NY Times: “An aide to Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas sent a text message to a co-worker last April saying that she had an affair with the Republican congressman, according to the co-worker who shared the text exchange with The New York Times.
The text message, first reported on Tuesday by The San Antonio Express-News, and then obtained on Wednesday by The Times, has thrown Mr. Gonzales’s re-election fight into turmoil just as voters in Texas have begun casting primary ballots.
The aide who said she had the affair died by suicide five months after sending the text.
“I had affair with our boss and I’m fine,” the aide, Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, wrote last April 27, referring to Mr. Gonzales, a married father of six.
Mr. Gonzales would not comment on allegations of an affair. The congressman, who has at times broken with President Trump but has the president’s endorsement, is locked in a tough primary fight with a challenger to his right, Brandon Herrera. Mr. Gonzales accused Mr. Herrera on Wednesday of being behind the release of the text message.”