”There is no place for hate in the Democrat Party. And there are no free-joles in tacos.”
Posted on 07/21/2022 6:45:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez is distancing himself from a blogger he paid who's using bigoted language to describe GOP opponent Rep. Mayra Flores.
A Texas blogger paid by Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez's campaign is attacking Republican opponent Rep. Mayra Flores as “Miss Frijoles” and a "cotton-pickin' liar," prompting a wave of denunciations by fellow Democrats.
The language first surfaced three days after Gonzalez’s campaign wrote a $1,200 check to The McHale Report blog June 24 for “advertising services,” according to the Democrat’s Federal Election Commission finance report.
But the blog, which has called Flores "Miss Frijoles" 21 times since then, has not published any Gonzalez ads.
Flores, in a Twitter post Monday, accused the Gonzalez campaign of paying “a local blogger to run hateful & racist ads against me,” a charge that the Gonzalez campaign and blogger Jerry McHale deny. They both told NBC News that the timing of the attacks were coincidental, that the congressman didn’t pay for any of the inflammatory posts, know about them or have any control over them.
“Of course, the congressman is against referring to Rep. Flores as ‘Miss Frijoles’ or a ‘cotton-picking liar’,” Gonzalez’s campaign manager, Collin Steele, wrote in a text message to NBC News, echoing the state Democratic Party chair and other Texas Democrats who denounced the language as well.
But McHale would not back down.
“I am a liberal Democrat. And it’s war against the Republican ... I’m going to be merciless with her,” he told NBC News.
The controversy, which illustrates the blurred lines between paying political bloggers for advertising and advocacy, is the latest flashpoint in the wild and rugged politics of Texas 34th Congressional District, a majority-Hispanic seat that runs along the state’s southeast border with Mexico and has become a national proving ground for GOP outreach to Hispanic voters.
Flores is the first congresswoman born in Mexico. Two years before her victory, then-President Donald Trump improved his margins in the district — along with most majority-Hispanic districts and counties nationwide — when compared to his 2016 numbers.
Democrats ‘do the most and brag the least,’ South Texas Democrat warns JUNE 30, 202206:37 But Democrats note that Trump still lost within the boundaries of the 34th Congressional District, and they say Flores only won because the party didn’t spend much to contest her special election after then-Rep. Filemon Vela, a Democrat, unexpectedly left the seat to join a law firm that lobbies in Washington. Gonzalez decided to challenge Flores once the seat he currently holds, the 15th Congressional District, became more Republican-leaning after it was redrawn by the GOP-led Legislature during redistricting.
A week after Flores won, Gonzalez told Newsweek, “I wasn’t born in Mexico … I didn’t come here through chain migration, I didn’t come through asylum or amnesty or whatever.” In his remarks, often associated with Republicans, Gonzalez also described Flores as “unqualified,” a criticism often considered sexist.
“Politics in South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley is blood sport. It’s very personal. And they play to win,” said Colin Strother, a veteran Texas Democratic consultant.
Still, he said, the language in McHale’s blog and Gonzalez’s decision to advertise with him were surprising — Gonzalez last year paid McHale $1,000 for advertising, and the blog is full of posts with racist, crude and bigoted language, like the use of the N-word and derogatory references to women's private parts, including Flores’ body.
“The attitude doesn’t surprise me. The mindset doesn’t surprise me. A Democratic member spending money with someone using that kind of language? Yeah, that surprises me,” Strother said. “It’s a little outside the bounds. There are other places to spend your money.”
Must be the bean reference that’s offensive. Stick to “tacos.” That’s apparently OK.
The rat media will do anything to avoid talking about the real reasons TX hispanics are turning their backs on the democrat party.
This is how RATS operate.
”There is no place for hate in the Democrat Party. And there are no free-joles in tacos.”
Doctor of Hispanic Culinary Cuisine.
Someone should tell the blogger and Vinny that Maya Flores is married so she should be Mrs. Beans.
Perhaps Mrs. Flores should make a commercial showing the characters in Blazing Saddles farting after eating beans. She might even be able to put Vinny’s face on the cowboys.
there. fixed it.
It’s Gonzalez’s own fault for hiring a PT boat skipper as a political consultant. One has nothing to do with the other.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Vanity personal story of the day: when my daughter told me she was going to start learning Spanish in school (2nd or 3rd grade), I suggested she greet her Spanish teacher by saying, “Como tu frijole,” that como meant how, tu meant you, and frijole meant bean, “How you bean.” Daughter, still naïve to her father’s tricks, dutifully greeted the Spanish teacher as taught, and then had to explain it the way she had been taught. Daughter never asked father for help with her Spanish lessons.
Racism within a race is nothing new, blacks have been doing it for decades.
Lighter skinned blacks look down on darker skinned blacks as being inferior.
Weird right? But I’ve been seeing it practically my whole life.
“A Texas blogger paid by Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez’s campaign”
You own it Vicente.
“a ‘cotton-picking liar”
Uh oh....here comes al and Jessie.
What would you expect from a high yeller? Actin’ all white an’ s***.
The only cotton they ever picked was out of an aspirin bottle!.........................
I took a Spanish for Business class and the teacher (from Nicaragua) asked me what I wanted to get out of the class. I told her I just wanted to learn to say ‘put your hands on your head and face the wall’. I got a huge reaction to that one.
A friend of mine grew up in a fairly religious household with a couple of sisters. He generally doesn’t swear, but does throw in the occasional “cotton-picking fingers” comment. I find it amusing.
The DNC thrives on hate: hate of those who think differently, hate of those who leave their assigned plantations, hate of America and the Constitution, hate of the unborn, hate of the normal or sane, hate of Christians who actually are, hate of ... well, just about everything that’s proper and decent because the DNC loves everything that is perverted and corrupt.
Don’t forget the Redbones. ;^)
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