Texas Dem House hopeful creeped on women in Spanish-language social media posts: ‘I want a photo of your tit’

A Texas Democrat running for Congress spent years apparently sliding into women's mentions in Spanish demanding photos of their chests, and the response was a Monday video calling it "some old tweets" that "went too far." That's the kind of phrasing you use for a bad joke, not for what reads like a pattern of harassment. Pulido didn't get hacked. Nobody photoshopped these posts. He wrote them, in his own language, to actual women, and the defense now is basically "I used to be worse."

What's telling is the translation problem here, and we don't mean Spanish to English. We mean the gap between how this would be covered if an R was next to his name versus a D. If a Republican House candidate had a trail of tweets asking women for photos of their breasts, it would be the lead story on every network for a week, with panels about misogyny in the party. Instead this is a local story that most national outlets will quietly skip, because the candidate's party affiliation does a lot of the editing for them.

Voters in that district deserve better than "old tweets" as an explanation. Either Pulido thinks harassing women online was fine at the time and only became a problem once he had a campaign account, or he thinks it's still fine and he's just sorry it surfaced. Neither answer should be good enough for a party that spent the last several years lecturing the country about respecting women. Apologies without accountability are just PR, and voters can usually tell the difference between the two.