{"id":255352,"date":"2026-04-18T05:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255352\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:47:26","slug":"sudden-allen-west-resignation-rocks-dallas-county-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255352\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Allen West Resignation Rocks Dallas County GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas County Republican Party Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AllenWest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Allen West <\/a>resigned Wednesday, stepping down days before an expected vote to remove him from office.<\/p>\n<p>West informed Dallas County Elections Administrator Paul Adams of his resignation Wednesday afternoon. The move came after weeks of internal backlash over his unilateral decision last month to amend the party\u2019s contract with the elections department.<\/p>\n<p>West switched the May 26 runoff back to countywide voting \u2014 allowing ballots at any vote center \u2014 reversing the executive committee\u2019s earlier plan for precinct-based voting. That system had caused long lines and turned away hundreds of confused voters during the March 3 primary.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Below is the text of the email Allen West sent out regarding his resignation. West alleges that Dallas-based influencer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amuse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@amuse<\/a> was the spokesperson for a group seeking to remove him as chair and informed West that Texas Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenPaxtonTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@KenPaxtonTX<\/a> was potentially going to get\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Ortiz (Current Revolt) (@CurrentRevolt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurrentRevolt\/status\/2044575899568210350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 16, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sixty-four precinct chairs signed a March 29 letter demanding he reverse the change and resign. West had scheduled an April 20 executive committee vote on his removal but chose to step down first. Vice Chair Tami Brown-Rodriguez is now serving as acting chair.<\/p>\n<p>A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AllenWest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">West earned a Bronze Star during deployments in the Gulf War and Iraq War<\/a>. He represented Florida as a Republican congressman before moving to Texas and rising in state GOP circles. He won re-election unopposed to a second two-year term as Dallas County chair in the March primary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/krld\/listen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LISTEN<\/a> on the Audacy App<br \/>Tell your Smart Speaker to &#8220;PLAY 1080 KRLD&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/newsletter\/subscribe\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign Up<\/a> to receive our KRLD Insider Newsletter for more news<br \/>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KRLDNews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KRLD\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/krldnews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCX1Qei3Ev-DLiUujxT2A__Q\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas County Republican Party Chair Allen West resigned Wednesday, stepping down days before an expected vote to remove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-255352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255352","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=255352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}