{"id":454897,"date":"2026-10-03T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454897\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:18:09","slug":"hinojosa-seeks-to-pull-abbott-tv-attack-ad-in-texas-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454897\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinojosa seeks to pull Abbott TV attack ad in Texas governor\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN \u2014 Gina Hinojosa is trying to knock one of Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a>\u2019s attack ads off Texas television, accusing his campaign of falsely claiming she voted 40 times to raise taxes.<\/p>\n

The Democratic candidate for governor sent cease-and-desist letters this week to stations airing the spot, demanding they stop running it and retract or correct its claims.<\/p>\n

Hinojosa\u2019s attorneys said in the letter that the ad damages her reputation by falsely telling voters she repeatedly voted to raise taxes and that Abbott\u2019s campaign is liable for defamation.<\/p>\n

It was unclear which stations received the letter. Abbott\u2019s campaign has spent $12 million to air the ad across the state.<\/p>\n

Hinojosa campaign spokesman Tommy Kubitschek said Abbott should defend his record and the ad on a debate stage. \u201cInstead, he\u2019s lying to Texans, plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abbott campaign spokeswoman Catherine\u00a0Frazier said Hinojosa\u2019s actions were a \u201cdesperate use of lawfare to pull ads that expose her horrendous voting record on property taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas voters need to understand \u2013 Gina wants to raise your taxes. Period,\u201d Frazier said.<\/p>\n

Abbott’s legal team also sent letters to TV stations stating that Hinojosa mischaracterized the law and that the ad was based on her legislative record.<\/p>\n

The political spot accused Hinojosa<\/a> of voting 40 times to increase taxes in the Legislature. But many of the votes were against bills designed to limit how quickly local property tax revenue could grow.<\/p>\n

For instance, 11 were procedural votes against a 2019 bill<\/a> that reduced the pace that property tax rates increase by limiting how much local governments can collect in revenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of the votes directly raised property taxes.\u201draised property taxes. The Legislature does not levy property taxes \u2013 cities, counties, school districts and other local taxing entities do.<\/p>\n

Abbott has said that himself in\u00a0a different ad<\/a> he ran last month. \u201cThe state of Texas does not impose the property tax. Only local governments impose property taxes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 Gina Hinojosa is trying to knock one of Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s attack ads off Texas television,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-454897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454897","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=454897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}