Like a retired detective pursuing justice pro bono on a cold case file, Jerry Mchale just can't give it up in his pursuit of Ernie Hernandez, Jr., his wife Norma and daughter Erin. While many Brownsvillians accept the city and its opportunities as far superior to their struggles south of the Rio Bravo, worrying more about deportation than strict adherence to ethics by the politicos in their new country, Mchale is relentless in his insistance that the Hernandez family not milk this impoverished city for every loose centavo.
Mchale cringes with every dime transferred from the Cameron County or Brownsville coffers to the Hernandez for printing, wrecker services or vending. Why can't Mchale understand that the Hernandez's are simply opportunistic entrepeneurs, taking advantage of a lethargic legal system and uninterested populace? Everyone in Cameron County who thinks Armando Villalobos as District Attorney has the intestinal fortitude to fight political corruption raise your hand. I thought so.
No one can force Jerry Mchale to seek the help of a mental health professional. His right to simmer, vex and scream at every Hernandez indiscretion is constitutionally protected. But the Hernandez are beyond smart in playing a shell game with their companies doing business with the city and county. They have a master plan. If Erin gets elected, her husband Doroteo takes over the vending company with the county. If Ernie somehow loses his county commissionership he is free to assume command. The Hernandez are nothing if not legalistic jugglers.
The odds of Jerry Mchale blocking the Hernandez corruption are equal to the odds of Don Quixote stopping the forward thrust of a heavy wooden windmill.
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Jim, don't forget that where there is a will, there is a way...
ReplyDeleteJerry is a Coward. He has done NOTHING for Brownsville. He never has and will probably never will. He is easily bought for a 12 ounce cheap beer. When people stand up and try to do Something for Brownsville he writes junk against them, but he has to go back to whatever he does at Rivera Highschool so he will be quiet again until the next vacation. He reads the writting on the girls restroom and then he writes and makes up stuff. The guy is a LOOSER.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for Brownsville, what Jerry says about Hernandez is true. Brownsville Herald has pages of articles documenting Hernandez family dirty dealings.
ReplyDeleteWhy are the Feds not involved in this family's wrong doings?
ReplyDeleteIf The Brownsville Herald has pages of articles documenting the Hernandezes dirty dealings, why is it that the DA has not done anything?
ReplyDeleteAnd there is Don Quixote on his trusty steed,
ReplyDeleteEl Rocinante.
Fitting metaphor Jim.
Let Jerry do the muckracking, it keeps him out of real trouble.
The case involving Erin H. Garcia's uncle who "somehow" had a county employee take his test so he could get a county job has been referred to the DA for investigation.
ReplyDeleteWhy has the DA done nothing? My guess is one of two options, 1. Mando wants the politiquera votes so badly he won't lift a finger in this case, which is stupid, as this gives his opponents all the ammunition they need to bury his campaign, while taking De Ford and Mattingly down with him. Surely he didn't fail to notice he got less than 5% in the last straw poll, Villalobos came in fourth place behind Troiani, with Denise Saenz Blanchard in first place.
Option 2, Villalobos realizes that his Congressional opponents see his stalling on Hernandez investigation as a fatal weakness and an issue with meat on the bone they can use through the primary and beyond. With the reopening of the Congressional race to new candidate filings in the next 2 weeks, Villalobos plans to arrest Hernandez, announce the findings of the criminal investigation on the Hernadezes to make a public spectacle of them in order to reassure Cameron County voters that he is a man of action and an opponent of corruption. This would be timed to get positive press coverage on Villalobos' anti-corruption actions, thus renewing support for his campaign and discouraging anyone else from filing to run for the Congressional seat during the new filing period. Otherwise he is dead meat, easy pickings for Denise Blanchard or any other Hispanic candidate. There are at least 2 more potential Hispanic Democrats who will file for Congress if Mando does nothing on the Hernandez brother in law case. Armando just makes himself too vulnerable, too slow and thus inviting to potential Congressional opponents. jmho
(No one can force Jerry Mchale to seek the help of a mental health professional.)
ReplyDeleteWhere did this come from?
"(No one can force Jerry Mchale to seek the help of a mental health professional.)
ReplyDeleteWhere did this come from?"
It's a thinly veiled reference to what one local blogger has frequently said about me and those with whom he disagrees, that he's not certain if their mental condition has ever been accurately diagnosed by a mental health professional. In other words, it is said in jest.
Jim
To paraphrase Tricky Dick, "There you go again."
ReplyDeleteJournalists should not say things "in jest".
But then again, this appears to be a thinly veiled butt-kissing and not a serious stab at journalism.
Say what you mean and take credit for it.
The biggest elephant in the room on this, is how Ernie and his daughter Erin are completely ignorant of how much their family is despised in this county. It is astonishing. They parade around with seemless disregard for what the broader public thinks of them. Having another Hernandez run for office in the face of broad rebuke and disdain is absolutely crazy. These piggies must know how much they are hated? Or do they?
