{"id":179361,"date":"2018-03-06T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/06\/and-in-the-tx-7-primary\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:40:00","slug":"and-in-the-tx-7-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/06\/and-in-the-tx-7-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"And in the TX-7 Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic side is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/election-results\/2018\/texas\/\">going to a runoff<\/a>, with Lizzie Fletcher getting the most votes&nbsp; with the condemned by the DCCC Laura Moser close behind.<\/p>\n<p>The Emily&#8217;s List endorsed Fletcher is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/02\/one-of-the-most-influential-unions-in-texas-just-came-out-against-a-rising-democratic-contender\/\">union buster lawyer<\/a>, so even if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/27\/opinion\/seventh-congressional-district-texas.html\">DCCC had not released an opposition research dump on Moser<\/a>, she would have my support.<\/p>\n<p>With the DCCC&#8217;s war on Moser though, I&#8217;m actually interested in what would otherwise be an obscure, Congressional race.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s highly unlikely that either can win the general:&nbsp; 7% more Republicans turned out than Democrats, and for them, the primary was meaningless, with the incumbent getting 76% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Moser&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/moserforcongress.com\/\">campaign website is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Send her money, and tell the Blue Dog loving DCCC to go cheney themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic side is going to a runoff, with Lizzie Fletcher getting the most votes&nbsp; with the condemned by the DCCC Laura Moser close behind. The Emily&#8217;s List endorsed Fletcher is a union buster lawyer, so even if the DCCC had not released an opposition research dump on Moser, she would have my support. With &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,375,374],"class_list":["post-179361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}