Rep: Veronica Gonzales Won't Seek Re-election

by Ross Ramsey
November 30, 2011
15 Comments

Add state Rep. Veronica Gonzales, D-McAllen, to the list of legislators who won't be seeking re-election next year.

The Valley representative says that she won't run again, bringing the number of voluntary dropouts in the Texas House to more than two dozen.

Gonzales, who took office in 2005, chairs the House Border and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee. She sent an email confirming the rumors of her decision.

She apparently got caught in competitive crossfire spurred by redistricting. Another candidate, Bobby Guerra, had planned to challenge state Rep. Aaron Peña, R-Edinburg, but ended up in Gonzales' district when the ...

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Comments (15)

November 30, 2011 @ 3:53 p.m.

Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook

These R & Ds dropping upset me. Not because I like them but because they believe people have to be bought and fighting for their supposed principles isn't worth it when it because to difficult. Are not principles worth fighting for even in difficult circumstances?
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November 30, 2011 @ 3:57 p.m.

Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Lots of Koch $$$$ out there to oppose the Dems and sane Repubs. Sad!
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:07 p.m.

Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Plutocracy is a very effective way to govern.
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:12 p.m.

Erin Anderson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

It's nothing to do with "Koch $$" (or OFA/DNC/SEIU $$). The federal courts messed up the redistricting maps, and Gonzales doesn't want to run against a fellow Democrat who's now in her district.
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:19 p.m.

Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook

1 down, 434 to go
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:21 p.m.

Jim Fung via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Redistricting always causes some people to have to run against each other, courts or no courts.
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:23 p.m.

Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook

But Jim, it's progressively immoral to have Democrats run against one another! However else will we dominate the legislature? You don't think we could win an election in a non-protected district, do you?
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:23 p.m.

Sally Perez-Ramos via Texas Tribune on Facebook

tragic.
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November 30, 2011 @ 4:43 p.m.

Lucy Snearley via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Good riddance! This pathetic socialist was in my district, but I have never been able to say she represented me. Anyone will be an improvement over her.
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November 30, 2011 @ 5:16 p.m.

Krystal Gómez via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Too sad! It dampers the exciting news from a few days ago that Peña isn't running...
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November 30, 2011 @ 5:31 p.m.

George W. Reamy via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Ah, Lucy! So everything run by the government is socialist? Don't call your socialist police department if someone is breaking into your home. If it's on fire, don't call that socialist fire department. Surely you support our socialist military! When you go vote, don't drive on those socialist roads.
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November 30, 2011 @ 7:45 p.m.

Stephen J Wright via Texas Tribune on Facebook

...and don't take your kids to those socialist parks, check out books from the socialist library, or send your kids to those socialist schools.
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November 30, 2011 @ 9:24 p.m.

Gregg White via Texas Tribune on Facebook

And those socialist US air traffic controllers that keep 50,000 flights everyday from crashing into each other.
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November 30, 2011 @ 11:11 p.m.

Leigh Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook

The federal courts didn't "mess up the redistricting maps". They put a stop to over-the-top gerrymandering on the part of the R's that diluted minority voting strength.
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December 1, 2011 @ 8:51 a.m.

gypsy314 ne

Remember a vote for a democrat is a vote for Obama , illegal aliens and homosexuals.