{"id":2649943,"date":"2026-08-26T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-candidate-music-superstar-with-sick-sexual-history-defended-fellow-musicians-video-in-which-he-gropes-and-kills-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:09:34","slug":"dem-candidate-music-superstar-with-sick-sexual-history-defended-fellow-musicians-video-in-which-he-gropes-and-kills-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-candidate-music-superstar-with-sick-sexual-history-defended-fellow-musicians-video-in-which-he-gropes-and-kills-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Candidate, Music Superstar With Sick Sexual History Defended Fellow Musician&#8217;s Video In Which He Gropes and Kills Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-candidate-music-superstar-with-sick-sexual-history-defended-fellow-musicians-video-in-which-he-gropes-and-kills-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2649943&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided content includes an article discussing concerns about the vetting processes of Democratic candidates, highlighting several controversial figures. It references past issues with candidates like Graham Platner, who faced serious allegations, and questions whether Democrats adequately scrutinize their candidates&#8217; backgrounds. The article especially focuses on Bobby Pulido, a texas U.S. house hopeful and Tejano music star, noting troubling aspects of his past, such as defending a violent music video, his openness about viewing suggestive content, and associations with a convicted sex offender. It critiques Pulido&#8217;s past behavior and previous performances, emphasizing that thes red flags should have disqualified him, and suggests that political opponents are attempting to distract voters from these violations by accusing their rivals of minor infractions. The piece argues this pattern of inadequate vetting reflects a broader issue within the party and contrasts past and current candidate controversies to question their commitment to thorough candidate screening.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Do Democrats even bother to vet their candidates for sexual depravity in their past, or do they just wing it?<\/p>\n<p>This has been an open question since the Graham Platner disaster, but at least the man who won the Maine Democratic senatorial nomination and then was forced to give it up after a rape allegation topped off a long, sordid, and documented history of perversion <em>gave it up<\/em>. Bobby Pulido is still running, and while he\u2019s never been accused of rape, the Texas U.S. House candidate\u2019s past is so deeply troubling that he should have bowed out long ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest resurfaced problem for the congressional hopeful and Tejano music star, Pulido defended the artist behind a controversial 2016 music video in which the musician tortures, gropes, and then kills an unfaithful girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Pulido called it \u201cthe decision of the artist and their team\u201d \u2014 which, considering the decisions Pulido has made in the past, is probably not the statement he wanted resurfacing.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dem-house-hopeful-defended-music-video-showing-woman-restrained-groped-killed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, the controversy involved Mexican folk singer Gerardo Ort\u00edz and the video for his song \u201cFuiste M\u00eda,\u201d or \u201cYou Were Mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video initially shows pictures of a happy couple \u2014 the singer and another woman. Then, Ort\u00edz discovers her being romantic with another man.<\/p>\n<p>Ort\u00edz pulls a gun out of a cabinet and shoots the man dead. He then corners the cheating girlfriend, handcuffs her, gropes her, and shoves her into a car trunk while choking her.<\/p>\n<p>He then sets the car on fire by dropping a cigarette as the police close in on his house, smiling as he walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the video in an interview, the Latin Grammy Award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/10-fatally-flawed-new-democrat-candidates-prove-party-facing-existential-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulido<\/a> said it was perfectly fine by him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve made videos with suggestive images; some have stayed, others have been edited, and still others were never used,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the decision of the artist and their team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that it was akin to rubbernecking during a highway crash: \u201cWhat happens when there\u2019s a [car] accident?\u201d Pulido asked rhetorically. \u201cTraffic doesn\u2019t flow because people slow down or even stop to see what happened; something similar happens with the regional Mexican genre when these kinds of incidents occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His campaign is singing a different tune now, using dubious allegations that his opponent \u201cverbally abused\u201d her daughter to deflect from Pulido\u2019s 2016 comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is emblematic of national Republicans doing anything and everything to distract voters from what are very real \u2014 not based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fictional video \u2014 child abuse accusations<\/a> against Monica De La Cruz and her refusal to release the Epstein files after thousands of girls were trafficked and abused,\u201d the campaign said.<\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear, this is based on allegations by her ex-husband during divorce proceedings, which we all know we can completely trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonica De La Cruz knows she\u2019s losing, so she\u2019s deploying the RNC to do her dirty work and deliberately mischaracterized a decade-old Spanish-language interview, in which Bobby said he respects artists\u2019 right to make their own music \u2014 a right that Republicans used to believe in but apparently don\u2019t when it comes to their opponents,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear that De La Cruz is losing in the race in Texas\u2019 15th Congressional District, but the Republican\u2019s seat is one that the Democrats have targeted with star power. While Pulido is hardly a household name outside of the Latin music community, he\u2019s considered Tejano royalty.<\/p>\n<p>However, the path to an easy victory has been blocked by Pulido\u2019s Platner-ish past.<\/p>\n<p>At first, his frequent comments about his pornography consumption on social media \u2014 including links to sites known to host videos of underage and non-consensual pornographic content \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dems-recruit-another-comer-ugly-past-bobby-pulido-even-posted-links-site-hosted-child-sex-abuse-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were his biggest issue<\/a>. Then came a resurfaced video of his own, \u201cDias de Ayer,\u201d in which he plays a series of bizarre characters, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-candidates-keep-getting-weirder-moderate-tx-dem-played-m-pervert-supposed-cute-bizarre-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-pleasuring cross-dresser and an exhibitionist<\/a>. (This had nothing to do with the lyrics, mind you; it was apparently in response to rumors within the Tejano community that Pulido had some perversions of his own, including being a little light in the loafers.)<\/p>\n<p>This was all a bit gross, albeit not disqualifying. Then came <em>el esc\u00e1ndalo<\/em> <em>de Frankie <\/em><i>Caballero<\/i>, in which it was discovered that Pulido toured with the accordionist and sex offender, who was convicted of molesting an 8-year-old girl, long after the conviction. Pulido even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-congressional-candidate-caught-bringing-sex-offender-victimized-8-year-old-school-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performed at a school event<\/a> with him, as if that weren\u2019t bad enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-candidate-musician-hoping-flip-texas-gop-seat-toured-convicted-child-sex-offender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Pulido denied knowing about the conviction<\/a>, sources within the Tejano music scene said that Caballero\u2019s sordid past was a well-known fact in the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis really raises some concerns about Bobby\u2019s judgment. You get to a certain point in music where they vet everybody around you,\u201d said Tejano bass player Ramon Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>A former Hidalgo County, Texas, prosecutor also told the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/texas-dem-toured-for-years-with-bandmate-who-was-a-registered-sex-offender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> when the story first broke in April that there was \u201csimply no version of this story where Bobby Pulido did not know the man he employed and befriended for decades is a career child predator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that Caballero would have had a \u201cprobation officer\u201d that Pulido\u2019s people would have had to contact and \u201cemployer verifications\u201d Caballero would have had to undergo to perform with the star. He also had performed with Pulido long before his conviction on the molestation charges but <em>after<\/em> other convictions and arrests, including one arrest for aggravated sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>But sure \u2014 this is all because Rep. De La Cruz is really worried that she might have yelled at her daughter a few times and that\u2019s going to sway the voters.<\/p>\n<p>There comes a point at which we have to ask how stupid the Democrats think we are when it comes to how they vet their candidates so long as the candidate involved creates buzz around an important race.<\/p>\n<p>Platner turned out to be an accused rapist, but the red flags were there long before the allegation came out. 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