AZ Dem: "If you marry a White guy, you ain't Latina"

Gallego's mask is as useless as his Party's "solutions"

Racist Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) attacked Tanya Contreras Wheeless, an Hispanic woman [which he cannot define] running for Congress in Arizona's fourth district as a Republican, of not being a real Latina because she took her [White] husband's last name. 

Gallego, who has not hyphenated his own wife's last name, Widland, is suggesting that Wheeless deliberately "hid" her Hispanic identity [perhaps to keep Hispanic people from voting for her], but it looks more like he is a sexist than she is an ashamed Latina.

Gallego said that "If you were Latino in Arizona around 2010 people were telling us to go back to Mexico," he said, "you would hear I am not voting for a ‘spic.’"

"Tanya is Latina," Gallego tweeted, "cuando le conviene," meaning, "when it suits her."

Seriously, that's a rather disgusting thing to say, even for a Democrat. Well, no, not so much for a Democrat, but for this guy it is. But let's remember that the Democratic Party is the party of identity politics because they aren't very good at anything else. 

Gallego was married to a Jewish woman who he divorced in 2017. She kept his last name, but he never used nor kept hers.

Wheeless hit back at Gallego in a statement explaining that "many women change their name when they get married, but that doesn’t change who they are or where they came from." She called his statement "sexist and racist"

In spite of the fact that Gallego is a former Marine [as I am] his attack on Wheeless is weak and a distraction from the level of failure the Democratic Party has shown after Trump left office. If she is somehow ashamed of her Hispanic heritage [but really doesn't hide it when hyphenating her name] why is he now using it as a personal flag to get the Hispanic vote? 

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