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MAYOR SHOWS TRUE COLORS: FIRM DEFENDS HERNANDEZ'S CAMP VOTER FRAUD IN YOLANDA BEGUM'S LAWSUIT
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />While Hizzoner and self-declared King of Brownsville Tony Martinez has set out to reconstruct Browntown as we know it, he has allowed his law firm to engage the camp of JP 2-2 declared winner Erin Hernandez Garcia in defending them from allegation of voter fraud and abuse stemming from the July 31 runoff election.<br />Martinez, who has called in the experts with plans to purify our city and provide us with Better Block and in making our city safe and healthy for our pedestrian and cycling population aged from 8 to 80, apparently thinks that having the likes of Cameron County Commissioner Ernie Hernandez, daughter Erin, and his wife Norma and her politiqueras manipulate the sanctity of the democratic vote is a good thing.<br />Why else would he allow his partner Horacio Barrera â€" and his firm by extension â€" to become entangled with this bunch?<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/AVvXsEjC-RgMXOEhB8zRmcpENm-8qmFqHa21Y-qai35BowNxIHr0G4Z5C20gA9f7JHKUpUR7gMc8azaeM2XO07uBhe2SqvJTKjP7Z8Tnrwz5sZaV2E5IlhVPdJ7E_4vT_BJXI5GAVwPFQRvEflU/s1600/nappy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" fea="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-RgMXOEhB8zRmcpENm-8qmFqHa21Y-qai35BowNxIHr0G4Z5C20gA9f7JHKUpUR7gMc8azaeM2XO07uBhe2SqvJTKjP7Z8Tnrwz5sZaV2E5IlhVPdJ7E_4vT_BJXI5GAVwPFQRvEflU/s320/nappy.png" width="254" /></a>Now, no one begrudges a lawyer for defending a paying client, but in light of the brazen voter abuse and mail-in fraud ascribed to the Hernandez camp, it would appear that a professional firm the likes of the Martinez, Barrera y Martinez, LLP would distance itself from an outfit that's has been associated with manipulating the voting in Cameron County and the City of Brownsville for as long as anyone can remember.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In fact, one of the politiqueros named in the lawuit filed on behalf of Erin's opponent Yolanda Begum is Amadeo Rodriguez Jr., who Martinez thanked profusely in public after he won the election for mayor of the City of Brownsville.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The date of the trial has not been set, but as far as we know, Barrera and Martinez expect to get paid for their services. Will it be from the vending contract that the Hernandez's have with Cameron County in apparent violation of conflict-of-issue statutes? Or perhaps its from the income of the Cadriel Firing Range, Norma's brother Aroldo's business where the road was obligingly coated with county caliche by Ernie even though there were no residences within the range of gunfire? But then again, he's saddled with debt for the defense of his murder charge.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Or perhaps they will get paid by Erin's non-existent large client base?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In light of Emma Perez-Treviño's report today in the <em>The Brownsville Herald</em> that the Internal Revenue Service has filed a federal tax lien against Ernie and Norma Hernandez for the nonpayment of $821,206 in taxes, Martinez might want to advise his partner that he better ask for the money up front before the Hernandez try to duck the government and declare bankruptcy.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"We hired some attorneys to look into this and we hopefully will get it settled in the next couple of months, but it may take up to a year,†Hernandez told the daily.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So Tony and Horacio, you better get it up front before you have to stand in line, don't you think?</div>In terms of the cost in your political stock, it is doubtful that Ernie â€" who has thrown more than one gullible supporter under the bus â€" will be able to make it up after you get through defending him and his camp followers.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8366021688922269929?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/mayor-shows-true-colors-firm-defends.html
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IT TOOK OUTSIDERS TO SET BROWNTOWN STRAIGHT
