{"id":405306,"date":"2015-10-10T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=405306"},"modified":"2015-10-13T02:12:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T07:12:30","slug":"gohmert-now-backs-webster-for-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=405306","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Now Backs Webster for Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Louie-Gohmert-new3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Louie-Gohmert-new3-150x148.jpg\" alt=\"Louie Gohmert-new3\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-405307\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212;  Now that Kevin McCarthy has stepped aside, Tyler-based Congressman Louie Gohmert says he&#8217;s supporting Dan Webster  for House speaker. Gohmert tells KTBB, &#8220;Even though he&#8217;s less conservative in his voting than I am&#8230;he&#8217;s a good man. He de-centralized power as speaker of the House in Florida, and I knew he was just the right guy to do that in Washington &#8212; desperately needed.&#8221;   As for this past week&#8217;s announcement, Gohmert remarked, &#8220;It was a surprise when Kevin McCarthy indicated he was not the person to unite&#8230;us together.&#8221;  But Gohmert terms the move &#8220;a selfless, noble act.&#8221;  Gohmert says he looks forward to the day when the House has  someone &#8220;that will allow all of the members, Republican and Democrat, to represent their districts. That&#8217;s gonna be a great day when that happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Now that Kevin McCarthy has stepped aside, Tyler-based Congressman Louie Gohmert says he&#8217;s supporting Dan Webster for House speaker. Gohmert tells KTBB, &#8220;Even though he&#8217;s less conservative in his voting than I am&#8230;he&#8217;s a good man. He de-centralized power as speaker of the House in Florida, and I knew he was just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=405306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Now Backs Webster for Speaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":405307,"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-405306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 22:06:30","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\/405306","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=405306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405308,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405306\/revisions\/405308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}