Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, punished for moderate votes, builds his own brand as a pragmatist in D.C.

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— only to watch cities and counties in his massive West Texas district get denied school safety grants offered by the same legislation “time and time again.”“It just boggles the mind,” the San Antonio Republican, whose district includes Uvalde, said in a recent hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland in which he questioned why so many applications for the grants, which can help pay for school resource officers, police equipment and more, were being turned down by the Justice Department.

“I'm not a big attorney general fan — we’re on opposite ends of a lot of things,” Gonzales said in an interview with Hearst Newspapers. “You almost have to put that aside and sit down and find ways to deliver in a world where politics leads everything, the polarization leads everything.”Rep. Gonzales uses campaign dollars to fight off progressive measures in San Antonio, El Paso

Smith said Gonzales held a roundtable for local leaders and has attended high school football games there. He described Gonzales as “somebody really trying to get out and understand the community and what we need.” Gonzales was the fourth-most bipartisan member from Texas, trailing U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, who was the sixth-most bipartisan in Congress, Michaul McCaul, R-Austin, who landed at 42, and former U.S. Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, who was 25th.

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