Is peace breaking out in the Florez-Parra feud?

The rivalry is legendary and has raged on this year as Parra, D-Hanford, has repeatedly praised Fran Florez's Republican opponent, Danny Gilmore, in the race to fill Parra's Assembly seat after she terms out this year.

But wait.

Now Fran Florez, mother off state Sen. Dean Florez, is praising Parra for her "independence" in taking on Assembly Speaker Karen Bass. Bass booted Parra from her office on Monday for refusing to vote for a state budget until lawmakers agree to put a water bond on the ballot.

In the radio ad, Florez links Parra's rebellion to when her son Dean years ago took on his own party by investigating the mishandling of a $100 million state software contract by the administration of then-Gov. Gray Davis.

The ad, which began airing Friday in Fresno and Bakersfield, ends this way:

"Politicians from other parts of California don't understand how we think in the Valley ... I'm just as independent as Dean and Nicole. I'm Fran Florez and I'm Valley tough."

The ad comes just days after Dean Florez, D-Shafter, criticized Parra's ultimatum as nothing more than petty "vote-trading."

Is he now siding with his mother and taking Parra's side?

Nope.

"Do you and your mom always agree?" he said in an e-mail. "Me and mine don't."

And Parra's reaction?

"I was so disgusted" with the ad, she said. And "my family's disgusted"

If the news coverage of Parra's rebellion weren't so great, she said, Fran Florez "wouldn't have come near me with a 10-foot pole."

So that's that. Rivalry continues ...