Ex-GOP Rep Posted Cooking Pics Lifted From Others

January 3, 2024 Politics, Republicans

The Texas Tribune reports:

In a bizarre micro-scandal that some have dubbed “GrubGate,” a former congresswoman who is running for her old seat in South Texas is being accused of routinely stealing photos of Mexican food from other social media accounts and passing them off as her own cooking. On Tuesday, Mayra Flores, the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress, posted a photo on social media of “gorditas de masa,” adding that “the Ranch life with family is the best.”

Soon after, a user on X, formerly known as Twitter, pointed out that the food in the photo was not gorditas de masa and that the image was previously posted on a Facebook page, “Visit Guyana,” in March 2022. That prompted the conservative website Current Revolt to dig further into Flores’ social media accounts, where they found numerous other posts in which Flores used others’ photos of campfire cooking or homemade tortillas to illustrate her own idyllic life on a ranch.

Read the full article. Flores last appeared here in October 2022 when she feigned outrage that she was unable to join the House Democratic Hispanic Caucus. Earlier in 2022 she appeared here when she claimed that she only used all those QAnon hashtags on social media to show that she doesn’t support QAnon.



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