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Commissioner Chavez-Vasquez Questions Purchasing; Tony Backs Her Up!
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Last summer as Commissioner Chavez-Vasquez attended her first city commission meetings some thought they observed "a deer in the headlights" new public servant, afraid to question or make waves. No more! Case in point is the December 6 City Commission meeting when Purchasing Agent Robert C. Luna brought a spending request for engineering on a city project in the amount of $59,000 before the commission for approval. Ms. Vasquez simply asked if the contract had gone out for bids. . <br /> Now, Mr. Luna is not accustomed to having his submitted proposals questioned. It's as if he brings them down from Mount Sinai on stone tablets to the commission. Past commissions have approved many huge items without bids routinely. American Surveillance, for example, a security company headed by Jaime Escobedo, the brother of the "fake" doctor Enrique Escobedo recently selected as school board president at BISD, has been designated the "sole provider" on such lucrative contracts as the $200,000 award for a security system at the sports park and, more recently, the two contracts, each for roughly $100,000 for security at the multimodal facility. <br /> Luna bristles whenever his proposals are questioned, then issues a condescending pat answer to satisfy the uninformed questioner wasting his time with such a trivial detail as putting a contract out for bids. In this instance, though, mayor Tony Martinez rises to the occasion and squelches the Luna doubletalk. When City Manager Charlie Cabler tries to intervene in Luna's behalf, Martinez stops him in mid-sentence.<br /><br />Here is the video of the historic occasion:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/S9-Pfjet2NI/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S9-Pfjet2NI?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S9-Pfjet2NI?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4696772328771334084-1548243819871202755?l=meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com/2011/12/commissioner-chavez-vasquez-questions.html
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Anthony Troiani Declares for District 27~Is He Different?
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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 Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:16pm</div><div class="uiHeaderSubActions rfloat"></div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/396527_265293160191977_100001338858387_678655_1035102796_n.jpg" /><span class="caption"></span><br /> Just posing with a Republican candidate seems like a bit of a departure from normal political thinking . But the Anthony Troiani declaration party December 14 was more notable for those NOT present; Cameron County Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa and County Commissioner Ernie Hernandez, Jr. Any Democratic candidacy NOT linked to those two symbols of corruption, deserves at least a look.<br /><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/396258_265312846856675_100001338858387_678693_926338143_n.jpg" /><span class="caption"></span><br /> It has to be a bit unsettling for all of the candidates for congress to not know the exact parameters of their prospective district. As currently proposed District 27 would include the full historical version of the King Ranch, a bit of Corpus Christi, Cameron and Willacy Counties. So a national seashore and a river dividing two countries are in the mix. Troiani thinks regionally, including Northern Mexico in the mix. His concerns include improving the levees along the Rio Grande to withstand a category 4 hurricane, making certain that Brownsville stays in I-69 plans and immigration reform. He mentioned the D.R.E.A.M. Act in his short speech, a law that allows resident aliens eventual citizenship after completing extensive military service or, in the case of minors, educational, residency and military requirements.<br /> Troiani's house at 6th and E. Washington serves as his residence, law office and campaign headquarters. The house, built in 1914 in the first subdivision of Brownsville was once owned by Congressman Milton West. Troiani is rightfully proud of the restoration, even using his solar water heating panels as illustrative of his commitment to alternative energy sources.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c2T2-ztuFoQ/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c2T2-ztuFoQ?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c2T2-ztuFoQ?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div> <br /> </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4696772328771334084-5008055658153426350?l=meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com/2011/12/anthony-troiani-declares-for-district.html
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