Republicans in the U.S. Congress faced growing blowback on Monday from businesses that said they would cut off campaign contributions to those who voted last week to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Following similar decisions by big banks, the Consumer Bankers Association and Mortgage Bankers Association said they will halt all political contributions to elected officials as some lawmakers face harsh criticism for comments that incited the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Thomas Wesley Herbst, 87, of Jasper, died Friday, January 8th, 2021. He was born on November 3, 1933, in Caldwell, Texas to Mildred Lawson Herbst and Edgar Frank Herbst.
Tom was a 1956 graduate of the University of Texas where he majored in Chemical Engineering and played saxophone in the Longhorn marching band. He worked for the Ethyl Corporation in Houston before returning to Jasper in 1959 to work for the First State Bank. He returned to school during summers and became an honor graduate of SMUâs Southwest Graduate School of Banking in 1964. Tom took over as President and CEO of the First State Bank of Jasper in 1970 where he remained until his retirement in 1998. When the bank was sold to First Bank & Trust, Tom stayed on as an Advisory Director from 1999-2003.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are applauded by Republican members of Congress after they objected to the certification of the electoral votes for the state of Arizona during a Joint Session of Congress on January 06, 2021. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Hours after an angry mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building Wednesday a violent insurrection that forced lawmakers to evacuate, delayed the democratic process and led to the death of a Capitol Police officer 147 Republican lawmakers objected to the Electoral College results on behalf of the president’s baseless allegations of fraud.
The Business Roundtable called for an end to the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, adding that efforts to overturn the election results are unlawful.