{"id":9758,"date":"2015-06-14T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2015-06-14T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T22:36:05","slug":"texas-gop-wins-but-some-republicans-remain-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9758","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP wins, but some Republicans remain angry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

Some Texas Republicans\u00a0can’t seem to win enough.<\/p>\n

The Legislature approved two key bills near and dear to gun owners: open carry and campus carry. Gov. Greg Abbott just signed them both into law, which now means that Texans licensed to carry concealed weapons can do so openly; they’ll also be able now to pack heat on college campuses.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/13\/texas-gop-scuttles-legislative\/<\/p>\n

If you’re\u00a0a gun owner rights advocate, you’d be happy. Correct?<\/p>\n

I guess not entirely.<\/p>\n

The state GOP\u00a0was unable to approve a resolution that slapped around four Republican lawmakers for “standing in the way” of Texans’ gun ownership rights.<\/p>\n

Good grief, folks. You won! You got what you wanted! But as the Texas Tribune reported, the notion of such a resolution made some GOP officials uneasy: “But the very prospect of it\u00a0riled some party leaders, sparking\u00a0heated debate about the committee’s role in the Capitol\u00a0and seriously complicating party fundraising in at least one instance.”<\/p>\n

The party lost a vendor who’d been a major fundraiser and who had been uneasy about the resolution rebuking some lawmakers.<\/p>\n

However, some members of the State Republican Executive Committee wanted to single out House Speaker Joe Straus, Rep. Dennis Bonnen, Rep. Larry Phillips and Sen. Joan Huffman for their opposition to a “Constitutional Carry” amendment, which translates into allowing unlicensed Texans to carry firearms.<\/p>\n

Some members of\u00a0the Texas GOP need to settle down. Take a breath. You\u00a0won the contest over these two key gun-related issues.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Texas Republicans\u00a0can’t seem to win enough. The Legislature approved two key bills near and dear to gun owners: open carry and campus carry. Gov. Greg Abbott just signed them both into law, which now means that Texans licensed to carry concealed weapons can do so openly; they’ll also be able now to pack heat … Continue reading Texas GOP wins, but some Republicans remain angry<\/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":[825,2519,3427,4380,4653,4691],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-campus-carry","tag-joe-straus","tag-open-carry","tag-srec","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758","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=9758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}