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CAMPAIGN SIGNS: FOR PETE AVILA, AFTER AND BEFORE
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By J<b>uan Montoya</b><br />They say that holding political office invigorates some politicians.<br />In other cases, such as Bill Clinton and George Bush, for example, the weight of their office visibly aged them, regardless of their outside recreation.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR93Mn4qL-B1DMr4dHFCJBtKtbnmtWtxqUC3gnusq1n6avLMa2jMU7RvY1m6EemkaSgrfEpq9BnLlt0r7olGX5JYwrTgZJ37Sqxn7ieLOM2lR8yQbJVbcvBxFr7awOah8-744r3fCeEo3x/s1600/pete.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR93Mn4qL-B1DMr4dHFCJBtKtbnmtWtxqUC3gnusq1n6avLMa2jMU7RvY1m6EemkaSgrfEpq9BnLlt0r7olGX5JYwrTgZJ37Sqxn7ieLOM2lR8yQbJVbcvBxFr7awOah8-744r3fCeEo3x/s200/pete.jpg" width="153" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtAhs2J5C_R3yb2yCaLLcrCFGF4i9pvAM455wPSYQL2XJmSqwwK6rz_y1RtbGD_Hycjeb6SRmUpUJ6BmQ1yvYyqJ8QLU_8TCiJnmfztlvFJ0qOMh5zsD58rNTktQO57NFAEmHJVhIydb8/s1600/pete+avila.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirtAhs2J5C_R3yb2yCaLLcrCFGF4i9pvAM455wPSYQL2XJmSqwwK6rz_y1RtbGD_Hycjeb6SRmUpUJ6BmQ1yvYyqJ8QLU_8TCiJnmfztlvFJ0qOMh5zsD58rNTktQO57NFAEmHJVhIydb8/s1600/pete+avila.jpg" /></a>Locally, we used to laugh when office holders like Cameron County Joe Rivera and commissioner Lucino Rosenbaum Jr. ran for re-election and their campaign signs showed images that seemed to have come from their high school yearbooks. Now, politicians being what they are, this much was to be expected. But the pics that Pct. 2 Constable Pete Avila is using seem to have been pulled from his previous lifetime.<br />We were sitting around a coffee table in a local greasy spoon with the likes of Rivera, Avila, Cameron County Treasurer David Betancourt, and Pct. 1 Supervisor Gabino Vasquez among others.<br />When the subject of old pictures came up, Avila took the ribbing good-naturedly and said he already had the picture on hand so he used it instead of spending more money for a professional photographer.<br />"I was much older than," he said as the others broke up laughing.<br /> Now, we have seen others use photographs that date back a few generations, including Betancourt. However, the prize for using old pictures would have to go to former Cameron County Judge Ray Ramon. Ray's pictures never changed. Even after years in office, his photo never seemed to change.<br />"Ray was ageless," said a wag around the table. "You can probably find an old sign bearing his picture somewhere out in some forgotten corner of the county. Hell, Pete looks like an old man compared to some of the ones Ray used."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4729685874725291790?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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THE BROWTOWN HOLLER ROLLS OUT WELCOME WAGON FOR TERCERO IN TYPICAL BROWNSVILLE FASHION
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyj9_RJqOC61wsHmxmywDiTVsZ62-zV4_JfJSamhb8qiVnq5ccYb99UD4iDFj2KcYCb-_Ni7BHQd5Mh-ymx_jjX-ibjnkLY6P5XUNvwbM31JBMV3zFS4mNs-XvJ_E9jdckPjLel0GCUSAB/s1600/horn.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyj9_RJqOC61wsHmxmywDiTVsZ62-zV4_JfJSamhb8qiVnq5ccYb99UD4iDFj2KcYCb-_Ni7BHQd5Mh-ymx_jjX-ibjnkLY6P5XUNvwbM31JBMV3zFS4mNs-XvJ_E9jdckPjLel0GCUSAB/s320/horn.gif" width="320" /></a></div>By <b>Juan Montoya</b><br /><br />In typical Brownsville fashion, the<i> Brownsville Herald's</i> Jacqueline Armerndariz has in so many words announced that the daily will continue to be the mouthpiece of the sore losers in the UTB-TSC separation issue that we thought was already behind us.<br />In today's issue of the scurrilous publication, Armendariz breathlessly informs us in a front-page story that (gasp!) incoming TSC president Lily Tercero recommended and the trustees approved, the hiring of two eminently qualified administrators to help her put the community college back in shape after its sacking by the UT System.<br />Their sin, apparently, was that both had been among five people who had written recommendations for Tercero's hiring as TSC president. This is, indeed, a small hook upon which to hang an "expose."