Fury over Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna's racy IG post as critics spot 'obscene detail'

Daily Mail​

02-05-2025

Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna has stirred fury from her constituents after flaunting her red bottomed Louboutin heels as complaints flooded in.
Luna bragged on social media about some of the bills passed this week, but many users took issue with her flashy post and accused her of focusing on 'useless legislation.'
The lawmaker sat in a blazer and black trousers in front of an America flag, smiling while reading TIME magazine.
Her staged picture was accompanied by a pair of black Christian Louboutin shoes, which appear to be a pair sold for around $845, showing off the iconic red painted heel.
But one Florida constituent took issue with the display as voters feel unfairly treated.
'It's appalling that she isn't actually working for people in her state, instead she poses in obscenely priced Christian Louboutin heels,' the Sunshine State resident told DailyMail.com. 'It's a smack in the face for hard-working American families.'
Luna's post attracted furious responses on social media as other users attacked the lawmaker for her out-of-touch message.
'I'm sorry Anna you are my favorite congresswoman,' one user wrote. 'But those legislation are useless. We need [to] pass meaningful legislation that matters most to voter[s] like tax cut and regulations cut election integrity law.'
'So nothing to help interest rates or like the top 100 issues for Americans?' another asked.
One person called out her voting against extending FEMA funding by $20 billion in September before demanding the same FEMA funds later as Hurricane Milton loomed.
'Sure could use some help here in Pinellas with hurricane recovery,' one user wrote. 'Or have you along with the rest of the country forgotten?'
Luna's post bragged about passing six bills this week such as the TICKET Act, which requires event ticket sellers to provide transparent information to buyers about prices and fees.
Another, the Youth Poisoning Protection Act, was passed to ban hazardous consumer product with a concentration of sodium nitrate of ten percent or greater.
Yet, users attacked Luna patting herself on the back and accused her of not focusing on the Trump administration's agenda.
'Defund the federal judges, so President Trump can ramp up deportations,' one said.
'Soooooo where are the codifying resolutions of EO's and impeaching judges? The rest of this stuff seems arbitrary that could wait a year or so,' another wrote.
'How about doing something we the people and Pres. Trump really want and care about? We supposed to be impressed you can read a magazine?'
Other furious responses called for 'the rest of the JFK files' and Epstein files, instead of bills 'no one cares about.'
The Florida lawmaker previously came under fire for a measure enforced to allow lawmakers to vote remotely when having children.
Luna, who had a child in 2023, rallied alongside Colorado Democrat Brittany Pettersen, who had a child in late January, for the bill allowing lawmakers more time to recover from childbirth.
'Leadership said they will not consider at all allowing female members to vote when recovering from childbirth. Period. Not now. Not ever. This is wrong,' she wrote in April.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has been adamantly against Luna's effort, noting how the measure is unconstitutional and distorts the intended functions of Congress.
However, the speaker later sought to clear the record by posting on X that he is 'actively working on every possible accommodation to make Congressional service simpler for young mothers.'
Bucking the speaker, Luna took the extraordinary method of using a discharge petition to force a vote on her bill.
She circumvented Johnson by garnering bipartisan support on a petition that can get voted on, regardless of what the speaker says, if a majority of members sign on.
The Speaker did not take kindly to Luna going around him, so he used the House Rules Committee to craft a rule to nix the vote on the Floridian's proxy vote bill.
But that maneuver burned him after the vote to crush Luna's legislation went up in flames after the parenting bill gained bipartisan support.
The speaker was forced to shelve his planned votes for the remainder of the week as all the remaining work was tied to the voting measure that was defeated.
Johnson's legislative package failing meant at the time that bills that could help Trump with his administration's legal cases would have to wait.
'President Trump's agenda is now stalled for the week,' Johnson said at the time.
MAGA allies like Marjorie Taylor Greene have skewered Luna's bid for halting a week's worth of work.
'I can't believe that Congress was hijacked this week over Luna's resolution to allow members to skip work and vote from home,' Greene posted on X.
'Votes were cancelled for the rest of the week after Luna and the Dems got their way,' another post from MTG read.
'The American people did not vote for any of this crap,' the Georgia Republican shot off in another post about it. 'I'm purely disgusted at all of this.'
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who has opposed most of Johnson's funding efforts even sided with the speaker on the proxy vote dilemma, writing on X 'proxy voting is unconstitutional.'
'It's foolish to delay our agenda for an entire week while we control Congress and the presidency!' Massie added.
However, the Floridian says she is with the GOP and Trump.
'I am 100 percent supportive of Trump's agenda,' she posted on X to combat her critics. 'It is disingenuous to lie about me or the others Speaker Johnson.'
'Steve Scalise & Speaker Johnson did not have to send us home,' she said.
Luna, in another statement, alleged there is 'widespread misinformation surrounding her discharge petition' and that there are 'political games' being played.'