Flores, 36, won a special election earlier this year and is the first Mexican-born woman elected to the House of Representatives. Gonzalez is facing Flores in Texas newly drawn 34th District.
Latina Republican Mayra Flores’ historic win in a Texas congressional district in the Rio Grande Valley was greeted by the Times not with celebration but bitterness and denial. This is the same newspaper that loves to mark such supposed ethnic milestones on the Democratic side, as shown in the nauseating tributes to Sen.