UPDATE: THREE HOURS AFTER OUR POST, FLORES PAYS $1,800

(Ed.'s Note: The managers of Toscafino had been after Blas Flores to pay the $1,800 tab for a bash held Friday for Republican Congressional District 34 congressional candidate Mayra Flores. The staff had been after Blas Flores, who made the arrangements, since the bash closed Friday, and had waited until Monday for him to show up and he didn't. Exasperated, they sent Blas texts saying that they usually don't hunt for people to pay them. Since Blas hadn't answered for three days, they texted that they would contact the candidate, all without results. Then our post appeared, and bingo, three hours later, the money was delivered. The original story appears below.)

THE MAYRA FLORES  CAMPAIGN STIFFS TOSCAFINO'S; LEAVES WITHOUT PAYING $1,800 TAB FOR FRIDAY'S CAMPAIGN BASH

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

The managerial and waiting staff at upscale restaurant Toscafino are frantic.

As of Monday night, they could not get a response from Blas Cruz Fores, a relative (?) of Republican Congressional District 34 candidate Mayra Flores who made arrangements to rent the "chic, upscale-casual restaurant serving Italian cuisine and cocktails, with indoor and outdoor seating" so he could pay the $1,800 bill they ran up for the Friday event.

Present at the posh event was José Eduardo Verástegui Córdoba, a Mexican actor, model and singer. He was part of band Kairo and later a solo music career before he started appearing in Mexican telenovelas and eventually feature films like Chasing Papi, Bella, and Little Boy, the latter two produced by his own production company, Metanoia.

(That's Verástegui at right with Myra on his right and flanked on the left by Blas Flores.)

The Toscaino staff, including manager Carlos Cortez, have frantically tried to reach Blas Flores through texts and messages and say they have been unable to get a response.

"They took off Friday without taking care of the bill," said a restaurant staffer. Carlos (Cortez, the manager) even sent him a text to tell him they would contact Mayra about the bill if he didn't answer. 

As  of Monday at 9:34 p.m., the staff had not been able to have the Flores campaign pay the tab. 

Was this simply an oversight? In the text acquired by El Rrun-Rrun, Cortez told Blas Flores that they were not used to look for diners who owed for their tab. 

Usually, the staffer explained, the tab is paid after the event. In this case, the campaign, including Blas Flores, left without paying and has obviously not honored any arrangements he might have made with the management to pay up.

Maybe with people knowing what they did at Toscafino's it will prompt the Flores campaign to break down and pay and not stiff the manager, the staff, and the restaurant. 

Will the hard-working men and women on the waiting staff have to bear the burden for the outstanding bill?

And did Verastegui get stiffed, too?

Already, a flow of commenters are pointing out that this is not the first time that Blas has been involved in these type of shenanigans. We'll leave it at that for now.

What happened to keeping your word, being honest and having integrity? 

And if the Flores campaign is already running deficits here, what will they do in the U.S. Congress?