{"id":463621,"date":"2016-03-14T13:33:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=463621"},"modified":"2016-03-15T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T03:34:18","slug":"hughes-opponent-uncertain-after-miscount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=463621","title":{"rendered":"Simpson Headed for Runoff against Hughes in State Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/David-Simpson-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-464178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/David-Simpson-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"David-Simpson-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-464178\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8212; District 7 State Representative David Simpson is headed to a runoff for the Texas Senate District 1 seat against District 5 State Representative Bryan Hughes. According to KETK, Texas Republican Party Communications Coordinator Michael Joyce says the votes have been canvassed and Simpson finished in second place by 13 votes over &#8220;Red&#8221; Brown.  Mike Lee finished in fourth place.  The primary runoff will take place May 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; District 7 State Representative David Simpson is headed to a runoff for the Texas Senate District 1 seat against District 5 State Representative Bryan Hughes. According to KETK, Texas Republican Party Communications Coordinator Michael Joyce says the votes have been canvassed and Simpson finished in second place by 13 votes over &#8220;Red&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=463621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simpson Headed for Runoff against Hughes in State Senate Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":464178,"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-463621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 08:53:58","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\/463621","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=463621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464179,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463621\/revisions\/464179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/464178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}