{"id":180317,"date":"2026-02-25T23:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:31:06","slug":"congresswoman-veronica-escobar-says-tony-gonzales-should-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180317\/","title":{"rendered":"Congresswoman Veronica Escobar says Tony Gonzales should resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- ABC 7 reached out to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar&#8217;s office Wednesday for comment regarding representative Tony Gonzales after text messages between him and his former staffer were <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/2026\/02\/23\/messages-released-that-allege-affair-between-rep-tony-gonzales-and-former-staffer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Escobar&#8217;s office initially said the congresswoman would not comment on topic.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Escobar&#8217;s office sent ABC 7 the following statement that was made to the Texas Tribune:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A young woman is dead, her son lost his mother, and a family is grieving, yet it seems that Tony Gonzales only cares about his political survival. The text messages and statements are credible and damning. He should resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 asked her office why she changed her mind after initially saying she did not want to comment on the matter. So far, we have not heard back.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- ABC 7 reached out to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar&#8217;s office Wednesday for comment regarding representative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-180317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}