Saturday, May 11, 2013

Brownsville Loses Round One As Tony's Puppets Prevail~Martinez Needs Only to Add Portillo to Achieve Majority

King Tony Celebrates Low Turnout
The hardworking taxpayers of  Brownsville took a severe hit as two proven lackeys of Tony Martinez, incumbents Rose Gowen and John Villarreal were re-elected as city commissioners, largely by default as over 95% of Brownsville's registered voters declined to participate in the democratic process.  Those who waited until Saturday, May 11 to vote, were confronted with a confusing assortment of 20 polling places with many voters having changed precincts without their knowledge.

With the exception of a single Monday at one polling place, early voting hours had ended at an arbitrary 5:30 PM, instead of the normal 7:00 or 8:00 PM.  "That was totally Tony's doing," explained one union official.  "We asked Chris Davis about the restrictive hours.  He claimed that it was Mayor Martinez' decision.  Of course, Martinez knew the working class did not support the direction he was taking the city, so he likely tried to make it more difficult for them to vote."  The anti-democratic Martinez feels Brownsville residents are too stupid to vote in local elections or have their comments included in the broadcast of city commission meetings.

With a built-in majority on the city commission, Mayor Tony Martinez has been given a free hand to squander $3,500,000 of taxpayer dollars on speculative real estate downtown.  He unethically used his law partner, Horacio L. Barrera, to negotiate the purchase of Casa del Nylon, an older retail building downtown, from his friend Abraham Galonsky for a highly inflated $2,300,000.  Who knows how money changed hands in that deal?

The two automatic votes Martinez secured with the re-election of the loyal Gowen and the pliant Villarreal, added to the Tony-financed Commissioner Estela Chavez-Vasquez, guarantee the continuation of similar shady deals by the mayor.  We are told several are already in place, pending city commission acquiescence.  Tony's personal fortune from representing clients alleging medical malpractice in the 80's may be largely depleted.  The unpaid mayor position, played just right, opens up the opportunity for monetary gain by accommodating and placating a shadowy group of rich con artists who pull Brownsville's strings behind a scam entity, United Brownsville.  So, put succinctly, Tony needs money and personal enrichment is only an automatic city commission vote away.

But two puppets aren't enough to get the job done.  Tony needs three votes to push his agenda through.  Enter 28 year old party girl Debbie Portillo, a young lady who has never held an actual job, never voted in a city commission race.  She did "work" in her parents jewelry store and was given a created position in United Brownsville as the Special Assistant to the Executive Director of United Brownsville.  She received $3,000 a month in that position for essentially doing her nails. (There are no actual duties in United Brownsville, a sham entity.)

Martin Sarkis
Next consider that this party girl, who has never even worked in a campaign or a job, never voted in a city election, somehow acquires a $30,000 war chest to run for city commissioner.  Of course, in Brownsville, political puppets are in high demand and worth their weight in gold.

Portillo will face off against Brownsville businessman, Martin Sarkis, 49, in the runoff.  Sarkis is Brownsville's only remaining hope to block Martinez' continued squandering of taxpayer assets and suppression of
democratic values in the city.




12 comments:

  1. Sour grapes, Jim. get a life.

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  2. I can not believe the police officers are supporting these thieves. I guess it makes sense since the police chief and commissioner estela vasquez are blood relatives. Tony,you little devil you,even with all the money that you will eventually steal from brownsville,you will always be remembered as the worst mayor this city had. But of course by then you and your lackey commissioners would be laughing all the way to the bank,you are a poor excuse for a human being.

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  3. Hey, sarkis! pay your taxes, bro.

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  4. If Dr. Gowen and Mr. Villarreal won with such low numbers it does not mean that the MAJORITY of the population agrees that they are doing a good job. What a shame that in the old days we blamed the "white man", now we cannot blame anyone but ourselves. I dont live in Ms. Perez=Garzoria's district, I dont even know her, but I do admire her determination and love for this town.
    I dont know Mr. Sarkis or Ms. Portillo but WHAT does she really KNOW about running a city government? At her age, I was in college getting a graduate degree. Does she even know that our streets are a disaster, the town has no real infrastructure, if we were to get a hurricane category 1 this town would be wipped out in hrs., has she walked her district door to door? Nah, just sit and let the elders do it all.
    Brownsville, PLEASE WAKE UP!!! if you dont, then other Valley towns are going to give us the beat of a life time. They are doing it now and we dont even seem to care.

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    1. I agree with you y friend, He and his buddies should be investigated by the FBI,

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  5. (ill always be remembered as the worst mayor this city had.) Agree he'll be one of them. But you gotta give him credit for not being arrested, just yet.
    Dags.

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  6. Jim,if Brownsville doesn't vote, your words will have no effect whatsoever in the outcome of these elections.Brownsville's future will still remain in the same few hands(and we can see where that has gotten us)and continue the strangle hold on it's citizens. But the voters in this town inflict frustration and misery on themselves in a fashion I have never witnessed before. It is going to take massive research,polling,zealous organizing and commitment to finally start turning the tables on this city's Mafia style politics.

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  7. Regardless of how much money a person has eveyones vote counts the same. Its a shame how the people of cameron county disinfranchise themselves by not voting .

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  8. Who knows how much money changed hands? Exactly

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  9. Yep! The wheel in Brownsville is totally UNATTENDED!

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  10. Martinez, why? Aren't you supposed to be very religious? I guess he is a reflexion of the Roman Catholic church, hypocritical thieves and child molestors extremly rich and not giving a dam about the poverty that afflicts the world, so self righteous that have tottaly lost any sense of what is right or wrong

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