{"id":6435,"date":"2014-09-12T03:09:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2014-09-12T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T03:09:14","slug":"do-fundraisers-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6435","title":{"rendered":"Do fundraisers count?"},"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>This just in: State Sen. Dan Patrick, the Republican candidate for Texas lieutenant governor, attended a fundraiser at the home of state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>I blogged earlier today wondering whether Seliger would stand with Patrick as he sought to become the next presiding officer of the Texas Senate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mz7R8eAppc\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/12\/still-waiting-for-seliger-and-patrick-to-share-a-dais\/\">Still waiting for Seliger and Patrick to share a&nbsp;dais<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Still waiting for Seliger and Patrick to share a&nbsp;dais&#8221; &#8212; High Plains Blogger\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/12\/still-waiting-for-seliger-and-patrick-to-share-a-dais\/embed\/#?secret=1ecOHzJpzE#?secret=mz7R8eAppc\" data-secret=\"mz7R8eAppc\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to someone who was there, Seliger did in fact play host to a fundraiser for Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noted a time or two that Seliger and Patrick aren&#8217;t exactly close. I&#8217;ll stand by that assessment. I&#8217;ll also stand by my view that Seliger is a loyal enough Republican to want to see a fellow GOP official win his election against a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not clear as to whether this fundraiser was common public knowledge. Many times politicians &#8220;sneak&#8221; into communities under the media radar to attend these fundraisers. The events are known to (a) the candidate (b) the host, obviously and (c) potential deep-pocketed donors who want to see the candidate elected.<\/p>\n<p>They have dinner, a few cocktails, the candidate makes his pitch off the record to the donors who either write a check on the spot or pledge to do so later.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>The question, though, remains: Are we going to see these two loyal Republicans arm-in-arm in public?<\/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>This just in: State Sen. Dan Patrick, the Republican candidate for Texas lieutenant governor, attended a fundraiser at the home of state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo. I blogged earlier today wondering whether Seliger would stand with Patrick as he sought to become the next presiding officer of the Texas Senate. Still waiting for Seliger and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do fundraisers count?<\/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":[1],"tags":[1255,2646,4622],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dan-patrick","tag-kel-seliger","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","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=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}