{"id":1102291,"date":"2022-02-25T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1102291"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:31:50","slug":"democratic-leaders-comment-stirs-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1102291","title":{"rendered":"Democratic leader resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1102295\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/125px-US_Democratic_Party_Logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>TYLER &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0Nancy Nichols, Senate District 1 committeewoman, resigned from her post on Friday after she made a racially insensitive comment, according to Senate District 1 Committeeman Ben Dickson. Many of Nichols\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fellow committee members have been calling for her resignation after she made a racial comment during a Zoom meeting on Feb. 8 saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we had the Trumpers at our Beto event today in Tyler. We had all kinds of quiet security, but basically the event was held on the chocolate side of town.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to Dickson, the majority of the county chairs of Senate District 1, Texas Democratic Party State Chair Gilberto Hinijosa and Texas Coalition of Black Democrats Chair Carroll G. Robinson all called for her resignation in the weeks following the night she made the comment. Dickson confirmed that Nichols resigned early Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0Nancy Nichols, Senate District 1 committeewoman, resigned from her post on Friday after she made a racially insensitive comment, according to Senate District 1 Committeeman Ben Dickson. Many of Nichols\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fellow committee members have been calling for her resignation after she made a racial comment during a Zoom meeting on Feb. 8 saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1102291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democratic leader resigns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1102299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/02\/125px-US_Democratic_Party_Logo.svg_.png","fifu_image_alt":"Democratic leader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment stirs controversy","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102291","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 09:48:59","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\/02\/125px-US_Democratic_Party_Logo.svg_.png","fifu_image_alt":"Democratic leader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment stirs controversy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102291","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=1102291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102619,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102291\/revisions\/1102619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}