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POSTS FOLLOW UP: CC SAFETY OFFICER, PACE TEST SCANDAL
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By<strong> Juan Montoya</strong><br />After posting items on the hapless new Cameron County Safety Officer Gilbert Galvan â€" a favorite of Public Works Supervisor Louis Ara and Administrator Pete Sepulveda â€" we have learned that he was last seen removing the Pct. 3 commissioner decal from David Garza's old truck.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge53Q9NggvGzxW1MVO9X59QoJcyOQeTYwrDbFuhZ7iHxgTYWUYm6vT8hOKHxPskMSDEPKDflEv0oe_r46mgPiO6kuazl32cweoY7MpHxKoa-oG0J-TdA9IYD3KwNZc6wMasRybB9VxtHw/s1600/safety+officer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge53Q9NggvGzxW1MVO9X59QoJcyOQeTYwrDbFuhZ7iHxgTYWUYm6vT8hOKHxPskMSDEPKDflEv0oe_r46mgPiO6kuazl32cweoY7MpHxKoa-oG0J-TdA9IYD3KwNZc6wMasRybB9VxtHw/s1600/safety+officer.jpg" /></a>Galvan, if you'll remember, was the self-styled Speed Demon who wrecked the county's SUV truck after he had been entrusted with the Safety Officer position following the resignation of Robert Lopez, who had himself become mired in the Ernie Hernandez-Roberto Cadriel hiring scandal.<br />Galvan couldn't quite maneuver the curve at the intersection of FM 803 and Henderson Road after hours Monday and was unable to drive it home. He then called a tow truck and had the taxpayers pick up the bill for his misadventure.<br />The last time county workers saw him he was in the county barn yard in Pct. 3 (San Benito) peeling off the commissioner's logo from the truck he had been issued to replace the other vehicle while it was being repaired.<br />Here, for your edification, is a photograph of the truck after Speedy got done with it. We still haven't been able to get an accident report or find out whether Galvan was cited for traffic violations. Don't worry, though, we're still at it.<br />Naming Galvan as a safety officer might have been Ara and Sepulveda's idea of a joke, or at least an oxymoron. And we thought they had no sense of humor.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHDexIB-Nbbvp1ebGeiPsGltL45yuDquuCm_enFKc-LlS-ZGeXJ1_38mJFe2U75VO7206sII6CsSnzq-N3Cn2Ju_-yMgbFmX-udqVn-TTpZvT61fzwDMVL1USt8N1WaMt_xl-t2Uw10U/s1600/Home%2520of%2520the%2520Vikings%2520Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHDexIB-Nbbvp1ebGeiPsGltL45yuDquuCm_enFKc-LlS-ZGeXJ1_38mJFe2U75VO7206sII6CsSnzq-N3Cn2Ju_-yMgbFmX-udqVn-TTpZvT61fzwDMVL1USt8N1WaMt_xl-t2Uw10U/s320/Home%2520of%2520the%2520Vikings%2520Banner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>AT PACE H.S., THE INTRIGUE CONTINUES<br />We have learned from numerous sources that the spoilsport test coordinator at Pace High School who reported that Principal Rose Longoria and her assistant Carla Gonzales were apparently changing notations in the 11th grade exit exams is, alas, no longer there.<br />The powers-that-be at the Brownsville High School District apparently didn't take it well that someone would object to the principal <em>changing demographic information</em> on the exams that would determine whether students would go on to be seniors or, perhaps more importantly to the sports-loving administration, allow athletes to play football in their senior year.<br />Whatever the justifications might have been for the testing coordinator's removal and reassignment to the Early College campus, we're sure it had nothing to do with retaliation against an employee who thought he/she detected wrongdoing and reported it. Right?<br />We used to complain in this blog about the apparent abuses of the BISD administration under the former majority and former superintendent, but now it appears that not much has changed out with the new crew in place.<br />The coordinator, according to some Pace faculty, refused to recant her original story that she had witnessed Longoria and Gonzalez changing <em>something</em> on the exam sheets and was removed as a result.<br />We will be filing our tedious request for information and hope the administration doesn't stonewall us with the "personnel matters" smokescreen. The comments from Pace H.S. parents to this blog indicate that they take this matter very seriously and that they think<em> any tampering</em> with the test questions the integrity of the testing process. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3628769385759167280?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/posts-follow-up-cc-safety-officer-pace.html
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NEW WEBSITE ASKS: JUST WHO IS JESSICA "PUENTE" BRADSHAW?
