{"id":316403,"date":"2014-10-19T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=316403"},"modified":"2014-10-20T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T22:32:30","slug":"wendy-davis-visits-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=316403","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Davis Visits Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/10\/Wendy-Davis41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/10\/Wendy-Davis41-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Wendy Davis4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-316404\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 According to Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, \u201cThis election is going to determine, not just a choice in two very different candidates, but two very different pathways.\u201d Davis, who is challenging Republican Gregg Abbott, made the comment in Longview over the weekend.  Davis reminded the crowd of her 2011 filibuster in protest of the $5.2 billion in cuts to public education that Abbott continues to defend in court. Davis said the cuts also cost 25,000 education jobs, 11,000 of those teaching positions, caused more overcrowding in classrooms and killed full-day kindergarten. And she said it was time \u201cwe turned that around.\u201d Davis said she is prepared to win next month and to lead this state. The Longview News-Journal reports around 75 persons were on hand to hear Davis\u2019 address Saturday at Eddie Towles Phone Center on Gilmer Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 According to Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, \u201cThis election is going to determine, not just a choice in two very different candidates, but two very different pathways.\u201d Davis, who is challenging Republican Gregg Abbott, made the comment in Longview over the weekend. Davis reminded the crowd of her 2011 filibuster in protest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=316403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wendy Davis Visits Longview<\/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-316403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 01:12:05","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\/316403","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=316403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316413,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316403\/revisions\/316413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}