MAYRA FLORES, WITH HER "ANTI-IMMIGRANT/GUN RIGHTS" DOG WHISTLE NOW TEXAS REPUBLICANS' DE FACTO TROJAN HORSE

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

The timing couldn't have been worse.

Just Friday, a mailer from the Republican Party of Texas in support of candidate Mayra Flores in the  upcoming District 37 special congressional election arrived in local mailboxes.

Her pro-gun, ant-immigrant message surely did not resonate among local residents who are still in mourning in the wake of the shooting deaths of 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Uvalde. 

All over the country, flags are flying at half mast and a growing call for sensible background checks to keep assault weapons from unstable people.

And it was the Republican-led Texas Legislature and Governor Greg Abbott who did away with gun permits and who lowered the age of individuals to 18 so they can purchase the weapons just as Salvador Ramos – the psychopath who caused the massacre at Robb Elementary – was able to do days after he turned 18.

"You get much more of a background check to get a driver's license," said a patron at a local bar. "They ask for citizenship, whether you take medication, owe child support, have any DWI's, and numerous other questions. That's because a car can be a dangerous weapon. How much more dangerous is an assault rifle? And Ramos was able to buy not one, but two, AR-15s without any questions and walk out. Even when you get a marriage license you have to wait for at least 72 hours so you can think it over."

Then, the woman who herself was born in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and allowed to migrate to the United States, promises to "seal and secure the border," to keep out unwanted immigrants and asylum seekers "defend and fund law enforcement and border patrol" ostensibly to defend us, and protect the right of Texans to defend themselves" like the Uvalde gunman. 

Fact is, the Uvalde ISD and city police failed to protect the shooting victims, as it has now become clearly apparent.

Sounding more Catholic than the pope, Flores also rails at the "D.C. Democrats" who "open the border to drug and human trafficking," and destroy the right to defend your family."

Pictured among the "D.C. Democrats" is former Cameron County Pct. 2 commissioner Dan Sanchez, one of her two Democratic opponents in the special election. He is pictured with a mad-looking President Joe Biden and a confused V.P. Kamala Harris.

But wait! 

Sanchez has never been elected to the U.S. House or Senate before. So how can he be a D.C.  Democrat? Fact is, he isn't. But if he beats her in the upcoming June 14 election, he might become one.

Even if she loses in the special election, she will face Vicente Gonzalez in the November general election on the GOP ticket. With this mailer, Flores has become the de facto Texas Republicans' Trojan Horse.

Flores apparently doesn't let facts get in the way, as when she claims she picked cotton in the fields with her parents to buy clothes and shoes for school when she was 13.

If she graduated from San Benito High School in 2004 – as her website claims – then she was 18 then. Take away five years and she was 13 in 1999, some 30 years after cotton had been harvested mechanically (1969 or 1970).

We said at the outset that the mailer's timing was bad. We also say that now is the time to call her out on her anti-immigrant/gun rights dog whistle.