Posted on 05/28/2024 12:53:46 AM PDT by mbrfl
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) is warning of possible retribution against some of his GOP colleagues in the House who are actively campaigning against the Texas Republican’s reelection bid.
As Gonzales seeks a third term to his seat on Tuesday representing Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, the incumbent is facing a challenge from his right over his voting record to protect same-sex marriage and to implement stricter gun safety measures. Those votes attracted a crowded field of candidates looking to oust the incumbent during the March primary, forcing Gonzales into a runoff with challenger Brandon Herrera after neither candidate secured more than 50% of the vote.
The runoff election has attracted national attention as many of Gonzales’s colleagues in the House have endorsed his challenger, a move the Texas Republican said won’t go unnoticed.
“Here’s the deal: If somebody backs your opponent and goes to your district and does events [and] are giving your opponent money — they are trying to kill you politically. And you better believe them,” Gonzales told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “So your only option is to kill them politically. So I think there’s focus on Tuesday, and then we’re going to do a little purging of ourselves of our own.”
The runoff on Tuesday will feature a matchup between Gonzales and Herrera, a gun rights activist and hard-right YouTuber who is challenging the incumbent after he broke with party lines in 2022 to vote in favor of a bill that would strengthen gun safety laws. The measure came in response to a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which is located in Gonzales’s district.
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Tony, it’s ok to go down swinging, but with that crappy voting record just go down.
The real plan is to hand the house back to the demoncrats. Speaker Johnson is playing with us.
Brandon is a good 2A choice. His company custom builds AK pattern weapons. That’s his primary business.
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Brandon Herrera is a much better option.
Rep. Tony Gonzales needs to just put the (D) after his name.
People in Dist. 23 have been voting RINO for a decade or so now. They like people who are Democrat without having to say so.
“People in Dist. 23 have been voting RINO for a decade or so now.”
Unfortunately that is because RINOs are all that get thru the primary process. D-23 is largely Hispanic which until recently leaned D. That is changing ever so slowly however. Some believe the change is because the urban Hispanics are unhappy with the Ds because the migrant invasion has made job seeking difficult. Rural ranchers and farmers are not impacted so much because they have been using wet-back labor since Texas became a state.
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales: Matt Gaetz Paid ‘Minors to Have Sex With Him’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZQSPXyIX2Q
FUTG!
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