no shortage of loons sitting in public office, or a shortage of certifiable lunatics willing to work for them.<\/p>\n<p>Get a load of this tidbit out of Arlington, just down the road a piece from your blogger&#8217;s home in Collin County: State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican, has hired a guy to run his district office who has called for the public execution of anyone who takes children to drag shows.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Niedert is just 22 years of age. He now is going to be Tinderholt&#8217;s legislative director working out of the lawmaker&#8217;s Tarrant County office.<\/p>\n<p>Niedert is a self-proclaimed &#8220;Christian nationalist&#8221; who once said this on Twitter: <em>\u201cYou want to force kids to see drag shows, I want to \u2018drag\u2019 you to the town square to be publicly executed for grooming kids. We are not the same.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/12\/16\/texas-tony-tinderholt-jake-neidert-drag-legislature\/\">Texas Rep. Tony Tinderholt hires Christian nationalist Jake Neidert | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this idiot going to say he was &#8220;joking&#8221; or he was being &#8220;sarcastic&#8221;? Wait for it.<\/p>\n<p>Tinderholt is running for speaker of the Texas House against the current speaker, Dade Phelan, a Beaumont Republican. He wants the House to be even more right wing than it currently has become. God help us.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Tinderholt isn&#8217;t likely to defeat Phelan, but he remains a dangerous character serving in a Legislature that is likely to quarrel and squabble beginning January over anti-LGBTQ and transgender legislation.<\/p>\n<p>This dude is a freak &#8230; who hires freaks to work for him!<\/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>Suffice to say that Texas has no shortage of loons sitting in public office, or a shortage of certifiable lunatics willing to work for them. Get a load of this tidbit out of Arlington, just down the road a piece from your blogger&#8217;s home in Collin County: State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican, has hired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legislator hires lunatic<\/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":[8532,4622,4653],"class_list":["post-53773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-lgbtq","tag-texas-gop","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53773","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=53773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53775,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53773\/revisions\/53775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}