{"id":856607,"date":"2020-02-28T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856607"},"modified":"2020-02-29T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T01:03:45","slug":"gohmert-working-on-tougher-anti-lynching-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856607","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Working on Tougher Anti-Lynching Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/11\/Louie-Gohmert-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-833759\" \/>WASHINGTON D.C. &#8212; On Friday U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert told KTBB, &#8220;the reason why I voted against the bill was because it was just to weak.&#8221; The maximum sentence in the anti-lynching bill was only 10 years in prison. Gohmert said, &#8221; my office is working on a bill with a more appropriate punishment, I&#8217;m going to see if Bobby Rush will co-sponsor it, or maybe even name the bill after him. But those people who are throwing out the racists word, they simply are playing politics, they&#8217;re dishonest, or they are just ignorant of the facts. They did&#8217;nt read the bill like I did and they ought to do that before they start calling people names.&#8221;  A link to Congressmen Gohmert&#8217;s statement on the House Floor is available a courtesy of our news partner KETK.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.easttexasmatters.com\/news\/top-stories\/rep-gohmert-explains-why-he-voted-against-lynching-hate-crime-bill\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.easttexasmatters.com\/news\/top-stories\/rep-gohmert-explains-why-he-voted-against-lynching-hate-crime-bill\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C. &#8212; On Friday U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert told KTBB, &#8220;the reason why I voted against the bill was because it was just to weak.&#8221; The maximum sentence in the anti-lynching bill was only 10 years in prison. Gohmert said, &#8221; my office is working on a bill with a more appropriate punishment, I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856607\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Working on Tougher Anti-Lynching Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":833759,"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-856607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 06:50:05","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\/856607","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=856607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856616,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856607\/revisions\/856616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/833759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}