A second woman who worked for Republican Representative Tony Gonzales has alleged that he bombarded her with “hundreds” of sexually explicit text messages.
The GOP congressman from Texas, a married father-of-six children, announced he was dropping his re-election bid last month after admitting to an affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, a married congressional staffer who died by suicide in September 2025.
Now it has emerged that Gonzales allegedly asked a second woman, his former campaign political director, “more than a dozen times to send nude photos over a period of three days,” the San Antonio Express-News first reported.
“He obviously pursued, pursued, pursued her like he did with me,” the woman told the outlet, referring to Santos-Aviles.
The woman was not identified by the publication but confirmed she was the political director of Gonzales’s 2020 campaign for Congress.
She characterized the alleged behavior as “sexual bullying” in a separate interview with NBC News and said she was speaking out now because the congressman “should be held accountable” for his alleged behavior.
The former political campaign director said the pair never had a physical relationship. In text messages obtained by the San Antonio newspaper, the congressman repeatedly expressed his desire to have sex with his staffer and asked her for photos.
“47 nos is about my limit,” the congressman replied, according to a slew of explicit texts published by the newspaper. Many of the messages were “too salacious” for publication, the woman said.
She added that she was “not totally innocent in all of this” and expressed regret over a handful of messages where she appeared to engage with the congressman, according to the newspaper.
She added that the messages made her uncomfortable, but “not enough to prompt her to resign from the campaign,” the outlet reports.
Neither Gonzales nor his office responded to questions from the newspaper about the ex-staffer’s claims.
The Independent has contacted the congressman’s representatives for comment.
After initially denying the allegations, Gonzales admitted last month that he had an affair with Santos-Aviles, his former staffer and a 35-year-old wife and mother who worked in his Uvalde office.
He said that he “made a mistake,” and called his infidelity with a subordinate “a lapse in judgment” in an interview with conservative talk show host Joe Pagliarulo. Gonzales told Pagliarulo he had “absolutely nothing to do” with Santos-Aviles’ death.
Gonzales said he had reconciled with his wife, Angel, and “asked God to forgive me, which he has.”
News of the affair, including screenshots of him asking for risque photos from Santos-Aviles, led a number of Republicans to call for him to step down. But the Texan’s resignation could be damaging to House Republicans, who hold a razor-thin margin of 217-214 seats over Democrats.
The House Ethics Committee is investigating Gonzales for his extramarital affair.
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