Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) was furious Tuesday after House Speaker Mike Johnson attended a fundraiser in San Antonio alongside Rep. Tony Gonzalez. The move comes just days after Gonzalez blasted hard-line Republicans in Congress as “true scumbags.”
“For a speaker to be campaigning for Tony in San Antonio…I’m really surprised that we’re in a situation like that,” Roy told San Antonio radio station KTSA.
“We’re being attacked. Conservatives are being attacked. Freedom Caucus President Bob Good is being attacked by Tony,” Roy said.
“He said he was a Klansman. Yeah, I can’t condone what’s happening to people who think they’re standing up for this country.”
Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was referring to Gonzalez’s vicious rant on live television from Sunday.
“I work with some real bad people,” Gonzalez said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Look, Matt Gaetz, he was paying minors to have sex at drug parties,” Gonzalez continued, rehashing unproven allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida). Ta.
“Bob Good supported my opponent, a known neo-Nazi,” the Texas Republican further claimed. “These people used to walk around wearing white hoods at night, but now they walk around wearing white hoods during the day.”
Johnson’s appearance at the San Antonio fundraiser has been planned for years and will coincide with the National Republican Congressional Committee’s spring dinner in Dallas on Tuesday night, sources told the Post. .
The fundraiser reportedly attracted almost $300,000 Punchbowl says it’s funded by donations.
“No problem [Johnson] campaign with turncoats [Gonzales]”But why is this rally only for donors willing to donate the $300,000 that Tony boasted about?” Gates wrote to X.
“Everyone should see them campaigning together,” the Florida Republican added. “The great duo of Johnson and Gonzalez, who want more funding for Ukraine, want to explain to Texans how much their grandchildren will have to incur in order to repatriate Crimea. Must.”
Gonzalez will face Brandon Herrera, a digital content creator known as “The AK Guy” on YouTube, in the May 28 Texas Republican primary.
“There could be no clearer example of a David vs. Goliath battle,” Herrera wrote in X.
“While Tony and the establishment raise millions of dollars through big donors, PACs, and private parties, we continue to speak directly to the public,” he added. “This is the establishment against the grassroots, plain and simple.”
