{"id":243535,"date":"2026-04-10T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:11:10","slug":"u-s-rep-tony-gonzales-should-resign-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243535\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales should resign from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales is serving no one by remaining in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>While he abandoned his bid for a fourth term after the March primary election, admitting to an affair with a former staffer who later died by suicide, he has remained in office and pledged to complete his term.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, we asked:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/opinion\/editorial\/article\/congressman-tony-gonzales-resign-22071198.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why should Gonzales finish his term?<\/a> By admitting to the affair, which Gonzales had denied for months despite mounting evidence, he has acknowledged violating House ethics rules.<\/p>\n<p>That question carries even more weight in light of the latest revelation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/politics\/article\/tony-gonzales-sexual-texts-campaign-staffer-22085908.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by the Express-News<\/a>, that Gonzales attempted to pressure a campaign staffer into having sex with him in 2020. Those text messages, much like the ones he sent in 2024 to aide Regina\u00a0Santos-Aviles, are lewd and sexually explicit. He asks for nude pictures and leverages his powerful standing.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, voters in Congressional District 23, which runs from San Antonio to El Paso, will choose between Republican Brandon Herrera and Democrat Katy Padilla Stout.<\/p>\n<p>But why wait till his successor is chosen? The sooner Gonzales is out of office, the better. House Speaker Mike Johnson should call on Gonzales to resign, and so should Gonzales&#8217; constituents.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disgraced U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales is serving no one by remaining in Congress. While he abandoned his bid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45912,88930,93077,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-243535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-edelection26","9":"tag-edstaff","10":"tag-edtonygonzales","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243535","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=243535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}