{"id":6996,"date":"2014-11-05T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2014-11-05T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:07:30","slug":"republican-wave-douses-potter-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6996","title":{"rendered":"Republican wave douses Potter County"},"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>Just how serious is this Republican wave that the GOP is proclaiming from the Tuesday mid-term election?<\/p>\n<p>Consider what happened in one justice of the peace precinct in Potter County, Texas. It had been served since 1998 by a Democratic justice of the peace, who on Tuesday got drummed out of office by a first-time candidate who &#8211;near as I can tell &#8212; no one had heard of.<\/p>\n<p>My pal and former colleague Jon Mark Beilue talks about this in a blog he wrote this morning.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/amarillo.com\/blog-post\/jon-mark-beilue\/2014-11-05\/anyone-republican-would-win-local-election<\/p>\n<p>Texas is seriously Republican. The Panhandle of our state is even more so.\u00a0Democratic stronghold pockets are dwindling with each election cycle. Another of them bit the dust Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>JP Nancy Bosquez soon will be a former justice of the peace. Her successor will be a fellow named Richard Herman, a retired Army sergeant.<\/p>\n<p>Potter County&#8217;s Precinct 2 long has been considered relatively &#8220;safe&#8221; for Democrats. No more. To be a Republican running for anything in Texas, let alone the Panhandle, is now to be a juggernaut. Herman won even though he&#8217;s lugging some considerable personal baggage, which includes multiple arrests on felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican tide Tuesday was real. It swept out a dependable officeholder who had the misfortune of being from the &#8220;other&#8221; party.<\/p>\n<p>However, here&#8217;s one head-scratching element to this story. The county commissioner from that very precinct, Democrat Mercy Murguia, was elected to a full term. She survived the GOP tsunami, while Bosquez was getting\u00a0swamped.<\/p>\n<p>Very strange.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Just how serious is this Republican wave that the GOP is proclaiming from the Tuesday mid-term election? Consider what happened in one justice of the peace precinct in Potter County, Texas. It had been served since 1998 by a Democratic justice of the peace, who on Tuesday got drummed out of office by a first-time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republican wave douses Potter County<\/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],"tags":[179,1969,2568,3176,3677],"class_list":["post-6996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-agn-media","tag-gop-tide","tag-jon-mark-beilue","tag-nancy-bosquez","tag-potter-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996","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=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}