WaPo: MAGA Rep Has Santos-Like Invented Backstory

February 10, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Washington Post reports:

Twelve years before she was elected as the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, Anna Paulina Luna was serving at Whiteman Air Force Base in Warrensburg, Mo., where friends said she described herself as alternately Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European. Known then by her given last name of Mayerhofer, Luna sported designer clothing and expressed support for then-President Barack Obama.

By the time she ran for Congress as a Republican, she had changed her last name to Luna in what she said was an homage to her mother’s family. A staunch advocate for gun rights, she cited on the campaign trail a harrowing childhood that left her “battle hardened.” She said she and her mother had little extended family as she grew up in “low-income” neighborhoods in Southern California with a father in and out of incarceration. She said she experienced a traumatizing “home invasion” when she was serving in the Air Force in Missouri.

Read the full article. As you’ll see, there’s no record of her father being imprisoned and that home invasion was a simple burglary with nobody at home. There’s much, much more, including an apparent invention of Jewish heritage among other Santos-like embellishments.

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