{"id":954513,"date":"2021-01-18T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=954513"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:23:01","slug":"texas-democratic-party-calling-for-exhaustive-list-of-republicans-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=954513","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democratic Party calling for exhaustive list of Republicans to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/texas-party-platform-comparison-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-954514\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Texas Democratic Party released a comprehensive list Monday calling on Lone Star State Republicans to resign from office after the Capitol Hill riots earlier this month. Accorded to our news partner KETK, Senator Ted Cruz and East Texas Representative Louie Gohmert are included on the list. Cruz led the effort by many Senate Republicans to object to the results from several states that went for President-elect Joe Biden.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His reasoning was that there needed to be a study on election integrity due to allegations of widespread voter fraud. Cruz withdrew his support for the objections, following the riot, but has not apologized for his potential role in the riot. Gohmert filed a lawsuit against Vice President Pence in the lead-up to the Electoral College certification. The lawsuit claimed that as the President of the Senate, Pence should be able to unilaterally reject a state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electors if there is a dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full list of people that Texas Democrats are calling to step down:<\/p>\n<p>    US Senator Ted Cruz<br \/>\n    Attorney General Ken Paxton<br \/>\n    Rep. Jody Arrington<br \/>\n    Rep. Brian Babin<br \/>\n    Rep. Michael C. Burgess<br \/>\n    Rep. Michael Burgess<br \/>\n    Rep. John Carter<br \/>\n    Rep. Michael Cloud<br \/>\n    Rep. Pat Fallon<br \/>\n    Rep. Louie Gohmert<br \/>\n    Rep. Lance Gooden<br \/>\n    Rep. Ronny Jackson<br \/>\n    Rep. Troy Nehls<br \/>\n    Rep. Pfluger<br \/>\n    Rep. Pete Sessions<br \/>\n    Rep. Beth Van Duyne<br \/>\n    Rep. Randy Weber<br \/>\n    Rep. Roger Williams<br \/>\n    Rep. Ron Wright<br \/>\n    State Sen. Angela Paxton<br \/>\n    State Rep. Kyle Biedermann<br \/>\n    State Rep. Briscoe Cain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Texas Democratic Party released a comprehensive list Monday calling on Lone Star State Republicans to resign from office after the Capitol Hill riots earlier this month. Accorded to our news partner KETK, Senator Ted Cruz and East Texas Representative Louie Gohmert are included on the list. Cruz led the effort by many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=954513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Democratic Party calling for exhaustive list of Republicans to step down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":954519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/texas-party-platform-comparison-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Democratic Party calling for exhaustive list of Republicans to step down","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 06:38:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/texas-party-platform-comparison-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Democratic Party calling for exhaustive list of Republicans to step down","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954513","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=954513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954517,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954513\/revisions\/954517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/954519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}