{"id":71020,"date":"2026-04-06T18:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/second-ex-staffer-accuses-texas-lawmaker-of-sending-sexually-explicit-messages\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:57:28","slug":"second-ex-staffer-accuses-texas-lawmaker-of-sending-sexually-explicit-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/second-ex-staffer-accuses-texas-lawmaker-of-sending-sexually-explicit-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Second ex-staffer accuses Texas lawmaker of sending sexually explicit messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tony Gonzales ended re-election bid in March after admitting to having affair with a different aide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A second former female staffer for Tony Gonzales, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> congressman from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a>, has come forward claiming Gonzales sent her sexually explicit messages.<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Express-News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/politics\/article\/tony-gonzales-sexual-texts-campaign-staffer-22085908.php\">first reported<\/a> the text messages on Monday and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/second-staffer-says-rep-tony-gonzales-sent-sexually-explicit-texts-rcna266969\">NBC News<\/a> later confirmed the report.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/tony-gonzales-texas-staffers-accusations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tony Gonzales ended re-election bid in March after admitting to having affair with a different aide Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A second former female staffer for Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, has come forward claiming Gonzales sent her sexually explicit messages. &#8230; <a title=\"Second ex-staffer accuses Texas lawmaker of sending sexually explicit messages\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/second-ex-staffer-accuses-texas-lawmaker-of-sending-sexually-explicit-messages\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Second ex-staffer accuses Texas lawmaker of sending sexually explicit messages\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}