Republican Mayra Flores Accuses Democrat Opponent of Paying Blogger for Racist Posts

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South Texas blogger labels Flores “Miss Frijoles” and uses sexually crude language

Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores responded to racial stereotypes and crude language used to describe her by a South Texas blogger paid with campaign money from Congressman Vicente Gonzales, her Democratic opponent in the Texas District 34 midterm election.

In a Twitter post on Monday, Flores accused the Gonzales campaign of paying for a blogger to โ€œrun hateful and racist adsโ€ against her. The posts that appeared in the McHale Report blog referred to her as โ€œMiss Frijoles,โ€ โ€œMiss Menudo,โ€ โ€œMiss Enchiladas,โ€ and a โ€œcotton-pickinโ€™ liar.โ€

โ€œI am disgusted that Vicente Gonzalez has hired a creepy blogger to attack my Mexican heritage and sexually degrade me, but I wonโ€™t let this distract me from my work,โ€ she told The Epoch Times via text. โ€œVicente Gonzalez is an example of everything thatโ€™s wrong with Washington. Itโ€™s truly sick,โ€ she said.

Jerry McHale, a longtime South Texas blogger, also used sexually crude language in a May 13 headline about the Congresswoman: โ€œDoes Flores Want Trump to Come & Take Her [expletive]???โ€

Federal Elections Commission data shows Gonzalez made campaign advertising expenditures to Jerry McHale of $1,200 on June 24 and $1,000 on October 27, 2021.

McHale told The Epoch Times that Gonzalez never told him what to write, and he has never spoken to the Congressman. He was unapologetic for the language used in the blog. The self-described ultra-left Democratic blogger said he had no regrets using โ€œsatireโ€ to describe Flores or โ€œpunching hardโ€ at Republicans. He said Gonzalez and other politicians pay him to run photos with wording akin to a headline.

Colin Steel, campaign manager for Gonzalez, did not return a call seeking comment. However, he told NBC News, which first reported the story, that Gonzalez disapproves of calling Flores names and denied any wrongdoing.

Flores became the first Republican elected in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande District in more than 100 years. The devout Christian won a special election for the district on a conservative platform of God, family, and country.

By Darlene McCormick Sanchez

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