{"id":158089,"date":"2012-01-19T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158089"},"modified":"2012-01-20T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T23:26:27","slug":"local-reaction-to-end-of-perrys-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158089","title":{"rendered":"Local Reaction to End of Perry&#8217;s Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=158090\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158090\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/thumb_rick_perry-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_rick_perry-1\" width=\"126\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-158090\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Some East Texas reaction after Governor Perry drops out of the presidential race.   Smith County Republican Party Chair Ashton Oravetz tells KETK it just wasn&#8217;t meant to be.  Oravetz says, &#8220;You know, there were two things that did it.  One was his Dream Act, because the number two issue in this election was immigration.&#8221;  Oravetz says Perry&#8217;s decline in the polls can be tied to some of the things in the Dream Act.  Oravetz adds, &#8220;Then he had disastrous debate performances on top of that, and that about sealed it.&#8221;  Perry has thrown his support behind Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Some East Texas reaction after Governor Perry drops out of the presidential race. Smith County Republican Party Chair Ashton Oravetz tells KETK it just wasn&#8217;t meant to be. Oravetz says, &#8220;You know, there were two things that did it. One was his Dream Act, because the number two issue in this election was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Reaction to End of Perry&#8217;s Presidential Bid<\/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-158089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 16:26:13","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\/158089","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=158089"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158369,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158089\/revisions\/158369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}