{"id":5665,"date":"2011-04-05T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T17:54:41","slug":"texas-2012-senate-race-tidbits-for-april-5-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5665","title":{"rendered":"Texas 2012 Senate Race Tidbits for April 5, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This early in the campaign, news on the Texas Senate race remains sparse (and on the Democratic side, practically non-existent). <\/p>\n<li><i>The Hill<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/152507-top-texas-republicans-weary-of-taking-sides-in-senate-primary-\">numerous race tidbits<\/a>, including word that Michael Williams has recruited former General Tommy Franks to &#8220;serve as national chairman&#8221; of his campaign.\n<li>Rick Perry vs. The World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perryvsworld.com\/item\/1632\">looks at fund-raising expectations for the various candidates<\/a>.\n<li>Tom Leppert talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/senate-races\/153667-ex-dallas-mayor-had-positive-talks-with-sen-cornyn-about-senate-bid\">steps he&#8217;s taking in the race<\/a>.\n<li>Leppert also claims <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/leppert-tacks-r.php\">he&#8217;s always been a conservative<\/a>, no matter how much he might have worked with liberals as Mayor of Dallas. Many of the commentators on that story take issue with that assessment.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early in the campaign, news on the Texas Senate race remains sparse (and on the Democratic side, practically non-existent). The Hill has numerous race tidbits, including word that Michael Williams has recruited former General Tommy Franks to &#8220;serve as national chairman&#8221; of his campaign. Rick Perry vs. The World looks at fund-raising expectations for [&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":31,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[946,1034,1089],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-michael-williams","tag-tom-leppert","tag-tommy-franks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","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=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}