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| Carlos Masso |
You see, Masso was standing next to outgoing county chairperson Sylvia Garza-Perez at this Friday's Cameron County Democratic Party meeting with anointing oil at the ready. So confident was Masso that he'd be named Cameron County Democratic Chair that he didn't bother to summon his supporters for the meeting.
In a clandestine, sneaky meeting held September 7, 2013, with a reported 20 in attendance including prospective candidates at El Mercadito, two rooms on the ground floor of the old Majestic Theater owned by realtor and Democratic Party power broker Larry Jokl, Masso had been named county chairperson. That decision didn't hold as the wife of former Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, Cynthia Hinojosa screamed foul, citing party rule violations.
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| Amber Medina |
Several party operatives, still in disbelief after the vote, expressed the view that the local party had
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| Sylvia Garza-Perez, Amber Medina |
Sylvia Garza-Perez, overseeing her last county Democratic meeting, admonished those in attendance: "Now, we expect all of you to be at every party meeting from now on," a subtle jab at those who showed up only to support the Hinojosa candidate for chairperson. Garza-Perez announced that subsequent party meetings would be held at the same location one Saturday a month at 10:00 AM.
For Masso it was another second place finish. In July 2012 Masso lost the District Attorney race in the Democratic Primary to Luis Saenz by a mere 351 votes, despite his alleged heavy reliance on politiqueras to solicit votes. Stoically, Masso was reported to have given a last minute monetary assist to the reported financially strapped campaign of Erin H. Garcia for Justice of the Peace, Place 2-2. Erin H. Garcia's father Ernie Hernandez attempted to repay Masso by creating another JP position for him following the election but that idea was shot down. Now, Masso loses out on the county chairmanship after appearing to be the frontfunner backed by the Ernie Hernandez-Tony Martinez-Sylvia Garza-Perez forces.
As Sylvia Garza-Perez and her husband ushered us out of the meeting rooms, we were told that the county Democratic Party is behind one month on the $375 rent for the facilities. "My husband and I were paying the rent and the utilities," stated Garza-Perez, as she locked the door.
Amber Medina from McAlester, Oklahoma has her work cut out for her: Catching up on the back rent, generating participation from 109 precinct chairs and winning over Mayor Tony Martinez.
the vote was 13 to 12 and of medina's voters only 3 had ever attended any party meetings since being elected, about 9 of masso's were regular attendees ---now to all Sylvia's critics out there, you now have a chair who has never attended a Democratic Party meeting, works for Juan Magallanes, and his basically Gilberto in a dress ----well done morons
ReplyDeleteDon't worry
DeleteI will support Amber anytime.
DeleteHey Ernie te tumbaron del wayin????
Good riddance, Sylvia and Carlos! The future looks so bright for the local dem party, gonna get my shades. Lol
ReplyDeletemayor martinez would have been the tie vote, but was illegally prevented from voting in violation of the Texas Democratic Party rules --page 9 sec. 5 vacancies (c) (d) read it for yourself
ReplyDelete"Illegally prevented" ???
DeleteHow about he was illegally representing precint 38 hence not allowed to vote.... Helloooo!!!
he ran for and was voted in to represent pct 38 and the county moved the lines. he is supposed to be able the serve out his term
DeleteWAAAAAAA HA HA HAA!!!
DeleteComing from a supporter of the Hernandez illegal voting, harvesting, forging of hundreds of mail in ballots...
now crying because his vote wasn't counted??!! LOL cry me a river there Mr. crocodile
Jim, I for one am looking to support the new party chair.
ReplyDeletemy utmost respect to all the people that attended last night.
I still do not understand how was Tony Mtz illegally prevented from voting?
We know almost everything about Sylvia, but what do we know about Amber Medina?
ReplyDeleteEnlighten us please!
she works for Gilberto's former law partner ----connect the dots
DeleteHow did this occur on October 12th? Today is October 12th and it is 08:45 am, as I type this. Mr Barton, are you psychic?
ReplyDeleteI am assuming the date should have read October 11th. Regardless, thank you for keeping us in touch with all the shenanigans!
Finally gettingt rid of these tyrants. Slowly but surely,Sylvia Garza Perez, Ernie Hernandez, and Erin G. Hernandez will be a thing of the pass. Kudos to every single person that had the courage to dismantle the Garza Perez-Hernandez corruption cell. Now I am starting to feel proud of being a Democrat. The people above mention will not win the upcoming elections.
ReplyDeleteYou're a stupid ignorant asshole. Gilbert is a crook and that new unknown Democratic chair is Gilbert's puppet and uses his wife as an informant to do his dirty work at these meetings. It's the same dictatorial reign they practiced when they were in charge. They don't care about democracy unless it serves them personally. Get it? Get a life, loser.
DeleteSore looserrrrrrrr
DeleteLike our President Echeverria famously said: "ni uno ni otro pero todo el contrario." Neither of these petty, little, dipshit groups is worth a stinking dog turd. Brownsville is and always will be the sphincter muscle by which all the big Texas excrement flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
DeleteJust a question, is it a prerequisite for public office in Brownsville to be obese? Amber may be from Oklahoma is OK but she looks one tamale short of a combo plate.
DeleteBut intelligent, respectful, charismatic, believes the constituents also have a say so in the Democratic process, and last but no least Pretty, !!!
DeleteWe support Amber!!!!!!
Deletemedina works for juan magallanes ----connect the dots folks
ReplyDeleteYou're right. It's a banana republic down here. Run and voted on by a bunch of third-world baboons.
DeleteYou're right: Medina does work for Magallanes. It is a banana republic down here, run and voted on by third-world baboons. One want's to weep. Must be from a lack of a good education and the poverty down here.
