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DEMO LINEUP SET FOR MAY 29, PULL SURPRISES OUT OF THE HAT
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<span style="font-weight: normal; ">By </span><b>Juan Montoya</b><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Some say that drawing the first place on the primary ballot for your respective party counts for between five and 10 percent of the vote because the voters â€" tired of blackening ovals at the booth â€" will opt for the first choice.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Elections myth? Perhaps.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">But if there are a handful of candidates, everyone's praying to draw a spot near the top (or conversely) at the bottom, of the ballot in your respective race.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">And so on Tuesday, the Democrats gathered at the local VFW post to draw their place on the ballot. The meeting was run by Demo vice-chair and treasurer Jared Hockema, while chair (and former county judge) Gilberto Hinojosa </div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nk5liHay7gAh0UhXreAd-K-817EVBFfo1YknOYpwOmqynZWT-AEGpDy9BB4YpzlNEgeTxavJf7WS2JSZzxfrMu-4vBogE55Rti6EkdYQtI3oJU_sJYVwrH7-rwHyosr7ZPeqX3vKIRU/s400/demomeet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719450890049331218" /><div style="font-weight: normal; ">played a peripheral role.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Hinojosa is a candidate for Texas Demo chair while Hockema is one of three candidates for county Demo chair.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">We will leave the statewide races alone. What really interest us locally are the places picked by the candidates of the local races.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Toward that end, here's the lineup coming to a voting booth near you this May 29.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">On the State Rep. District 37, incumbent Rene Oliveira got the luck of the draw and garnered the top place over challenger Alex Dominguez, who drew the card from the hat held by Cameron County Demo chair Gilbert Hinojosa. That race â€" coming on the heels of reports involving Oliveira in various escapades in local watering holes and his car, uninsured, involved in a collision while driven by a lady friend, may prove to be an upset, ballot placement notwithstanding.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">In the Cameron County District Attorney race, former Asst. D.A. and Brownsville Navigation District commissioner Carlos Masso drew first placement followed by Luis Saenz (also with the DA), and at third place was Maria Urbina DeFord.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">With three candidates closely allied with sitting DA Armando Villalobos, it'll be </div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Yet, as the Abel Limas racketeering scandal spirals out of control, will Aurorita's close association with that scandal taint her political influence on the electorate? And will the $21 million pilferage associated with the Bridge to Nowhere prove to be too close for comfort for Masso who has admitted he met with Dannenbaum executives prior to striking a settlement that left his boss Villalobos with $1 million, and zilch for port taxpayers?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">DeFord seems to have escaped unscathed, except for the fact that she tarried and delayed her taking a leave of absence from her position with the DA until it became untenable to have a political candidate deciding whether to prosecute cases involving attorneys that might be contributors to her campaign.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The Cameron County Sheriff's race will have the ballot headed by former bailiff and state trooper Joe Cisneros who stood tall (he can't help it) and had Hinojosa stand on his tiptoes to have him draw from the hat. Second on the ballot will be perennial candidate Terry Vinson followed by incumbent Omar Lucio. Unless Lucio gets caught in a motel room with pullet, it's doubtful that either Vinson or Cisneros can knock him off the horse.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The surprise (and Ernie Hernandez's chagrin), was that Justice of the Pace, 2-</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">2 candidate Yolanda Begum drew the first place on the ballot among the five Demo candidates from the hat.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Begum, considered the top runner with Hernandez's daughter Erin Hernandez Garcia, drew heavy applause when she pulled out the number 1.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">The ballot will read thus:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">1. Begum</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">2. Javier Hernandez</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">3. Erin Hernandez Garcia</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">4. Refugio "Cookie" Covarrubias</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">5. Israel Tapia Jr.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">Another race that has been closely watched involves the Pct. 2 constable's race. They placed thus:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">1. Juan Torres</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">2. Roel Arreola</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">3. Pete Avila</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">4. Abelardo Gomez</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>But by far the most surprising results came about when the candidates for the newly created Congressional District 34 were pulled. The results were as follow:</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">1. Ramiro Garza</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">2. Denise Blanchard</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">3. Solomon Torres</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">4. Filemon Vela</div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">5. <span></span><span>Elmo Aycock</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>6. Anthony Troiani</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>7. Juan Angel Guerra</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>8. Armando Villalobos</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>The lineup for the Pct. county commissioner will be Fausto "Pato" Martinez first, and Sofia Benavides, the incumbent, on the second spot.</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; ">interesting to see who commands the loyalties of the Demo faithful as the different factions vie for the votes. Saenz is the nephew of Cameron County District Clerk Aurora De la Garza, and as the saying goes, blood is thicker than mud.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>As for the Demo Chair position, the lineup will be:</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>1. Jared Hockema</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>2. Sylvia Garza-Perez</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><span>3. John Shergold</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-297189488005824999?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/03/demo-lineup-set-for-may-29-pull.html