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<em>"A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."</em> <br /><strong>Matthew 13:57</strong><br /><br />By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />That admonishment by Jesus to his disciples comes to mind after reading the account of the visit to our fair city by 8-80 Cities Executive Director Guillermo Peñalosa when he pointed out that Brownsville was, well, unfair to pedestrians and cyclists.<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/AVvXsEiu_ldr2ZhxBnCnrvdEGtgWSq0ctVdZkEyM-Y-zqjosH5E_sA0rXxWHoiUh-j9UX30Ewap9dKPpqdB2cGVAk-mDQxoCxiH_JY52ykrfONTrOy6uFT4CQ6uv-3lCrcta0WvPpdoRdiiiLtY/s1600/buslady.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" fea="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu_ldr2ZhxBnCnrvdEGtgWSq0ctVdZkEyM-Y-zqjosH5E_sA0rXxWHoiUh-j9UX30Ewap9dKPpqdB2cGVAk-mDQxoCxiH_JY52ykrfONTrOy6uFT4CQ6uv-3lCrcta0WvPpdoRdiiiLtY/s320/buslady.JPG" width="242" /></a>At the top of his list to encourage "vibrant cities" was Peñalosa's plan to people to "walk, bike and use public transportation as well as enjoy parks and other public spaces."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He said his initial impressions were that “there has not been respect for the pedestrian.â€</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is news to us?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">How many times have we pointed out the shameful way that the elderly and children have to wait in 95-plus degree heat to wait for the infrequent buses for transportation? The reason people walk down the side of the roads and street ways â€" even without sidewalks â€" is because they have no income to buy and maintain a car or even to pay for the bus fares.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And in the case of bicycles, it's like taking your life into your hands to traverse the city. Bike lanes are basically restricted to the newer roadways in more affluent neighborhoods. Don't try to ride downtown or in the Southmost barrio on a bike. We've heard about Suicide By Cop. This would be Suicide by Chisca.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“There are very few sidewalks that are in good condition,†Peñalosa told a group yesterday. “I saw in many residential areas there are not even sidewalks, which is shameful.â€</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The local daily reported that in comments to its reporters last week, Peñalosa said he supported Mayor Tony Martinez's efforts to entice the UT System to locate its UTB main campus downtown.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“I think one of the most important decisions in Brownsville would be to convince the university to set up headquarters downtown,†he said. “The city should try to put all of the pressure that they can to make it happen...Being a public university â€" whatever they settle â€" it has huge implications that go way beyond the cash flow of the university,†he said. “So, they need to be good citizens.â€</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">For starters, they can stop trying to coerce the community college (TSC) to sell its real estate at cut-rate prices to the third-wealthiest university system in the United States, wean itself off from the $50 million in "contractual transfers" it gets from the local district and taxpayers each year, and â€" at the very least â€" pay the college the $12 to $15 million in rental arrears it owes it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He probably hasn't heard of the effort by the UTB and its president Juliet Garcia to gobble up more than $250 million in community college assets that included all its real estate, buildings and bank deposits as a "gift" while leaving them the bond indebtedness that helped fuel the building boom on the "partnership" campus.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And if he did, we're sure that Martinez and his UTB-favored United Brownsville would have dissuaded him of making any statements on the matter.</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/AVvXsEhT9It0aFo-8X76OhPdNX6Tz-EbTZwhewitduv9uUw4PtXuyp3GyKlZ2GaRrO4v9sRCyqzUVPEPvA9ktIRlZuRizummajnhXKTRIY-DrP0NMcA36JI3EiMRUoDsCGxzj72FuHIka4lhjbE/s1600/busfamily.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" fea="true" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9It0aFo-8X76OhPdNX6Tz-EbTZwhewitduv9uUw4PtXuyp3GyKlZ2GaRrO4v9sRCyqzUVPEPvA9ktIRlZuRizummajnhXKTRIY-DrP0NMcA36JI3EiMRUoDsCGxzj72FuHIka4lhjbE/s320/busfamily.JPG" width="320" /></a>How long have there been local cycling and public transportation advocates asking that there be more sidewalks built, more bus shelters to protect local bus riders from the elements, and more pedestrian walkways built for those local residents who wish to exercise? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Why did it have to take an expert from Canada by way of Colombia to drive home the message and get front-page coverage from the local daily?</div>But for now, anyway, an expert from the "outside" has echoed the repeated complaints that local citizens have voiced against the city and the university. Since these complaints from the locals seem to have fallen on deaf ears of city and university officials, will they listen to the outside "prophet" now?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8445034121853294840?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/it-took-outsiders-to-set-browntown.html
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