{"id":2896,"date":"2014-11-21T19:54:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2014-11-21T19:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T19:54:58","slug":"abbott-names-valley-judge-as-his-pick-for-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Names Valley Judge as His Pick for Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2897\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2897\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cascos.jpg\" alt=\"Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos chosen by newly elected Texas governor Greg Abbott as secretary of state. Photo: kveo.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cascos.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cascos-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cascos-405x297.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos chosen by newly elected Texas governor Greg Abbott as secretary of state. Photo: kveo.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AUSTIN \u2013Attorney General Greg Abbott, who takes office in January, said in the Rio Grande Valley Tuesday he will name Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos as his secretary of state, a television station reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron County Commissioner David Garza told KGBT Action 4 News that Cascos will serve as county judge until he learns when he will start his new job. Cascos was just re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment as secretary of state will requires Texas Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The current secretary of state is Nandita Berry of Houston. She was appointed by Perry in December 2013 and is the first Indian American to hold the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2013Attorney General Greg Abbott, who takes office in January, said in the Rio Grande Valley Tuesday he will name Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos as his secretary of state, a television station reported. Cameron County Commissioner David Garza told KGBT Action 4 News that Cascos will serve as county judge until he learns when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}