Sexual Predator-Promoting Democrats to Host Free Concert Ahead of the Midterms

A free concert in Merced sounds harmless enough until you look at who's headlining it. Adam Gray, sitting in a competitive California seat, decided the right move ahead of the midterms was to share a stage with Bobby Pulido, a guy whose baggage isn't exactly a secret if anyone on Gray's team bothered to check. That's the part that should bother voters more than the concert itself. Somebody on staff either didn't do the basic homework or didn't care, and neither answer is reassuring for a man asking to keep his job in Congress.

This is the kind of story that would get wall-to-wall coverage if the party affiliation were flipped. A Republican congressman sharing a bill with someone carrying this kind of reputation would be a week-long cable news cycle, complete with resignation calls and somber statements from party leadership. Instead it gets buried as a local item out of Merced, and Gray gets to hope nobody outside the district notices before November.

Voters in that district deserve better than a photo-op with a controversial headliner two months out from an election. Constituents don't want their representative's judgment measured by who draws the biggest free crowd. They want someone who asks the obvious question before signing off on an event: who exactly are we putting next to our name, and why does that not seem to matter until someone else points it out.

At some point Democrats have to stop treating basic vetting as optional and start treating it as the job. Gray had a chance to distance himself the moment this became public and instead let the concert go forward. That's a choice, and voters in Merced get to decide what it says about him.