Anna Paulina Luna is "new George Santos"

This story has been revised and updated since its original publication. It now includes a statement from Luna's office and corrections to the original Washington Post reporting. As originally published, this article reflected the Post's report that Anna Paulina Luna was registered as a Democrat in Washington state in 2017. That was incorrect: Washington only requires voters to declare a party affiliation when they vote in a presidential primary. The Post further reported that it could find no record that Luna's father, George Mayerhofer, had been incarcerated for criminal offenses in California. A representative for Luna has supplied records of Mayerhofer's criminal convictions to both the Post and Salon.

Before Republican Anna Paulina Luna was elected as the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, she had a different identity and set of political beliefs, according to a new report by the Washington Post. 

Luna went by a different last name, Mayerhofer, and described herself as Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European, her friends told the Post. She wore designer clothing and expressed support for then-President Barack Obama.