{"id":1031,"date":"2018-05-21T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/21\/texas-attorney-general-opinion-request-port-authority-hiring-resigned-congressman\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:50:00","slug":"texas-attorney-general-opinion-request-port-authority-hiring-resigned-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/texas-attorney-general-opinion-request-port-authority-hiring-resigned-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Opinion Request: Port Authority. Hiring Resigned Congressman."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calhoun Port Authority wants to know about whether it hired Blake Farenthold\u00a0illegally.<\/li>\n<li>Independently,\u00a0Calhoun Port Authority is being sued for violating the Open Meetings Act in the hiring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the question for the Attorney General?<\/strong>\u00a0Whether the hiring of Farenthold, as a lobbyist, erquired posting that the hiring was specific to services as a lobbyist<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the brouhaha over the Open Meetings Act?<\/strong>\u00a0Those who say the Act was violated say there was no posting for the hiring of Farenthold<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriaadvocate.com\/counties\/port-seeks-ag-opinion-as-new-hire-farenthold-dodges-questions\/article_178df9f6-5ada-11e8-85cb-4f9686ba8f93.html\">Victoria Advocate |\u00a0Port seeks AG opinion as new hire Farenthold dodges questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calhoun Port Authority wants to know about whether it hired Blake Farenthold\u00a0illegally.<\/li>\n<li>Independently,\u00a0Calhoun Port Authority is being sued for violating the Open Meetings Act in the hiring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the question for the Attorney General?<\/strong>\u00a0Whether the hiring of Farenthold, as a lobbyist, erquired posting that the hiring was specific to services as a lobbyist<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the brouhaha over the Open Meetings Act?<\/strong>\u00a0Those who say the Act was violated say there was no posting for the hiring of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,13,30,23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-attorney-general","category-campaign-trend","category-local-government","category-ports","category-procurement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}