{"id":57023,"date":"2024-05-04T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57023"},"modified":"2024-05-04T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:02:17","slug":"craziness-on-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57023","title":{"rendered":"Craziness on the ballot"},"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>The political craziness that has infected the Texas Republican Party comes to a head tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Several GOP politicians are facing runoffs as a result of challenges within their party. One of them happens to be a very powerful pol: Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont, who&#8217;s facing a MAGA challenger in the form of David Covey, a first-time candidate.<\/p>\n<p>I am pulling for Phelan to hold onto his state House seat, even though it might not be worth keeping, particularly if House Republicans decide to boot him out of the speaker&#8217;s chair for the 2025 Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of the MAGA movement&#8217;s declaration of war against Republicans who have the temerity to stand up against their party leadership and work Democrats to actually govern.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Phelan shouldn&#8217;t have to pay the price for doing what is the right thing.<\/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>The political craziness that has infected the Texas Republican Party comes to a head tomorrow. Several GOP politicians are facing runoffs as a result of challenges within their party. One of them happens to be a very powerful pol: Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont, who&#8217;s facing a MAGA challenger in the form of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Craziness on the ballot<\/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":[9,14,18],"tags":[9616,7419,4622],"class_list":["post-57023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-dade-phelan","tag-maga","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57023","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=57023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57024,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57023\/revisions\/57024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}