{"id":112941,"date":"2011-08-01T09:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=112941"},"modified":"2011-08-02T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:25:03","slug":"u-s-senate-seeker-spoke-with-ktbb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=112941","title":{"rendered":"Leppert: Honesty in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=112942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/tom-leppert-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tom-leppert\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-112942\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; KTBB&#8217;s Paul Gleiser sat down with conservative Texas Republican, Tom Leppert, who is in the running for running for the U.S. Senate. The former Dallas Mayor says anyone who&#8217;s worked in business know that you have to be honest and in Washington, nobody&#8217;s being honest. He asks, &#8220;At what point do we solve the problem? Do we continue marching down the same road where the spending is not addressed and the debt continues to go up?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The former Dallas Mayor says he has a business background which not many politicians have. He says he has been in the public sector with a private life. He says he&#8217;s run businesses in a variety of industries, and in order to run a business, you have to be honest. The hopeful said nobody is being honest in Washington. Lemmert added, &#8220;there&#8217;s not enough folks that have a real sense of how to cut dollars and how to create jobs, in Washington, the senate or the administration.&#8221; He said more people are needed with that background.  <\/p>\n<p>Leppert said he brings a business expertise and says, most importantly, he doesn&#8217;t want to be a professional politician. He said he wants to address the issues and go on with his life.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; KTBB&#8217;s Paul Gleiser sat down with conservative Texas Republican, Tom Leppert, who is in the running for running for the U.S. Senate. The former Dallas Mayor says anyone who&#8217;s worked in business know that you have to be honest and in Washington, nobody&#8217;s being honest. He asks, &#8220;At what point do we solve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=112941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leppert: Honesty in Washington<\/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-112941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 21:33:23","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\/112941","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=112941"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113224,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112941\/revisions\/113224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}