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MAYOR: THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING, OFF THEY GO
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 100%; ">You've read here before that Hizzoner Tony Martinez has convinced the rest of the city commissioners to allow him and United Brownsville top share the new $500,000 digs available after the city paid Texas Southmost College for the historical Cueto Bui</span><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719418559980961426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNTVv7N6Ci9OtHU6bOwgVjKmP2saOm1IeZvucg8PvMrnGR0pgrPtJ4vJbex2IHO1VHnG9Zbj0sfz9kBPEJJ-Xz7G7FMvyVP7fWGhtCJ6_xL-OmU-0eBVcGys0Erq0bptVVFs5iNYzsOs/s400/nappy.png" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; width: 318px; float: right; height: 400px; cursor: pointer; " /><div>lding.</div><div><div>Well, now it seems that not only has the Mohammed had the mountain (city busin<span style="font-size: 100%; ">ess) delivered to his door at his office at the old county jail, but that now has encountered a minor glitch to his exclusive neighborhood.</span></div><div>Where is IBC president Fred Rusteberg and his cadre of municipal government hijackers supposed to park, fergodsake? Surely the city doesn't expect them to leave their late model rides out on the street at <span style="font-size: 100%; ">the mercy of street urchins and crackhead hustlers?</span></div><div>The answer?</div><div>Word has reached us <span style="font-size: 100%; ">that Da Mayor is reaching out to all interested parties â€" including the city and the county â€" that the gents must have some exclusive parking made available as soon as possible.</span></div><div>Toward that end, it is said that Da Mayor favors condemning the properties adjacent to the Cueto building directly to the east that is now occupied by low-income housing, in some cases virtually dilapidated</div><div>lean-tos.</div><div>How to do that? </div><div>According to our source</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb2Dx1JK181wXlgh7w0a3b7KOBe2Wp5WehgUy1eBlglBrTkI4ZpxfhftoU2JwjAGEFpKmx0Y9iU3es_jAaLL6Y0WHHiOXTLzgQ8fsrFJgqMTZkCXgX2Q1Rzs3Z4-sVTKt_V8sbV-ySss/s320/cueto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719437075141988962" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 187px; " /><div>s at the city and county, Martinez is willing to exert eminent domain upon the owners of t<span style="font-size: 100%; ">he properties to acqu</span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">ire the land necessary to park his minion's BMWS, Infinities, and other late-model rides.</span></div></div><div><div>"The word is o<span style="font-size: 100%; ">ut that Martinez wants to have his parking and wants to do away with the low-income housing by condemning the existing </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">housing there," said a municipal employee. "He has had </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">city staff reach out to the county to see how they can help."</span><span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Martinez and Rusteberg, apparently, find the proximity of the peasants revolting.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6755596046495285787?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/03/mayor-peasants-are-revolting-off-they.html
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ERNIE BTEWEEN A ROCK AND A A HARD PLACE ON PARKWAY
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<div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>Word has reached us that as usual, Cameron County Pct. 2 Commissioner Ernie Hernandez will try to lead the parade as his idea â€" the West Side Parkway is being run out of town on a rail (no pun intended) at today's meeting of the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority.</div><br /><div>None other than Ruben Gallegos Jr., and Mark Esparza on the CCRMA have come down hard on Ernie for withdrawing his support fo the idea of the parkway toll road to be placed on the right-of-way left vacant when the Union Pacific Railroad moves its <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmtUmAetQhK2VET-c0__hO5wdlz8CsrDI_xE8tpp3e2Jj5eQlbqY8KUJns7-px4NM-8g1fas0pDX1S5MJghLEqgflsVn5HX7RmHWDcJDQQTMjNpDmpSO_HV7kUqcoRY475hV6KKKaRBI/s1600/ernie.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 370px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719411111166820802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmtUmAetQhK2VET-c0__hO5wdlz8CsrDI_xE8tpp3e2Jj5eQlbqY8KUJns7-px4NM-8g1fas0pDX1S5MJghLEqgflsVn5HX7RmHWDcJDQQTMjNpDmpSO_HV7kUqcoRY475hV6KKKaRBI/s400/ernie.jpg" /></a>tracks to the truck-rail international bridge being constructed up river past Villa Nueva.</div><br /><div>"Ernie is going to make the motion to kill the parkway," said a CCRMA insider. "He wants to get the support of the people on the west side who are against the toll road to help his daughter in the Justice of the Peace 2-2 primary election coming up in May."</div><br /><div>Hernandez might have a hard sell with Gallegos and Esparza, our sources say, because the sudden turnaround on the subject has left them out on a limb after Ernie pushed for the project. His ally on the board â€" former Pct. 2 commissioner John Wood â€" has been pushing the idea as well.</div><br /><div>Gallegos, not one to mince words, is said to have told him during a CCRMA board meeting that if Ernie waffles, he can expect stiff political opposition from his cadre of supporters, who he said far outnumber the residents of the west side opposed to the parkway.</div><br /><div>"He's between a rock and a hard place," said a source. "He'll get the support of the residents, but it'll cost him the support of the people in the Gallegos camp."</div><br /><div>Already stung by criticism from Ruben Peña, his opponent to the commissioners court in the last go round of elections, for pushing for the creation of a third JP's court in Brownsville which would have prevent the bloodletting between Erin Hernandez Garcia, his daughter, and the Yolanda Begum camp, Ernie now has to battle his daughter's opponents after the commissioners court decided against the idea.</div><br /><div>Ideally, the Democrats would have supported the creation of a third JP court to be located at the Browne Road Multi-Service Center in extreme southeast Brownsville. However, neither Ernie's daughter Erin nor Begum wanted to be out in the boondocks.</div><br /><div>A Begum supporter said that Hernandez had turned down the offer to have Erin in the court out in the boonies. Begum also turned down the offer, according to sources.</div><br /><div>"Begum wasn't about to show the Hernandezs that she could easily be placated and be sent off to Siberia and allow Erin to waltz in to the JP 2-2 office at the courthouse on Harrison," said a supporter. "Ernie didn't want to see his daughter out there either and turned down the offer."</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4944559266202454042?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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