South Texas Republican Mayra Flores, who's fighting to regain a House seat against Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, claims she was 'attacked by a pervert' in her...
: “Vicente Gonzalez is an example of everything that’s wrong with Washington. He doesn’t have a record to stand on, so he hires a pervert to attack me.”She pointed to “discriminatory” and “racist” content McHale has posted
Jared Hockema, Democratic Party chair in Cameron County, which includes Brownsville, said McHale is known in South Texas as relentless and abrasive. His posts about local political figures often include crude and vulgar references.Flores began sending the emails shortly after sheJuly 11 on Fox New. Recipients have received a version of it dozens of times.
“Pervert” — someone whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and abhorrent — isn’t a term frequently seen in political ads.But while it’s an especially inflammatory term, said James Riddlesperger, a Texas Christian University political scientist, “The acceptable range of rhetoric that we use and the way we characterize our political opponents has become much more rancid.”
Christopher Nicholas, a Republican consultant in Pennsylvania, surmised the word has been effective since Flores keeps using it.
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