<br />The TSC administration didn't help matters much by asking the Texas Attorney General for an opinion to determine whether Tercero's personnel file was confidential and whether releasing it was a matter of public interest. The AG approved their release.<br />Armerndariz reported that Tercero had recommended that the board hire Roberto Aguero as TSC vice president of instruction and student services and appoint Leonardo de la Garza to the TSC transition team in November.<br />Then, as if to reveal a dastardly plot behind the new TSC president's motives, Armerdariz states that "both men authored recommendations for Tercero, according to the background check document dated June 29."<br />As a reader of this blog pointed out, it is interesting to note that the daily did not make a peep when UTB-TSC president Juliet Garcia was hiring her friends and their relatives left and right and rewarding them with lavish salaries. Now, suddenly, the recommendations by Tercero to the board to hire unquestionably competent administrators who vouched for Tercero as an outstanding candidate for TSC president are seen somehow as suspect and insinuate a <i>quid pro quo</i> for their glowing recommendations.<br />"Where was the Herald when Juliet would reward her loyalists with well-paid positions?," asked a reader. "Could it be that Garcia's supporters are still wounded after the TSC trustees decided to establish an autonomous community college and ending the unjustified subsidy of the UT System?"<br />Some of the names that come to mind almost immediately are those of Michael Putegnat, one of the original architects of the infamous "partnership" who has reaped the benefits of his association with Garcia to no end. Aside from his position as a liaison with the UT System, Garcia also named him to â€" among other things â€" oversee the UTB-TSC consultation with the federal government over the Border Wall.<br />Not only did that fetch a nice bit of change for Putegnat, but he also managed to profit by creating a company to actually build the thing. The wall, despite his heroic efforts to plug the dike, was actually constructed, albeit with some aesthetic considerations recommended by the cosmopolitan Putegant. for a slight fee, of course.<br />Then there's the matter of the hiring by UTB-TSC of TSC trustee Eddie Campirano's daughter as an alumni manager over more qualified candidates. Campirano moved on to become director of the port of Brownsville. One of his highest paid employees is none other than Herman Rico, the port's marketing director, who just happens to be (guess who?) Juliet Garcia's son-in-law. <br />Where was the daily then?<br />And how about the pressure applied upon the former TSC financial office employee who refused to move money from one fund to another to cover construction costs overruns by a Garcia-favored administrator and was harassed to no end by UTB-TSC henchman Wayne Moore? It wasn't until her husband, 444th District Judge David Sanchez, stepped in that the matter was quietly resolved.<br />Need we go further?<br />Let's see just who these to Tercero "sycophants" were.<br />Aguero served as the vice chancellor for academic success for Alamo Colleges and de la Garza is chancellor emeritus of the Tarrant County College District. <br />TSC Board of Trustees Chairman Francisco "Kiko" Rendon and Trustee Juan "Trey" Mendez said the two were "overqualified" to take the positions they got at TSC. Both said that de la Garza was recommended by the University of Texas System and Aguero is leaving the Alamo Community College District.<br /><div class="newstext marginMidSide">"These individuals are highly qualified and were the individuals recommended by our President," Mendez told the daily. "I trust our administration and see no reason to believe that anyone has been hired because of the perception that they were owed a favor."<br />TSC chairman Rendon said that Aguero was "taking a step down from his position as VP of Academic Success. ... Because he believes in our mission and would like to be part of this important moment in TSC’s history."<br />Now, isn't that a bit different than the way in which, say â€" Campirano's daughter â€" got her foot in the door with the help of the Garcia connection?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6589139193079712637?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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