{"id":56233,"date":"2023-11-26T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56233"},"modified":"2023-11-26T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:16:34","slug":"abbott-devoted-to-single-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56233","title":{"rendered":"Abbott devoted to single issue?"},"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>Well &#8230; what do you think of this, which is that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed the re-election of 59 state lawmakers &#8212; all of whom have supported his school voucher idea?<\/p>\n<p>Me? I think it stinks. Why? Because legislating on behalf of a state as large, diverse and demanding as this one ought to require a comprehensive approach to governing. Abbott doesn&#8217;t see it that way, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to plunder public education funds, siphon them off to private schools and, in my view, deplete our state&#8217;s public schools of the resources they need to provide our children a quality education.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see it his way, according to the governor, why, you just don&#8217;t deserve to be re-elected to the Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>What a pile of dog-dookie!<\/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>Well &#8230; what do you think of this, which is that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed the re-election of 59 state lawmakers &#8212; all of whom have supported his school voucher idea? Me? I think it stinks. Why? Because legislating on behalf of a state as large, diverse and demanding as this one ought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott devoted to single issue?<\/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":[6251,18],"tags":[1941,2006,7419,10293],"class_list":["post-56233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-state-news","tag-gop","tag-greg-abbott","tag-maga","tag-school-vouchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56233","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=56233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56234,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56233\/revisions\/56234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}