WASHINGTON — Texas Home Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido requested girls on social media to ship him express photos and riffed about pornography, a Publish assessment has discovered.
Pulido, 55, a Latin Grammy winner who as soon as portrayed a public masturbator in a raunchy music video, is operating to take down Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) within the Lone Star State’s fifteenth Congressional District.
“I desire a photograph of your tit signed by @grupo_pesado,” Pulido wrote in response to a since-deleted publish on Twitter (now X) in 2014, referencing a Mexico-based band with whom he has collaborated prior to now.
Pulido had quoted that consumer as tagging him in a publish that mentioned, “f—ing fool, I like you little buddy.”
That change adopted a shirtless picture Pulido posted of himself with the English-translated caption, “I learn you guys with this face, mates…”
A 12 months earlier, Pulido had responded to a different consumer who gushed over a “attractive” image of him.
The consumer wrote, “I favored your photograph, it seems actually sizzling, however what the f—, or slightly too attractive for my style alone, simply shove it in me, my love,” in keeping with Pulido’s quoting of them in a 2013 tweet, per a translation.
The consumer, “@AlieenLugo,” has since deleted their account. Ten days later, Pulido replied with “gracias! Besos,” or, “Thanks! Kisses.”
Pulido’s marketing campaign declined to elucidate whether or not or what kind of additional interactions came about.
The candidate has discovered himself in sizzling water over different suggestive social media posts to and about girls.
In 2016, for instance, he remarked on a photograph of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton standing subsequent to actress Chloë Grace Moretz, each of whom had been holding donuts.
“Woman, that is what occurs to you after a pure childbirth…,” Pulido wrote, in keeping with a Mediate report from February.
The Democrat deleted that tweet after the outlet contacted his marketing campaign about it.
Pulido additionally mused that “It’s not possible to have Twitter and never watch porn,” and knowledgeable his followers that “there’s an internet site referred to as youporn [sic] and that it’s cool.”
The Tejano music star additionally shared a hyperlink to the porn web site XVideos, riffing on “home made porn whereas sleep-deprived.”
These posts had been scrubbed by his crew after his marketing campaign was requested about them. However The Publish discovered one other tweet about express content material that’s nonetheless up.
“All of us have that buddy who’s all the time sending porn by way of WhatsApp. Thanks, however an occasional photograph or video is sufficient for me,” Pulido tweeted on July 4, 2018, per a translation.
Past his suggestive tweets, Pulido has confronted controversy over his ties to his longtime former bandmate Frankie Caballero, who was convicted of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old lady in 2014.
Throughout an look on a YouTube present with comic Jose Luis Zagar in 2019, Pulido boasted about how he went to get Caballero “out of jail,” whereas skipping over particulars of the alleged offenses.
As The Publish beforehand reported, Pulido continued to tour with Caballero after his launch from jail following a four-year sentence.
Pulido’s spokesperson beforehand advised The Publish that the congressional hopeful didn’t publish “Caballero’s bail or choose him up from jail or jail” and was simply riffing to Zagar about how he gave Caballero an opportunity to carry out.
Court docket information additionally point out that Caballero’s son, Frankie Jr., pleaded responsible in 2002 to sexually abusing a 14-year-old. Like his father, Caballero Jr., had ties to Pulido, describing himself as having “grown up touring” with the aspiring congressman.
In response to inquiries from The Publish about his lately unearthed social media feedback, Pulido put out a video message to his followers, calling questions on his previous remarks “recycled tabloid nonsense.”
“Years in the past, I joked round with my followers on Twitter, largely in Spanish. Look, I’m from South Texas, and Mexican humor is sarcastic, brutal, and filled with slang that doesn’t essentially survive the Google Translate take a look at,” he mentioned.
“A few of these outdated tweets, they went too far, that’s my dangerous, and I’ve apologized.”
