{"id":41861,"date":"2021-05-17T14:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=41861"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:47:48","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-making-calls-as-he-weighs-running-for-texas-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=41861","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Matthew McConaughey making calls as he weighs running for Texas governor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/16\/matthew-mcconaughey-texas-governor-run-488536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;McConaughey has been quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles, including a deep-pocketed moderate Republican and energy CEO, to take their temperature on the race and to talk about seriously throwing his hat in the ring, according to multiple people familiar with the conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most political strategists say they doubt McConaughey, a Texas native, will sacrifice his status as a beloved cultural icon in the state for the dirty business of politics. They don\u2019t see a viable path forward, either, pointing to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s backing among the business community and millions in the bank \u2014 but the state\u2019s political class is keeping a close eye on the Hollywood star\u2019s plans nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI find it improbable, but it\u2019s not out of the question,\u201d said top Republican strategist Karl Rove, who relayed a recent encounter with Lawrence Wright, describing the New Yorker journalist as \u201chyperventilating\u201d at the prospect that his close friend and fellow Texan might run.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;McConaughey has been quietly making calls to influential people in Texas political circles, including a deep-pocketed moderate Republican and energy CEO, to take their temperature on the race and to talk about seriously throwing his hat in the ring, according to multiple people familiar with the conversations. Most political strategists say they doubt McConaughey,&#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-41861","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\/41861","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=41861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41862,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41861\/revisions\/41862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}