Ohio GOP Censures 10 Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump
7th May 2021
The Ohio Republican Party censured Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, and 9 other GOP representatives Friday for voting in February to impeach former President Donald Trump, in a nearly unanimous vote of the powerful central committee.
The vote made the Cleveland congressman the 8th of the 10 defectors to be rebuked or censured by a state or local party. Efforts against two others failed to take hold.
The resolution to censure that was approved by the committee called Trump’s second impeachment process meritless, unprecedented, unconstitutional and purposeless. Along a narrower vote, the committee also approved a second resolution, which hadn’t been on the agenda, calling on Gonzalez to resign.