{"id":13060,"date":"2012-05-27T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=13060"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T03:21:37","slug":"one-more-reason-to-vote-for-charles-schweitner-over-ben-bius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=13060","title":{"rendered":"One More Reason to Vote for Charles Schweitner Over Ben Bius"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve already mentioned that<\/a>, despite having voted for Ben Bius against Steve Ogden in 2010, I wasn’t inclined to vote for Bius over Charles Schwertner in the Senate District 5 race. However, even if I weren’t so inclined, the news that Schwertner supports Governor Perry’s Budget Compact, while Bius opposes it<\/a>, would be enough for me to vote for Schwertner over Bius.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to oversell the budget compact<\/a>. Getting Republicans to agree to it is the first step of a long (and no doubt frequently painful) process to get it implemented, and I don’t imagine that it will be the absolute “game changer” some have made it out to. And even if passed, it could all be undone in a single legislative session (especially if Democrats ever get their act together in Texas). But if it doesn’t yet create the ratchets for long-term control of the state government’s size, budget, and growth rate, it at least lays the groundwork for those ratchets to be implemented. <\/p>\n

For that reason, among many others, I will be voting for Charles Schwertner<\/a> (who Perry has endorsed<\/a>) over Ben Bius in the Senate District 5 race, and urge any readers in SD5 to do the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve already mentioned that, despite having voted for Ben Bius against Steve Ogden in 2010, I wasn’t inclined to vote for Bius over Charles Schwertner in the Senate District 5 race. However, even if I weren’t so inclined, the news that Schwertner supports Governor Perry’s Budget Compact, while Bius opposes it, would be enough for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":30,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,12],"tags":[928,243,1610,2862,2865,200,242,2861,1624,244],"class_list":["post-13060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-ben-bius","tag-charles-schwertner","tag-elections","tag-republicans","tag-rick-perry","tag-steve-ogden","tag-texas","tag-texas-budget-compact","tag-texas-state-senate-district-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13060"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13086,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060\/revisions\/13086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}