Scumbag Republican Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales on Thursday night finally dropped his reelection bid hours after House GOP leadership had urged him to call it quits – but definitely just on the campaign, not his seat altogether. “My hope is he would finish out the rest of his term… We didn’t call for him to resign, we asked him to withdraw from the race,” said overmedicated harridan Conference Chair Lisa McClain when asked by a reporter if Gonzales should resign and vacate the seat. Worth noting here is that Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson, who signed onto the statement, had in July 2024 called on President Joe Biden to resign “immediately” after dropping his reelection bid, tweeting “If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President.”
Anyway it may not have been that mid-Thursday afternoon statement that finally pushed Gonzales off the ledge as at 5:42 PM CST hometown paper the San Antonio Express-News acquired a selfie of Gonzales with now-deceased aide Regina Santos-Aviles before she committed suicide by self-immolation in September 13, 2025. While the date and on whose phone it was taken was taken cannot be established, the metadata of the image establishes that Santos-Aviles downloaded it to her phone as a text message attachment five days earlier at 9:07 pm CDT on September 8, 2025, according to estranged husband Adrian Aviles’s lawyer, who provided it to the Express-News.
Gonzales had previously said the last time he’d ever spoken to Regina was in June 2024 and given the daylight outdoors setting it was definitely not immediately before Regina downloaded it to her phone. Either way, this may have been the actual final catalyst for Gonzales to drop his reelection campaign, becoming the 27th House Republican to exit DC of their own volition this cycle and handing the TX-23 GOP nomination to psychotic Second Amendment extremist Brandon Herrera.
Worth mentioning that total turnout for Dems, who nominated lawyer and teacher Katy Padilla Stout with a 52 percent majority, in the 23rd on Tuesday was 3,888 higher than the GOP’s. Yes, the Dems had the contested statewide Senate primary, but Republicans had a contested US House primary in the district, so this seat should be considered an opportunity for the Ds, even at R+7.
The jackass literally freaking put “Let’s Go Brandon” in his Twitter banner. He MUST lose, lol.