Rey Flores
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Rey Flores is a Chicago newspaper columnist. He was born and raised in Chicago’s Bucktown of Mexican immigrant parents in 1967, Rey has been a social worker, community and labor organizer and now a freelance opinion columnist. He has been published regularly in the Chicago Tribune’s ‘Hoy’ newspaper, the Sun-Times News Group’s Herald News, Latinos Network in Chicago magazine, the Extra bilingual newspaper and Univision.com.
Flores has been referred to as the “Chicano Mike Royko” by Editor and Publisher magazine, which also noted that he is “the most interesting columnist writing right now, that if he were writing primarily in English, his column would be turning heads and no doubt touching off a deluge of e-mails across Chicagoland”. He has caused a stir among Herald News readers since his first column was published in the spring of 2006 and is one of their most promising and popular columnists right now.
Flores is also a staunch social conservative. His blog, Rey Flores' America, has referred to abortion-rights supporters as "pro-death," accompanying his views in at least one instance with a picture of a bloody fetus, and argued against the right of homosexuals to join the military. A devout Catholic, Flores has referred to commenters who disagree with him as, among other things, "liberal devil worshippers."
Rey Flores was also the lead singer & guitarist for the power-pop trio the Statistics and later known as the Spring Reverb. Flores recorded a CD of original songs in 1999 at Plutone Sound Studios in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood.
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- Fitzgerald, Mark. "Is Rey Flores the Chicano Mike Royko?", Editor & Publisher, August 17, 2005.
