{"id":293786,"date":"2014-03-05T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293786"},"modified":"2014-03-06T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:50:06","slug":"congressman-hall-faces-runoff-after-34-years-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293786","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Hall Faces Runoff after 34 Years in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/Ralph-Hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/Ralph-Hall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Hall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-293849\" \/><\/a>ROCKWALL \u2014 The dean of the Texas congressional delegation finds himself in the fight of his political life. 90-year-old Rockwall Congressman Ralph Hall (pictured) led the primary field, but failed to get the required 50%. That pits him against former U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe in the May runoff. University of North Texas political scientist Kimi KIng says while age may have been a factor, Ratcliffe never made it an issue. King says, \u201cRatcliffe really played that one quite well. In fact, I think that\u2019s also one of the things about (lieutenant governor hopeful Dan) Patrick\u2026you don\u2019t necessarily paint yourself as being more conservative. You paint yourself as having other characteristics that the candidate doesn\u2019t.\u201d Hall has served in Congress 34 years, the last ten as a Republican. His district covers much of East Texas, and he once represented Tyler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKWALL \u2014 The dean of the Texas congressional delegation finds himself in the fight of his political life. 90-year-old Rockwall Congressman Ralph Hall (pictured) led the primary field, but failed to get the required 50%. That pits him against former U.S. Attorney John Ratcliffe in the May runoff. University of North Texas political scientist Kimi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman Hall Faces Runoff after 34 Years in 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-293786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 11:45:43","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\/293786","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=293786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293850,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293786\/revisions\/293850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}