{"id":36,"date":"2014-10-21T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/10\/21\/empower-texas-opposes-gas-tax-changes\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:16:00","slug":"empower-texas-opposes-gas-tax-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/empower-texas-opposes-gas-tax-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Empower Texas Opposes Gas Tax Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Texas opposes a lot of things, including changes to the gas tax. In the penned opposition, note their last paragraph:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The biggest advocate for a gasoline tax hike in the state senate is Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empowertexans.com\/representative\/carona-john\/\" style=\"color:rgb(110,113,134);text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(231,231,233);font-family:'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, 'DejaVu Sans', 'Liberation sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"John Carona\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Carona<\/a>\u00a0(R-Dallas). He talked a lot about his desire to hike taxes and revenues for several years. And he lost. To a guy promising not to raise taxes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gas tax is a campaign issue for Empower Texas.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empowertexans.com\/features\/hiking-the-gas-tax\/\">[Empower Texas]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Texas opposes a lot of things, including changes to the gas tax. In the penned opposition, note their last paragraph:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The biggest advocate for a gasoline tax hike in the state senate is Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empowertexans.com\/representative\/carona-john\/\" style=\"color:rgb(110,113,134);text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(231,231,233);font-family:'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, 'DejaVu Sans', 'Liberation sans', 'Bitst...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}