{"id":926,"date":"2012-10-03T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/03\/its-getting-nasty-out-there"},"modified":"2012-10-03T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:18:00","slug":"its-getting-nasty-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s getting nasty out there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I wish it hadn\u2019t come to this. Former Democratic Texas state Rep. Paul Sadler and former Republican state Solicitor General Ted Cruz engaged in a debate last night and Sadler resorted to cheap name-calling.<\/p>\n

“What you don\u2019t do is do your job as a legislator worried that some troll will come along 10 years later or 20 years later and try to run a campaign against you,” Sadler said of Cruz, his opponent in the race to become the state\u2019s next U.S. senator.<\/p>\n

I always thought Sadler was better than that. Remember when Gov. Ann Richards referred to George W. Bush as a \u201cjerk\u201d back in 1994 when she ran for re-election. That was an unseemly utterance and it might have played a part in Bush defeating Richards that year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as though Cruz and Sadler are locked in a tight match. Every poll under the broad Texas sky shows Cruz is the prohibitive favorite to take the seat held by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. <\/p>\n

Some have seized on the troll comment as a shot at Cruz\u2019s height; he\u2019s a good bit shorter than Sadler. Let\u2019s not go there. No, the troll reference merely is a gratuitous bit of petulance that should not have become part of what is supposed to be a serious public policy discussion.<\/p>\n\n

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http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-newspaper\/texas-news\/brief-top-texas-news-oct-3-2012\/ I wish it hadn\u2019t come to this. Former Democratic Texas state Rep. Paul Sadler and former Republican state Solicitor General Ted Cruz engaged in a debate last night and Sadler resorted to cheap name-calling. “What you don\u2019t do is do your job as a legislator worried that some troll will come along 10 years … Continue reading It\u2019s getting nasty out there<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}