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HOLLYWOOD WILL FEATURE BROWNTOWN'S BEST KEPT SECRETS; AND UNITED BROWNSVILLE REMAINS CLUELESS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />When Robert Duvall, the first-rate actor of innumerable movies (my favorite role was when he was the guide for the Army in the movie Geronimo) came to film in Brownsville, he chose two spots that some locals wouldn't be caught dead in.<br />The first part of the filming was in Market Square with its quaint buildings and raunchy cantinas.<br />The other jewel was Charlie's Bar on 14th Street.<br />Now, does Duvall and Hollywood know something that we locals don't? <br />At Charlies, the joint starts rocking after 10 p.m. and you enter at your own risk. If you are identified as a "mark" by the ladies, get ready to spend some dough for their pleasure of their company. If not, well, you know what walks. At the Market Square, once you dodge the working guys and gals, there are actually some sedate places where one can actually talk over the jukebox in the corner.<br />While the landed gentry of Brownsville seems attracted by the sterile environments of the plasticized bars and watering holes north of Boca Chica, the well-heeled movie stars in Los Angeles have their eye on what locals consider seedy, blue-collar joints where you don't have to pay more than $2 bucks a brew and the talk is decidedly bilingual.<br />What do these people know that we don't?<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/AVvXsEhcyiAfceHgeWQRIRQizYc5yzPGu6P_wbYRnp6ASGA2uk5xzixJw_Z3upooatq1a78bnlPrQVkgXNwxGQ0FtfHxTryEgcQlP-hsRMxsdOEYB5LTHpQTVy30eokM0cjNnEjfOx5yDZXNfog/s1600/yolichap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyiAfceHgeWQRIRQizYc5yzPGu6P_wbYRnp6ASGA2uk5xzixJw_Z3upooatq1a78bnlPrQVkgXNwxGQ0FtfHxTryEgcQlP-hsRMxsdOEYB5LTHpQTVy30eokM0cjNnEjfOx5yDZXNfog/s320/yolichap.jpg" width="320" /></a>Recently, we have noticed where United Brownsville â€" a scam looking for a raison d'etre to justify it's $25,000 that it receives as a gift from our various corporations and economic development alphabet soup organizations â€" has "adopted" several projects initiated by local activists who want to see downtown resurrect.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">With its annual budget of $381,000 and a $85,000 executive director in Mike Gonzalez, it has now decided it wants to usurp the downtown revitalization game with its sparsely attended Better Block program. Before that, Melissa Castro had just about single-handedly implemented the Mercadito idea with the aid of local downtown promoters Ben Neece and George Ramirez, whose Crescent Moon was a bona fide incubator for local night scene. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Now, instead of a dark Market Square, weekend nights see throngs of colleges students and visitors to spots like the The Haven, Bora Bora, El Callejon, etc.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Add in a photo contest where the organization will not pay prize money but rather spread the fame of the shutterbugs who fall for the ruse, and you have the quintessential parasite organization sinking its teeth into yet more freebies at the expense of the local yokels. They get a lunch and get to meet Da Mayor and will share a lunch with Brownsville community leaders from the eight United Brownsville entities, which include â€" among others â€" the city of Brownsville, Brownsville Public Utilities Board and the Brownsville Independent School District.</div><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/AVvXsEiF-MClTyzkjg_2_IDDGxERJ73KoqocqQGi6U6YsejFJsxOsqTolxQt9R-ZZv8nhEO9uZ1E7-QW_Y7vJ1dLl4iknLF-nwUWa_F3PB3sMKaGCBwh3KiIqcPujGLpCF9tl7SMGRHGyyBIkPI/s1600/mike+gonzalez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-MClTyzkjg_2_IDDGxERJ73KoqocqQGi6U6YsejFJsxOsqTolxQt9R-ZZv8nhEO9uZ1E7-QW_Y7vJ1dLl4iknLF-nwUWa_F3PB3sMKaGCBwh3KiIqcPujGLpCF9tl7SMGRHGyyBIkPI/s1600/mike+gonzalez.jpg" /></a>The photo contest is only one of the first initiatives United Brownsville will release to get the community interested in the future of the city.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“There will be a video contest and we also want an essay contest for high school students,†said Luciana Morales, intern United Brownsville who is studying public policy and management. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“I think the idea is to engage different segments of the population,â€Morales said. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The winning pictures could be used in future United Brownsville ad campaigns and other marketing efforts. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So basically, just as they get their funding for free and with virtually no one to account to except IBC President Fred Rusteberg and UTB President Juliet Garcia, they also want to get their graphics and photos for nothing under the guise of establishing a "dialogue" with the community.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Funding from the public entities and the boards is $25,000 apiece from the city of Brownsville, Brownsville Public Utilities Board, Brownsville Navigation District, Brownsville Independent School District, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville Community Improvement Corp. and Greater Brownsville Incentive Corporation. That's reallly not a bad take and all they have done so far is copy other peopl's ideas. Nifty, hey?</div>Although there are members of the private sector on the coordinating board, there has never been any mention made of how much they are kicking into the kitty. Could it be that they also want to start a "dialogue" with the residents of Brownsville as long as it's on the public's nickle and not on theirs?<br />At least Duvall pays to play.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2137437059797925197?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/hollywood-will-feature-browntowns-best.html
