Jorge Borrego is running for Texas House District 118, which includes San Antonio’s south and east sides. Credit: Facebook / Jorge fFor Texas

Jorge Borrego, a Republican running to represent San Antonio’s Texas House District 118, is learning an important lesson about the internet: old tweets never really disappear — especially ones that repeatedly mention cocaine.

On Monday, a series of 2013 tweets from the conservative office seeker’s account on X, then known as Twitter, began recirculating online, including remarks about “snorting some coke,” doing “lines of coke” and “snorting coke off a girl’s ass crack.”

“Fuck it let’s go to a strip club 😉 – yee, I’m down I’ll bring coke,” said a tweet posted from his account on Aug. 21 of that year.

The posts were first reshared by conservative political blog Current Revolt and its founder and operator, Tony Ortiz.

“Always a good laugh when candidates forget to audit their social media before running for office,” Ortiz tweeted as he shared old tweets from Borrego’s account that include the words “bitch” and “pussy.” One from June 2013 refers to former President John F. Kennedy as a “bitch.”

Borrego defended the tweets in a Monday X post, simply saying: “I was 16 lol.”

The Current reached out to Borrego for further comment, but he wasn’t immediately available.

Borrego, who recently earned the endorsement of District 10 San Antonio Councilman Marc Whyte, is running against Democrat Kristian Carranza to represent the recently redrawn House district that includes Bexar County’s south and far east sides.

Borrego, a real estate agent, oversaw education policy for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation before his current run for office.

Since the beginning of this year, Carranza’s campaign has raised $311,145, compared to Borrego’s $250,000, according to their most recent campaign finance filings.

What’s more, Carranza’s campaign reported more than $220,000 in cash on hand, compared with Borrego’s $13,115. That’s a 17-to-1 edge for Carranza when it comes to cash.

Carranza ran a competitive campaign for Texas HD 118 against Republican incumbent state Rep. John Lujan in 2024 but lost by 3 points.

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Michael Karlis is a multimedia journalist at the San Antonio Current, whose coverage in print and on social media focuses on local and state politics. He is a graduate of American University in Washington,...