{"id":54328,"date":"2023-03-06T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54328"},"modified":"2023-03-06T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:41:21","slug":"uvalde-shooting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54328","title":{"rendered":"Texas GOP: rigidity matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23Uvalde%20%23TexasGOP&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yep, by all means it is true that the Texas Republican Party has gone bonkers over its fealty to the gun lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The State Republican Executive Committee voted 57-5 to censure state Rep. Tony Gonzales of San Antonio over his vote for gun-control legislation. No can do, said the GOP, which now has opened the door for the party to oppose Gonzales in the next Republican Party primary race in that district set for the spring of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>What a sham! And a joke! Not to mention a disgrace!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/03\/04\/tony-gonzales-censure-republican-srec\/\">Texas GOP censures U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is I\u2019ve taken almost 1,400 votes, and the bulk of those have been with the Republican Party,\u201d Gonzales said, according to the Texas Tribune. Ahh, but this vote was the deal-breaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune reported: <em>Gonzales did not appear at the SREC meeting but addressed the issue after an unrelated news conference Thursday in San Antonio. He specifically defended his vote for the bipartisan gun law that passed last year after the Uvalde school shooting in his district. He said that if the vote were held again today, \u201cI would vote twice on it if I could.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good for you, Rep. Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign issued a statement: <em>\u201cToday, like every day, Congressman Tony Gonzales went to work on behalf of the people of TX-23. He talked to veterans, visited with Border Patrol agents, and met constituents in a county he flipped from blue to red. The Republican Party of Texas would be wise to follow his lead and do some actual work,\u201d campaign spokesperson Evan Albertson said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable, yes? Not really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23Uvalde%20%23TexasGOP&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, by all means it is true that the Texas Republican Party has gone bonkers over its fealty to the gun lobby. The State Republican Executive Committee voted 57-5 to censure state Rep. Tony Gonzales of San Antonio over his vote for gun-control legislation. No can do, said the GOP, which now has opened the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas GOP: rigidity matters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2037,4622,9934],"class_list":["post-54328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-texas-gop","tag-uvalde-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54330,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions\/54330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}