{"id":192906,"date":"2012-05-31T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=192906"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:30:30","slug":"berman-looks-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=192906","title":{"rendered":"Berman Looks to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=192907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-192907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/thumb_leo-berman-21-150x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_leo-berman-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-192907\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 When the dust settled from Tuesday\u2019s elections, there were some upsets. One of them: Texas House District 6. Leo Berman lost the seat he held 14 years to newcomer Matt Schaefer. Berman, a seasoned politician and U.S. Army veteran, was quick to offer Schaefer some advice. He says it\u2019s good to get involved in the community and know your constituents. The 76-year old tells KETK he\u2019s finally looking forward to a life of leisure. \u201cI\u2019m going to get out of public service,\u201d says Berman. \u201c44 years is long enough, and I\u2019m going to enjoy golf, I\u2019m going to enjoy travel, and I\u2019m going to enjoy doing the things in life that people do at my age.\u201d Berman says his cancer is in remission and he has one more chemotherapy treatment to undergo. His plans are to finish out his term in January. The Bermans plan a vacation to Austria after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 When the dust settled from Tuesday\u2019s elections, there were some upsets. One of them: Texas House District 6. Leo Berman lost the seat he held 14 years to newcomer Matt Schaefer. Berman, a seasoned politician and U.S. Army veteran, was quick to offer Schaefer some advice. He says it\u2019s good to get involved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=192906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berman Looks to the Future<\/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-192906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 13:05:01","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\/192906","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=192906"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193215,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192906\/revisions\/193215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}