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RRUN-RRUN ENDORSES HINOJOSA, HASSE TO TSC BOARD
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<span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>By Juan Mo</b></span></span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogDlsLducX7yazWPLE_ai5U1arE9zLn3ZTRfs3fZ3NNr4GNG-_X4-orYrxvp4ZfzqMIDd6XBkNxmOO_i52dy9wUYVt1iJZWaJy5vAbG4YljceTMQruY9ivmyC09debGhG_Zpupr_L9d0/s320/hasse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5738420338815225490" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 219px; " border="0" /><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>ntoya</b></span></span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNab_6nLT4QWztTjnDwYo094EZoewqmrg-cLkVRRGpvF3iX0pGgdfhYp7Tev1JNxMuIVo2RQNGoQlcZpobVkkUSAuKSaEYIZWhDfG0vmnd7Hj41RwS0V5zNOZubQ0W_e1vMcHFA5sglz4/s200/ramon-289x436.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5738420846309998418" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px; " border="0" /><div><br /><div style=" font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;">After an agonizing three minutes, the two-member board of <span style="font-style: italic;">El </span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" ><i>Rru</i></span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" ><i>n-Rrun</i> blog has voted unanimousl</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size:100%;" >y to endorse Tad Hasse and Ramon Champion Hinojosa to the Texas Southmost College board of trustees.</span></div><div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;">The vote, coming on the heels of a lively forum held at by the<span style=" ;font-size:100%;" > UTB-TSC Center for Civic Engagement where only Hasse and Hinojosa's opponent Robert Uresti attended.</span></div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >In the Hasse</span><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" > vs. Dr. Reynaldo Garcia race for Place 6, we opted <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>for Garcia for these reasons:</span> Garcia was aboard member of the Brownsville Independent School District and was content to let that entity float along by inertia from disaster to disaster. It might as well have been that he wasn't even there.</div><div><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >Need we mention that he also sat on the bond oversight committee where $128 million dollars in construction and failed to </span>put a stop to the sweetheart contracts doled out to district compadres and relatives, allowed the reign of AD Joe Rodriguez to roll along unimpeded, and oversaw the gross favoritism and abuse of the system with nary a peep.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">on funds were doled out to local architects and contractors with a healthy dose of change orders. Cost overruns at Veterans High School alone went from $42 million to more than $60 million. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Did we mention that the district constructed that high school only to find that there was not enough water pressure and was rejected on safety grounds by the Fire Department?</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">And poor planning by the district resulted in unplanned purchases of nearby homes to afford acceptable ingress-egress points from the Manzano-Keller schools after the district's plans were rejected by the Texas Department of Transportation.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Hasse, on the other hand, can be truculent and difficult at times, but has personally borne the brunt of the unconscionable steep tuition and fees costs at the UTB-TSC hybrid because he still has kids that school. He will have a stake in this fight to lower tuition and fees for students in the district. The eventual winner in this race will have to gird his loins for the long run ahead to set this district on the road to fiscal integrity and growth in the difficult years ahead as it leaves its abusive relationship with the UT System. Tad's our man.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">In the Hinojosa-Uresti race for Place 7, we choose Hinojosa not because we dislike Uresti, but some of his recent statements blaming the incarceration of three of his children on the school system smacks of victimization and of shirking our responsibility for the behavior of our children. That and his statements that he would not hesitate to chop off heads of faculty and staff as the UTB-TSC separation lurches forward. At this time, that's not the kind of intemperate statement to make as people try to save their family's livelihoods. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Hinojosa has more than enough educational qualifications under his belt such as being superintendent of two school districts, a principal in a construction-cost consulting firm, a valuable asset we feel is needed on the board to join Kiko Rendon and the TSC majority. Uresti's astute talents of analysis can best be utilized if he is appointed to one of the TSC committees that keeps an eye on the administration to maximize its efficiency and keep its ear close to the pulse of the community. We go with Ramon on this one.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><span>The regular election for the two positions on the board will be held on May 12. Early voting will started on April 30 and will continue through May 8</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" >.</span> </div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-5802174842130488615?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/rrun-rrun-endorses-hinojosa-hasse-to.html
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SUPPORTERS TRASH ERIN: THE DUSTBIN OF POLITICS?
