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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 16, 2015

Contact: 702-437-0587

Alicia@lucyflores.com

FLORES STATEMENT ON DECEPTIVE KOCH BROTHERS BACKED LIBRE INITIATIVE FEATURING

SENATOR RAND PAUL IN LAS VEGAS.

LAS VEGAS, NV Lucy Flores, Democratic candidate for Congressional District 4, responds to LIBREs

most recent attempt to deceive the Latino community with an event featuring Senator Rand Paul at

the College of Southern Nevada titled The LIBRE Forum: Unlimited Opportunities in a Free Society.

For too long LIBRE has run wild in Nevada, using deceitful tactics to encourage Latino voters to silence their voice at the polls, which furthers their counter-productive anti-immigration, anti-Obamacare, and anti-workers agenda. It's past time for it to stop. As a community leader, Flores fought alongside immigration, labor and progressive organizations to ensure LIBRE was not a major sponsor of Las Vegas' Cesar Chavez Day Festival. Chavezs grandson, Alejandro, joined the fight to protect his grandfathers legacy and ensure LIBREs hypocrisy in trying to attach their name to a prominent labor leaders namesake, while simultaneously working to end workers rights, was exposed. Flores has prioritized pro-immigration reform during her legislative career. As a Nevada state Assemblywoman for District 28, she co-sponsored legislation urging Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform. I am appalled at LIBREs disingenuous propaganda encouraging Latinos to vote against their own self-interests by deceiving them into supporting policies that are harmful to the Latino community, said Flores. In the words of long-time civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, Weve got to let our community know that Libre, which is funded by the Koch brothers, are not our friends.

Lucy Flores, the daughter of immigrants, grew up in a challenging community in North Las Vegas.

Through her own hard work and the investment of people who believed in her, she earned a GED, and

eventually a law degree from the UNLV Boyd School of Law. Ensuring that every Nevadan has the

opportunity to succeed is what continues to inspire her into public service and why she decided to run

for Congress.