{"id":6723,"date":"2014-10-08T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2014-10-08T22:32:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T22:32:42","slug":"abbott-gets-cash-from-claytie-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6723","title":{"rendered":"Abbott gets cash from Claytie Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This one flew across my radar today. I cannot let it go without a brief comment.<\/p>\n

One-time presumptive “frontrunner” for Texas governor Clayton Williams has given a six-figure donation to the campaign of current presumptive frontrunner Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n

Oh, my. I need to catch my breath.<\/p>\n

There. It’s back.<\/p>\n

You’ll remember Claytie Williams. In 1990, he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in his race for governor when he ran against then-Texas Treasurer Ann Richards. He was leading in most reputable polls. The Republican Midland oil man was a shoo-in.<\/p>\n

Then he did two very stupid things:<\/p>\n

* First, he refused to shake Democrat Richards’ hand at a public event. He called her a liar. Cameras all across the state captured that magical moment. Williams offended many Texans by refusing to take a lady’s hand. You don’t do that in Texas, Claytie.<\/p>\n

That wasn’t the worst of it.<\/p>\n

* He then compared rape to the weather. He said a woman who’s about to be sexually assaulted and brutalized by a man should think of it as bad weather and just sit back and relax.<\/p>\n

Richards then became the state’s governor.<\/p>\n

I am wondering if another high-profile Abbott supporter, has-been rocker Ted Nugent — who’s got his own history of sexual criminal activity in his background — is going to pony up some big cash for his man, the attorney general.<\/p>\n

I’m now waiting for\u00a0Claytie and the Motor City Madman to make a joint appearance together on behalf of the man they’re supporting for Texas governor.<\/p>\n

Ain’t politics fun?<\/p>\n\n

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This one flew across my radar today. I cannot let it go without a brief comment. One-time presumptive “frontrunner” for Texas governor Clayton Williams has given a six-figure donation to the campaign of current presumptive frontrunner Greg Abbott. Oh, my. I need to catch my breath. There. It’s back. You’ll remember Claytie Williams. In 1990, … Continue reading Abbott gets cash from Claytie Williams<\/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":[14,18],"tags":[49,395,1020,2006,4539,5218],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-1990-texas-governors-race","tag-ann-richards","tag-clayton-williams","tag-greg-abbott","tag-ted-nugent","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","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=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}