{"id":718,"date":"2013-01-01T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/01\/poor-david-dewhurst"},"modified":"2013-01-01T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T02:16:00","slug":"poor-david-dewhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Poor David Dewhurst \u2026"},"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><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14703\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14703\">http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14703<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Monthly\u2019s Paul Burka seems to feel a bit sorry for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.<\/p>\n<p>Not me. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that I dislike Dewhurst. I\u2019ve always found him to be an earnest fellow. He\u2019s very detail-oriented and has plowed into the workings of the state Senate, over which he presides. <\/p>\n<p>Burka\u2019s sympathy arises from Dewhurst\u2019s loss in the Republican U.S. Senate primary this year to upstart tea party favorite Ted Cruz. Dewhurst, who\u2019s allegedly richer than God, was supposed to be a lock to win that race, and then win the general election against Democrat Paul Sadler. It didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Dewhurst tacked far to the right and out of his comfort zone in order to out-right-wing Cruz. It was a poor fit for a guy who\u2019s about as \u201cestablishment\u201d a Republican as they come.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s hard to feel sorry for a guy who still has a pretty important day job as lieutenant governor. Granted, it doesn\u2019t pay much; he earns the same pittance \u2013 $600 a month, plus a per diem expense when the Legislature is in session \u2013 as other members of the Legislature. But he\u2019s got all those gazillions earned from business investments.<\/p>\n<p>Dewhurst will shake off the bad karma that covered him in 2012. At least he didn\u2019t implode on the presidential campaign trail the way Gov. Rick Perry did. And by the way, Perry then threw all his weight behind Dewhurst\u2019s Senate candidacy. That didn\u2019t work too well for Perry, either.<\/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>http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/blogs\/burkablog\/?p=14703 Texas Monthly\u2019s Paul Burka seems to feel a bit sorry for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Not me. It\u2019s not that I dislike Dewhurst. I\u2019ve always found him to be an earnest fellow. He\u2019s very detail-oriented and has plowed into the workings of the state Senate, over which he presides. Burka\u2019s sympathy arises from Dewhurst\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poor David Dewhurst \u2026<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}