Disgraced Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales asked a second staffer for naked photos in the days before and after his wife gave birth to their child, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Gonzales officially resigned from Congress Tuesday over accusations he had a inappropriate sexual relationship with an aide who later set herself on fire and killed herself – an affair the Daily Mail exclusively revealed last year.
The lawmaker – who has espoused pro-family values – was forced to drop out of a closely contested primary in his border district, which stretches from San Antonio to El Paso, last month under the weight of bipartisan pressure from House members.
A second, much older aide, came forward last week to reveal that Gonzales, 45, also sent her sexually explicit text messages and badgered her for nude photos in 2020, years before his 2024 affair with the deceased Regina Aviles.
Now, the Daily Mail has interviewed the woman – who is in her sixties and wishes to remain anonymous – and learned new details about their relationship, including that he continued to pursue her around the time his wife Angel gave birth to Gonzales’ sixth child in summer 2020.
She has also shared new, toe-curling text messages between the pair and revealed she is speaking out for the ‘innocents’, as she calls them: Gonzales’ wife and children, Aviles and her widower and son.
The anonymous staffer worked as Gonzales’ political director during his 2020 congressional campaign after turning to politics following a career in the military, serving as an officer in the Army.
On June 15, when Gonzales’ wife was approaching her due date, he sent the aide texts telling her to ‘squeeze my balls’ and asking her what kind of panties she wore to bed.
Tony Gonzales was forced to resign from Congress this week under the weight of bipartisan pressure from House members
A toe-curling text exchange in late July between Gonzales and his much-older staffer
The aide was single at the time of the exchanges and a decade older than Gonzales.
Angel Gonzales gave birth to a girl, the couple’s fourth child and Gonzales’ sixth, sometime between late June and early July, according to three former staffers who spoke to Daily Mail.
However, they did not know the exact date of the birth. A photo of Angel and her baby girl on social media appears to confirm that timeline.
The Daily Mail understands that the couple faced a difficult child birth.
However, even after the congressman’s baby girl had been born, the texts continued.
On July 20, just weeks after the birth of his child, the lawmaker wrote: ‘Help me fantasize about c**ing inside of you.’
The staffer replied: ‘I have never sent pictures to anyone. That is all you get.’
Angel and Tony Gonzales kiss in Facebook profile picture shared in February
The couple have four children together and Angel gave birth to their youngest, a daughter, in summer 2020
Gonzales replied: ‘I’ll delete. You’re beautiful. I want to spread your legs.’
The Daily Mail has verified the texts came from Gonzales’ personal cell phone number.
‘I didn’t think it could get any lower, but somehow, it did,’ a different former aide who asked not to be named said of the new woman accusing Gonzales.
‘Apparently even that [the birth of his child] didn’t stop him,’ a different Gonzales employee told Daily Mail of the allegations he hit on a woman while his wife was expecting.
The female accuser claims the texts, many of which were sexual, continued until he seemed to finally give up after being turned down. She stopped working for him ending in November 2020.
She also added that other inappropriate conversations happened over telephone calls.
Neither Gonzales or his wife Angel responded to Daily Mail’s request for comment.
Gonzales has been married to Angel, a US Air Force and Navy veteran, since October 2016, according to public records.
The new accuser insists there was no physical or sexual relationship between her and Gonzales – even though the texts she provided show she flirted back at times.
‘I’m retired from the Army, and I’m used to the bad boys’ behavior,’ she told Daily Mail.
‘I’ve had to deal with it, unfortunately my whole career, and this has got to stop. I’m 60. Tony never bothered me as far as, like, I didn’t take him that serious, and I know how to say, ‘No.’
The Daily Mail first exposed that Gonzales had an affair with aide Regina Aviles, who died by suicide last September
This photo of Aviles and Gonzales was provided to the Daily Mail by Aviles’s husband’s attorney Bobby Barrera
She said the memory of Aviles, who left behind an eight-year-old son, weighed heavy on her even though the two never met.
‘She set herself on fire. But that doesn’t tell you the extreme of where her mental facilities were, and then Tony just goes on, like, it’s no big deal.
‘Still walking around the hall of the congress. You know, still posts and stuff on Facebook. Like, life is just fine. What a POS [piece of s**t,’ she added.
According to Aviles’ widower, Adrian, his wife was forced into a relationship with her boss based on text messages between the two.
Gonzales, a Navy veteran, campaigned as a devoted family man. His is pictured here with his wife, Angel, six kids and his mother-in-law
When Gonzales tried to initiate a sexual relationship with her, also asking for racy photos, Aviles responded by saying, ‘Too far boss.’
When Adrian broke his silence last month, he told Daily Mail, ‘She looked up to him, you know, and for him [to] turn around and use that power to essentially, you know, I would call it coercing an affair.’
It’s unclear what Angel’s reaction to the new allegations are, however, a family insider told Daily Mail in March that the wife had been in denial about her husband’s cheating until text messages between her husband and Aviles were made public.
‘The wife is not okay,’ the source told the Daily Mail in early March.
‘She was really buying that [the excuse], ‘It just happened once…it wasn’t a big deal. This is just political propaganda.”
In a statement reacting to Gonzales stepping down, the second accuser told Daily Mail: ‘Just remember to pray for the innocents in all of this!
‘Tony’s wife and children did not deserve this. Regina Santos Aviles did not deserve this. Her son and husband did not deserve this. But she’s getting justice as I promised her!’
