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Leela Gray Responds to Luna's Out-of-Touch RNC Speech

For Immediate Release
Date: September 9, 2026
Contact: Billy Perlmutter | billy@leelagray.com

St. Petersburg, FL — On Wednesday, FL-13 Democratic nominee and retired Army Brigadier General Leela Gray released the following statement on Anna Paulina Luna’s speech at the Republican National Committee's Midterm Convention in Dallas:

“Anna Paulina Luna is a Washington insider more concerned with getting famous and rich than improving the lives of her constituents. We saw that on display tonight with her speech in Dallas. Not once did she address the cost of living crisis that is crushing the residents of our district. Not once did she explain her votes in support of continuing the Iran war or tariff taxes, because she knows they are hurting working families. The residents of Florida’s 13th Congressional District are hurting because of Luna’s blind party loyalty and corruption. That is why they will fire her on November 3rd.”

Here is the record Congresswoman Luna does not want to bring up:

On the Cost of Living Crisis:

  • Voted five times for the Iran war, costing the average American household $1,200

  • Voted six times for the tariff taxes, costing the average American household $1,000

  • Stripped 60,000 Fl-13 residents of their healthcare

  • Cut off 14,000 residents of FL-13 from food assistance

On Corruption:

  • Handed tax breaks to companies that build data centers while taking $128,000 worth of donations from big tech

  • Wants to allow Members of Congress to keep selling stocks and let the president and vice president trade stocks freely

  • Invested up to $500,000 in one of her top donor’s oil companies