{"id":6385,"date":"2014-09-02T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/02\/the-hammer-knows-about-trouble\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:53:21","slug":"the-hammer-knows-about-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6385","title":{"rendered":"The Hammer knows about trouble"},"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>Who knows what trouble lurks for politicians aspiring for higher office? The Hammer knows.<\/p>\n<p>Take it from Tom &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; DeLay, who says Texas Gov. Rick Perry is going to face some serious fundraising trouble as long as he has those crazy indictments hanging over him.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/216324-delay-indictments-make-perry-presidential-campaign<\/p>\n<p>Perry is under indictment for political coercion and abuse of power relating to his strong-arming of a Democratic district attorney in Travis County. A grand jury indicted him on two felony counts.<\/p>\n<p>Perry is believed to want to run for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. It&#8217;s going to be tough for him to raise the money he would need to seek the office, said DeLay, the former GOP member of Congress known for putting the &#8220;hammer&#8221; on colleagues to ensure they voted the right way.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-House majority leader got into some trouble himself over alleged misuse of campaign funds. So he knows a thing or two about the political fallout that can accrue when politicians get into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the lame-duck Texas governor ever is convicted of anything remains an open question. It&#8217;s quite clear &#8212; at least to me &#8212; that his presidential ambitions have been dealt a potentially mortal blow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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>Who knows what trouble lurks for politicians aspiring for higher office? The Hammer knows. Take it from Tom &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; DeLay, who says Texas Gov. Rick Perry is going to face some serious fundraising trouble as long as he has those crazy indictments hanging over him. http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/216324-delay-indictments-make-perry-presidential-campaign Perry is under indictment for political coercion and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hammer knows about trouble<\/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":[14,18],"tags":[129,3639,3951,4844,4896],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-political-coercion","tag-rick-perry","tag-tom-delay","tag-travis-county-grand-jury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","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=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}