{"id":1554454,"date":"2022-07-14T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554454"},"modified":"2022-07-14T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:05:07","slug":"arizona-dem-if-you-marry-a-white-guy-you-aint-latina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-dem-if-you-marry-a-white-guy-you-aint-latina\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Dem: If You Marry a White Guy, You Ain\u2019t Latina"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-dem-if-you-marry-a-white-guy-you-aint-latina%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/rubengallego\/status\/1547235185162338305?s=21&#038;t=xivlIG-RXEFnYKyIsBJMgQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Tanya Contreras Wheeless, a Hispanic woman running for Congress in Arizona\u2019s fourth district as a Republican, of not being authentically Latina because she took her husband\u2019s last name.<\/p>\n<p>Gallego suggested that Wheeless deliberately &#8220;hid&#8221; her Hispanic identity before running for office to avoid discrimination. &#8220;If you were Latino in Arizona around 2010 people were telling us to go back to Mexico,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1547238476269101056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, &#8220;you would hear I am not voting for a \u2018spic.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tanya is Latina,&#8221; Gallego <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1547237218347286531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;<em>cuando le conviene<\/em>,&#8221; meaning, &#8220;when it suits her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following Republican Mayra Flores&#8217;s upset victory this year in Texas&#8217;s 34th Congressional District, which had traditionally been a Democratic stronghold, liberal pundits have smeared conservative Latinas. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/12\/opinions\/latina-republican-candidates-texas-reyes\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the conservative Hispanic women running for Congress were &#8220;not the \u2018real deal,\u2019&#8221; whereas the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/06\/us\/politics\/mayra-flores-latina-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred<\/a> to the &#8220;Rise of the Far-Right Latina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have sought to mend their faltering ties with the Latino community ahead of the 2022 election. Some of those gestures have fallen flat. First Lady Jill Biden, for instance, received backlash for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/jill-biden-explains-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggesting<\/a> that Hispanics are &#8220;as unique as \u2026 breakfast tacos&#8221; at a Latinx IncluXion Luncheon in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeless <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tanyaforarizona\/status\/1547265315087781891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit back<\/a> at Gallego in a statement by pointing out that &#8220;many women change their name when they get married, but that doesn\u2019t change who they are or where they came from.&#8221; She called the jab &#8220;sexist and racist&#8221; and bemoaned how common attacks like Gallego\u2019s have become.<\/p>\n<p>Gallego\u2019s ex-wife Kate Gallego, formerly Kate Widland, kept the influential congressman&#8217;s last name following their divorce in 2017 and subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/MayorGallego\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was elected<\/a> mayor of Phoenix. She is the daughter of white Jewish attorneys from Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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