{"id":98,"date":"2013-06-13T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/13\/one-of-ours-makes-10-best-list"},"modified":"2013-06-13T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T01:23:00","slug":"one-of-ours-makes-10-best-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"One of ours makes \u201810 Best\u2019 list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It always intrigues me that whenever Panhandle media make note of the region\u2019s legislative delegation, they find a way to omit the name of one of its best.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Bob Duncan, a Republican who lives in Lubbock, is on Texas Monthly\u2019s list of 10 best legislators. Duncan\u2019s Senate district sprawls through much of West Texas\u2019s South Plains region, but it does include a tiny corner of the Panhandle. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s good \u2013 for me, at least \u2013 to know the region is represented by someone who\u2019s held in fairly universal esteem by those who watch Texas government\u2019s wheels grind along.<\/p>\n

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None of the Panhandle\u2019s other lawmakers made the \u201cBest\u201d or \u201cWorst\u201d lists. Good to know that our delegation isn\u2019t embarrassing itself \u2013 and the rest of us \u2013 by \u201chonored\u201d with dubious distinctions such as being on the \u201c10 Worst\u201d list published every other year by Texas Monthly. But it is disappointing, at least a little, to see that we haven\u2019t made the \u201cBest\u201d list this year.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t lack for hard-working legislators. Republican state Reps. John Smithee and Four Price of Amarillo are serious fellows who take their jobs seriously. Smithee\u2019s been doing it longer (since 1985) than any of the Panhandle delegation and, thus, has earned the title of \u201cdean\u201d of the bunch. Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, the \u201cother\u201d Panhandle senator, also is a serious fellow who has yet to make a splash big enough for the Texas Monthly gurus to notice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that Texas Monthly is the end-all to this kind of recognition. It\u2019s just that the magazine\u2019s lists are cause for celebration or derision when their names are revealed.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll now give a hand-clap to Bob Duncan, one of the best of the state\u2019s 181 state legislators. He\u2019s one of ours to boot.<\/p>\n\n

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It always intrigues me that whenever Panhandle media make note of the region\u2019s legislative delegation, they find a way to omit the name of one of its best. State Sen. Bob Duncan, a Republican who lives in Lubbock, is on Texas Monthly\u2019s list of 10 best legislators. Duncan\u2019s Senate district sprawls through much of West … Continue reading One of ours makes \u201810 Best\u2019 list<\/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-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}