{"id":7005,"date":"2023-12-21T18:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/assclown-of-the-year-lt-gov-dan-patrick-is-an-utter-embarrassment-to-texas\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:10:32","slug":"assclown-of-the-year-lt-gov-dan-patrick-is-an-utter-embarrassment-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/assclown-of-the-year-lt-gov-dan-patrick-is-an-utter-embarrassment-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Assclown of the Year: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is an utter embarrassment to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has long wielded his power in the Texas Capital like a cudgel, using procedural maneuvers to grant himself ever more control of the state Senate and sidelining those who don\u2019t step in line with a far-right agenda steeped in homophobia, immigrant bashing and white nationalism. So empowered, Patrick has tried to force through some of the most extreme right-wing legislation in the history of the state. Sometimes he&#8217;s met with success, as with Texas\u2019 cruel six-week abortion ban, others he&#8217;s been shot down in the more moderate House, as with his bill that would have barred transgender people from public restrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has long wielded his power in the Texas Capital like a cudgel, using procedural maneuvers to grant himself ever more control of the state Senate and sidelining those who don\u2019t step in line with a far-right agenda steeped in homophobia, immigrant bashing and white nationalism. So empowered, Patrick has tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}