Will Hurd Is the Future of the GOP*

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Will Hurd Is the Future of the GOP*

*If he can hold on to the toughest seat in Texas.

By TIM ALBERTA 

May 05, 2017

 

ELOTES, Texas—Drenched in yellow light and red fog, Robert Earl Keen scratches at his guitar and unloads the lyrics to his trademark anthem with several thousand boot-and-cowboy-hat-clad Texans howling along in delirium. This is the grand finale on a warm Saturday night at Floore’s Country Store, among the holy sites in the “Texas Country” music scene, and I’m likely the only soul here who doesn’t know the words. Luckily, it’s not hard to catch on; at the end of each of the eight stanzas, Keen and his mob of devotees belt out the line that made him famous around these parts: The road goes on forever, and the party never ends.

The song isn’t especially deep or meaningful—it’s the story of two small-town social misfits who fall in love, arrange a meeting with Cuban drug dealers, steal their money, then kill the lawman who catches them, only to end with Sonny in the electric chair and Sherry driving a new Mercedes Benz—but the chorus provides an ideal thematic backdrop for a meeting of my own.    

 Hurd a rino Through and Through

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Texas Republicans fall in line with GOP health care bill - except Will Hurd

By Kevin Diaz

 

Published 2:25 pm, Thursday, May 4, 2017

WASHINGTON – It took a spat with President Donald Trump, 42 days of talks, and a large infusion of cash, but on Thursday a handful of stalwart Texas Republicans came home to their party and voted for new version of the GOP's Obamacare replacement bill.

One other, west Texas Republican Will Hurd, remained the single GOP holdout from the Lone Star State, saying the revamped bill "falls short" of the goal of improving Obamacare.

In all, 20 House Republicans and all House Democrats voted in opposition to the bill. But the narrow 217-213 result gave Trump the first major legislative victory of his presidency.    http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Texas-Republicans-fall-in-line-with-GOP-health-11121971.php