{"id":1585,"date":"2004-04-14T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1585.html"},"modified":"2004-04-14T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T17:27:53","slug":"cross-dressing-texan-loses-state-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cross-dressing-texan-loses-state-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-dressing Texan loses state House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess Republicans in Texas aren&#8217;t as tolerant of cross-dressing candidates as some in the GOP establishment had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Walls appeared to be cruising to victory in his Republican primary race in a conservative state House district. That is, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/001532.html\">photographs of him<\/a> in women&#8217;s dresses, wigs, and makeup surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Though supporters defended Walls by comparing him to J. Edgar Hoover, it apparently wasn&#8217;t enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4739100\/\">Walls lost<\/a> his primary campaign yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some people have said they feel sorry for me, but let me tell you how wonderful it has been for me,&#8221; Walls said after his loss. &#8220;If you have not had the opportunity to find out that all your friends are true friends, then I feel sorry for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has said his family had &#8220;dealt with&#8221; the dress issue, and he apologized to supporters for any embarrassment caused by &#8220;a small part of my personal past.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess Republicans in Texas aren&#8217;t as tolerant of cross-dressing candidates as some in the GOP establishment had hoped. Sam Walls appeared to be cruising to victory in his Republican primary race in a conservative state House district. That is, until photographs of him in women&#8217;s dresses, wigs, and makeup surfaced. Though supporters defended Walls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}