{"id":385066,"date":"2015-08-16T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=385066"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:39:18","slug":"mckellar-challenging-gohmert-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=385066","title":{"rendered":"McKellar Challenging Gohmert for Second Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/mckellar_1439231606761_3683398_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/mckellar_1439231606761_3683398_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mckellar_1439231606761_3683398_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-385067\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A U.S. Army veteran from Tyler has announced plans to challenge outspoken East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert.   Shirley McKellar says she&#8217;ll run for a second time as a Democrat against the Republican Gohmert for the First District Congressional seat.  McKellar says, &#8220;All Texans deserve great economic growth, education, security, and the pursuit of individual liberty.  It&#8217;s all about education and opportunity.   I, Shirley McKellar, can bring that to District 1.&#8221;   Gohmert took 77 percent of the vote in the 2014 general election vs. McKellar, who was seriously wounded while serving as a U.S. Army nurse in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A U.S. Army veteran from Tyler has announced plans to challenge outspoken East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. Shirley McKellar says she&#8217;ll run for a second time as a Democrat against the Republican Gohmert for the First District Congressional seat. McKellar says, &#8220;All Texans deserve great economic growth, education, security, and the pursuit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=385066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McKellar Challenging Gohmert for Second Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":385067,"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-385066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 11:33:07","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\/385066","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=385066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385070,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385066\/revisions\/385070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}