{"id":15862,"date":"2021-01-30T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15862"},"modified":"2021-01-30T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:18:04","slug":"orourke-mulling-run-for-texas-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15862","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;O&#8217;Rourke mulling run for Texas governor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/536287-orourke-mulling-run-for-texas-governor\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>: &#8220;Former Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/beto-orourke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beto O&#8217;Rourke<\/a>&nbsp;(D-Texas) said this week he is considering a 2022 gubernatorial run,&nbsp;setting up a potential challenge against incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m going to think about,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke told Buzz Adams on Texas radio station KLAQ on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O&#8217;Rourke went on to hit Abbott&#8217;s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, accusing him of having a &#8220;complete indifference&#8221; to steps local leaders are trying to take to save lives amid the&nbsp;public health crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Former Rep.&nbsp;Beto O&#8217;Rourke&nbsp;(D-Texas) said this week he is considering a 2022 gubernatorial run,&nbsp;setting up a potential challenge against incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).&nbsp; &#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m going to think about,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke told Buzz Adams on Texas radio station KLAQ on Monday. O&#8217;Rourke went on to hit Abbott&#8217;s handling of the coronavirus pandemic,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15880,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15862\/revisions\/15880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}