Fonte: Twitter Account of Congresswoman-elect Anna Paulina Luna https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1594912869627604992
Anna Paulina Luna (born May 6, 1989) is an American politician and U.S. Air Force veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district since 2023. She is the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress from Florida.
Luna was born in 1989 in Santa Ana, California. Her mother is of Mexican descent and her father of Mexican and German descent. Although never married, Anna's mother and father separated when she was very young. Anna's father suffered from severe drug addiction and, early on, had asked her mother to have an abortion. But Anna's mother chose life.
As a result, Anna and her mother were on their own. During Anna’s childhood and teen years, her father struggled and spent time in and out of incarceration. Most of her communication with him during these times was through letters to jail and collect calls. Her grandmother died of HIV/AIDS contracted from heroin use.
By age nine, Anna had experienced an armed robbery and survived. While Anna was on campus at one of the six high schools she attended, a fatal gang shooting occurred. Her young cousin was murdered while Anna was a teenager. And as a young adult, Anna was the victim of a home invasion.
These types of stories are all too common in America’s low-income, inner-city communities, like where Anna grew up.
Anna's way out was joining the military. While serving in the United States Air Force, Anna met her husband, Andy. He is a Bronze Star recipient who earned a Purple Heart when enemy combatants shot him in Afghanistan. After recovering, Andy redeployed to fight ISIS in the Middle East.
She earned an Air Force Achievement Medal and was honorably discharged in 2014. In 2017, Luna earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of West Florida.
While serving in the U.S. Air Force and attending the University of West Florida, Luna modeled and appeared in publications such as Maxim and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Maxim selected her as the “Hometown Hottie” for Fort Walton Beach in 2014. Also that year, Luna worked briefly as a waitress at a gentleman’s club in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She has worked as the director of Hispanic engagement for Turning Point USA, a producer for PragerU, and a reporter for the conservative media company El American.
Luna has said that she favors abortion bans and has called herself a “pro-life extremist”. She has said that her anti-abortion stance originates from having dissected a chicken egg in college and seeing the chick react to a scalpel blade: “God was using that opportunity to really wake me up”.
In an August 2022 interview, Luna said that she would support a ban on U.S. oil exports in order to increase the domestic oil supply, saying, “The United States has literally one of the biggest supplies of cleanest oil in the entire world. There’s no reason why we need to be going to places like Saudi Arabia or even Venezuela to get those oil sources”. She said this view belonged to an “America First” platform, adding, “If it means not selling to other countries so that here in the United States, we can literally lower the gas prices, that's what I agree with”. President Trump had reenabled U.S. exportation of crude oil and refined products via the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
In June 2022, speaking about the 2020 United States presidential election in an interview with MSNBC, Luna said, “I believe that President Trump won that election, and I do believe that voter fraud occurred”. The previous month, Luna attended a red carpet event and screening of 2000 Mules, a film that claims to show evidence of widespread electoral fraud in the 2020 election.
Luna’s website states that she opposes “radical left-wing gender theory being pushed on our kids”.
Luna is married to Andy Gamberzky, a U.S. Air Force combat controller. After marriage, she changed her surname to Gamberzky. In 2019, she changed her surname to Luna to represent her Hispanic heritage. Her father, who had lived with Luna and her husband for a time, died in a car crash in January 2022. Religiously, Luna identifies as a Messianic Jew, but she has also called herself a Christian.
