Anna Paulina Luna

I'm able to take on different personalities depending on what image I am going for. I think getting into character of what you are selling is super important.

Anna Paulina Luna is an Instagram model turned political commentator turned Congressional candidate turned Congresswoman. She has worked for conservative organizations like PragerU and Turning Point USA in the past. In 2020, she challenged incumbent Charlie Crist's Congressional seat in Florida's 13th district. Since then she has appeared as a commentator on Newsmax segments. She is right now the congresswoman for the Florida's 13th congressional district.

Who is she?
She was born Anna Mayerhofer in 1989 and was raised predominantly in southern California. She grew up in a broken home and much of her childhood was plagued by poverty, addiction and disease. After a tumultuous upbringing, she joined the Air Force shortly after graduating high school. While serving in the military, she would meet her future ex-husband. After her marriage ended in divorce in 2012, she went on to pose provocatively in men's magazines. Later, she entered the world of political commentary in the mid 2010s — ultimately landing gigs with Dennis Prager and Turning Point USA.

2020 Congressional Race
Marketed as the Republican answer to the then newly-elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she launched her bid for Florida's 13th Congressional seat in 2019. With some help from Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, she secured 47% of the vote, but ultimately lost the election.

On the issues
Throughout the campaign trail, she offered very few specifics in regards to particular policy prescriptions. It is known that she supported the following:
 * Capitalism
 * Free speach
 * Constitution
 * God

And that she opposed the following:
 * Socialism
 * Communism
 * Totalitarianism

In all likelihood, she probably hasn't thought long and hard about any of the issues that she speaks about.

2022 congressional race
Aided by Florida's new, gerrymandered map imposed by Ron DeSantis as well as a sharp rightward turn in general in Florida, she was unfortunately able to win an open seat in the thirteenth district during the 2022 midterm elections.

Questionable political history
Taking a page straight out of Dave Rubin's playbook, she claims to have been a staunch Democrat and avid supporter of Barack Obama prior to waking up and realizing how backwards and brainwashed she had been. However, in a now deleted social media posting from 2021, she confessed to never having voted for him in either presidential election. How avid of an Obama supporter could she really have been if she didn't even vote for the guy?

Bienvenido
Luna has done some activist work for an organization called Bienvenido, a 501(c)3 "nonpartisan" organization that bills itself as one that is dedicated to the enhancement of the Hispanic community. On the surface, this organization appears to be legitimate and respectable. But, the organization appears to subscribe to the idea that deportations, family separations and concentration camps are all things that enhance the Hispanic community. It is essentially an astroturf organization that is compromised almost exclusively of token Latinos.

The goal of this organization appears to be in direct conflict with its tactics. For example, they claim that contrary to what the mainstream media says, most Latinos actually support Trump and are generally conservative. They even have plenty of tokens that are willing and ready to provide moral cover for Trump whenever charges of racism are hurled. However, if it is in fact true that most Latinos are conservative, deporting more Latinos would actually make it harder for Republicans to get elected. Then there are the endless cries of how immigrants from Mexico are flipping red states like Texas and Arizona blue. If most Latinos are conservatives, then how would that even be possible?

Luna also pays lip service to some QAnon talking points such as "save the children" and insinuates that less stringent immigration policies would result in more human trafficking.

Kamala Harris airport incident
She attempted to catch future vice president, Kamala Harris, in a gotcha moment while harassing her at an airport in April, 2019. Harris has been an outspoken critic of immigration policies that separate children from their parents. It was Luna's contention that ending those policies and ensuring that families are no longer separated would be exploitative to immigrants. Yes, apparently not having your family broken up is the REAL tragedy.

Ethnic impersonation
One of the consequences of running for public office is that the personal details of many candidates will get placed under a microscope in order to determine if they're trustworthy or not. The case of Anna Paulina Luna is no exception. In April of 2019, Anna Gamberzky (still using her ex-husband's last name) legally changed her last name to "Luna." Luna claims that her decision to adopt a new last name was sparked by a desire to share the same last name as her mother. However, Tampa Bay Times reporter Josh Solomon noted that her mother's last name actually is not Luna. When pressed further, she pivoted and claimed that her name was changed actually more out of respect for her ex-husband's privacy:

As part of a PragerU series starring herself called Americanos, she claimed that both of her parents were born in Mexico. However, she has said on several different occasions that she is only half Hispanic. Her father's voting record in Okaloosa County, Florida revealed that he changed his race from "White, Non Hispanic" in 2021 to "Hispanic" in 2022.

While running for Congress, she stated that she was "raised as a Messianic Jew by her father" and that "I am also a small fraction Ashkenazi". There is no actual evidence that Luna has any Jewish ancestry.

Her unwillingness or inability to consistently answer basic questions about her own identity have led many to speculate that she may have completely fabricated a faux Latina persona purely out of convenience. Her father did speak Spanish at home and her family has confirmed Mexican ancestry on the maternal side. Legitimate questions and concerns are routinely written off by her as nothing more than lies perpetuated by haters, trolls, and people who are just jealous or part of the Deep state.

Stolen valor?
While it is verifiably true that Luna has served several years in the Air Force, it is not clear in what capacity she served. Her military career has been a major selling point for her and she frequently posts provocative pictures of herself dressed in combat gear while carrying assault rifles. A closer look at her military photos reveals that the part of the uniform where it displays a soldier's name, it's blurred out - presumably in an attempt to conceal her former last name. She often refers to her ex-husband, whom she claims received a purple heart and a bronze star, as her current husband. They actually divorced in 2012 but that certainly doesn't stop her from riding off of his coattails.

Greatest hits

 * Like many of her ilk, identity politics is unacceptable and divisive until it isn't anymore.
 * Because filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy is always a strong indicator that a business is doing well, a mere one day after the NRA did exactly that, she claimed that the NRA was financially stronger than it had been in years.
 * She thinks that gang shootings and armed robberies are the direct result of atheism.
 * She clearly has no idea what amnesty even is.
 * She once tried poking fun at AOC for not working a "big girl" job (apparently serving in Congress isn't a real job) and for not being able to afford an apartment in Washington, DC. Less than a year later, she would announce that she was running for congress and started begging for donations online.
 * Like many conservatives, the "love it or leave it" attitude is only ever applied to people she disagrees with
 * She was complaining about protestors harassing Ted Cruz at an airport just three months before she harassed Kamala Harris at an airport
 * She's all about Free speach until the person exercising it says something that she doesn't like.
 * Despite the fact that Mollie Tibbets' parents urged the media to stop politicizing the death of their daughter and referred to Hispanics as "Iowans with better food," Anna continued to exploit the death of Mollie Tibbets in order to further her anti-immigrant agenda
 * She can't decide if Hispanics are conservatives or liberals
 * She got booted from a Fox News segment that she was featured as a guest on after she compared Hillary Clinton to herpes
 * She claimed that sexual assault and border security are both issues that shouldn't be politicized… only to politicize both of them in the same tweet

Congressional career
Auspiciously, Luna began her Congressional career by refusing to attend a White House reception for new members because she didn't want to follow COVID protocols. Soon after, she argued for the right for House members to carry firearms into committee meetings.