{"id":9572,"date":"2017-05-24T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T22:38:56","slug":"9572","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/24\/9572\/","title":{"rendered":"Snark Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Mechler, the chairman of the Texas GOP, <\/b><\/i>has resigned for personal reasons. His counterpart in the Texas Democratic Party is lamenting the event, according <\/a>to The Texas Tribute<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

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“It’s a damn shame Tom Mechler may be leaving the Texas Republican Party,” Gilberto Hinojosa, the Democrats’ chairman, said. “Personally, I always enjoyed our exchanges because he made Democrats look so good.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

But this isn’t just a snark announcement. In his statement, Mechler beseeches his organization:<\/p>\n

In his resignation letter, Mechler warned Texas Republicans against descending into warring factions, both after the presidential race and a still-unfolding legislative session. The party, he said, “needs to work harder than ever to come together.”<\/p>\n

“A party that is fractured by anger and backbiting is a party that will\u00a0not succeed,” Mechler wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if it’s really just backbiting, or if we’re seeing the expected wars over ideological (and even religious) purity.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he was even RINO<\/b><\/i><\/a>ed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tom Mechler, the chairman of the Texas GOP, has resigned for personal reasons. His counterpart in the Texas Democratic Party is lamenting the event, according to The Texas Tribute: “It’s a damn shame Tom Mechler may be leaving the Texas Republican Party,” Gilberto Hinojosa, the Democrats’ chairman, said. “Personally, I \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}