Despite Facebook post, Bexar judge hopeful denies trip to strip club

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SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County Judge candidate Carlton Soules' campaign Facebook page “checked in” at a strip club Wednesday evening, but the former councilman denied he was there and accused his opponent's campaign of hacking his account.

“My FB account was hacked, and a post went out saying I am currently at a gentleman's club,” Soules wrote on a subsequent post, after deleting the check-in. “Bad people working for the other side if they will stoop that low this early in the campaign.”

Soules explained to Express-News columnist Brian Chasnoff that he was at a Republican forum across the street from the strip club when the post went live at 5:56 p.m., leading him to believe it originated with the campaign team of his opponent Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.

Particularly because Wolff's campaign manager Christian Archer commented on the post: “Keep it classy, Carlton.”

Archer vehemently denied hacking Soules' account.

As Chasnoff writes in Thursday's print edition, “maybe Soules activated the Facebook “Check In” feature accidentally on his mobile phone, which brought up options of nearby businesses, including Allstars. Perhaps he blindly selected the strip club from his pocket.”

The post appeared to be the result of a pocket-dial because the message included in the post was incoherent: “SMSareg5 whiffed A d. F our.”

Either way, Soules told the Express-News he would get to the bottom of the strip club mystery.

“I'm having cyberpeople come in tomorrow and try to figure out what happened,” he told Chasnoff.

Read the column on the incident at ExpressNews.com

kparker@express-news.net