AUSTIN \u2014 Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz have been drawing the lion\u2019s share of attention as voters decide who will replace retiring Kay Bailey Hutchison. But there are two Democrats running as well, and they\u2019re both from East Texas. Former state representative Paul Sadler is from Henderson. His opponent, retired educator Grady Yarbrough, is a Smith County native who now lives in San Antonio. All four are vying for the nominations in today\u2019s primary runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AUSTIN \u2014 Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz have been drawing the lion\u2019s share of attention as voters decide who will replace retiring Kay Bailey Hutchison. But there are two Democrats running as well, and they\u2019re both from East Texas. Former state representative Paul Sadler is from Henderson. His opponent, retired educator … Continue reading Senate Runoff Includes Two East Texans<\/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-203803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 03:49:01","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\/203803","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=203803"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204038,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203803\/revisions\/204038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}