By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...We would have been more impressed if she had challenged Ted Cruz, the junior U.S. Senator from Texas. This race against well-entrenched Democrat Vicente Gonzalez for the 34th Congressional seat is a bad fit for Mayra Flores.
She'll lose again in November.
But, boys, she's once more being Mayra, and, well, perhaps that's all she'll ever be. Something about her story tells me she would do well in Congress - but not as a Republican. Her personal history paints the very essence of a Democrat's portrait: Born poor, born in Mexico, re-born as an American citizen.
Still, there she is. Battling ghosts no one else sees. Well, maybe her insipid followers, all displaying their silliness on her Facebook page - the majority of them from elsewhere in the country. Perhaps they do love her, much like we loved Vietnamese who fought alongside U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
How else to explain her crazy, often-ragged politics.
But we do like her, and a primary contest against the hated Ted Cruz would likely have had a Cinderella ending. What is she going to do after another loss to Gonzalez?
This from her Facebook page: [ "Our latest polling has us in a very tight, competitive congressional race against leftist Vicente Gonzalez. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez has voted more funding to go overseas than into his own district. He also voted to allow biological males in female sports and in girls' locker rooms. He voted to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country even after they committed felonies.
Vicente Gonzalez doesn't represent South Texas values." ]
Gonzalez is a 56-year-old graduate of Texas A&M School of Law, hardly the model for anything "leftist," although maybe it's just a throwaway word for her, or maybe a word some Republican handler from up north injected in her commentary.
Vicente Gonzalez is no leftist.
He's a middle-of-the-roader, the personification of an adept bureaucrat. He looks like the guy in the office who will fix colleague mistakes and get the job done. It's what voters want! He's that guy!!
Does Mayra, a healthcare graduate of South Texas Community College in McAllen, look at Vicente Gonzalez and see Che Guevara? Or perhaps Mario Savio, the agitator who led the 1960s student protests at UC-Berkeley? Those two definitely were leftists.
Vicente Gonzalez?
In a novel or Hollywood movie, he's the congressman who rose from middle school principal to tackle politics and clean-up Washington, D.C. Musical soundtrack by Horst Jankowski. Co-starring Eva Longoria as his wife.
Leftist?
Obscenity!!!...
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ReplyDeleteVicente takes too much oil and gas money to be a leftist. But truth is meaningless in elections. It the latest disapproval poll on Biden, and the highly questionable accuracy of the Vicente/Mayra poll is good, Vicente may be filing for unemployment.
ReplyDeleteAnd Vicente helped South Texas ranchers get federal money on the pretext that illegals trashed their ranches. LOL!!!
DeleteVicente has been there 3 terms. He's vested for Congress pension.
DeleteMayra Flores served 6 months. She has NO pension.
DeleteWasn't she paying herself $60,000 salary from campaign contributions? Read that in a Brownsville blog. Geeez.
Deleteyes, politics has been bery-bery good to Mayra Flores
DeleteI pray to God that a majority of Americans will outvote the Trumpers at the ballot box in November. A vote for the Democrats is the only safety net we have for hanging onto the freedoms we hold so dear.
ReplyDeleteEcho that.
Deletemayra is just trying to brand him as a bad guy. he's not.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. JAIL him and let him come out only for court!
ReplyDeletehey, Mayra, have you ever seen the rain? ja ja ja
ReplyDeleteI’m 70 years old. I hope I live long enough to see this silliness end.
ReplyDeleteYou said it.
DeletePresident Biden has my vote.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't vote for trump ever, I never have I never will.
Trump and Republicans do not rule out building detention camps for mass deportations
ReplyDeleteVOTE BLUE. Republicans are nuts.
ReplyDelete"MAGA Hero To Zero": MSNBC Host Predicts Marjorie Taylor Greene's "Humiliating" Fall.....You'll never see this on right-wing media.
ReplyDeleteShe's done. Toast.
DeleteMaybe Mayra Flores dreams of replacing MTG! LOL!!!
Deletei myself believe he is guilty of every charge and then some, enough grand juries found enough evidence to press charges
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, practically everyone in his orbit is going down........but the con goes on and on and on.
DeleteMy favorite part of today's Hush Money Trial update (so far) – Merchan warned that further violations could result in "an incarceratory punishment."
ReplyDeleteHillary was grilled 11 hours several times on Benghazi crap, never cried like Trump.
ReplyDeleteI believe we can trust our Congressman Vicente Gonzalez. Who knows about the people behind Mayra.
ReplyDeleteTrump won't rule out election violence if he loses to Biden in November: 'It depends' on fairness of the election.
ReplyDeleteCourt's in session. Where's melania?
ReplyDeleteTrump removes posts that judge ruled violated gag order. He's got fear written all over his face.
ReplyDeleteA moderate or traditional conservative would NOT be okay with none of these facts. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez has voted more funding to go overseas than into his own district. He also voted to allow biological males in female sports and in girls' locker rooms. He voted to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country even after they committed felonies.
ReplyDeleteFACT CHECK: Congressman Gonzalez did vote to aid our allies Ukraine and Isarel. As for the second point, Resolution 269 - Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security. The 3rd point in the comment above is FALSE. Thery only stay in the county if imprisoned here...
DeleteIn his trial testimony today, the lawyer for BOTH STORMY DANIELS and KAREN McDOUGAL PROVED SO MANY ELEMENTS OF THE PROSECUTION’s case against Trump, the PROSECUTION COULD CONSIDER SITTING DOWN AND RESTING!
ReplyDeleteMichael Cohen, his old lawyer, went to prison for this. Trump knows he's toast.
DeletePresident Biden said he’d take another stab at a border bill — but nothing appears in the works.
ReplyDelete"They pulled a rabbit out of a hat on Ukraine, but there’s no chance they’re getting anything out of Republican Mike Johnson’s House on border security"
Reports have it that Congressman Vicente Gonzalez has more cash on hand than Republican Myra Flores. What - no help for Mayra from the RNC? Oh, Trump got all the money.
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