{"id":266862,"date":"2013-07-05T12:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=266862"},"modified":"2013-07-07T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:51:32","slug":"upshur-county-man-seeks-state-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=266862","title":{"rendered":"Upshur County Man Seeks State Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/David-L.-Watts-Jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/David-L.-Watts-Jr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"David L. Watts Jr\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-266959\" \/><\/a>UPSHUR COUNTY \u2013 A Northeast Texas technology and efficiency consultant hopes to do for the General Land Office what he does for companies nationwide. David L. Watts Jr., 46, has filed papers with the Texas Ethics Commission allowing the Upshur County resident to raise money in a bid for the GOP nomination for the office of Texas Land Commissioner. Commissioner Jerry Patterson has announced he will seek the lieutenant governor\u2019s position in the 2014 Republican primary. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report that Watts joins George P. Bush, nephew and grandson of former presidents, in the Republican hunt to replace Patterson.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The General Land Office oversees state-owned lands that fuel the Permanent School Fund, manages veterans benefits and maintains the Texas historical archives. \u201cIt is a fascinating office,\u201d said Watts, a 14-year resident near East Mountain who works for a North Carolina company that sends him around the country helping businesses with technology. \u201cI help businesses become more efficient, more effective \u2014 kind of reinvent themselves,\u201d he said. \u201cCompanies fly me around the U.S., sometimes around the world. Why not bring that home and focus on this work? That (land) agency is sort of like a business for the government. It\u2019s got to organize and execute, that\u2019s what I do all day long.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY \u2013 A Northeast Texas technology and efficiency consultant hopes to do for the General Land Office what he does for companies nationwide. David L. Watts Jr., 46, has filed papers with the Texas Ethics Commission allowing the Upshur County resident to raise money in a bid for the GOP nomination for the office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=266862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upshur County Man Seeks State Office<\/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-266862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 15:27:18","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\/266862","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=266862"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267100,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266862\/revisions\/267100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}