{"id":104641,"date":"2022-11-16T17:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=104641"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:18:31","slug":"rep-cuellar-details-intense-gop-efforts-to-get-him-to-switch-parties-name-your-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=104641","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Cuellar Details Intense GOP Efforts to Get Him to Switch Parties &#8220;Name Your Price&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3736682-cuellar-describes-gop-pressure-to-flip-parties-name-your-price\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>: &#8220;Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) on Tuesday revealed more details about the GOP effort to have him jump parties, saying a handful of Republicans \u2014 including a sitting member of Congress \u2014 were part of the pressure campaign to have him join the GOP following his easy victory in last week\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They did not offer him anything specific, such as a committee chairmanship, Cuellar said, but instead extended him an open-ended enticement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey just said, \u2018Name your price,&#8217;\u201d Cuellar told reporters in the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His response was simple. \u201cNo, thank you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuellar is among the most moderate Democrats in Congress. And The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/midterm-elections-congress-house-results\/card\/democrat-henry-cuellar-rejected-request-from-allies-of-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-to-switch-parties-WDnp8Y1qVOcNAbNtcvAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported this week<\/a>&nbsp;that House Minority Leader&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/kevin-mccarthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin McCarthy&nbsp;<\/a>(R-Calif.), who is facing an internal revolt from conservatives in his bid to become the next Speaker, sought to bring Cuellar into the Republican tent to help him seize the gavel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuellar on Tuesday clarified that McCarthy did not approach him directly, but at least four other Republicans did, he said, including \u201cone member, a couple folks from K Street [and] a former member.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He did not name names.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) on Tuesday revealed more details about the GOP effort to have him jump parties, saying a handful of Republicans \u2014 including a sitting member of Congress \u2014 were part of the pressure campaign to have him join the GOP following his easy victory in last week\u2019s midterm elections&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104646,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104641\/revisions\/104646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}