of Borrego\u2019s old X posts<\/a>, ranging from 2011 to 2015, were first shared by the right-wing outlet Current Revolt’s publisher Tony Ortiz earlier this week. In them,\u00a0Borrego repeatedly used crude sexual language and mentioned cocaine usage.<\/p>\nBorrego described the posts as \u201cdark humor\u201d that he used to cope with traumas, like growing up in an environment where drug and alcohol abuse were common.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat context explains the jokes, but it does not excuse them,\u201d Borrego said. \u201cI have grown and matured, and those posts do not reflect the husband, father, or public servant I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carranza said she was \u201cdisgusted\u201d by the \u201cmore than 150 lewd, racist and perverse tweets,\u201d and shared additional screenshots that include a derogatory remark about Asian people and a fake quote attributed to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clear that this man is unfit and unable to serve in a position of trust,\u201d Carranza said in a statement. \u201cTexas deserves sober and serious leadership to lower costs and fix our broken system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The controversy comes as both parties have sought to capitalize off candidates\u2019 digital footprints going into the November election.<\/p>\n
In Texas\u2019 23rd congressional district, for example, Democratic-aligned social media accounts have been sharing old comments made by GOP candidate and YouTuber Brandon Herrera in which he used lewd language to describe mothers who oppose his politics. Herrera has stood by the posts, and said they\u2019re from when before he ever intended to run for political office.<\/p>\n
Tejano musician and Democratic candidate Bobby Pulido also apologized for past social media comments where he used homophobic and sexist Spanish-language slurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican candidate for a competitive state House seat in San Antonio apologized this week for \u201ccrude and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-420803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}