{"id":109565,"date":"2011-07-18T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=109565"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T20:22:59","slug":"berman-to-run-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=109565","title":{"rendered":"Berman to Run for Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=109568\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/07\/thumb_leo-berman-3-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_leo-berman-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-109568\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2014 State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler has announced he will seek re-election to the Texas House of Representatives District 6 seat. Berman, a Republican, was first elected to the seat in 1999. His only announced opponent so far is fellow Republican Matt Schaefer of Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Berman has added an item to his list of suggested study topics for House committees during the interim before the 2013 legislative session. In a letter to House Speaker Joe Straus, Berman says he thinks it\u2019s time to take a look at the success of English as a Second Language or bilingual education compared to English immersion. He says he believes such a study would be important in regard to the dropout rate of Hispanic students.<\/p>\n<p>Berman also wants committees to study assertion of state sovereignty as well as clampdowns on illegal aliens and Sharia law. Additionally, Berman would like lawmakers to consider a requirement that missing or dead children be reported to authorities within one hour from discovery. That suggestion was spurred by the Casey Anthony case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler has announced he will seek re-election to the Texas House of Representatives District 6 seat. Berman, a Republican, was first elected to the seat in 1999. His only announced opponent so far is fellow Republican Matt Schaefer of Tyler. Meanwhile, Berman has added an item to his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=109565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berman to Run for Re-Election<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:33:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109565"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109883,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109565\/revisions\/109883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}