{"id":44660,"date":"2010-10-13T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44660"},"modified":"2010-10-14T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:49:29","slug":"chisum-files-to-run-for-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44660","title":{"rendered":"Chisum In, Berman Out of Speaker&#8217;s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=44661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/10\/thumb_texas-stateof-seal-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_texas-stateof-seal-2\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44661\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Republican State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler says he&#8217;s dropping out of the Texas House speaker&#8217;s race.  Conservative Warren Chisum, a Republican from Pampa, filed his speaker candidacy paperwork Wednesday with the House Ethics Commission in Austin.  Berman says he&#8217;ll support Chisum, who&#8217;s been considering a run for several weeks.   Chisum is challenging incumbent Republican Speaker Joe Straus, a moderate from San Antonio who took over as speaker in 2009.   Chisum has said he wants to make sure experienced leaders are in place to tackle the state&#8217;s mounting budget shortfall in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Republican State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler says he&#8217;s dropping out of the Texas House speaker&#8217;s race. Conservative Warren Chisum, a Republican from Pampa, filed his speaker candidacy paperwork Wednesday with the House Ethics Commission in Austin. Berman says he&#8217;ll support Chisum, who&#8217;s been considering a run for several weeks. Chisum is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chisum In, Berman Out of Speaker&#8217;s Race<\/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-44660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 23:00:31","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\/44660","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=44660"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45017,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660\/revisions\/45017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}