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TONY ORTEGA
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[Penny on board during APL’s successful run in 2022]
U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s Florida 13th congressional district includes Clearwater, home to the Church of Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag Land Base, where just this past weekend church leader David Miscavige held a ground breaking for a new auditorium.
So maybe it’s not too surprising that Rep. Luna, a Republican who was first elected to office in 2022, has a friendly relationship with Clearwater Scientologists, and they have helped her win two terms in Congress.
Scientology was founded by 20th century science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, a midcentury red-baiter and apartheid supporter who pledged Scientology’s “rightist” support to South Africa’s regime. As a result, Scientologists today tend to lean right, in the Alex Jones conspiracy mold, and its wealthier donors tend to be Trump supporters.
And in Luna, they have a representative who hasn’t been shy about her own interest in conspiracy theories.
Now that Luna is running for a third term in the 2026 election, wealthy Clearwater Scientologists once again have her back.
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[/td]U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s Florida 13th congressional district includes Clearwater, home to the Church of Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag Land Base, where just this past weekend church leader David Miscavige held a ground breaking for a new auditorium.
So maybe it’s not too surprising that Rep. Luna, a Republican who was first elected to office in 2022, has a friendly relationship with Clearwater Scientologists, and they have helped her win two terms in Congress.
Scientology was founded by 20th century science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, a midcentury red-baiter and apartheid supporter who pledged Scientology’s “rightist” support to South Africa’s regime. As a result, Scientologists today tend to lean right, in the Alex Jones conspiracy mold, and its wealthier donors tend to be Trump supporters.
And in Luna, they have a representative who hasn’t been shy about her own interest in conspiracy theories.
Now that Luna is running for a third term in the 2026 election, wealthy Clearwater Scientologists once again have her back.
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