{"id":10565,"date":"2011-07-21T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2011-07-21T14:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:33:52","slug":"dominoes-about-to-fall-for-texas-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10565\/dominoes-about-to-fall-for-texas-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominoes About to Fall for Texas GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/57_11\/dewhurst_jumps_into_texas_senate_primary-207545-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10622:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Roll Call<\/em><\/a> reports that Texas Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst has entered the race to replace retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX).\u00a0 The field is already crowded, with former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, an ardent conservative, angling to be the Lone Star version of Florida\u2019s Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>Dewhurst\u2019s substantial personal wealth and four statewide electoral victories (3 as Lt. Gov., 1 as land commissioner), are prompting some to say he\u2019s now the frontrunner.\u00a0 With Governor Rick Perry mulling a bid for president, this could signal a major shake-up of Texas GOP politics as two of the state\u2019s highest profile jobs come open for the first time since 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll Call reports that Texas Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst has entered the race to replace retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX).\u00a0 The field is already crowded, with former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, an ardent conservative, angling to be the Lone Star version of Florida\u2019s Marco Rubio. Dewhurst\u2019s substantial personal wealth and four statewide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,928,2891,615,2892,352,334,838,2890,561],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-conservative","tag-david-dewhurst","tag-gop","tag-kay-bailey-hutchinson","tag-marco-rubio","tag-republican-party","tag-rick-perry","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10569,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}