{"id":30128,"date":"2017-01-07T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=30128"},"modified":"2017-01-07T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T17:57:50","slug":"rep-sam-johnson-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=30128","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Sam Johnson to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samjohnson.house.gov\/\">U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson<\/a> of the Texas Third Congressional district (northeast of Dallas, including Plano and McKinney) has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/06\/congressman-sam-johnson-retire-2018\">he&#8217;s retiring at the end of his term<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Like Sen. John McCain, Johnson served as a military pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured during the Vietnam War. Unlike McCain, Johnson has been a fairly reliable conservative, earning an 89% ranking from the Heritage Action for America&#8217;s scorecard and 82% ranking from Conservative Review, earning particular liberal ire for a bill to <a href=\"http:\/\/samjohnson.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397761\">reign in the abuses of the EPA<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At 86, Johnson is well into retirement age. As for replacements, State Senator Van Taylor&#8217;s Eighth District is right smack dab in the middle of the U.S. Third, and like Johnson, Taylor is ex-military, having served with the Marines in Iraq. He&#8217;s also a staunch conservative, pulling a 100% rating from the American Conservative union, all of which makes him a natural candidate. <\/p>\n<p>I just sent Taylor a tweet asking if he&#8217;s running. I&#8217;ll let you know if I get a reply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson of the Texas Third Congressional district (northeast of Dallas, including Plano and McKinney) has announced that he&#8217;s retiring at the end of his term. Like Sen. John McCain, Johnson served as a military pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured during the Vietnam War. Unlike McCain, Johnson has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":24,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,194,255,18,12],"tags":[3249,1518,2862,491,2874,2876,2865,2861,3714,1185],"class_list":["post-30128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-military","category-regulation","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2018-election","tag-3rd-congressional-district","tag-elections","tag-epa","tag-military","tag-regulation","tag-republicans","tag-texas","tag-van-taylor","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128","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=30128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30149,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions\/30149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}