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| Roger Ortiz |
The search for a replacement will likely include candidates with the facility to be pro-active in educating the community about the provisions of the Election Code as well as careful monitoring of election abuses.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Election Administrator Roger Ortiz Submits Resignation Effective Post Election
The search for a replacement will likely include candidates with the facility to be pro-active in educating the community about the provisions of the Election Code as well as careful monitoring of election abuses.
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ReplyDeleteThis is quite a surprise Jim, you have really been staying on top of this and deserve all the credit for breaking the story. This administrator should have left on his own accord some time back. But better late than never. No doubt the pressure was too much for him and we have to thank you, CAVA, the other Brownsville blogs and the numerous concerned citizens of the area who were brave enough to speak out against all the voter fraud and corruption that was never investigated by his department. This should only be the begining and there is probably more cleaning to do. Here is hoping that if laws have been broken,those responsible get the punishment they deserve. So far the citizens have won a big one before the elections!! NO MAS!!!!
ReplyDeleteGuarantee you his replacement will be inner circle. My guess? Another Hernandez flunkie.
ReplyDeletesettle down...ernie has nothing to do with the hiring of a replacement.
DeleteSure he does, he's a county commisioner
DeleteTime for another politician's family member to get a comfortable job.. .. the list will be a who's who of Cameron county....entirely SICKENING!
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 1980s, my first year in journalism with The Brownsville Herald, Roger Ortiz served the municipality as tax appraiser/collector. I found him to be a genial man forever attentive to my requests for information related to his office. Ortiz and Pete Gonzalez, then head of finance, if my memory serves me this Ayem, never stalled and never seemed aloof. perhaps much has happened since those days, when all three of us were younger. A lifetime in any bureaucracy must be a heavy burden. You serve moods, tempers, administrations both supportive and opposing. It is never a stroll in the park. I realize Roger Ortiz has weathered political and news storms of late. But if I had to say anything about him, allegations of corruption aside, or as much as they can be put aside, I'd say he was a good family man with that same family as his over-riding concern. Lord knows elections in Cameron County never were about either fairness or correctness. Could you possibly blame one man? I say, "No." The problem lies much deeper than Roger Ortiz. It comes from the center of what is the border's very being. It is easily influence by Mexico and, so, Mexico-style politics was always going to be part of the equation. Don't weep for Roger Ortiz as he leaves the playing field, but, also, don't blame him and him alone. It is the figureheads - the mayor and the county jail - who are equally to blame. And by that I mean every mayor and every county judge that has served or ill-served county residents for the past quarter-century. You can't turn back the clock to a grayer, perhaps cleaner time in local politics. That era is gone forever. A new and flawed system is in place, and no one disputes that. My friends in town from those days were Roger, Pete Gonzalez, Eddie Campirano and his wife Belinda when they worked for the city's P&Z department, Irv Downing, Pam Gross, and, among a few others, Bill Young. What a time it was. Perhaps an injection of new, young blood is needed up & down the slate at both city and county government. Good things/times don't come around very often anymore...
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Roger has a certain gentility to be sure, but has created alliances over the years with those manipulating the system for personal benefit. He sometimes revealed a harder edge as when he told one of Cascos' assistants after the blogger summit on voter fraud: "Those fuckers(the bloggers) are crazy! I don't pay attention to them."
DeleteHis protective instincts were primarily focused on protecting his department and officials with whom he had a long association. Protecting the democratic process did not seem to be on his radar, although he did give lip service, but never action in that direction.
Pressure on Roger had no effect, but including the county judge and election commission as part of the problem may have.
Jim
It's about time!!!
DeleteYou did a story sometime back about an entire street voting by mail for many years, the same street a politiquera lives on . who had 5 or 6 more people sending ballots to her home address. Voter fraud, done in broad daylight and evidently, not difficult to trace?
DeleteIs their a possibility that a Federal Investigation is on the Horizon?? Working for municipal, county, state and federal agencies, hardens people. In this case, Roger leaving was the best thing for Cameron county. People had lost faith in the elections administrator.
Deletelets continued with the city of brownsville all the crooked directors, mayor , commisioners you know who they are. is time to clean the house.
ReplyDeleteRoger, what happened?.....I knew you as a good Christian God fearing man......you completely let me and the rest of Cameron County down.....you had a big responsibility and you sold yourself out.....You may be resigning, but the bad taste has been left in our mouths for a long time to come.....Quite frankly sir, you should be ashamed of your tenure at the elections dept.
ReplyDeleteRoger Ortiz is a corrupt DICK. Using words like "gentile" is like spraying Lysol on a pile of shit. Ortiz has proven loyal to himself and the Democratic Party....not to the State of Texas or the people of Cameron County. We remain part of the "Third World" here and will continue to circle the bowl in a downward spiral until someone honest, and with a backbone starts to effect change. No sign that will be any time soon. No wonder our bright kids don't come back.
ReplyDeleteYou can put all the jelly, peanut butter, or eloquence on Roger's familial character and you may be correct. Roger held the key position to make all things right in Cameron County politics. He was the single figure with the single job requirement of running elections by the rule of law. Well, he didn't and he didn't because he lacked one thing, "BALLS" ! You can't put nice guys in positions of this importance and expect them to do an honorable job. He surely didn't, so good riddance!
ReplyDeleteGood riddance but brace ourselves for something worse, Carlos Cadco's causin, Ernie's inlows, aurora's neice, they are all probably calling each other with suggestinh and manouvering to place their kin. We the tax payers should have a saying on it otherwise we will go from the kettle to the frying pan, we should have someone with absolutely no ties to either party or to any elected official, he or she should be qualified should know the elections laws, rules and regulations and shoul not bend under pressure, we need a principled fearless person to stand up to any corrupt official. We finally got rid of public enemy # 1 let's demand that it does not happen again
ReplyDeleteLEARN HOW TO SPELL IMBECILE!
Delete[Good riddance but brace ourselves for something worse, Carlos Cadco's causin, Ernie's inlows, aurora's neice, they are all probably calling each other with suggestinh and manouvering to place their kin.]
ReplyDeleteThat should be "cousin," not "causin." And it is "in-laws," not "inlows." Plus it is "maneuvering," not "manouvering." Oh, and it is "suggestions," not "suggestinh." Other than that, your comment is otherwise sorta understandable, ya crazy guy!
Rey
Sorry, it was from my phone and I am not very good at typing from the small keyboard
ReplyDeleteYou mean you're not very good at typing from the small keyboard while STONED OFF YOUR ASS, Ben.
DeleteWe can expect a Cadriel or a Hernandez to be our next elections officer. Maybe even Amadeo Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteThen, you get what you expect. Self fulfilling prophesy! Bola de pendejos, todos!
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