Okay, there’s a big constitutional election happening tomorrow, but it seems like voters here have little interest in it.
Of the 168,000 registered voters in Cameron County, only 1,385 have taken advantage of early voting.
It’s pretty much a given that the remaining 166,000 plus won’t get out and vote on Election Day.
Will this be the same case in March, during the March primary….heck no.
Too bad, a vote is a bad thing to waste.
The big story in the Dallas area is about a police officer who ticketed a women for not speaking English.
She was stopped for making an illegal U-turn and when the officer began talking to her - well he then cited her for not speaking English.
Can you imagine if that happened here?
The ticket is going to be dismissed. Here’s the link to the story:
Border fence
For as much as the federal government has dished out to construct the border fence, it should have thought about hiring more Border Patrol agents instead.
A quick drive along east Brownsville - near Southmost and Oklahoma road - resulted in several observations.
One - it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how to scale the fence or find the gaping holes between the fence.
Two - who came up with the zig zag design - again more holes.
Three - What if you live on the opposite side of the fence - but still in the U.S. - go figure that one.
Sure, the fence’s construction has created more jobs, but more boots on the ground would have employed more people for a longer time.
Here’s a question that begs a response; how did a reporter with a national recognized newspaper manage to get a laptop computer into the federal courthouse.
Last we heard, reporters were not allowed to take tape recorders, cellphones and laptops into the federal courthouse.
Do the feds know about this incident and are they doing anything about it?
Hmmm?
Although a mistrial has been declared in Mayor Pat M. Ahumada’s Jr. check scandal trial, he’s not out of the woods yet.
He still faces the three felony charges and will be retried in January.
Visiting judge Robert C. Pate had issued an Allen charge encouraging the jury to continue to deliberate to reach a decision, but the jurors said they couldn’t.
The case will b
For the second time in a period of three years, the RGV will say goodbye to some 500 members of the Texas National Guard heading out to Iraq.
For the past year, the guardsmen have been preparing for the deployment, which will be about a year.
They are not afraid to go, they say. Many have been in the Guard for more than 10 years and know what belonging to the Guard entails.
It doesn’t get any easier, no matter how many times they get deployed. What they hate to leave behind are their families - especially their children.
Their big send-off is Friday and what they are looking for is moral support from their community.
Whether you are for or against the war, shouldn’t matter when it comes to seeing these young men and women leave.
It’s making sure they know that their community - la familia - is behind them.
As everyone should know, a little support goes a long way.
With the March primaries about six months away, more names are being added to the list of candidates seeking county seats that will be up for grabs.
Former Brownsville city commissioner Ernie Hernandez announced his candidacy for Pct. 2 County Commissioners, which brings the number up to at least six people interested in the seat.
More interesting, is to see what post Pct. 2 Commissioner John Wood will seek next year. He has John Wood 2010 bumper stickers out there, but they don’t specify - at least not for now - what position he’s seeking.
We know there are already two individuals that want the county judge seat. It will be interesting to see if it makes it to three.
It’s official.
After months of speculation and reports circulating around the Brownsville area, former Brownsville Mayor Eddie Trevino Jr. has announced his bid for Cameron County judge.
Trevino will run as a Democrat and as of Friday, he is the only Democratic candidate to publicly announce his intentions for this office.
Trevino will be pitted against incumbent Carlos H. Cascos, who will run as the Republican candidate.
Now that Trevino’s name is out, it’s probably just a matter of time before more names start pouring out.
Fourteen months away and the race has begun.
Cameron County Judge Carlos H. Cascos and District Attorney Armando Villalobos bunkered a deal to avoid a lawsuit against Commissioners’ Court.
Villalobos had threatened to sue Commissioners’ Court over his budget.
Commissioners’ Court had wanted the DA to trim his office’s budget by u p 5 percent, but the DA said in so many words “no can no.”
Instead he found money in his drug forfeiture fund that he could shift to the county’s general fund to balance the budget.
The shifting meant not having to cut staff.
The two also reached an agreeement that will allow the DA’s office to make a presentation on how it would operate collecting delinguent taxes for the county before Commissioners’ Court.
Had a lawsuit actually been filed, Commissioners’ Court may have ended up paying more money to fight it than what it wanted the DA to cut.
There could be some legal action soon as Cameron County Commissioners’ Court attempts to balance its budget.
In this corner you have District Attorney Armando Villalobos.
And in this corner you have Commissioners’ Court.
The details coming in Thursday’s Brownsville Herald.
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