{"id":305126,"date":"2014-06-23T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305126"},"modified":"2014-06-24T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:16:07","slug":"gohmert-interested-in-key-gop-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305126","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Interested in Key GOP Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/thumb_louie-gohmert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/thumb_louie-gohmert.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_louie-gohmert\" width=\"115\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-305127\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211;  Congressman Louie Gohmert of Tyler says he&#8217;s interested in being the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, an influential caucus of GOP lawmakers.   Gohmert&#8217;s known for his hard-line conservative views.    He stopped just short of accusing Secretary of State John Kerry of treason for saying he&#8217;d consider working with Iran in dealing with the crisis in Iraq.   According to Gohmert, &#8220;Treason requires an intent, and I don&#8217;t believe there is any intent here.  I think it&#8217;s just sheer ignorance &#8212; thinking that you are so persuasive, you can get our enemies to love you.&#8221;   The Republican Study Committee post became available when the former chairman, Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise, became the majority whip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Congressman Louie Gohmert of Tyler says he&#8217;s interested in being the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, an influential caucus of GOP lawmakers. Gohmert&#8217;s known for his hard-line conservative views. He stopped just short of accusing Secretary of State John Kerry of treason for saying he&#8217;d consider working with Iran in dealing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Interested in Key GOP Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 09:28:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305126","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305128,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305126\/revisions\/305128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}