{"id":56521,"date":"2024-02-01T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56521"},"modified":"2024-02-01T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:26:00","slug":"duttons-a-winner-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56521","title":{"rendered":"Dutton’s a winner … this time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jill Dutton has a title next to her name … Texas state representative in House District 2.<\/p>\n

I trust she’ll get comfortable with it quickly. She’ll need to because it is highly possible she’ll lose it when they count the ballots for the next election in a couple of months.<\/p>\n

Dutton, a Republican from Van, defeated fellow Republican Brett Money of Greenville in a special election called after Bryan Slaton of Royse City was expelled from the Texas House over his hideous conduct with an underage staffer, a young woman with whom he had sex after plying her with booze in an Austin apartment.<\/p>\n

HD 2 is a reliably Republican district. Dutton and Money finished one-two in an earlier election and then and engaged in a runoff to determine who would fill the unexpired term. Dutton won.<\/p>\n

Here’s the catch. It was an open primary, meaning Democrats could vote in it. They also could vote in the runoff, which reportedly helped push Dutton across the finish line — barely — in front of Money.<\/p>\n

The March primary will be closed to Republicans only and Money figures to do better head-to-head against Dutton. Money has the endorsement of the former POTUS who’s also on the ballot this spring. I suppose that carries some additional weight in North Texas’s heavily GOP legislative district.<\/p>\n

Whatever. The good news for District 2 voters is that they no longer are represented by someone who preaches the family values line but behaves like a scum-bucket.<\/p>\n\n

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Jill Dutton has a title next to her name … Texas state representative in House District 2. I trust she’ll get comfortable with it quickly. She’ll need to because it is highly possible she’ll lose it when they count the ballots for the next election in a couple of months. Dutton, a Republican from Van, … Continue reading Dutton’s a winner … this time<\/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":[10313,7419,4622],"class_list":["post-56521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-house-district-2","tag-maga","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56521","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=56521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56523,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56521\/revisions\/56523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}