NO MORE MAYRA MENTIRAS: A LIE IS A LIE IS A LIE...

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

She lied to us about working in the cotton fields of Memphis, Texas when she was 13 so she could pay for her school supplies and clothes, and refused to be interviewed by a reporter so she could prove it.

Later, when, it became untenable to keep up the lie because when she was 13 it would have been 1999 (she was born in 1986), her story has changed. 

And it's a lie that she and her handlers have been trying hard to finesse after it was questioned by media types. How can she claim to work in the Texas cotton fields at 13 in 1999 to earn money for school clothes and supplies when the entire cotton planting, harvesting, and weeding was done mechanically and with the use of herbicides since before 1970, almost 30 years before? 

Here she is, an immigrant, an Hispanic woman (Latina) even, who came to this country with humble (but honest) parents to work in the cotton fields and pull themselves up by their tirantes.

Can't beat that with a cotton stalk, can you?

It almost makes you feel all patriotic and fuzzy and to yearn for Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, except for one thing. It's a lie.

Her literature says that she was born January 1, 1986, and that her parents (humble but honest) brought her to the U.S. at the age of six (1992). (See graphic below)

Flores' supporters defended the claim saying that perhaps she hoed weeds then, but why use hoers if there are plenty of herbicides?

But it sells and that is what mattered to Flores.

When asked her for an interview to ascertain her bona fides as a farmworker in the cotton fields, she refused to talk to reporters or to provide proof and directed them to talk to "the farmers" of Memphis, Texas instead, repeating her farmworker status claim. 

And when anyone is skeptical of her claims, she says she is being "victimized" because she is an Hispanic woman. 

Now it appears that in one of the latest Texas Republican Party mailouts that appeared in local mail boxes this week, the "cotton picking" narrative has changed yet again. 

You see, she "misspoke" about working in the cotton fields in West Texas. She actually worked in the fields in Burgos, Tamaulipas to buy school clothes and supplies. 

Yeah, that's the ticket. (See graphic at right.)

Ok. If she came to the United States (legally) at six, that means that her father had her working along his side in the hot cotton fields in northern Tamaulipas before then, say four or five? 

What a monster! Do you think any Mexican mother would allow her baby girl, la Niña, to be put to work out in the 90- to 100-degree-plus heat in the fields of Northern Tamaulipas?

And at four or five, what clothes and school supplies does a child need when they don't even attend school yet?

Mechanical cotton pickers hadn't been introduced there yet in 1991? Of course they had. They just got caught in a lie.

That's just the first of many lies. 

She now denies she hash tagged the conspiracy Kool Aid drinkers at  QAnon, when plenty of evidence exists that she did. And she'll also deny that she believes that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump in the face of proof that she did and that she considers Democrats "traitors" and Biden a "criminal." 

Her opponent Vicente Gonzalez – in response to a self-serving letter by Flores (see graphic at right) decrying the cutting of  energy assistance to low-income seniors and demanding that funding be restored to the The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) which she voted against – wrote that:
  

Mayra Mentiras is lying again! 

She Voted AGAINST the continuing resolution to extend this funding. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps keep families safe and healthy through initiatives that assist families with energy costs. 

Mayra is deceiving and denying relief for South Texas seniors. Shameful! 

Buena con Chente!