Politics
Texas Democratic House candidate faces scrutiny over 2016 defense of graphic music video
Bobby Pulido, running for Congress in Texas' 15th District, previously defended a video depicting violence and murder as a matter of "artistic direction."
The short version
- Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido is facing renewed scrutiny over a 2016 interview in which he defended a graphic music video by singer Gerardo Ortiz.
- The video for the song 'Fuiste Mía' depicted a man shooting a lover, restraining and groping a woman, and locking her in a trunk before setting the car on fire.
- Pulido is challenging incumbent Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in Texas' competitive 15th Congressional District.
Key facts
- Bobby Pulido, a Latin Grammy Award-winning Tejano musician, is running as a Democrat to challenge two-term incumbent Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas' 15th Congressional District.[Fox News]
- In a 2016 interview, Pulido defended Gerardo Ortiz's music video for 'Fuiste Mía', which showed a character shooting his girlfriend's lover, binding and groping her, and then burning her alive in a car trunk.[Fox News]
- Pulido called the video a matter of 'artistic direction' and compared the public's interest in the violent imagery to drivers slowing down to look at a car accident.[Fox News]
- Pulido has faced previous controversies, including sharing links to explicit websites on his X account and appearing in a post where he seemed to urinate on Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, which he later claimed was water poured as a joke.[Fox News]
- In 2018, Pulido brought an associate who was a registered sex offender to a middle school benefit concert; Pulido has stated he did not know the person's status at the time.[Fox News]