Candidate Takes Heat Over Slogan: "If You Like Oral Sex, Vote Caragal"

[babylonsister]

Could you even make this up?


Candidate's oral-sex slogan is no laughing matter
A campaign slogan focusing on oral sex is creating a storm of controversy during Hialeah City Council election season.
Posted on Sat, Oct. 13, 2007

BY LAURA FIGUEROA

Hialeah Councilman Jose 'Pepe' Caragol has drawn criticism for a sexual slogan he has been pitching on Spanish television.
CITY OF HIALEAH
Hialeah Councilman Jose 'Pepe' Caragol has drawn criticism for a sexual slogan he has been pitching on Spanish television.


Live in Hialeah? Like oral sex? Then one Hialeah City Council candidate thinks he's the one who deserves your vote.

As election season intensifies in the City of Progress, incumbent Jose ''Pepe'' Caragol, known for dishing out rhyming one-liners at city events, is catching criticism for a slogan he has been pitching on Spanish television.

``Si te gusta el sexo oral, vote por Caragol por consejal,'' Caragol said on a March 14 taping of the America Te-Ve show Seguro Que Yes! and in subsequent radio and television appearances.

The phrase, which rhymes in Spanish, translates as, ``If you like oral sex, vote Caragol for council.''

Caragol, 76, who has served on the council since easily defeating three other candidates in a 2005 special election, makes no qualms about the statement, chalking it up to his ``humorous personality.''

''People want to give it a negative interpretation, but anyone who knows me and my way of being knows that I didn't mean for the comment to degrade or offend anyone,'' Caragol told The Miami Herald.

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[niyad]

1. hmm, a candidate who clearly ISN"T sexually repressed? how novel.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Talk's cheap. What's he promising the voters?

[Poll_Blind]

3. Is this 76 year old latino man going to perform oral sex on me if I DO vote for him?

Just wondering. I'm neither for or against that at this point, but I do want to understand what kind of contracts I enter into.

Also, if he promises me oral sex AND a Zima beforehand, wouldn't that be illegal vote-buying?

PB

[angstlessk]

6. What is his campagin song? "Tap 3 times on the ceiling if you love me"? n/t

[Radical Activist]

16. lol

Thanks for that post.

[TSIAS]

4. Only in Hialeah

I live in South Florida, and the Hialeah city commission has given me great amusement over the years.

[Canuckistanian]

5. And it's Caragol, in by a landslide!

What's that supposed to mean, anyways? What does he DO at those fundraisers?

[aquart]

7. How is that degrading or offensive?

He's not accusing anyone of anything. He's offering the electorate a clear and reasonable choice. Nothing they have to declare in public. Something that can be decided in the privacy of the voting booth.

I want to hear the opposing candidate declare he/she is NOT for oral sex.

In order to make anything an issue, first you have to ask a question. One candidate is for oral sex. It will not be an issue unless the other candidate is asked if he or she is for oral sex.

Of course, if no one has proposed a law outlawing oral sex, there doesn't seem a whole lot of point to it.

[Bicoastal]

9. "I was for oral sex before I was against it" n/t

[rucky]

8. He's got my vote! n/t

[Hand]

12. Dang! Ya beat me to it! nt

[Sparkly]

10. Hm, wonder how his opponent will top that?

So to speak.

[BlackVelvet04]

11. That slogan sucks...........n/t

[deutsey]

13. I dunno, I think it'll help him lick the competition...n/t

[BlackVelvet04]

15. It's a hard slogan to swallow, eh? n/t

[deutsey]

17. Well, it does sort of roll off the tongue, imo...

:evilgrin:

[WindRavenX]

14. hahah awesome

:rofl: