{"id":1784612,"date":"2022-12-23T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784612"},"modified":"2022-12-23T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:48:48","slug":"texas-democrat-sheriff-switches-parties-due-to-dems-anti-cop-stances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-democrat-sheriff-switches-parties-due-to-dems-anti-cop-stances\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrat Sheriff Switches Parties Due to Dems&#8217; Anti-Cop Stances"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-democrat-sheriff-switches-parties-due-to-dems-anti-cop-stances%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-12\/GettyImages-1244294326.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&#038;itok=4AQEEDId\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Another Democratic elected official in Texas has switched to the Republican Party \u2013 Karnes County Sheriff Dwayne Villanueva.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff announced he switched parties on Wednesday, saying, \u201cI look forward to continuing the strong tradition of excellent law enforcement in Karnes County, which requires us to come together for a common cause and seek out leaders of integrity and merit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the announcement, Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi said, \u201cI am proud to welcome Sheriff Villanueva to the Republican Party. As Democrats increasingly abandon and cripple law enforcement, it is no wonder more people are turning to the Republican party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva switching parties comes after several Democratic elected officials switched parties last year, including the judges of Terrell and Presidio counties in west Texas and state Rep. Ryan Guillen, in House District 31.<\/p>\n<p>Both Terrell and Presidio counties have declared an invasion at the southern border. Karnes County, which is located southeast of San Antonio and west of Victoria, has yet to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva, who is serving in his third term as sheriff, was first elected in 2013, after serving as a constable since 2009. Since he began his law enforcement career in the county in 1993, he\u2019s built a track record of making several high-profile arrests. They include a serial arsonist responsible for over 50 fires, an escaped inmate, multiple murderers, burglars in a serious home invasion case, a local police officer who was selling narcotics, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva switching parties comes after Brooks County Sheriff Benny Martinez, a Democrat, told The Center Square that the Democratic Party no longer represents his and South Texas values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic Party doesn\u2019t represent us,\u201d he said, and is out of touch with the struggles of his community where he and his deputies are daily combating drug cartel and gang activity stemming from the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Villanueva switching parties also comes after a recent poll found that more Hispanic Texans say the Democratic Party doesn\u2019t represent their values, and after another found that U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores, R-TX, had a higher favorability rating among Hispanics than U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, did.<\/p>\n<p>Flores was elected to Congress during a special election in March and lost her reelection bid in the general election in a different district in south Texas in November.<\/p>\n<p>Newly elected Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz, now representing a new district in south Texas, also maintains the Democrat Party \u201chas become woke, pushing down their cultural radicalism,\u201d which she says \u201cis an insult to us, quite frankly, and just one of the many reasons why the people who were once with the Democrat Party are now walking away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people in South Texas want a secure border. We believe in law and order, and that&#8217;s where the Democrat Party goes wrong,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They think that Hispanics want an open border and that just simply is not true. The Hispanics here, the people, South Texas want a safe and secure system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After losing statewide office in the midterm elections in November, Texas Democratic Party leaders issued a statement, saying, \u201cWe won\u2019t beat around the bush: at the statewide level, this was a tough cycle,\u201d but vowed to \u201ccontinue to make gains in cities and counties across the state\u201d to build \u201cour Democratic base over time until we win at the statewide level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also referred to Texas Republicans as \u201cextremists\u201d and vowed to \u201cdo everything in our power in the coming years to blunt the blows of these inevitable Republican assaults\u201d and \u201cput an end to their reign of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Democratic elected official in Texas has switched to the Republican Party \u2013 Karnes County Sheriff Dwayne Villanueva. The sheriff announced he switched parties on Wednesday, saying, \u201cI look forward to continuing the strong tradition of excellent law enforcement in Karnes County, which requires us to come together for a common cause and seek out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,4922,5458,4912,3933,9169,11342,3819,5936,11341,7540,3694],"class_list":["post-1784612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-anti-cop","tag-bongino","tag-democrat","tag-dems","tag-due","tag-parties","tag-report","tag-sheriff","tag-stances","tag-switches","tag-texas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}