“God, family, country” may sound like a bygone era slogan, but it seems that many voters of all backgrounds still dig it. Perhaps they feel that even the biggest institutions of society are often waging war against all three. Like many patriotic citizens of our country, the candidate driving that message to the historic election victory on Tuesday was not born here.
Republican Myra Flores won a special election Tuesday night to represent the Rio Grande Valley congressional district, overturning a longtime Democratic stronghold and soon making her the first congressman born in Mexico.
Flores celebrates his victory at an election night watch party in San Benito. She is the first GOP candidate elected to represent this region of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870.
Tuesday’s victory will give Flores only a few months in Congress as she serves the remaining term of US Representative. The tenure of Philemon Vela. Brownsville Democrat Vela resigned from the seat in March to take a job at a lobbying firm, leading to a special election.
As if the morale of House Democrats wasn’t already low, one of his former aides didn’t wait until the end of his term to move to the city. Perhaps he was thinking that there would be too much competition from other former members of the Democratic House if he waited until December to start looking for work on K Street.
As for Tuesday’s winner, many in the media are adding an asterisk that Representative-elect Flores will have to run for a new full term in November and that due to redistribution, it will be a much more Democratic seat.
But the moment is still historic and still more evidence of the ongoing movement of Hispanic voters toward the GOP in South Texas and elsewhere. Ms. Flores voted for Barack Obama in 2008 before finding a home in the Republican Party.
Ms. Harriso connects In a separate story published in the San Antonio Express-News:
Flores, 36, was born in Tamaulipas, Burgos, Mexico. She immigrated to the United States when she was 6 years old and became a 14-year-old citizen. She began working at age 13, raising cotton with her parents in the Panhandle City of Memphis to pay for her school supplies and clothing.
Now the mother of four young children and the wife of a Border Patrol agent, she often begins her pitch to voters in the same way: Soy el Sueo Americana. I am the American dream.
As such, immigration is a deeply personal issue. She supports increased border security, immigration reform and a legal path to citizenship.
“If we really care about immigrants and children, we don’t want them to cross that dangerous river,” Flores said in March. “We don’t want them to be exposed to dangerous criminal organizations. If you really care about them, we have to help them get in through the door.”
Here’s hoping that in a legitimate process that door will be opened widely so that many more people can live out the dream of Ms. Flores. Speaking of immigrants to the US, Elon Musco, a Texas resident Tweets,
I voted for Myra Flores – the first time I ever voted Republican.
Massive red wave in 2022.
“Eloning Musk’s vote was just the icing on the cake and I can’t wait to work with his team! The American Dream is worth fighting for,” WINNER Tweets Today via his campaign Twitter account.
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“Biden Tells Oil Refiners: Produce More Gas, Less Profits,” is headlined on one Associated Press story today, High profits generally attract competition. But good luck getting the necessary government approvals to compete in this market. How long has it been since someone built a major US refinery? US Energy Information Administration website notes:
The United States has the latest refinery
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1977! For decades, politicians have maintained that refinery owners spend heavily on environmental measures, and some polls have gone to great lengths to raise awareness of the issue.
“Biden takes his protest to Sunoco,” was the 2002 headline of the Wilmington News Journal about a Delaware senator who stood on the sidewalk outside a Pennsylvania refinery demanding pollution-control upgrades.
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opinion | Former Obama voter is a Republican winner along the Rio Grande
Representative-elect Myra Flores (R., Texas).
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“God, family, country” may sound like a bygone era slogan, but it seems that many voters of all backgrounds still dig it. Perhaps they feel that even the biggest institutions of society are often waging war against all three. Like many patriotic citizens of our country, the candidate driving that message to the historic election victory on Tuesday was not born here.
banana harris reports In the Houston Chronicle:
As if the morale of House Democrats wasn’t already low, one of his former aides didn’t wait until the end of his term to move to the city. Perhaps he was thinking that there would be too much competition from other former members of the Democratic House if he waited until December to start looking for work on K Street.
As for Tuesday’s winner, many in the media are adding an asterisk that Representative-elect Flores will have to run for a new full term in November and that due to redistribution, it will be a much more Democratic seat.
But the moment is still historic and still more evidence of the ongoing movement of Hispanic voters toward the GOP in South Texas and elsewhere. Ms. Flores voted for Barack Obama in 2008 before finding a home in the Republican Party.
Ms. Harriso connects In a separate story published in the San Antonio Express-News:
Here’s hoping that in a legitimate process that door will be opened widely so that many more people can live out the dream of Ms. Flores. Speaking of immigrants to the US, Elon Musco, a Texas resident Tweets,
“Eloning Musk’s vote was just the icing on the cake and I can’t wait to work with his team! The American Dream is worth fighting for,” WINNER Tweets Today via his campaign Twitter account.
,
President and Producer
“Biden Tells Oil Refiners: Produce More Gas, Less Profits,” is headlined on one Associated Press story today, High profits generally attract competition. But good luck getting the necessary government approvals to compete in this market. How long has it been since someone built a major US refinery? US Energy Information Administration website notes:
1977! For decades, politicians have maintained that refinery owners spend heavily on environmental measures, and some polls have gone to great lengths to raise awareness of the issue.
“Biden takes his protest to Sunoco,” was the 2002 headline of the Wilmington News Journal about a Delaware senator who stood on the sidewalk outside a Pennsylvania refinery demanding pollution-control upgrades.
,
James Freeman is co-authored “The Cost: Trump, China and the American Revival.”
,
Follow James Freeman Twitter,
Subscribe to the web’s best email.
To suggest items, please email best@wsj.com.
(Teresa Wozzo helps compile Best of the Web.)
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