{"id":491758,"date":"2016-05-19T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=491758"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:21:06","slug":"local-group-pulls-endorsement-for-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=491758","title":{"rendered":"Local Group Pulls Endorsement for Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-491759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/bruner_1463616621758_8610559_ver1.0.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8212; An East Texas tea party group has withdrawn its endorsement of Mary Lou Bruner for the State Board of Education, saying the candidate&#8217;s statements have raised questions about her integrity. According to the Longview News-journal and KETK, Grassroots America-We The People, based in Tyler, said Wednesday evening that it had voted to drop its endorsement of Bruner, who is in a runoff for the Republican nomination for the District 9 seat that represents 31 East Texas counties. She is facing Keven Ellis, president of the Lufkin ISD school board.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Grassroots America-We The People said it was reconsidering its endorsement of Bruner after her May 4 appearance at a meeting with East Texas school superintendents. At that meeting, the retired elementary teacher made statements called out immediately as false by the educators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; An East Texas tea party group has withdrawn its endorsement of Mary Lou Bruner for the State Board of Education, saying the candidate&#8217;s statements have raised questions about her integrity. According to the Longview News-journal and KETK, Grassroots America-We The People, based in Tyler, said Wednesday evening that it had voted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=491758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Group Pulls Endorsement for Candidate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":491759,"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-491758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 00:22:14","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\/491758","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=491758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491760,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491758\/revisions\/491760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}