{"id":7835,"date":"2024-04-05T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/texas-gop-donor-tim-dunn-told-former-house-speaker-only-christians-should-be-in-leadership\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:09:14","slug":"texas-gop-donor-tim-dunn-told-former-house-speaker-only-christians-should-be-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/texas-gop-donor-tim-dunn-told-former-house-speaker-only-christians-should-be-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP donor Tim Dunn told former House speaker only Christians should be in leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        San Antonio politico Joe Straus, a former Republican speaker of the Texas House, told the Texas Tribune that oil billionaire Tim Dunn \u2014 one of the state&#8217;s most powerful Republican donors \u2014 once advised him that only Christians should hold leadership positions in the legislature&#8217;s lower chamber. Straus, who&#8217;s Jewish, told Tribune CEO Evan Smith about the encounter Thursday, appearing to publicly confirm for the first time an anecdote Texas Monthly\u00a0reported in 2018, according to the Tribune. The Texas Monthly article attributed its reporting on the alleged encounter to &#8220;insiders&#8221; in Straus&#8217; office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio politico Joe Straus, a former Republican speaker of the Texas House, told the Texas Tribune that oil billionaire Tim Dunn \u2014 one of the state&#8217;s most powerful Republican donors \u2014 once advised him that only Christians should hold leadership positions in the legislature&#8217;s lower chamber. Straus, who&#8217;s Jewish, told Tribune CEO Evan Smith [&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\/7835"}],"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=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}