Texas GOP votes to condemn Rep. Tony Gonzalez for voting on same-sex marriage, guns and border security

The Texas GOP on Saturday denounced Rep. Tony Gonzalez, D-Tex., for his votes on issues like same-sex marriage, gun restrictions and border security, deciding the votes violated the party’s priorities and principles.

Gonzalez, who represents Texas’s 23rd congressional district, which stretches from western San Antonio to El Paso, was denounced by the Medina County Republican Party last month for actions “against the founding principles of the Texas Republican Party.”

On Saturday, the 64-member Republican State Executive Committee voted in favor of the resolution by a vote of 57 to 5, with one abstention at its quarterly meeting in Austin.

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The resolution accused González of pursuing a “pattern of action that is clearly contrary” to the State Party’s principles and legislative priorities.

He cited his votes in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, which established federal protection for same-sex and interracial marriage and was signed into law by President Biden in December, as a violation of the principles of maintaining “self-reliant families based on traditional marriage.” natural man and natural woman.

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Separately, the resolution targeted Gonzalez, representing the border district, for failing to support a key Republican border security bill in the House of Representatives that would block migrants from entering the U.S. unless they can be detained or placed in detention. -Mexican program. Gonzalez criticized the bill as “un-American” and argued that it would essentially prevent asylum applications at the border. He said it would exacerbate the ongoing border crisis and encourage human smuggling.

“Instead of reporting on a bill that has a 0.00% chance of passing, we should fix the root problems of our broken immigration system,” he said last month.

The resolution said the vote violated the priority to “secure the border and protect the Texans.”

The resolution also calls on Gonzalez to vote against the House GOP rule package and vote for the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a bipartisan gun control bill written in response to the mass shootings in Uvalda, which is in the Gonzalez area, and in Buffalo, New York. York.

According to the Texas Republican Party, the bill’s support for red flag laws, restrictions on gun owners, and expanding background checks “violates our Second Amendment rights.”

Gonzalez now faces disciplinary action, ranging from the removal of restrictions on campaigning against him by state Republican Party officials to the withdrawal of financial support for his next re-election campaign. by party rules.

On Saturday, Gonzalez responded to the censure.

Rep. Tony Gonzalez, D-TX, outside the US Capitol as the House of Representatives voted to pass the bipartisan Safer Communities Act on June 24, 2022.

Rep. Tony Gonzalez, D-TX, outside the US Capitol as the House of Representatives voted to pass the bipartisan Safer Communities Act on June 24, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“Today, as every day, Congressman Tony Gonzalez went to work on behalf of the residents of TX-23,” a Fox News Digital spokesperson said in a statement. “He spoke to veterans, met with border guards and met with voters in the district he changed from blue to red. The Texas Republican Party would be wise to follow suit and do some real work.”

Earlier this week, Gonzalez defended his voting record.

“The reality is that I got almost 1,400 votes, and most of them were for the Republican Party,” Gonzalez said, according to The Texas Tribune. He also said he did not regret his vote, including the gun safety bill.

“If the vote was today, I would vote twice if I could,” he said.

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Other critics of Gonzalez’s positions hailed the state party’s move on Saturday. Texans for Strong Frontiers, Border Security Advocacy Group, said he supported censure “largely for [Gonzales’] actively opposing the common sense border security law and its use of leftist slander to vilify the work of members who are serious about stopping the invasion of our southern border.”

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