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DAY CARE ELDERLY TELL ALL: HOW THE HERNANDEZES AND THEIR POLITIQUEROS ARE STEALING THIS ELECTION
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">By <b>Juan Montoya</b></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">At least two elderly women who were whisked away from their adult day care facilities and piled into rented vans have revealed how Norma Hernandez and her politiqueras forced them to sit in vans in front of the courthouse and directed them to vote for Erin Hernandez Garcia â€" her daughter â€" in the Justice of the Peace 2-2 runoff election.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Speaking with her opponent Yolanda Begum, the women recounted that the politiqueras arrived at their day care facilities and piled them in a rented van and then were not allowed to alight the vehicle while they filled in the ballots given to them by elections personnel who walked over to the van with the ballots even though they were obviously not incapacitated and could walk.</div><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/AVvXsEgnGGIdJeJdYkNx0SSiEQDFKeW6_Tc-iZ9RT7HWhKBkU8mDIQDTQRStJSfGwuL8HcbZNdKmiyzh4vL-7HvcQBrGaLlX8ZHwqXDPBDCsgUp2j8ezuAPSqbdpB7Szo-x0-ew3yZAyTyBK-kE/s1600/avan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGGIdJeJdYkNx0SSiEQDFKeW6_Tc-iZ9RT7HWhKBkU8mDIQDTQRStJSfGwuL8HcbZNdKmiyzh4vL-7HvcQBrGaLlX8ZHwqXDPBDCsgUp2j8ezuAPSqbdpB7Szo-x0-ew3yZAyTyBK-kE/s400/avan.jpg" width="400" /></a>"Even my friend Margarita commented to me <i>'que mal este hueso</i>,'" recounted a woman, when Norma Hernandez did not allow them to get off the van. "Margarita can walk. I can walk. I told her that before they used to let us off, but I guess now it's different. I even told her (Norma), 'What? Are you with the PRI who want to win at all costs?"</div>One woman identified Hernandez as having told them that she was the mother of one of the candidates.<br />"The one that was driving was dressed more or less (well)," recounted the woman. "She said she was a candidate's mother. The other (the politiquera) was dressed more or less like me. It looked like she cleaned houses."<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6lw4gOEnGiEUzd3SlltcUVTWjg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9cR-3B01Rxp5kPjLMDTRsKTxqtTJ0-istd4Fwc9PYYLNzX3MSlWzx3jBgIb7WAp2iTbKC3BIu0xJKwJcC_hw2dxV_7iqsSvP6w0To4nG9u6QmiDjr_rCxiYRM3EDLGv1A0aSEasMJ1k/s320/rcrd.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6lw4gOEnGiEUzd3SlltcUVTWjg">[TAPE 1- click here]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Was it Norma?" asks the questioner. "The mother of the candidate?"<br />"No wonder, I told her, she was making the effort (to get her daughter elected). But what you are doing is not fair. It's getting to be like the PRI (in Mexico) who tell you where (to vote), but they gave me the (ballot) sheet and I told them I wanted to vote for Yolanda. She (Norma) said 'Bueno <i>Ud haga como Ud. quiera, pero nada mas llene estas bolitas (</i>shown on the marked sample ballot) Well, you do what you want, just fill in these ovals (shown on the pre-marked sample ballot for Erin, her daughter).'<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1180057740" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9cR-3B01Rxp5kPjLMDTRsKTxqtTJ0-istd4Fwc9PYYLNzX3MSlWzx3jBgIb7WAp2iTbKC3BIu0xJKwJcC_hw2dxV_7iqsSvP6w0To4nG9u6QmiDjr_rCxiYRM3EDLGv1A0aSEasMJ1k/s320/rcrd.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1180057740"></a><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6lw4gOEnGiEcjEwSXk1dXFZaUU">[TAPE 2- click here]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>"Oiga, estamos como en Matamoros?"<br />What happened with these women has been repeated throughout the length of the week-long early voting period, often right under the noses of and abetted by elections department director Roger Ortiz and his personnel who allowed the ballots to be handed to the politiqueros and politiqueras including Norma Hernandez herself who then was allowed to coach the captive elderly voters to fill in the ovals of the candidates they were supporting.<br />In no case were the politiqueros or politiqueras challenegd by elections personnel and asked whether the elderly in the vans could walk to the polling booths themselves.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1180057745" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX9cR-3B01Rxp5kPjLMDTRsKTxqtTJ0-istd4Fwc9PYYLNzX3MSlWzx3jBgIb7WAp2iTbKC3BIu0xJKwJcC_hw2dxV_7iqsSvP6w0To4nG9u6QmiDjr_rCxiYRM3EDLGv1A0aSEasMJ1k/s320/rcrd.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6lw4gOEnGiEdU04WkR5WkFEN2M">[TAPE 3-click here]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>The elderly women were even promsied a chicken plate that did not materialize.<br />"They promised us a plate about three times and told us it was being prepared, but it never appeared. I told them it wasn't important to me." she said.<br /> Some witnesses say some of the adult day care residents were mentally disabled who could not fill in the ballots and the politiqueros and politiqueras assisted them to fill in the ovals, casting votes for the candidates who they were supporting.<br />"Some of those poor people didn't even know who was running," said an observer who works in a legal office across the street. "Why was this allowed to happen?"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2890368433935857684?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/adult-day-care-elderly-tell-all-how.html
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