{"id":9467,"date":"2015-05-23T02:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2015-05-23T02:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T02:54:32","slug":"well-see-about-character-among-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9467","title":{"rendered":"We'll see about character among lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think I heard it first from then-U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, an Oklahoma Republican, who I’m sure didn’t coin the phrase that noted that you measure someone’s character by “what he does when no one’s looking.”<\/p>\n

Still, Watts’s assessment rang true when I heard him say it and it will ring true likely forever.<\/p>\n

Thus, the American Phoenix Foundation is set to release hidden-camera video of Texas lawmakers behaving when they think<\/em> no one is looking.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/disrupt-narrative<\/p>\n

APF has made a name for itself exposing misbehavior among elected public officials. It’s a conservative group. Its aim is to reveal how our elected reps conduct themselves. It’s gone after liberal politicians and those associated with liberal causes, such as ACORN.<\/p>\n

The leaders of AFP assure us, though, that they’re going to expose conservative lawmakers saying certain things in public but doing<\/em> entirely different things in private.<\/p>\n

Umm, we’ll see about that.<\/p>\n

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I think I heard it first from then-U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, an Oklahoma Republican, who I’m sure didn’t coin the phrase that noted that you measure someone’s character by “what he does when no one’s looking.” Still, Watts’s assessment rang true when I heard him say it and it will ring true likely forever. Thus, … Continue reading We'll see about character among lawmakers<\/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":[18],"tags":[365,2382,4650,4653],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-american-phoenix-foundation","tag-j-c-watts","tag-texas-lawmakers","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","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=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}