{"id":329696,"date":"2015-03-08T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=329696"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:42:03","slug":"jeb-bush-backed-by-big-east-texas-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=329696","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush Backed by Big East Texas Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/GetAttachment.aspx_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/GetAttachment.aspx_-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"GetAttachment.aspx\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-329699\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler man who raised more than $350,000 for Mitt Romney in 2012 is putting his money on another out-of-state candidate for president. Oil and gas attorney Gaylord Hughey is the Republican Party&#8217;s top bundler for East Texas &#8212; and he says he&#8217;s going to raise money for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.  SMU political scientist Cal Jillson says, &#8220;People are also looking at former Governor Rick Perry, but he&#8217;s tainted by his failure in 2012. And they also see Senator Ted Cruz as a fairly narrow acquired taste.&#8221; Jillson says the big bundlers tend to support more moderate, institutional Republicans. He says Bush&#8217;s problem will be winning over skeptical social conservatives in places like Iowa and South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler man who raised more than $350,000 for Mitt Romney in 2012 is putting his money on another out-of-state candidate for president. Oil and gas attorney Gaylord Hughey is the Republican Party&#8217;s top bundler for East Texas &#8212; and he says he&#8217;s going to raise money for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=329696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeb Bush Backed by Big East Texas Donor<\/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-329696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 18:37:21","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\/329696","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=329696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329700,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329696\/revisions\/329700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}