ReplyDeleteThey are, but then again we all know how they "win" elections. Carlos Cascos should have fired Roger Ortiz a long time ago. If we get some one from out of town...some one who WILL NOT be bought?? Because we all know about Roger!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo Comment! Politics keep us on the "back-burner"..don't touch the hotplate for it shall surely BURN U!
ReplyDeleteYou people!! The Hernandez are a beautiful family not just to look at, also on the inside. Ernie and Norma love their daughter and want her to have a future at all cost, they don't care to go to any extremes and you can't blame them for trying everything possible to achieve it. what a better way to do it than by being in her Dad's precinct.
ReplyDeletewanting to help a child that is hurting economically by getting her a job that pays a monthly salary and benefits is something we all want for our children. I see nothing wrong with them. I like them even if I can't vote
"BURN U"
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha ha!
Is Jim, or one of his readers, hitting a nerve??? I think they are ;) lol lol
Mando is never gong to do anything to ernie because ernie knows a terrible secret, about mando . That can gjet him in jail too. It is my theory
ReplyDeleteThe person that. Finds the Hernandez beautiful either phisically or inside has a very distorted and disturbing percepción of human nature,
ReplyDeleteis Erin with cheezme? I see her all over with Linda Castro.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Villalobos has not done anything because he has detectives following Norma. it is not a secret that she picks up the green ballots from the apartment buildings where old people live, she takes them home, and at 2 in the morning in the company of her politiqueras fill them up, sign them and mail them. it would be very interesting to see if this time she can be caught too, and the whole family will be in jail.
ReplyDelete"Carlos Cascos should have fired Roger Ortiz a long time ago."
ReplyDeleteI think you need to look at exactly who chooses the County Elections Administrator. Cascos and Morris are just two votes. Look at the other three votes and you have your answer. One is the ever-present when things look shady, Gilberto Hinojosa. Your homework is to post the names of the other two.
Fuck you Joe Rivera! Fuck you Tony Yzaguirre! Fuck you Gilberto Hinojosa! Fire Ortiz! 10 years is long enough! Ballot stealing son-of-bitches! I found the miracle votes in Jared's asshole Gilberto!
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I understand that a local well funded political group of people are going to offer a $10,000.00 reward (through the media) for any information leading to the criminal prosecution of any and all individuals involved in vote buying. This action will undoubtedly bring some folks forward. All leads generated will be forwarded to the Texas Rangers and the FBI. More to come.........
ReplyDeleteAll the candidates should demand to install surveillance camaras to guard the ballots over night in Rogelio's office, and frankly if all the fraud happens with the mail in ballots, that is Norma's and the politiqueras specialty, why not do away with the mail ins?
ReplyDeleteIt is the only way we can get rid of corrupt officials, if they start their corruption since they start campaigning, what can we expect later on?
ReplyDeleteWhy is Cascos silent? He's also part of the problem, rather than the solution.
ReplyDeleteFire Roger Ortiz before we go to the polls....
Yes, Erin is with Chezzmeh...And guess what? Erasmo will be one of the mediators at the candidates forum!
ReplyDeleteAny serious candidate would be crazy to attend any forum hosted by cheezmeh. They have picked their horses and are in no position to be fair to all candidates. First of all, those crazies are not serious reporters. They are nothing but cheezmeh BS's.....
ReplyDeleteWhy is Erasmo Castro, Kiko Rendon, or Melissa Zamora allowed to be mediators, if all three of them have already picked their horses??
ReplyDeleteWe need some one who would be objective, with no ties to any candidate...Period!
If that is the case, we need to get different mediators!
ReplyDeleteOnly Luis Saenz and Erin are attending lol lol
ReplyDeletethis cheezmeh is just a cheezmeh, they want respectability but they don't have it, mediators or not
ReplyDeleteThis is Brownsville, no one has "no ties to any candidate". Don't be stupid.
ReplyDeleteI proppose to all the citizens of Brownsville who abhor corruption and really want to do something for our community, lets donate $20.00 each, and we can get a substantial amount of money to pay the politiqueras, for information, they break the law, and they sell their votes to anybody who pays them, but I totally blame the candidates who use them. and lets make a spectacle of them. lets bring back honor and honesty to our community
ReplyDelete"I proppose to all the citizens of Brownsville who abhor corruption and really want to do something for our community, lets donate $20.00 each, and we can get a substantial amount of money to pay the politiqueras, for information, they break the law, and they sell their votes to anybody who pays them, but I totally blame the candidates who use them. and lets make a spectacle of them. lets bring back honor and honesty to our community"
ReplyDeleteGeez, now I see why we are so very screwed up here in Brownsville.
To the Dec 3, @ 9:50 PM
ReplyDeleteNot as stupid as you!
Brownsville cheezmeh is a joke
ReplyDeleteBola de pendejos, no valen DV
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