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_-rdGVSxCl5xAlBd5tyQGVohs3dZXgZD4btSm2ZpPHsVelxP4rfD_m1XfwNPf2VdSwmza08oDUJCmQbnHqSduaN1vV-bGMZJRnxsFPBTBe3v8e1Hw979jnrEZmcrWvx4Z6C728aC4Zg/s1600/erin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_-rdGVSxCl5xAlBd5tyQGVohs3dZXgZD4btSm2ZpPHsVelxP4rfD_m1XfwNPf2VdSwmza08oDUJCmQbnHqSduaN1vV-bGMZJRnxsFPBTBe3v8e1Hw979jnrEZmcrWvx4Z6C728aC4Zg/s400/erin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5738404737694187986" /></a>Well, it does seem that using bags filled with trash serve as a good way to counterbalance the wind and keep the Erin Hernandez Garcia campaign sign upright in the back of this supporter's pickup truck photographed as it exited the HEB gas station parking lot near the corner of Paredes and Boca Chica Blvd.<div>While the driver is showing his public support for her candidacy in her bid for the Democratic nomination for the Justice of the Peace 2-2 position, it's doubtful that the manner in which he is stacking bags of trash upon the front of the sign would be appreciated by the candidate, or for that matter, her biggest supporter, Ernie Hernandez, her dad and Cameron County Commissioner of Precinct 2. It's the thought that counts, we guess, or is there a subliminal message here about where the Erin Hernandez candidacy belongs? </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-5046266195793381309?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/supporters-trash-erin-dustbin-of.html
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CISNEROS CRASHES PARTY; MAKES HASTY RETREAT
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<div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>Either someone neglected to tell Joe Cisneros, a Democratic candidate for Cameron County Sheriff, that the party Wednesday at the corner of 19th Street and Southmost was for his opponent Omar Lucio, District Attorney candidate Luis Saenz and Distr. 34 Congressional candidate Mando Villalobos, or maybe he thought it was an open bash.</div><br /><div>Regardless, soon after he arrived and started meeting and greeting pachanga-goers, he was told in no uncertain terms that this definitely was not his party.</div><br /><div>"I was watching Joe as he arrived and started walking through the crowd and shaking hands when he was approached by one of the organizers and told something in his ear," said a pachanga participant. "He looked surprised and beat has<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtipmCKcNfpR6y8KisbQwXHXDnkYBfZ1k5U9nNJ7oXD5O04nS11qsv8tCiQ70QtVyC72FxqLdcdVfWzTAhyphenhyphenDkbRw0YrJP9YmUM2RHyiByncMwb0COoWyR3eOHJaX4zAnQnaGphqhYMWCk/s1600/joelaw.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 192px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5738389927287506562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtipmCKcNfpR6y8KisbQwXHXDnkYBfZ1k5U9nNJ7oXD5O04nS11qsv8tCiQ70QtVyC72FxqLdcdVfWzTAhyphenhyphenDkbRw0YrJP9YmUM2RHyiByncMwb0COoWyR3eOHJaX4zAnQnaGphqhYMWCk/s320/joelaw.jpg" /></a>ty retreat out the door."</div><br /><div>Cisneros, whose fortunes have dimmed since he was let go from the Texas Department of Public Safety as a trooper after reported instances of domestic turmoil with his mate and other female partners, has at one time or another worked as a constable, a sheriff's deputy, a court bailiff, and as courthouse security under constable Pete Avila.</div><br /><div>He was let go from that position after he was cited for campaigning on county time. He is appealing the decision before the Texas Workforce Commission and has an unemployment claim against the county saying that it was a case of political retaliation because he was running against Sheriff Omar Lucio. That claim is ongoing and no decision has been reached, according to county sources.</div><br /><div>Meanwhile, his use of a campaign sign where he is held on one leg by a little girl while he bears a holstered handgun on on waist has raised the ire of Lucio's supporters.</div><br /><div>"Why is he wearing a pistol on his belt when he's not employed as a peace officer?," questioned a man at the pachanga. "Isn't he supposed to be a peace officer of the state before he can do that? And what about the little girl? That doesn't look very safe to have a child so close to a handgun."</div><br /><div>The sign of the tall, lanky armed lawmen that Cisneros has favored is an identical replica of one used by Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño, by the way. </div><br /><div>All political controversy aside, few observers give Cisneros a chance of defeating Lucio. Should the race go into a runoff, you can be sure that the whispered rumors about his alleged violent domestic behavior and his employment missteps will be fully fleshed and documented.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-9046214251386416564?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/05/cisneros-crashes-party-makes-hasty.html
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NO, CINCO DE MAYO IS NOT MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY; IT' WAS THE BEGINNING OF A MEXICAN SENSE OF NATION
