性、酒驾与阴招：深入加州最肮脏的选举对决成人服务与酒驾成了这场恶劣州众议院竞选的标签，而这场竞选发生在可能是加州的“佛罗里达”：河滨县。
Sex, DUIs and dirty tricks: Inside California’s nastiest election showdown XXX services and DUIs are the calling cards of a nasty state Assembly race in what may be the Florida of California: Riverside County.
加州共和党籍议员莱蒂西亚·卡斯蒂略以捍卫儿童、维护传统家庭价值观的斗士自居——但她在几十年前运营的成人网站，上面有露骨的性语言和她自己的照片，揭示了她过去截然不同的一面。
California Republican legislator Leticia Castillo has made a name for herself crusading to protect children and defend traditional family values — but decades-old XXX websites she operated, featuring graphic sexual language and photos of herself, reveal a very different chapter in her past.
与此同时，她的民主党挑战者克拉丽莎·塞万提斯也在为自己的过去辩护，她有两次酒驾逮捕记录，且女儿父亲指控她吸毒——她的竞选团队现在声称这些指控是他捏造的。
Meanwhile, her Democratic challenger Clarissa Cervantes is defending her own past after two DUI arrests and allegations of drug use by her daughter’s father — claims her campaign now says he fabricated.
现年55岁的卡斯蒂略是一位立法者、母亲和祖母，曾推动限制跨性别者权利的立法，并允许家长让孩子退出关于性别认同的校园课程。在2000年代，她曾用“西尔基·桑塔纳”和“西尔基·斯穆斯”这两个名字多年宣传性娱乐服务。
Castillo — a 55-year-old lawmaker, mother and grandmother who has championed legislation restricting transgender rights and allowing parents to pull their kids out of school lessons about gender identity — went by the name “Silky Santana” and “Silky Smooth” for years in the 2000s while advertising sexual entertainment services.
这一惊人发现发生在选民决定卡斯蒂略命运的几周前，这是一场势均力敌的连任竞选，地点在河滨县，此前她在2024年的竞选中以596票的优势击败了塞万提斯。
The stunning discovery comes just weeks before voters decide Castillo’s fate in a nail-biter reelection contest in Riverside County, after defeating Cervantes by 596 votes in a 2024 race.
来自科罗纳的共和党人卡斯蒂略将自己描绘为加州家庭及其儿童的捍卫者，以“信仰、家庭、自由”为竞选旗帜，承诺抵制违背家庭价值观的议程。
Castillo, a Republican from Corona, has portrayed herself as a defender of California families and their children, campaigning under the banner “Faith, Family, Freedom” and promising to reject agendas that go against family values.
加州家庭委员会在其“圣经价值观评分”中给卡斯蒂略打了85分。卡斯蒂略在给《加州邮报》的声明中承认曾从事成人娱乐生意，称她是成年人在做自己的决定——但将那段经历描述为她通过基督教信仰已留在身后的黑暗篇章。
The California Family Council graded Castillo at 85% on its “Biblical Values Score.”Castillo acknowledged pursuing an adult entertainment business in a statement to the California Post, saying she was an adult making her own decisions — but describing the episode as a dark chapter she left behind through her Christian faith.
“我永远不会声称自己是任何事情的受害者，”卡斯蒂略说。“我当时已经成年了，不幸的是，在一个朋友的怂恿下，我想尝试创办一家成人娱乐公司。”
“I’m never going to claim to be a victim of anything,” Castillo said. “I was an adult and, unfortunately, thought I wanted to start an adult entertainment business with a friend’s encouragement.”
她表示，当时自己正在为父亲的胰腺癌去世而悲痛，并对上帝感到愤怒；后来她转向了耶稣，意识到“自己应该比那样的人更坚强”。卡斯蒂略补充道：“过去的我早已不再是现在的我了，而且这种改变已经持续了很长时间。”
She said she was grieving her father’s death from pancreatic cancer and “angry at God” at the time. She said she turned to Jesus and realized “I’m better than that.”“Who I was then is not who I am today, and it hasn’t been for a very long time,” Castillo said.
这位议员曾强调自己在医疗成本、住房问题、父母权利以及刑事处罚等方面的立法成就，但她拒绝回答关于自己实际运营这些网站时间长度的问题。
The assemblywoman, who touted her legislative record on health care costs, housing, parental rights and criminal penalties, did not answer questions about how long she ran the websites.
“我不会公开谈论自己过去的经历，也不会刻意回避这些话题，”卡斯蒂略说。
“I do not advertise this part of my life. I also do not run from it,” Castillo said.
