Anna Paulina Luna

Before Republican Anna Paulina Luna was elected as the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, she had a different identity and set of ...

A spokesperson for Luna said in a statement that the congresswoman would provide "receipts" to refute the Post's reporting. Immigration records reviewed by the Post also revealed that Luna's paternal grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, identified as a Roman Catholic when he immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1954. She told the Post that a daytime break-in that occurred when Luna wasn't home. Brooks described her as "liberal." Luna has described her childhood as tough growing up in "low-income" neighborhoods in Southern California with a father in and out of incarceration. Luna pose to their leftist control," the spokesperson said. "She was always a part of everything, all these family gatherings and activities." It wasn't until I got stationed in Florida that I got my concealed carry. (Luna has since denied this.) "[My landlord] was not breaking into my house at 4 a.m. "I didn't have a firearm. But it's not just Luna's childhood stories that don't seem to check out.

Since it first came out last December that newly elected lawmaker George Santos had lied about roughly 99% of his biography, fresh falsehoods and cons ...

(The New York lawmaker has [insisted](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/embattled-republican-santos-faces-new-heat-over-jew-ish-heritage-claim-2022-12-27/) he never said he was Jewish but simply “Jew-ish.”) For instance, claiming to both have Jewish heritage and to have been raised as a Jew, despite people familiar with the matter saying that was not the case. That he apparently [fabricated](https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1624044687903408135) an entire exchange with Senator Kyrsten Sinema, and was [charged](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/09/santos-charged-theft-2017-dog-breeders-00082091) with theft in 2017 after someone wrote about $15,000 worth of bad checks in his name to a bunch of dog breeders.

The Washington Post's profile of GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida contained numerous factual errors, and was very similar to a story the New York Times ...

Luna's office, Washington Post reported, declined to answer questions about the story. Heipel's full response, according to an email of the exchange shared with Fox, called attention to the fact that the New York Times had asked similar questions. [President Barack Obama](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/barack-obama), the Post reported. Martina Michelle, another companion of Luna and Carson's while they were at Whiteman AFB, told Fox that politics wasn't a major topic of discussion. at one point, a detail that Brooks told the Post she could not recall. Luna has spoken about a break-in at her apartment, which she shared with another servicemember, Brittany Brooks, and the trauma it caused. The Post reported that Brooks "is the only person named in the police report" made about the alleged burglary in July 2010. "Because Anna is a conservative, somehow WAPO believes that the fact both sides of her family descend from Mexican immigrants isn’t valid," Heipel added. The Post went into detail about Luna's family history, including reporting that her paternal grandfather fought in World War II for the German army before he immigrated to the U.S. The Post story, based on interviews with relatives and former friends, calls into question aspects of Luna's biography and falsely reported that she once registered as a Democrat, she said. In another instance, the Post story appears to question details about Luna's childhood. "They can try to discredit me, but unfortunately for them the facts completely blow their story out of the water."

Luna says she was "raised as a Messianic Jew" by her father. Relatives say he was Catholic, and that her grandfather fought for the Nazis.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, faced criticism online Friday after a report revealed that she was not raised Jewish, according to ...

Luna's uncle, Edward Mayerhofer, gave the newspaper what he said was a picture of his father Heinrich dressed in a uniform as a young soldier in Germany. anna paulina luna of florida," MSNBC writer Marisa Kabas said. The details in a Friday report by The Washington Post contradicted Luna's previous claims of Jewish heritage. "I never claimed to be Jewish....I am Catholic. "He eventually got clean and started attending a messianic Jewish church in Orange County. It turns out her grandfather Heinrich Mayerhofer actually served in the German Nazi army during World War II," wrote political podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen. "Move over, george! Next, look into the claimed hit on her life by REPUBLICAN primary opponents. She may be worse than [New York Republican Representative George] Santos," said gun control activist Fred Guttenberg on Friday. If she [Greene] were antisemitic, why did she endorse me?" "I am also a small fraction [of] Ashkenazi. Messianic Jews