{"id":20790,"date":"2012-11-06T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=20790"},"modified":"2012-11-07T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:59:35","slug":"railroad-commission-results-craddick-and-smitherman-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/11\/06\/railroad-commission-results-craddick-and-smitherman-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Commission Results: Craddick and Smitherman Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20792\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/11\/06\/railroad-commission-results-craddick-and-smitherman-win\/2012-11-06\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20792\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20792\" title=\"2012-11-06\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-06-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-06-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/11\/2012-11-06-620x387.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photos courtesy of Craddick for Texas\/Smitherman for Texas<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Christi Craddick, left, and incumbent Republican Barry Smitherman, both won seats on the Railroad Commission of Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As expected, both Republicans running for the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/railroad-commission-of-texas\/\">Railroad Commission of Texas<\/a> won their seats tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Republican\u00a0chairman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/20\/why-do-you-hate-jobs-stephen-colbert-grills-the-epa\/\">Barry Smitherman<\/a>\u00a0easily\u00a0won\u00a0re-election\u00a0to the state agency that oversees oil and gas drilling. Smitherman faced no Democratic opponent.<\/p>\n<p>In the race for the open seat,\u00a0Republican attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christicraddick.com\/\">Christi Craddick<\/a> defeated\u00a0Democratic candidate Dale Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates received significant funding from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/31\/railroad-commission-run-off-today-with-lots-of-help-from-the-oil-and-gas-industry\/\">oil and gas\u00a0<\/a>industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, both Republicans running for the state agency that oversees oil and gas drilling and pipelines won their races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":20792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[50],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20801,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions\/20801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}