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />One can only assume that local Republicans eyeing their party's candidates for the newly-created congressional District 34 are asking what qualifications and past public performance they have attained.<br />At least one of these GOP faithful has turned his thumbs down on Jessica Puente Bradshaw and asks â€" as does an "hoja suelta" that has been making the rounds â€" why Bradshaw should be his party's nominee against he eventual winner of the eight Democratic candidates and the lone Independent lurking in the wings.<br />In <a href="http://jessicapuentebradshaw.com/">http://jessicapuentebradshaw.com/</a>, the writer asks: "AS LATE AS JANUARY 2012 JESSICA PUENTE CLAIMED TO RESIDE IN AUSTIN TEXAS. A SHORT WHILE LATER, NOW THAT SHE HAS DECIDED TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AGAIN, SHE CLAIMS TO RESIDE IN BROWNSVILLE. DOES SHE REALLY THINK WE ARE THAT STUPID?"<br />As proof, he submits a scanned Federal Election Commission document where her campaign committee lists her home in Austin, and not in Brownsville, as she claims in her local campaign propaganda.<br />This is not all, the blog goes on to ask how the procrastinating candidate can forget to file her FEC-mandated quarterly finance reports, not once, but twice.<br />The first one covered Jan. 1-March 31, 2011, and the second one covered the period from April 1-June 30, 2011.<br />"SHOULD WE REALLY SEND SOMEONE TO CONGRESS TO REPRESENT US THAT CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND FILE PROPER REPORTS??? WITH THE U.S. SENATE FAILING TO PASS A BUDGET IN OVER 1,000 DAYS, WE NEED TO SEND SOMEONE THAT IS FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE."<br />And then, citing election returns from the Texas Secretary of State, the writer lists the candidates to the District 27 congressional race two years ago and reveals that Bradshaw placed last among four other candidates for her party's nomination. In other words, why waste your vote on Bradshaw when it is obvious she cannot possibly win among Republicans, much less against a Democrat?<br /><br />James Duerr REP 6,368 32.40% <br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixB2bGYCsdVIk_AmhA4WIyCiy221Yo2DQkwCEWx6Nn_XNhXEXe_pqA6bl1e-9msKuKBOQ2FlK5XBbcyGu9mKzlQZrud3dMFQ0DmWyV60jJGZnJVOz1ujorwbpWU6rRiEBDPtM0ALSm5KU/s1600/cropped-Jessica1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="72" qda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixB2bGYCsdVIk_AmhA4WIyCiy221Yo2DQkwCEWx6Nn_XNhXEXe_pqA6bl1e-9msKuKBOQ2FlK5XBbcyGu9mKzlQZrud3dMFQ0DmWyV60jJGZnJVOz1ujorwbpWU6rRiEBDPtM0ALSm5KU/s320/cropped-Jessica1.jpg" width="320" /></a>R. Blake Farenthold REP 5,921 30.12% </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">William Willie Vaden REP 4,268 21.71% </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Jessica Puente-Bradshaw REP 3,097 15.75% </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"As a concerned resident of Kleberg County," the blogger writes, "I have taken a new found interest in politics. I voted on occasion before 2010, and just so happened to take an interest in the 2010 U.S.District 27 race; where newcomer Blake Farenthold ousted long time incumbent Solomon Ortiz. I was happy to cast my vote for Blake, and even happier when Nov. 2nd 2010 came around and witnessing him pull off a miracle, beating Ortiz by 799 votes.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Enter 2011, with the census came redistricting and I was saddened to see Blake drawn to the North of Nueces County; although it makes sense that a Republican legislature would draw a map to protect my new freshman Congressman. Blake would have a hard time winning in the same district in a presidential year. So I felt duty bound to research all the candidates in the newly drawn District 34 race.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The Democratic ticket is full of the same ole characters: crooked DA, former Ortiz Chief, former Hinojosa staffer, guy running on his daddy’s name, etc etc etc. With rumors gaining fuel about Cameron County’s DA, Aramando Villalobos, that he is going to come under federal indictment, that Democratic race is about to get turned upside down.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">With no interest in the Donkey’s primary I looked at the GOP ticket, I did not vote in the 2010 primary, but regretted not doing so after seeing Blake emerge. The GOP side is made up by Jessica Puente-Bradshaw, Adela Garza and Paul Haring. After doing some research I found that Puente-Bradshaw dis not even make it to the run-off against Blake, that Garza was currently an elected official in Cameron County(where November will be won), and that Haring is a former DEMOCRAT State Rep. So with the little time I have to lend to fixing our Nation I will contribute straight FACTS here for those interested to see."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We at the Rrun-Rrun have also received an "hoja suelta" on Bradshaw that we will publish at a later date questioning her commitment to her stated residency in Brownsville. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7980198149332685636?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-website-asks-just-who-is-jessica.html
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