A Latin Grammy winner difficult GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas as soon as starred in a weird music video as a pervert who masturbates in public — and has an odd historical past of creating homophobic remarks on social media, The Submit has discovered.
Tejano singer Bobby Pulido received the Democratic main earlier this month within the state’s fifteenth Congressional District because the average within the race who has taken almost $1 million in contributions from the Blue Canine Coalition and centered on voters’ financial considerations, border safety and native points.
However a assessment of his social media presence stretching again greater than a decade suggests he could also be extra interested by pleasing himself.
In a music video for his music “Dias de Ayer,” Pulido pantomimed as a number of characters together with an exhibitionist, who wraps himself in a pink blanket whereas repeatedly masturbating and even exposing himself to a lady whereas apparently on a personal jet flight.
The two-time Latin Grammy winner seemingly triggered such a stir with the 2010 video — which additionally displayed him as a gay admirer of the serial exhibitionist determine — that he confronted questions from the Mexican press about his sexuality the identical month it was launched on an eponymous album.
“Persons are opening up extra. I may even inform you that after I began my profession, I noticed the entire scenario (of gays) very otherwise. At first, they mentioned I used to be homosexual; there have been rumors that I used to be like that,” Pulido advised the outlet El Norte in translated Spanish language March 2010 interview.
The singer famous that his father was stunned to see him act as a homosexual character and that media retailers “began circulating that type of rumor, which isn’t true, I can swear on the Bible that I’m not” — one thing he seems to have truly finished to attempt to put the rumor to mattress.
That wasn’t sufficient to fend off one male journalistic admirer who made inappropriate sexual advances on him in 2017, Pulido claimed in interview with the Spanish-language program “Primer Impacto.”
Pulido additionally posted on his X account within the following years a number of derogatory feedback about gay males, even rebuffing some netizen admirers.
“Igualmente amigo, no homo,” he mentioned in a September 2019 submit.
“1. I don’t like these guys. 2. You possibly can’t have youngsters. 3. Cease being a jerk already,” the longer term Democratic candidate disregarded one other two years prior in a Spanish submit.
Pulido additionally taunted the pharmaceutical tycoon Martin Shkreli in a December 2015 submit: “Don’t drop the cleaning soap a–gap.” Shkreli later served seven years in jail for securities fraud for defrauding traders in his biotech agency.
The media picture the south Texas artist cultivated might be powerful to swallow within the largely conservative district within the Rio Grande Valley that runs from San Antonio south to the US-Mexico border.
President Trump received the fifteenth District handily in 2024, and De La Cruz, who’s searching for a second time period on this 12 months’s election, triumphed by greater than 14 share factors over Democratic opponent Michelle Vallejo.
A Democrat-funded ballot performed in September discovered Pulido trailing behind the Republican incumbent by three share factors.
The Latino music star can be taking warmth for spending extra time in Mexico than Texas earlier than launching his marketing campaign, telling a YouTube present in a 2023 interview that he’s a “summer time Mexican” however “winter Texan.”
Reps for Pulido’s marketing campaign didn’t reply to a request for remark.
