00:00Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez was a shoo-in for re-election to his Texas district,
00:05including getting the endorsement of President Trump. But a truly bizarre
00:08scandal is threatening to derail his campaign just a few weeks before the March 3rd primary.
00:15Back in 2024, Gonzalez sent a wildly inappropriate text to an aide who was married, by the way,
00:20that read, quote, send me a sexy pic. The aide, Regina Santos Aviles, replied to the
00:25congressman's lewd request, quote, this is going too far, boss. So how long have you thought I was
00:31this hot? The back and forth got more intense from there. Now, the aide eventually appeared to shut
00:36things down. Quote, this is too far, Tony. Go to sleep. Are you sure you're sober? 16 months later,
00:42Santos Aviles set herself on fire in her own backyard and died as a result. Seemingly straightforward,
00:48but the post was able to obtain the police report from Santos Aviles' death. The responding officer
00:54that night says that she told him, while authorities were trying to save her, that she burned herself
00:58because her husband was having an affair with her best friend. A second officer claimed the victim
01:03said her husband was gay and having an affair with her best friend, who is a man. The husband,
01:07Adrienne Aviles, rejects all of that. Now, Aviles contends that his now-deceased wife was mentally stable
01:13until the texting with her boss fiasco, and it all went downhill after that. Still, the police report
01:20cites references to her mental health struggles when she was a teen. Regardless of what prompted
01:26her to take her own life, her former boss is still fighting his re-election battle and claiming
01:31no wrongdoing. On Sunday, he wrote on X, quote, during my six years in Congress, not a single formal
01:37complaint has been levied against my office. Now, days away from an election, coordinated political
01:42attacks reign in, it won't work.
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