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

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

Republican Mayra Flores, a legal immigrant from Mexico, won her bid for Texas Congressional District 34. Courtesy of Mayra Flores

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 “run hateful and racist ads” against her. The posts that appeared in the McHale Report blog referred to her as “Miss Frijoles,” “Miss Menudo,” “Miss Enchiladas,” and a “cotton-pickin' liar.”