WASHINGTON — Bobby Pulido, a Latin Grammy-winning singer campaigning as a Democratic House candidate in Texas, once told a woman online to shave her “la cotorra” and joked about rape with another female commenter.
Pulido, 55, is a married father of four sons and is locked in a competitive bid to unseat Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz. His campaign has been shaken by a long history of crude and offensive social-media posts.
Newly uncovered messages — many of which have since been deleted from his verified accounts — indicate that Pulido directed even more vulgar remarks at women than previously reported.
“I remember when @bobbypulido425 wanted me and even raped me in his DRESSING ROOOOM—holy sh—, that dude is a legend,” a user wrote on X in Spanish in 2019, according to a translation.
Pulido replied in Spanish: “Shhh… it was our secret.”
The exchange appeared to be intended as a joke by both people involved.
In response to a request for comment from The Post, Pulido posted a social-media video criticizing coverage of his past remarks. He said the posts were “old jokes between me and my personal friends.”
“I know all of these people. We were joking back and forth years ago. This was Mexican humor. Our humor is sarcastic, brutal, and full of slang that doesn’t survive Google Translate.”
Pulido also criticized what he called the “woke right” for drawing attention to his social-media history.
“You’d better shave your p—y,” he also then wrote in January 2020 to a woman on X who posted a selfie and asked if she should cut her hair, revealed a translation.
Several months later, while replying to a user whose post has since been removed, Pulido wrote: “Help us find that goth big-ass chick.
“This dude is suffering a ton,” he said, according to a translation.
The congressional hopeful has previously faced backlash over resurfaced posts in which he told an Asian person to “open your Asian eyes” and wrote that molesting children is “not necessarily rape.”
In 2020, Pulido also replied to a fan who claimed to be ill with an image of women sucking on chicken soup in very suggestive ways.
In 2018, Pulido posted a photo of his coffee, saying the drink appeared to be shaped like a butt. In a thread that remains on his X account, he also shared an image of a cartoon woman bent over in a sexualized pose.
DISCOVER MORE: I Lived in Sydney for Five Years—Here’s My Honest Take on Australia
Two years earlier, he uploaded a selfie from a couch with the caption: “Here on my black couch.
“Casting anybody??”
The comment appeared to reference Hollywood’s so-called casting couch, a practice in which powerful figures demand sexual favors from aspiring actors or other subordinates in exchange for professional opportunities.
In one since-deleted post, Pulido also riffed about a female bodybuilder who supposedly drank semen smoothies and claimed to never fall ill as a result. She was supposedly planning to use it to fight against COVID-19 as well.
“Ladies, finally we’re good for something,” he wrote.
Pulido frequently posted vulgar remarks in Spanish. Some appeared to be random comments, while others were directed at or exchanged with his fan base.
“I pick up so much ass they call me the tow truck,” he wrote in a 2014 reply to a user. Several posts in the thread appeared to be missing, leaving the broader context unclear.
The singer has spent years occasionally trafficking in sexual innuendo while engaging with his fans. At one point, he likened long posts on X to a wife who “never shuts up.”
Additionally, Pulido, who once portrayed a public masturbator in a vulgar music video, has dealt with questions over his ties to his ex-longtime bandmate Frankie Caballero, who was convicted of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl in 2014.
Pulido had backed on a YouTube show in 2019 about how he went to Caballero “out of jail,” while glossing over the details about why his bandmate was behind bars in the first place. The Post previously reported on how Pulido toured with Caballero after his four-year prison stint.
The aspiring congressman’s spokesperson previously stressed that Pulido didn’t post bail for Caballero or “pick him up from jail or prison” and was just riffing on that YouTube show.
His race against De La Cruz is currently rated a toss-up by the Cook Political Report.