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PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE: IF NOT, WE'LL DO IT FOR YOU
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />She is in her 80s.<br />For the past five years, she has lapsed in an out of remembrance of things she did 15 minutes ago.<br />Sometimes she can't remember her own relatives. At times, she can't even remember who she is or where she is at.<br />Her relatives say she is having trouble with <em>El Viejo Alem</em>an (Alzheimner's Disease).<br />And yet, she is one of the persons who is recorded as having voted by mail-in ballot in the July 31 runoff, an incredible feat for one who doesn't even remember who she is at times.<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/AVvXsEjp2G5msRBh1sL60PUCWf_FPYL8rqdxL8kvIa1wlavaTbTY1hEp6EMKN27NTnuWzjlesZ_sTKnIvD5a7i8h-9IoqNbCkYDx097NYIG3IJ6KgzsF7cN_n37sdOeqwUaEqFtJ8HGwEdJKZQQ/s1600/alzheimers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2G5msRBh1sL60PUCWf_FPYL8rqdxL8kvIa1wlavaTbTY1hEp6EMKN27NTnuWzjlesZ_sTKnIvD5a7i8h-9IoqNbCkYDx097NYIG3IJ6KgzsF7cN_n37sdOeqwUaEqFtJ8HGwEdJKZQQ/s320/alzheimers.jpg" width="320" /></a>"A group of ladies wearing Erin Hernandez Garcia T-shirts came by and had her fill in the application to vote by mail," said a close relative. "They kept calling her to see if she had received it and when it got here, they came over and had her sign it. I just asked her if she remembers voting and she says she can't remember doing it."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Her case is but one of scores of cases uncovered during a cursory review of the mail-in ballots from precincts primarily located in the poorest of Brownsville barrios. Predictably, they are from Southmost, Las Prietas and Cameron Park barrios where the most blatant abuse of the mentally-impaired, the eldery, the illiterate and ill voters such as the woman above was perpetrated by politiqueras and politiqueros associated with the Hernandez campaign.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"That's one of the reasons I gave up on the system and don't vote," a neighbor of the woman in question told visitors to her home recently. "That lady doesn't even remember voting. My vote would have neant nothing."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The search for 153 illegal votes continues in the Yolanda Begum campaign in the JP 2-2 runoff race between her and Erin Hernandez. Hernandez was declared the winner by 152 votes. But even before the walok-in early vote and the election day totals were counted, she was already behind by 177 votes after the amil-in votes were counted.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Besides the glaring illegality of people who can't even read signing over their ballots to the politiqueras for them to fill out and mail on their behalf, a number of other discrepancies such as listing some voters as having a "disability" where none exists, signing fake names as having mailed the ballot on behalf of some voters, and not properly filling out the ballot forms and envelopes as stated in the directions.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"Some of these votes should have been disqualified on sight by Elections Department Administrator Roger Ortiz and his employees," said a seasoned elections watcher. </div>"Instead, they allowed this ballots to be counted. When you combine the totals of the mail-in and the early walk-in vote where they basically kidnapped the elderly from day cares and voted for them in closed vans, the only conclusion you can come to is that elections officials acted in concert with these candidate and their politiqueras to steal the election. That's not only immoral and indefensible, it probably was criminal, too."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3581532936710539306?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/please-remember-to-vote-if-not-well-do.html
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MIGDALIA WANTS TO HAVE HER CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />In what has to be the most "egregious" self serving decision issued by a local jurist, State District Judge Migdalia Lopez ruled in favor of defense attorneys and for the Union Pacific Railroad and train engineer Ernesto Ortegon dismissing a lawsuit filed by Austin attorney Marc G. Rosenthal who had accused her in court documents with soliciting a campaign donation.<br />The so-called “death penalty sanction†means that the lawsuit will be dismissed unless judges rule differently on Rosenthal's appeal. Lopez issued the ruling and won't become final until the amount of attorneys fees against Rosenthal has been decided.<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/AVvXsEgYR5pYJoJwN5nwPqu6zXpUTP1eFzV6TsEKCaiAUO1NVxAuu84fYZJUR9QlzHgHC4oFYAG8Uf_jub2uABrU5KPHx4zeEIEcHjAuJjyEjfngLQsoXaXd5IuTDlxnwycUU54v9Ix53FGYjBs/s1600/Rosenthal.