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<div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>on May 5, 150 years ago, a ragtag, hodge-podge contingent composed troops from regional forces under the command of a 33-year-old Goliad, Texas-born general, an ambitious colonel from Zacatecas, a ca<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHcNHUhn2rtIPIpYDSSNhchUEorF_8rCmu8Ev3we0_DuesvWvZBwMSpuNsWF0DsuY-qoiMqQuln7KifBxGTV44tg-KAWU2xGy4tr0SH8HU0ASYswHoLpYFx1JHdP3Qb681LcljPbbvgk/s1600/puebla.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 390px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 260px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5738383619701415874" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHcNHUhn2rtIPIpYDSSNhchUEorF_8rCmu8Ev3we0_DuesvWvZBwMSpuNsWF0DsuY-qoiMqQuln7KifBxGTV44tg-KAWU2xGy4tr0SH8HU0ASYswHoLpYFx1JHdP3Qb681LcljPbbvgk/s320/puebla.jpg" border="0" /></a>udillo from San Pedro, Texas, conservative armies from Zacatecas and lowly peasant soldiers from throughout Mexico fought as one against a foreign invader.</div><br /><div>There, on the mountains of Puebla and the plains below, they encountered the formidable forces of Napoleon the III's French empire composed of seasoned French troops and African zoauves.</div><br /><div>The French Gen. Charles Ferdinand Latrille Lorencez thought it was going to be a cakewalk (as in the <em>Guerra de los Pasteles</em> a few years before), and leisurely sent his troops to attack the defenders atop the <em>cerro</em> armed with ladders and supported by French artillery, the best available at the time.</div><br /><div>Instead of a decisive battle that would open the doors to the road to Mexico City and occupation of the country, the French would be defeated in their attempts that day.</div><br /><div>Surprisingly, the Mexicans under commander of the Army of the West Ignacio Zaragoza (of Goliad, Texas), the frontal army of Gen. Negrete (of Puebla), the cavalry under Col. Porfirio Diaz (of Oaxaca) and a band of irregulars led by Gen. Juan Cortina (of San Pedro, the Rio Grande Valley, Texas), united with other regional armed groups to defeat the invading army.</div><br /><div><em>"Las armas nacionales se han cubierto de gloria</em>," Zaragoza started his message to Mexican President Benito Juarez.</div><br /><div>"Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence day," said Professor Bernandro Manuel Ibarrola Zamora as he began his presentation before students and other guests at the UTB-TSC Education and Business Complex Thursday. "But why has it gotten to the point that many people think so?"</div><br /><div>And so Ibarrola began a discourse where â€" for the space of a little over an hour â€" he traced the origins of the battle and its aftermath. The Mexican nation, bred in failed revolutions, empire and regional fragmentation was ill prepared to fight a war against the leading army of the day after it landed in Veracruz along with a Spanish and English fleet to demand payments from the Mexican government after Juarez declared a moratorium on foreign debt following the victory of his Liberal army over the Conservatives in the disastrous Three-Years War, or War of Reform.</div><br /><div>"Mexico was not a nation, as we know it," he said. "It was more of an archipelago of small regions each controlled by their own <em>caciques</em> with little allegiance to the central government. All other nations recognized its weakness."</div><br /><div>And so, Napoleon, wishing to establish a bulwark against U.S. hegemony in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibawXudx8OF8yxCoWeXLECzHuqM43rALrcqxymo6kyGqhOoKHlxsb_Q15NbIFsPC0X2zaFP_nrEGfIabax0MtwHjp5ijNjPNtMrHDFtFntEHhr-rL1-9vrB2i-eYcjFq8zlZm8RuOlhg8/s1600/cinco.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 392px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5738383282151864498" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibawXudx8OF8yxCoWeXLECzHuqM43rALrcqxymo6kyGqhOoKHlxsb_Q15NbIFsPC0X2zaFP_nrEGfIabax0MtwHjp5ijNjPNtMrHDFtFntEHhr-rL1-9vrB2i-eYcjFq8zlZm8RuOlhg8/s400/cinco.jpg" border="0" /></a>the Americas, sent his troops under the guise of collecting a debt and set out to install an emperor who would foil the wishes of the U.S. expansionists.</div><br /><div>But the defeat of the 6,600 troops under Gen. Latrille by Zaragoza's 5,000 troops was not thought to be a great victory. Rather, it turned out to be more of a holding action for the eventual defeat of the Mexican defenders of Puebla almost a year later in May 16, 1863.</div><br /><div>But as Ibarrola, a professor in Spain and at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) explained, the battle signified a turning point in the history of Mexico. For the first time â€" after failed revolutions and prolonged civil war against their own countrymen â€" Mexican soldiers from different regions fought together against a foreign invader...and, to the world's surprise, won.</div><br /><div>"That was really, the meaning of the Battle at Puebla on Cinco de Mayo," he said after his lecture. "It was the first time that the different regional forces thought of themselves as a nation fighting against a common enemy. It all came together on the <em>cerro</em> and plains of Puebla after five hours of battle. That was the real significance of Cinco de Mayo."</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3304378703883745484?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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