BUSTED: Vicente Gonzalez caught skipping votes to campaign
Vicente Gonzalez is too busy campaigning to actually do the job Texas voters elected him to do.
Gonzalez claimed he couldn’t vote last week because of the “ongoing public health emergency” (COVID).
But Gonzalez didn’t have COVID, he was at home campaigning for reelection because he fears losing to Rep. Mayra Flores.
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Vicente Gonzalez attends campaign event the same day he failed to show in-person for key votes, citing COVID
Brandon Gillespie
Fox News
September 30, 2022
Vulnerable Democratic Texas Congressman Vicente Gonzalez missed a number of votes in the House of Representatives this week, citing the “ongoing public health emergency” of COVID-19 as his reason to vote remotely while he attended a number of events in his home state instead.
The embattled Democrat opted to vote by proxy, the process in which a member of Congress can have another member vote on legislation in their absence, choosing Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., to vote in his stead.
“I continue to be unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency and hereby grant the authority to caste my vote by proxy to the Honorable Lou Correa (California), who has agreed to serve as my proxy,” Gonzalez’s official proxy letter stated.
Of the votes missed by Gonzalez, the most high-profile was the Friday passage of a largely Democrat-backed bill that avoided a shutdown of the federal government, and was described by some as a crucial piece of legislation.
Fox News Digital reached out to Gonzalez’s office for comment on why he chose to be in Texas for a specific campaign event on Thursday evening hosted by the Cameron County Democratic Party rather than the numerous votes held in the House on Thursday and Friday, but didn’t receive an immediate response.
His office responded after publishing that his attendance at the event took place after House voting had ended on Thursday evening, and that he attended three other events in an official capacity during the Friday voting hours in which the bill to avoid a government shutdown was passed.
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