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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Tony Gonzales [1]
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Date: 2022-10-04
U.S. House Rep. Tony Gonzales, of Texas' 23rd Congressional District, who refused to commit to the KKK being treated as a terror group, and heralded Border Patrol agents videotaped literally whipping Haitian migrants crossing the border as "doing God's work".
Welcome to what is the 1144th original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where profiling Tony Gonzales, the sitting U.S. House Representative for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District who was first elected in the 2020 election, sliding into the seat formerly held by Will Hurd with just 50.6% of the vote. Please do not mistake him for former NFL Hall of Fame Tight End Tony Gonzalez, nor Ohio GOP Congressman and former Ohio State and Indianapolis Colts’ wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez (who’s on his way out the door for daring to impeach Donald Trump). No, this Gonzales was elected was in spite of the fact that during an interview in October of 2020, Gonzales twisted himself in knots for minutes to not answer the question when a reporter asked him “Would you label the KKK a terror group?” Apparently, that’s now the third rail for GOP candidates, to admit a white supremacist organization whose history of lynchings, cross burnings, and acts of violence against African Americans are terrorists. Eventually, Gonzales shrugged it off by blaming his lack of desire on Covid-19, saying, “We’re living in COVID. There’s a million things going on. You have this much oxygen in the room. And it’s not to talk about the KKK.”
Pretty big red flag about supporting racists, right? Well, in September of 2021, Rep. Gonzales gave everyone another pretty big tell, when after videos emerged of members of the U.S. Border Patrol on horseback literally whipping Haitian migrants crossing the U.S., Gonzales gave his support for their flogging the border-crossers, saying “They’re doing God’s Work”. Last we read the Bible, Jesus said quite a bit about welcoming immigrants, but that aside, it’s pretty much a no-brainer to defend something this barbaric.
But those are the sorts of things someone has to be cowardly enough to not support in order to win over most Republican voters, who can’t get enough of seeing cruel things happen to people who look different than they do. And then, there’s Gonzales’ voting record:
Texas’ 23rd Congressional District still has only a +5 Republican lean per the Cook Partisan Voting Index, and the only thing that kept this seat from flipping blue the past several election cycles was Greg Abbott’s voter suppression efforts, and when Will Hurd held it, at least he had the image of a “moderate” Republican. One of those two things have changed, so there’s a decent chance that his Democratic opponent, Jonathon Lira, can take another seat for Team Blue in a few weeks’ time.
One Year Ago, October 4th, 2021: Russ Ramsland (TX)
Two Years Ago, October 4th, 2020: Rich Helms (TX)
Three Years Ago, October 4th, 2019: Beverly Goldstein (OH)
Four Years Ago, October 4th, 2018: Ted Poe (TX)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, October 4th, 2017: Ted Poe (TX)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago, October 4th, 2016: Ted Poe (TX)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, October 4th, 2015: Ted Poe (TX)… Original Profile
Eight Years Ago, October 4th, 2014: Ben Quayle (AZ)
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