Will Ernie Hernandez, Jr. Show Us His Tax Returns? Can't We Just Handle This In-House?

Ernie "Deductible" Hernandez, Jr.

Ernesto Hernandez, Jr. has a lot on his plate these days.  First, he has to find a job for Carlos Masso.  Masso, as you know allegedly funded Ernie's efforts to get his daughter a steady job in a JP position as the Hernandez clan had a little bit two much month left at the end of their money during the election.

  If Masso ended up covering for Ernie's cashflow problems by paying off the politiqueras, the drivers who shuttled the elderly, disabled and mentally challenged from the nursing homes and day care centers, then Ernie owes him bigtime.  The old saying that "there's honor among thieves" reminds us that even when politicos like the Hernandez are busy stealing an election via voter fraud, they don't forget the little people who ran the polling places, served as lookouts for vans of disabled, tricked seniors into trading their right of suffrage for a chicken plate or funded much of the above.  

Now, on the heels of the Masso problem, with Ernie trying to create a new JP position to repay his benefactor, the damn Internal Revenue Service complicates Ernie's life even further by hitting him with an $821,000 tax bill.  I'm certain Ernie, like Mitt Romney, pays his taxes.  But, how much money does he damn make off the cititzens of Brownsville and Cameron County to underpay by over three quarters of a million dollars?  How many millions does Ernie have stashed in offshore banks?  Is that money laundered or unlaundered?  

Horacio Barrera's law partner

Ernie played the whole thing off by saying the amount due would likely be much less than $821,000 and that he had two lawyers looking into it.  Are those two lawyers from the same firm defending the familty from election fraud, that is Horacio Barrera and Tony Martinez?  Speaking of Tony Martinez, how's that ethics code you said would be the number one priority of your administration coming along mayor?  

"Ernie wishes the county commissioners could settle his tax problem,"  offered one county observer.  "They would likely consider the matter too hot of a potato and simply turn the matter over to the Brownsville Police Department.  Meanwhile, the commissioners would name a new court annex building after Ernie and hang an expensive portrait of the troubled commissioner inside.  The expense would all be transferred to the taxpayers without so much as a purchase order."

"But, it would be out of our jurisdiction,"  offered a relative of the police chief just promoted to detective.  "We might consider the matter for 30 days, but eventually we would toss it back to the commissioners or even to Villalobos.  Of course, I would hate to bother Armando.  He's busy working on his upcoming trial on county time."

"What religion is old Ernie?"  shouted out a bailiff washing Ernie's truck.  "I heard the I.R.S. doesn't make the Amish pay social security taxes.  If Ernie converts, he might knock off some of his balance.  He could even say his conscience doesn't permit him to support the military.  That might save Ernie at least half."

"Hey Maclovio!  If Ernie's going to be on your show tonight, could you ask him to bring his tax returns?"