The campaign for Vela, who resigned from office earlier this year, gave McHale $500 for advertising in March 2020. Filemon Vela and Solomon Ortiz going back to 2004. McHale also appears to have received disbursements for advertising from campaigns for former U.S. He doesn’t have a record to stand on,” she said. “Vicente Gonzalez is an example of everything that’s wrong with Washington.
In a statement to The Texas Tribune, Flores said she was “disgusted that Vicente Gonzalez has hired a creepy blogger to attack my Mexican heritage and sexually degrade me, but I won’t let this distract me from my work.” Flores as ‘Miss Frijoles’ or a ‘cotton-picking liar.’” Gonzalez’s campaign manager, Collin Steele, told NBC News that the campaign didn’t pay for McHale to deploy those attacks, texting the network: “Of course, the congressman is against referring to Rep. NBC News first reported the campaign contributions. “As soon as I found out, we pulled the plug on all that,” he said. He committed not to giving any more campaign money to the blog. Gonzalez told the Tribune that he had never read the blog and was unaware of McHale’s racist commentary. Gonzalez’s campaign gave the McHale Report $1,200 on June 24 for “advertising services,” according to the Federal Election Commission, as well as $1,000 on Oct. Texas political blogger Jerry McHale referred to the congresswoman as “Miss Frijoles” and “Miss Enchiladas.” He accused her of “playing the race card” and called her a “cotton pickin’ liar” over her claims that she worked in cotton fields with her immigrant parents as a child. Mayra Flores, the first woman born in Mexico to be elected to Congress and Gonzalez’s opponent in the race for Texas’ 34th Congressional District. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, lobbed racist attacks on Republican Rep. (The Texas Tribune) - A blogger who received campaign funds from U.S.
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