“我的选民们已经受够了那些政客——就像我的对手一样：他们为了当选不择手段，撒谎、欺骗民众，还增加我们的税收，甚至包庇罪犯，而不是努力让我们的社区变得更安全、更宜居。”
“My constituents are sick of politicians, like my opponent, who will say and do anything to get elected, who lie, cheat, raise our taxes, and protect criminals instead of working to make our district safer and more affordable.”
她补充道：“我代表的是我的选民们，他们应该直接从我这里听到真相。如果有人想问我关于这些事情，我会如实回答。”
She added, “The people I represent deserve to hear it from me rather than from someone else. If any one of them wants to ask me about it, I will answer.”
这些网站的创建和运营时间跨度长达数年，与卡斯蒂略在 LinkedIn 上提到的自己在 Verizon 公司工作的时期有所重叠。据她自己介绍，在2016年成为加利福尼亚州持证治疗师之前，她曾从事过多种工作。
The XXX websites were started and operated over a period of years that overlaps with a time period that Castillo’s LinkedIn notes she was working for Verizon. Castillo worked in a variety of fields before becoming a licensed therapist in California in 2016, according to her Voters in Riverside County will have to weigh Castillo’s past with a Democratic candidate who has her own baggage.
里弗赛德市的议员塞尔万特斯（Cervantes）在2023年5月首次因酒驾被定罪，但大约六周后再次因酒驾被捕。她的第一次酒驾事件发生在2014年的莫雷诺谷（Moreno Valley），当时她的血液酒精含量至少为0.15%（几乎是法定限值的两倍）；她在2023年8月对第二次酒驾行为认罪，被判处三年缓刑以及参加警方的社区服务项目。
Cervantes, a Riverside City Council member, got her first DUI conviction dismissed in May 2023 — only to get arrested for drunken driving again about six weeks later. The first conviction followed a 2014 arrest in Moreno Valley, when her blood alcohol level was at least 0.15% – almost twice the legal limit. She pleaded guilty to the second DUI in August 2023 and was sentenced to three years probation and a sheriff’s work release program.
塞万提斯竞选团队发言人娜塔莉·贝坦科表示，她“已承担全部责任，完成了康复计划，并对自己多年的戒酒经历保持透明。”塞万提斯竞选团队还否认了其女儿的父亲摩西·博拉诺斯在2013年法庭纠纷中提出的过去吸毒指控。
Natalie Betanco, a spokesperson for Cervantes’ campaign, said she “has taken full accountability, completed recovery programs, and she’s been transparent about her years of sobriety.”Cervantes’ campaign also denied allegations of past drug use made by her daughter’s father, Moses Bolanos, in a 2013 court dispute.
“年轻不懂事时，我编造了那些指控，我深感后悔，”博拉诺斯在塞万提斯竞选团队提供的一份声明中说。
“Being young and immature back then, I made up those allegations which I regret deeply,” Bolanos said in a statement provided by Cervantes’ campaign.
塞万提斯竞选团队没有直接回应关于卡斯蒂略成人娱乐业务的问题。
Cervantes’ campaign did not directly address questions about Castillo’s adult entertainment business.
关于卡斯蒂略隐秘过去的披露，距离另一场争议席卷加州共和党仅过去两个月。
The revelations about Castillo’s secret past come just two months after a separate controversy engulfed the California GOP.
8月，在《华盛顿邮报》披露议会少数党领袖希思·弗洛拉面临两项州道德调查，并动用超过1.1万美元竞选资金在萨克拉门托一家简陋酒吧支付“餐饮”和选区会议费用仅一天后，共和党议员们将其罢免。弗洛拉还被发现有多段婚外情。
In August, Republican lawmakers ousted Assembly Minority Leader Heath Flora just a day after The Post revealed that he was facing two state ethics investigations and had spent more than $11,000 in campaign funds for “meals” and district meetings at a Sacramento dive bar. Flora was also found to have had multiple extramarital affairs.
8月，议员亚历山德拉·马塞多接替弗洛拉，后者领导共和党核心小组不足一年。
Flora was replaced by Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo in August after less than a year leading the Republican caucus.
卡斯蒂略于2022年首次竞选议会席位，但在初选中排名第三，未能进入大选。两年后，她再次参选，接替当时的民主党籍议员、塞万提斯的妹妹萨布丽娜·塞万提斯，后者现任州参议员。
Castillo first sought an Assembly seat in 2022 but finished third in the primary, failing to advance to the general election. She returned two years later to replace Cervantes sister, then-Democratic Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes, who now serves in the state Senate.
两位候选人目前正在竞争激烈、选情胶着的内陆帝国地区展开激烈的再度交锋。
The two candidates are now in the thick of a heated rematch in the fiercely divided Inland Empire.