{"id":10286,"date":"2012-07-31T18:50:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2012-07-31T18:50:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T01:50:32","slug":"we-wont-have-yarbrough-to-kick-around-anymore-and-the-problem-with-his-immigration-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/07\/31\/we-wont-have-yarbrough-to-kick-around-anymore-and-the-problem-with-his-immigration-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"We won’t have Yarbrough to kick around anymore, and the problem with his immigration stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last ditch electioneering from Grady Yarbrough<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Democratic US Senate candidate who is often perceived as a joke, Grady Yarbrough, is apparently releasing an ad.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

“I will support the Dream Act 100%,” he says as the ad begins. He also proposes to “grant citizenship to all undocumented workers living here for more than 7 years without a criminal history.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That sounds like a big liberal limb to jump out on to Texas’s voters, and it’s certainly not a place that Paul Sadler is willing to go<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Which is interesting, considering the debate performance<\/a>:
\nYarbrough said he was on board with any number of measures, including a wall or fence, to close the U.S.-Mexico border. And to make his point, he referenced the infamous Berlin Wall, saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it was pretty effective.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have to use whatever method is at our disposal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They are, I suppose, not contradictory positions.\u00c2\u00a0 But considering that Yarbrough was apparently trying to get the votes of a mixture of people voting for the ghost of Ralph and a mixture of Hispanic and black votes (he claims he ran around the state and went to crowds of minorities) — well, quite the idiosyncratic positioning.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably just pandering twice.<\/p>\n

Anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn’t matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadler won.\u00c2\u00a0 And he now goes on to lose to the Tea Party challenger to the Establishment Republican pick<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And there’s a certain hand-wringing to Democratic voters and activists — “If only we coulda found a contender” — this coulda been the year, after a decade of futility with contenders in what looked like they could be the year for statewide election results.<\/p>\n

Anyway… election results for the day’s contests… I’ll see if there’s anything later<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last ditch electioneering from Grady Yarbrough. The Democratic US Senate candidate who is often perceived as a joke, Grady Yarbrough, is apparently releasing an ad. “I will support the Dream Act 100%,” he says as the ad begins. He also proposes to “grant citizenship to all undocumented workers living here for more than 7 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10287,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions\/10287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}