Recently surfaced text messages suggest that Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales persistently sought a sexual relationship with a second aide, years prior to the scandalous affair that ultimately derailed his political career.
In a trove of alleged text exchanges from 2020, the Texas Republican is seen repeatedly requesting nude photographs and attempting to start a sexual liaison with his then-political director. At one point, he explicitly expressed a desire for her to ‘squeeze my balls.’
These messages, obtained by the San Antonio Express News, emerge just weeks after Gonzales withdrew from his congressional re-election campaign. This decision followed the exposure of his affair with another staffer, who tragically took her own life by self-immolation.
The Daily Mail first uncovered the affair in October 2025, shortly after Regina Aviles’s tragic suicide in the backyard of her home in Uvalde.
Throughout both incidents involving his aides, Gonzales remained married to his wife, Angel. The couple has six children together.
Gonzales did not immediately respond to Daily Mail’s request for comment on the 2020 allegations.
The woman involved in the 2020 texts – who is not named in the report – said she came forward after Aviles’ death, telling the paper, ‘This behavior needs to stop.’
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is seen in the U.S. Capitol before the House voted to keep the government funded into March, on Thursday, January 18, 2024
Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales and his former staffer and mistress Regina Aviles are pictured together in a photo given to Daily Mail by San Antonio Attorney Bobby Barrera. The lawyer represents Aviles’ husband
During one late-night conversation between Gonzales and the staffer in 2020, the congressman pressured her for nude photos.
’47 nos is about my limit,’ Gonzales said after being turned down.
However, the next day he pressured her again to send naked pictures.
‘I know what I want and won’t stop until I get it,’ Gonzales said in June 15, 2020 message.
The staffer sent back a facepalm emoji.
‘You better do that in Congress. And take me with you,’ she added.
At the time of the 2020 texts, Gonzales was running in a heated primary in his first ever bid to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional district.
The woman claims she never had a sexual relationship with Gonzales, however, she did admit he paid her late-night visits at her house.
‘Want me to come over again,’ Gonzales says in one 2020 text.
‘If I come over though, your panties are coming off.’
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, listens during a news conference about school safety enhancements at North East Independent School District in front of the new Wilshire Safety Training Center Friday, Feb. 6
Gonzales and his wife, Angel, casted their ballots in early March, a photo shared on Gonzales’s social media shows
Messages between the two appear to show he did not stay the night.
‘Okay you have two options… I left (as I did) and we continue the mystery,’ Gonzales text her.
‘I stayed and we f—ed like rabbits. Which one would you choose?’
‘Leave. And let the mystery build,’ she replied.
She also admitted to participating in sending inappropriate messages.
‘I’m not totally innocent in all this,’ she told the Express-News, adding that she regretted having ‘played him.’
However, the retired Navy officer did not take the rejection well.
‘I don’t do well not being wanted,’ he wrote before asking her for a nude he did not get.
The former campaign worker explained that by October 2020, their relationship had become cold, but she continued working for him until November when he won his first seat in Congress.
Gonzales did not hire her to be part of his congressional staff when he went to Washington, DC.
The three-term congressman from Texas one heavily promoted his regular TV news appearances on his social media accounts, but now shuns the media
Regina Aviles admitted to having an affair with her married boss, Rep. Tony Gonzales, in a text message to a friend shared with Daily Mail by the pal
Earlier this month, Gonzales shared a photo of him leaving the White House on his social media before his fall from grace
Gonzales is serving out his final months in office after being forced to drop out of his re-election race after the affair with Aviles was revealed by Daily Mail.
Several elected officials and constituents in his Texas district tell Daily Mail Gonzales has stopped performing some of his duties despite continuing to receive his $174,000 yearly congressional salary.
Gonzales is not responding to at least some of his constituents and is shunning media attention, according to multiple people interviewed by the Daily Mail.
Amid mounting pressure from his Republican colleague, Gonzales finally admitted to cheating on his wife a day after coming in second in a razor-tight March 3 primary.
The US Speaker of the House then called on Gonzales to drop out of the race- leaving a clear path for his opponent Brandon Herrera to move forward in the general election to represent the district.
He’s currently under investigation for his relationship with Aviles, accused of violating House rules which prohibit members of Congress from having sex with their staffers.
However, Gonzales appears to intend to finish out his term in office, which ends in January.