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Bloggers Differ on Presas-Garcia; Reader Offended At Escobedo Criticism
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<div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle"> </h2></div><div class="clearfix"><div class="mbs uiHeaderSubTitle lfloat fsm fwn fcg">by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001338858387"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Jim Barton</span></a> on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:40pm</div><div class="uiHeaderSubActions rfloat"></div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388568_258953450825948_100001338858387_660903_1089779238_n.jpg" /><span class="caption">Jerry Mchale</span><br /><br /><br /> Back from his extended Thanksgiving hiatus, hard-hitting blogger of <em>Downtown Browntown News </em>Jerry Mchale presented a gentler, kinder description of Catalina Presas-Garcia as President of the Board of Trustees of BISD: "We admire Catalina Presas-Garcia's bravado, not only because she had the daring to save her husband from the perils of the 19th hole and together sire the next Lee Trevino, but because she has balls bigger than all the head honchos of the Cameron County Democratic Party combined. One after another the challengers climbed through the ropes and one after another their corners dragged the supine bodies from the bloodied canvas: Otis Powers, Rick Zayas, Ruben Cortez Jr., Joe Rodriguez, Brett Springston, Mike Saldana and Bobby Wightman-Cervantes. They were all heavyweights who met their match in Presas-Garcia."<br /><br /><br /> Unlike Mchale, I do not work at BISD, so incurring the wrath of Presas-Garcia is not a daily worry. Nor am I in the same stratosphere as researcher par excellence Bobby Wightman-Cervantes, who rescuscitated his column <em>BROWNSVILLE VOICE </em>just long enough to share these pertinent details about the players in City of Lubbock vs. HealthSmart and BISD vs. HealthSmart:<br /><br /><span class="photo_left"><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388808_258955284159098_100001338858387_660909_1062357641_a.jpg" /><span class="caption">Bobby Wightman-Cervantes</span></span><br /><br /><br /><em><strong>"John Barr:</strong></em> Healthsmart's lawyer in the Dallas lawsuit against city of Lubbock officials.<br /><br /><strong><em>John Barr:</em></strong> Cata Presas-Garcia's lawyer paid for by BISD in Joe Rod defamation suit<br /><br /><strong><em>John Barr:</em></strong> Carlos Quintanilla's lawyer in child support case<br /><br /><strong><em>Danny Defenbaugh:</em></strong> Auditor hired by Healthsmart to defend Healthsmart in City of Lubbock case<br /><br /><strong><em>Danny Defenbaugh:</em></strong> Auditor hired by BISD at Presas-Garcia's request<br /><br /><strong><em>Carlos Quintanilla</em></strong> brought to Lubbock by Ted Parker to influence elections. Texas Ethics Commission investigated and sanctioned Quintanilla's and Parker's candidate<br /><br /><strong><em>Carlos Quintanilla</em></strong> brought to Brownsville to influence BISD election"<br /><br /><br /> Bobby Wightman-Cervantes trusts that the F.B.I. can connect the dots above between the various players, motives and manipulation.<br /><br /> I personally witnessed what Mchale sees as "bravado" in Presas-Garcia at the board meeting I attended. Her style is more like bullying, stifling of dissent and manipulation of the agenda. Minerva Pena is allowed the occasional counterpoint, but is bulldozed by Presas-Garcia on issues that count. Joe Colunga can't seem to make a coherent point in less than a century and Rolando Aguilar seems to have just given up.<br /><br /><br /><span class="photo_center"><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/390167_258954927492467_100001338858387_660908_778294320_a.jpg" /><span class="caption">Catalina Presas-Garcia</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /> A reader took issue with my description of the newly appointed board president Enrique Escobedo as a "fake" doctor.<br /><br /><br />Mr. Barton,<br /><br />I had the privilege and honor of being taught by Dr. Escobedo at UTB. He always made classes interesting. I consider him a mentor and role model for our young people, not a fake as you claim. He has done a lot for our city. What have you done?"<br /><br /><br />><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/381636_259000134154613_100001338858387_660939_1735989098_n.jpg" /><br /><br /> Escobedo is not the first politician to be a fraud. Politicos frequently make false claims about military service, education, business experience, etc. to enhance their resume'. It goes to the very core of their lack of integrity. Most of us would cringe every time someone addressed us as a doctor if we knew we had not earned that title. But an amoral con artist does not always feel that shame or guilt with their misrepresentations. In Escobedo's case he had campaign materials and a website still describing him as a doctor even after the Brownsville Herald exposed him as a fraud. I would ask his former student if that is really the kind of role model and mentor Brownsville students need.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4696772328771334084-3652718715453506781?l=meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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