{"id":137591,"date":"2011-10-31T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=137591"},"modified":"2011-11-01T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:50:46","slug":"simpson-honored-by-young-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=137591","title":{"rendered":"Simpson Honored by Young Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=137592\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137592\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/10\/thumb_David-Simpson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_David-Simpson\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-137592\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN \u2014 Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) congratulated Representative David Simpson of Longview for earning the Rookie of the Year in their ratings of the 82nd Texas Legislature with a session score of 91.  \u201cYCT is especially pleased to announce that David Simpson earned the highest score of all the freshmen on our ratings for this session,\u201d said Jeff Morris, YCT Vice Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful to receive the Rookie of the Year award from Young Conservatives of Texas. For YCT, it isn&#8217;t enough to call yourself \u2018conservative\u2019 \u2014 you have to back up your words with actions. The voters of the district that I serve sent me to Austin to do what&#8217;s right and not to \u2018just play along,\u2019\u201d Representative Simpson said. \u201cBy God&#8217;s grace I did my best to honor their trust.\u201d   On top of earning YCT\u2019s Rookie of the Year for the Texas House, Simpson also ranked among the most conservative members of the legislature on the organization\u2019s Honor Roll for the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) congratulated Representative David Simpson of Longview for earning the Rookie of the Year in their ratings of the 82nd Texas Legislature with a session score of 91. \u201cYCT is especially pleased to announce that David Simpson earned the highest score of all the freshmen on our ratings for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=137591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simpson Honored by Young Conservatives<\/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-137591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 06:56:06","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\/137591","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=137591"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137901,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137591\/revisions\/137901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}