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mopinko

(73,726 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 11:15 AM Feb 2023

another 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 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.
Luna’s 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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another thug phony- anna paulina luna. (Original Post) mopinko Feb 2023 OP
But she is clearly qualified dalton99a Feb 2023 #1
LOL!! peggysue2 Feb 2023 #2
She saw Marjorie Traitor-Greene making tons of money like that... Justice matters. Feb 2023 #3
So she sold out to the highest bidder, doesn't seem like a mystery to me Walleye Feb 2023 #4
Kick dalton99a Feb 2023 #5
And she ran and won in Florida--figures. Grifter central. Timeflyer Feb 2023 #6
Congresswoman claims to be Jewish, revealed to be granddaughter of Nazi - report LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2023 #7

peggysue2

(12,533 posts)
2. LOL!!
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 11:50 AM
Feb 2023

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...
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 11:56 AM
Feb 2023

So she decided to emulate her. The GQP is like OnlyFans in politics now?

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,869 posts)
7. Congresswoman claims to be Jewish, revealed to be granddaughter of Nazi - report
Mon Feb 13, 2023, 02:46 PM
Feb 2023

This lady is not a Jew



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.

Messianic Jews are by definition not members of the Jewish faith.
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