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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsanother thug phony- anna paulina luna.
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 mothers 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.
Lunas sharp turn to the right, her account of an isolated and impoverished childhood, and her embrace of her Hispanic heritage have come as a surprise to some friends and family who knew her before her ascent to the U.S. House this year. A cousin who grew up with Luna said she was regularly included in family gatherings. Her roommate in Missouri had no recollection of the home invasion Luna detailed, describing instead a break-in at their shared apartment when they were not home, an incident confirmed by police records. And three years before her first congressional bid as a conservative, Luna registered to vote as a Democrat in Washington state, voting records show.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/
sounds like a real piece of work.
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mopinko
Feb 2023
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Congresswoman claims to be Jewish, revealed to be granddaughter of Nazi - report
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2023
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dalton99a
(94,125 posts)1. But she is clearly qualified

peggysue2
(12,533 posts)2. LOL!!
The pathological liars have all come home to roost in the Republican Party.
Wonder why that is?????
Justice matters.
(9,787 posts)3. She saw Marjorie Traitor-Greene making tons of money like that...
So she decided to emulate her. The GQP is like OnlyFans in politics now?
Walleye
(44,807 posts)4. So she sold out to the highest bidder, doesn't seem like a mystery to me
dalton99a
(94,125 posts)5. Kick
Timeflyer
(3,757 posts)6. And she ran and won in Florida--figures. Grifter central.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,869 posts)7. Congresswoman claims to be Jewish, revealed to be granddaughter of Nazi - report
This lady is not a Jew
Link to tweet
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-731310
Florida Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna was outed by The Washington Post on Friday for lying about her Jewish heritage in a previous interview with the Jewish Insider in November 2022.
Not only is Luna almost certainly not Jewish, but also according to several family members, reports the Washington Post, Luna's paternal grandfather Heinrich Mayerhofer, who died in 2003, served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany when he was a teenager in the 1940s.
"I was raised as a Messianic Jew by my father, Luna had told the Jewish Insider, clarifying that she identifies as a Christian. I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi."....
The Washington Post reported that Luna, who is now considered the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, at one time described herself as Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European.
There were also several other discrepancies in her account of her own heritage and upbringing, according to the Post, which allegedly resulted in the congresswoman representing herself as coming from more humble beginnings than she truly does.
Not only is Luna almost certainly not Jewish, but also according to several family members, reports the Washington Post, Luna's paternal grandfather Heinrich Mayerhofer, who died in 2003, served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany when he was a teenager in the 1940s.
"I was raised as a Messianic Jew by my father, Luna had told the Jewish Insider, clarifying that she identifies as a Christian. I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi."....
The Washington Post reported that Luna, who is now considered the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, at one time described herself as Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European.
There were also several other discrepancies in her account of her own heritage and upbringing, according to the Post, which allegedly resulted in the congresswoman representing herself as coming from more humble beginnings than she truly does.
Messianic Jews are by definition not members of the Jewish faith.