{"id":388432,"date":"2015-08-25T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=388432"},"modified":"2015-08-26T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T16:32:44","slug":"patrick-endorses-hughes-for-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=388432","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Endorses Hughes for State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/voting-computer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"voting-computer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-388441\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c State Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola has picked up a key endorsement in his campaign to succeed retiring Kevin Eltife in the Texas Senate.  Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has announced his backing of Hughes, who&#8217;s opposed by fellow Republican state Representative David Simpson of Longview. In a press statement, Patrick calls Hughes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a principled and reliable conservative.&#8221;  Patrick says he has already committed to appear at two fundraising events in support of Hughes, one in Austin September 1 and one in Tyler later this fall.  Both candidates have long lists of supporters as they look ahead to the March 2016 GOP primary.  You can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanhughes.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.bryanhughes.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/davidsimpson.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/davidsimpson.com<\/a> to view those lists and learn more about each candidate.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c State Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola has picked up a key endorsement in his campaign to succeed retiring Kevin Eltife in the Texas Senate. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has announced his backing of Hughes, who&#8217;s opposed by fellow Republican state Representative David Simpson of Longview. In a press statement, Patrick calls Hughes \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=388432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patrick Endorses Hughes for State Senate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":388441,"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-388432","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 09:11:45","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\/388432","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=388432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388442,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388432\/revisions\/388442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/388441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}