{"id":251653,"date":"2026-04-15T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:14:07","slug":"dallas-gop-chair-allen-west-resigns-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251653\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas GOP Chair Allen West resigns amid controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West faced criticism last month after deciding to hold separate primaries from Democrats then rejoining them for the May runoff.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 Allen B. West, chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party for more than two years resigned his position on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>West confirmed his resignation to WFAA in a text message on Wednesday afternoon but did not reveal his reason for leaving.<\/p>\n<p>West faced criticism last month for deciding to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/who-is-responsible-for-dallas-countys-voting-confusion\/287-087beff2-00eb-4d3e-a128-ccff841f794c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">separate primary elections from Democrats<\/a>. The decision eliminated the popular countywide voting option and forced voters to return to their local precincts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It led to confusion for hundreds of voters, and some said they were unable to find the right location to cast ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, in his weekly newsletter, West acknowledged that his own party then got upset with him when he decided to rejoin Democrats and hold a joint primary in the May 26 runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, West refused to resign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s executive committee meets again on April 20 and could have moved to fire him.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas County Republican voters first elected West on March 5, 2024. He defeated the incumbent chair with more than 70-percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Tami Brown-Rodriguez, vice chair, will now take over party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Internal rules state the party\u2019s executive committee must have an election within 30-days to formally replace West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West faced criticism last month after deciding to hold separate primaries from Democrats then rejoining them for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-251653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251653","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=251653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}