{"id":1855,"date":"2022-01-16T00:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/?post_type=candidate&#038;p=1855"},"modified":"2023-06-28T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:24:43","slug":"tom-slocum","status":"publish","type":"candidate","link":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/candidate\/tom-slocum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Slocum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Tom Slocum, and I\u2019m running for Texas Railroad Commissioner. My family landed on the shore in Texas in 1880, at the historic Gulf port town of Indianola.<\/p>\n<p>I am 5th Generation Texan and 4th Generation Texas Oil &amp; Gas. Well Control Certified, with 17 years of upstream experience in the field and in the office operating oil companies in Texas and in the Gulf of Mexico. I have complete knowledge of Texas Title 16 pertaining to all oil, gas, and mining. I have worked with oil companies to insure they are in compliance with regulations. I know why we have the regulations and if we need to tweak them, to make small measured changes and not drastic overhauls that can lead to unforeseen consequences. I have a degree in political science from Texas &amp; University and have practiced oil and gas consulting in Houston since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I am pro God, pro gun, pro life, pro oil, pro business, pro parents, pro farmer, pro rancher, pro rodeo, pro school choice, a Constitutionalist, and I will always puts the needs of Texans FIRST and foremost. I will not put donors in front of or ahead of my fellow Texans, my constituents. I will always answer to the voters first.<\/p>\n<p>I come from a long line of strong conservative family values. As a lifelong Republican, I\u2019m running to fight for Texas conservative values!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1856,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"office_level":[8],"election_year":[],"party":[],"acf":{"status":"Former Candidate","pledge_signed_date":"20220116","candidate_office_level":"Statewide","party_affiliation":"Republican","statewide_office_sought":"Railroad Commissioner","legislative_office_sought":false,"judicial_district_office_sought":false,"county_office_sought":false,"municipal_office_sought":false,"school_district_office_sought":false,"political_party_office_sought":false,"house_district":"","senate_district":"","sboe_district":"","county":false,"school_district":false,"municipality":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/candidate\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/candidate"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/candidate"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"office_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/office_level?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"election_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_year?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"party","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taketexasback.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/party?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}