{"id":293075,"date":"2014-02-27T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T21:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293075"},"modified":"2015-07-04T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:13:16","slug":"fleming-leads-grassroots-group-disavowing-stockman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293075","title":{"rendered":"Fleming Leads Grassroots Group Disavowing Stockman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/JoAnn-Fleming-150x1501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/JoAnn-Fleming-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"JoAnn-Fleming-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-370632\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8212; A coalition of top Texas grassroots conservatives, led by Smith County&#8217;s JoAnn Fleming, formally disavows U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, saying he never represented tea party values. Stockman is challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next week&#8217;s Republican primary. But in an open letter to him Thursday, the activists wrote: &#8220;there is nothing about your conduct that represents the spirit of grassroots conservatives.&#8221; The letter was signed by 12 activists including Fleming, who chairs the citizen advisory committee to the Texas Legislature&#8217;s Tea Party Caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8212; A coalition of top Texas grassroots conservatives, led by Smith County&#8217;s JoAnn Fleming, formally disavows U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, saying he never represented tea party values. Stockman is challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next week&#8217;s Republican primary. But in an open letter to him Thursday, the activists wrote: &#8220;there is nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fleming Leads Grassroots Group Disavowing Stockman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":370632,"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-293075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:09:27","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\/293075","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=293075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370633,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293075\/revisions\/370633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}