{"id":1093464,"date":"2022-01-27T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1093464"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:58:01","slug":"gohmert-slams-paxton-weighs-in-on-ag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1093464","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert slams Paxton, weighs in on AG race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/Louie_Gohmert_official_photo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1093468\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Congressman and Texas attorney general hopeful Louie Gohmert slams incumbent Ken Paxton, accusing him of falsehoods &#8212; and drawing attention to Paxton&#8217;s brushes with the law.  Gohmert told KTBB Paxton is also wrong in saying Gohmert is not conservative enough.  The congressman says, &#8220;There are rating agencies&#8230;groups&#8230;conservatives like &#8216;Mark Levin&#8217;s Conservative Review.&#8217;  They analyze every vote &#8212; and they say I&#8217;m one of the most conservative people in the country.&#8221;  Gohmert says Paxton has been attacking him because he knows Gohmert is a viable contender.  The Tyler Republican says it&#8217;s a two-person race between Paxton and himself &#8212; that former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman and state Land Commissioner George P. Bush don&#8217;t have much traction, even though Guzman led the fundraising tally at last report. <!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Though Gohmert lags in fundraising, he told KTBB,  &#8220;You know, a guy named Ted Cruz showed that&#8230;you can have tons more money on the other side, but if you got grass roots &#8212; and I do &#8212; than you&#8217;ve got a shot.&#8221; The congressman added, &#8220;You need me in there &#8212; and it&#8217;ll be the last job I&#8217;ll ever run for.&#8221;  Paxton has consistently defended his record and denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Congressman and Texas attorney general hopeful Louie Gohmert slams incumbent Ken Paxton, accusing him of falsehoods &#8212; and drawing attention to Paxton&#8217;s brushes with the law. Gohmert told KTBB Paxton is also wrong in saying Gohmert is not conservative enough. The congressman says, &#8220;There are rating agencies&#8230;groups&#8230;conservatives like &#8216;Mark Levin&#8217;s Conservative Review.&#8217; They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1093464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert slams Paxton, weighs in on AG race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1093471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/Louie_Gohmert_official_photo_2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gohmert slams Paxton, weighs in on AG race","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 15:06:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/Louie_Gohmert_official_photo_2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gohmert slams Paxton, weighs in on AG race","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093469,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093464\/revisions\/1093469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}