The Price of Celebrity
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| Bobby Back in the Day |
From the BROWNSVILLE VOICE comment section:
BobbyWC said:
"thanks for a constructive comment-I am fully aware of my impact as to BISD-it actually frustrates me when people stop me in the store or in the rare occasion I am eating out-now that is downright rude.'
MMB: Bobby Wightman-Cervantes, the intermittent, petulant blogger comments above on the high price of fame. What's next Bobby? Being chased by the paparazzi?
Cronyism Paralyzes Brownsville
I prefer the word "cronyism" to compadrismo" or any other word that implies an ethnic influence. Cronyism is not connected to local culture necessarily, but universal.
The system in place in the city of Brownsville and Cameron County guarantees mediocrity. Consistent in-house hiring gives us personnel in critical city and county positions who cannot do their jobs nearly as well as those whose resume's include the experience, training and skills they lack.
While hiring a former police commander, for example, as City Manager in a city of 200,000 with multiple challenges borders on insanity, the hiring Robert Cadriel is criminal. Both situations downgrade our community.
The trade-off for mediocrity is that the in-house hire, the good ol' boy will cooperate when necessary. Everything becomes uneven: the awarding of contracts, hiring of personnel, the handling of crimes, negligence or incompetence. Nothing is based on merit but on the familial and personal relationships.
Imaginary Conversations
"Sheriff Lucio, Omar. This is Aurora. My boy Joey got himself in a bit of a mess. . . . . . . . "
"Hey Orlando. This is Charlie. Hey, great job so far. . . Say, I hear one of my boys got a little out of hand at the Toucan last night . . . . . . ."
Meanwhile, the kid without connections from Southmost goes to jail for carrying a 12 pack of beer out of a Stripes store without stopping at the checkout counter.
City and County Officials hire based on who knows where the skeletons are buried....but mostly, they hire/appoint officials that they think they can control. We promote from within, in order to control. While we need a "real" city manager, the commissioners want someone they can control. Same with police chief and elections administrator. Unfortunately, we have no officials, elected or otherwise, with any moral courage to fight against cronyism, nepotism and corruption.
ReplyDeleteBobby WC should thank anyone who recognizes his ass profusely. If there is one person everybody wants off the Internet it is him. Look at him. he personifies annoyance. His world is the world of the nerd, that person who has no other walk but the one from the toilet to the computer keyboard. Who'd approach this fool? Proof, Barton? But, really, the less you post about this BlogPest, the better!!!
ReplyDeleteW
Ya got that right. Booby is like shit; he's everywhere! ja ja ja
DeleteRey
It's "Compadrismo" if you want to be accurate. It's your spelling of the word if you wish to look like an uneducated rube.
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous August 24, 2012 1:58 PM
DeleteYour comment should be posted under the name of "Grammar Nazi" and not Anonymous, if you really want to be accurate.
Just saying, rube.