{"id":6341,"date":"2011-05-12T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2011-05-12T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:09:34","slug":"texas-senate-race-updates-for-may-12-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=6341","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate Race Updates for May 12, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A smattering of senate race updates:<\/p>\n<li>Iconblog is not impressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasiconoclast.com\/weblog\/2011\/05\/12\/ricardo-boilerplate-sanchez\/\">with Ricardo Sanchez&#8217;s declaration of candidacy:<\/a> &#8220;Repeating standard Democratic talking points word-for-word in Texas is not a winning strategy. Sanchez completely missed an opportunity to explain his candidacy\u2014he just defined himself as a standard-issue Democratic candidate running on the same things consultants write all over the nation.&#8221; Plus an inside joke from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004BZ5AFU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B004BZ5AFU\"><b>The Wire<\/b><\/a>.\n<li>Politico&#8217;s David Catanese thinks Sanchez is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/davidcatanese\/0511\/Sanchez_files_in_Texas.html\">a good choice that will still lose<\/a>: &#8220;No matter who the GOP nominates, it&#8217;s likely that in 10 months, the Republican will still be the odds on favorite over Sanchez.&#8221;\n<li>Report on Elizabeth Ames Jones&#8217; testimony before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on <a href=\"http:\/\/fuelfix.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/gop-texans-blast-planned-epa-study-of-hydraulic-fracturing\/\">fracking<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomleppert.com\/_blog\/news\/post\/Tom_Leppert_Statement_On_Obama_Immigration_Speech\/\">Tom Leppert&#8217;s statement on Obama&#8217;s latest Illegal Alien Amnesty speech.<\/a> You&#8217;ve got to give the Leppert campaign credit; they&#8217;re doing the damnedest to make the most liberal candidate in the Republican field sound like the most conservative&#8230;\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smattering of senate race updates: Iconblog is not impressed with Ricardo Sanchez&#8217;s declaration of candidacy: &#8220;Repeating standard Democratic talking points word-for-word in Texas is not a winning strategy. Sanchez completely missed an opportunity to explain his candidacy\u2014he just defined himself as a standard-issue Democratic candidate running on the same things consultants write all over [&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":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,18,12],"tags":[928,2862,947,1105,2861,945,1034],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-elections","tag-elizabeth-ames-jones","tag-ricardo-sanchez","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race","tag-tom-leppert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","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=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}