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYR5pYJoJwN5nwPqu6zXpUTP1eFzV6TsEKCaiAUO1NVxAuu84fYZJUR9QlzHgHC4oFYAG8Uf_jub2uABrU5KPHx4zeEIEcHjAuJjyEjfngLQsoXaXd5IuTDlxnwycUU54v9Ix53FGYjBs/s200/Rosenthal.png" width="171" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IKSESAjG31Aaoskf86EhAyKWKz8GzCkTEJIxxrWBDsENBtUdNQpx07IsjV63qCBjlxi_mnXB_f3hoGxi9t6G5aGTv2YCuXByVtBKb-97idfQIyM5IfRGUXQD1pwKbtrgL6fmXAGW8lE/s1600/JudgeMigdaliaLopez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IKSESAjG31Aaoskf86EhAyKWKz8GzCkTEJIxxrWBDsENBtUdNQpx07IsjV63qCBjlxi_mnXB_f3hoGxi9t6G5aGTv2YCuXByVtBKb-97idfQIyM5IfRGUXQD1pwKbtrgL6fmXAGW8lE/s200/JudgeMigdaliaLopez.jpg" width="161" /></a>The case concerning Lopez case revolves around the civil lawsuit Rosenthal filed in 2009 on behalf of Viviana Sosa and others. Lopez was the sitting judge on the case and Rosenthal charges that he can produce witnesses who will corroborate that the judge asked him for a $2,500 campaign contribution on Feb. 16, 2010, while sitting on the case. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He told the court Feb. 21 that she made him feel that he would not be treated fairly in her court if he did not give her the money. On Feb. 22 she refused to step aside, and his motion was referred to Senior Appellate Judge Linda Yañez.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The case concerning Lopez revolves around the civil lawsuit Rosenthal filed in 2009 on behalf of Viviana Sosa and others. Lopez was the sitting judge on the case and Rosenthal charged that he could produce witnesses who will corroborate that the judge asked him for a $2,500 campaign contribution on Feb. 16, 2010, while sitting on the case. </div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He told the court Feb. 21 that she made him feel that he would not be treated fairly in her court if he did not give her the money. On Feb. 22 she refused to step aside and his motion was referred to Senior Appellate Judge Linda Yañez, who refused to remove Lopez..</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">According to Rosenthal, Lopez told him with disgraced District Judge Abel Limas present at the same table that she had received a $1,000 contribution from Mitchell Chaney, of Colvin, Chaney, Saenz & Rodriguez LLP., the firm defending the railroad and the train engineer.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">She is also said to have told him that she might find a home at the firm in her future endeavors.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">If you'll recall, the firm of Colvin, Chaney, Saenz and Rodriguez, LLP, represents Union Pacific, and attorney Mitchell C. Chaney represents Ortegon.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“Those are not her findings,†Rosenthal told the <em>Brownsville Herald</em> of the July 20 order. “The defense attorneys drafted the order for her. She signed what her buddies put in front of her without comparing the evidence.â€</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyy0mZVTEYjFBdCZAmlqCR2m0bPL3A3fhrLo1OIUKVUziG-XN0ErT-jkdoMpIsYtnJBRvFT_idbpehjigW7HE97YkldojSzOuNgC9wWTKBJL5j75aDSVXR_pOLJQfwqp4XI4JsW07Tw5I/s1600/scales.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyy0mZVTEYjFBdCZAmlqCR2m0bPL3A3fhrLo1OIUKVUziG-XN0ErT-jkdoMpIsYtnJBRvFT_idbpehjigW7HE97YkldojSzOuNgC9wWTKBJL5j75aDSVXR_pOLJQfwqp4XI4JsW07Tw5I/s320/scales.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A July 20 order that Lopez signed containing her finding of “extremely egregious violations†by Rosenthal and his “multiple and repeated abuses of the judicial process†regarding the wrongful death civil lawsuit he filed on behalf of Viviana Sosa and others in Willacy County. Rosenthal said Tuesday her order confirmed his earlier prediction that she would harm the case.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">But Lopez not only singled out Rosenthal, but also found that the plaintiffs must be deemed as principals to have ratified his conduct. The Austin lawyer responded that Lopez is acting illegally in dismissing the lawsuit because his clients had no part in the alleged misconduct.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Despite Yanez's refusal to remove Lopez from the case given her close relationship with the defense firm, her "death penalty sanction" smells of self-dealing given the evidence presented to the court that Lopez solicited a campaign contribution from both firms in the case. That alone would make her participation in the lawsuit suspect. How can one expect impartial and neutral treatment form a jurist that has openly waged a bidding war between both sides in a case before her court?</div>The guilt or innocence of Rosenthal in the federal racketeering charges has yet to be decided by a federal jury. To favor one party and side with her potential future employers and seeking to impose sanctions not only against the lawyers, but the plaintiffs as well smells to high heaven of vindictiveness on the part to this judge.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6478619992072212772?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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