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Michael Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas

Texas House candidate campaigning in churches, in potential legal violation

Mayra Flores, left, and Cross Church in San Benito, Texas.
Mayra Flores, left, and Cross church in San Benito, Texas. Photograph: LM Otero/Mike Gonzalez/AP/The Guardian

A congressional candidate in Texas has been actively campaigning at events in churches that feature her campaign banners, potentially in violation of federal regulations that prohibit what the law calls “political campaign intervention”, as a condition of tax exemptions for non-profit religious organizations.

Republican candidate Mayra Flores, who was endorsed in the primary by Donald Trump, is running in this election to unseat the Democratic representative Vicente Gonzalez in south Texas’s competitive 34th district.

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