{"id":14018,"date":"2014-05-27T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2014-05-27T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:47:13","slug":"texas-democrats-select-one-random-name-over-one-celebrity-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/05\/27\/texas-democrats-select-one-random-name-over-one-celebrity-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats select one random name over one celebrity name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; Big Elections in Texas&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/2014\/05\/republican-and-democratic-candidates-face-runoffs-in-agriculture-commissioners-race.html\/\">and<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/headlines\/20140316-no-money-is-no-problem-for-democrat-jim-hogan-in-texas-agriculture-commissioner-race.ece\">no advertising efforts<\/a>, no website and only one campaign trip to meet with reporters in Austin, Hogan,a former dairy farm operator and current insurance agent, received 4,310 more votes than Friedman in March, making him the front-runner in tonight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic runoff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hogan has no campaign manager or staff and has received no campaign contributions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Emails obtained by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/headlines\/20140117-kinky-friedman-campaign-pondered-using-willie-nelson-to-get-a-rival-to-quit-race.ece\">The Dallas Morning News<\/a> in January revealed the Friedman campaign considered offering Hogan a meeting with Willie Nelson to entice him to drop out of the March primary.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It appears that this big scandal did it.\u00c2\u00a0 The People &#8482; learned that JIM HOGAN CANNOT BE BOUGHT.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The offer was never presented to Hogan, and Friedman said both he and Nelson had no knowledge of the plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh.\u00c2\u00a0 So, no.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish he were invited to meet Willie Nelson.\u00c2\u00a0 Because then I could ascribe meaning to his election.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically, whatever we get from Jim Hogan came out of his one campaign trip to Austin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Will he pick up a campaign now that he&#8217;s running in November?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this was a referendum against marijuana legalization, the one issue Kinky Friedman&#8217;s campaign had some mojo with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; Big Elections in Texas&#8230; and&#8230; Despite no advertising efforts, no website and only one campaign trip to meet with reporters in Austin, Hogan,a former dairy farm operator and current insurance agent, received 4,310 more votes than Friedman in March, making him the front-runner in tonight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic runoff. Hogan has no campaign manager or staff [&hellip;]<\/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-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","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=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14019,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions\/14019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}