MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING (5/1/26)
More Pulido more problems, Paxton strikes at H1-B companies.
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THIS WEEK:
Democratic Candidate Bobby Pulido Linked to Another Child Molester
AG Ken Paxton Demands Answers from 30 H-1B “Ghost Offices”
Current Revolt Updates
Democratic Candidate Bobby Pulido Linked to Another Child Molester
Tejano singer-turned-congressional candidate, Bobby Pulido, has spent the last month denying that he knew anything about the multiple child sex abuse arrests racked up by his longtime accordionist and band co-founder, Frankie Caballero Sr. It seems however that an additional man in Pulido’s orbit has also been convicted of child molestation.
According to court records, music industry promotional materials, and photographs, Caballero's son, Frankie Caballero Jr., is also a convicted child molester with close ties to Pulido and his inner circle.
Pulido’s denials have been under strain for weeks. Though claiming he first heard of Caballero’s legal troubles this year, Pulido acknowledged during a 2023 interview that Caballero “can’t stay out of trouble.” Video has since surfaced of Pulido describing his bandmate as a “bad man” at a 2018 concert, shortly after Caballero’s release from prison for a 2014 conviction for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl in Hidalgo County. In that same performance, Pulido cracked a “Penn State” joke with Caballero onstage, a reference that a former Democratic prosecutor in Hidalgo County told Fox News can only be interpreted as a comment regarding the child sex abuse scandal then engulfing that university or a “state pen” reference.
Additionally, Ramon Rodriguez, a Tejano bass player, told the New York Post that Pulido’s denial is not believable since Caballero Sr.’s conviction was “a known fact in music circles” at the time.
Father-Son Child Molestation Duo
According to court records, Frankie Caballero Jr. pleaded guilty in 2002 to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. He remains listed on the Texas public sex offender registry.
Caballero Jr., who markets himself as a Tejano singer, has publicly and repeatedly tied himself to Pulido in his own promotional materials. In bios published in 2019 and again in 2023, Caballero Jr. states that he “grew up touring” with Bobby Pulido:
Frankie Jr. traveled with his father around Texas, performing with countless artists such as Los Chachos, Grupo Mazz, Bobby Pulido, and Jay Perez, which encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming an artist himself.
Current Revolt reached out to a campaign spokesperson for Bobby Pulido who gave the following statement:
"Bobby Pulido has never toured or performed with Frankie Caballero Jr., does not have a personal relationship with him, and has no knowledge of his criminal history. While desperate Republicans fabricate lies to distract voters, they're covering for Monica De La Cruz — the only candidate in this race who was accused of child abuse under oath in a court of law, had a restraining order issued against her to protect a child, and is a pedophile protector who refused to sign the petition to release the Epstein files."
The Pulido campaign also told Current Revolt that Caballero Jr. did not perform at any fundraiser for Pulido’s family. However, Caballero Jr. maintains a public Facebook photo album dedicated to a fundraiser event for the Pulido family titled: ROBERTO PULIDO FUNDRAISER DANCE. The album has photos of the event where Caballero Jr. headlined as a singer, Bobby Pulido in attendance, and of Caballero Jr. with members of Pullido’s family:
A 2015 post on Facebook tags Bobby Pulido and Frankie Caballero Jr. together in a photo:
A Pattern in the Pulido Circle
The Caballeros are not the only figures in Pulido’s orbit to face scrutiny. Pulido has been separately tied to a figure sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury as a cartel associate. In April, the New York Post also reported that Pulido may have directly solicited a Mexican government official to help him in his South Texas congressional run.
These revelations raise fresh questions for national Democrats, who are counting on Pulido to win back Hispanic voters in TX-15.
Pulido is running to unseat incumbent Republican Monica De La Cuz in the South Texas district of TX-15.
Current Revolt reached out to Frankie Caballero Jr. for comment, no response was received in time for publishing.
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Paxton Demands Answers from 30 H-1B “Ghost Offices”
Future Senator Ken Paxton teased on Thursday that something may finally happen with the rampant H-1B fraud being captured all across Texas by by everyday citizens armed with little more than cameras and a few questions.
Ain’t the First Amendment great?
Oh NO! Not our boy Quibitz!
Don’t worry, brother. The cops have been called.
At some point, Democrats will be forced to say the very concept of “investigations” are a racist social construct used to oppress Indians, so Republicans need to come up with something just as weird to counter that narrative.
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