DeleteAny monkey is better than a Urine, or an eel from the Norma cartel.
DeleteWe support Amber!
Deletemedina works for juan magallanes ----connect the dots folks
ReplyDeleteStill let's find out more about Amber Medina, Juan Magallanes, Gilbert and Cinthia Hinojosa.
mayor martinez would have been the tie vote, but was illegally prevented from voting.
ReplyDeleteMy heart bleeds for cry baby Mayor Martinez he could not vote, wau, wau, wau.....
Jim, Juan's story about this was better than yours. Just a fact, man
ReplyDeleteNot true.
DeleteDags
Did anyone noticed how tony martinez se fue con la cola entre las patas?
ReplyDeletemedina works for juan magallanes ----connect the dots folks
ReplyDeleteI like Juan HE is the lesser of the two evils. LOL
Where do you all get your information. The writer of this article is so misinformed that he should have someone edit his work before he puts out to for people to read. There may have been 38 people in attendance, but not all were there to cast a vote but because we do care about the Democratic Party in Cameron County. I don't know what "dots" you are connecting but Amber is a resident of Brownsville and is a registered voter in Cameron County, pays her taxes and therefore is eligible to serve as Cameron County Democratic Chairperson. Masso may be from Brownsville, but I know more about Amber Medina than I do about Carlos Masso and I have lived in Cameron County (Brownsville-Harlingen) all my life. Just to set the record straight, she doesn't work for Magallanes.
ReplyDeleteOh by the way, if Sylvia and her husband were paying the rent from the Cameron County Democratic Party funds not from their own pockets. Furthermore, Mr. Mean Misinformation, if the CCDP is behind on the rent that goes to show that our former Chairperson, Sylvia Garza-Perez, former appointed Vice Chair Carlos Masso, and former Treasurer, Jeff Duvall were not keeping up with the financial responsibility they were elected to do. You are right, to have left Masso in as CCDC would have been more of the same.
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DeleteYou have some difficulty with reading comprension. I did not state the source of funds used to pay rent on the office space but simply quoted the outgoing chairperson. Also, I said nothing personally about Masso, simply quoted an attendee.
Jim
And you sir, have difficulty spelling. It's comprehension, not comprension! Look it up, use a dictionary when you write your articles.
DeleteErnie, dorito, Ernin, tony, Norma estan que comen chile porque no se salieron con la suy.
ReplyDeleteNo more Menso Masso for CCDP!!!!!!!
Some of us arrived way before this meeting began, therefore we were able to eyewitness the developments of such. At the beginning Tony Martinez tried to intervene, but was promptly rejected, then the discussion centered in whether he was able to vote (for Masso) as Precint 38 Chair, it was determined that he could not; this did not set very well with Garza-Perez, as it also came to light that many Precint Chairs do not live where they perhaps once did, and many were NOT elected, but rather "appointed"
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the enlightenment !! You forgot to mention that Commissioner Villarreal arrived with our Mayor, and also left immediately after Mr Masso lost along with a very angry Mayor
DeleteTDP rules page 9 sec 5 vacancies (c) (d) if the county move the pct lines the pct chair can serve out their term. they have a time frame between primaries in his case until feb 1st to adjust and file. ---google it
DeleteWhy are you so adamant to do things the Democratic way, and why us it that to you everyone is wrong except you?
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DeleteThank you very much for the enlightenment !! You forgot to mention that Commissioner Villarreal arrived with our Mayor, and also left immediately after Mr Masso lost along with a very angry Mayor.
Those are the puppets(Menso Maso, Sonso Vilareal y Tonto Tony),
but who is their puppet master?
A Matamoros Marin man
DeleteThe fact that this Garza-Perez woman said that us, as constituents did not have any say in our Democratic process, did not set well with us either....hasta la vista baby!
ReplyDeleteyou do have a say through your elected pct chair
DeleteYes!!!
DeleteTransparency is a must.
DeleteWho are the precinct chairs?
Where the precinct chairs appointed or voted in?
if only 23 pct chairs were eligible to vote how were 25 votes cast???? 13 to 12 something doesn't add up
ReplyDeleteCan some one mention or list the 23 pct chairs that voted?
DeleteI will bet some of those were not legal votes because like Mayor Martinez they were illegally there?
as this our family fights, in the end we will have to pull together
ReplyDeleteIt will be the day when ose, silvia, tony, all the rest of the disgruntle democrats cooperate with Amber and the new transparent Democratic party.
DeleteA baby temper tantrum. Welcome to ose, silvia, tony,'s world of self delusion. They can't win elections unless they hire politiqueras to stuff the ballot boxes or call secret meetings with only a few select insiders invited to vote. You really think they can handle the results of an actual non-politiquera influenced election with a substantial number of precinct chairs in attendence??
DeleteCue the world's smallest violin to play the world's saddest song as they run out with tails between their legs LOL
I support Amber!!
DeleteI live in precint 11 and would like to know who is my Precint Chair, and when was he/she elected?
ReplyDeleteHis name is John Villarreal, and he was not elected, he was appointed.
DeleteComo dice la cancion "Que casualidad"?
DeleteThank you Jim and Nena!!!
ReplyDeleteLa la la la
ReplyDeleteLa la la lla
Las Golondrinas song
Jim, who can give us the precint numbers, the locations because i need to find out mine, if they were elected by Silvia or voted by the people, and witch one are legit pct chairs?
ReplyDeleteWho are the precinct chairs (appointed and voted)?
DeleteThere is unity ---Just to inform Carlos Masso was elevated to Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of Cameron County By Chairman Medina and all 25 pct chairs with no opposing votes
ReplyDeleteBecause vice chair. As influential as CCDP's official toilet paper supply man. Congrats on a token appointment no one cares about pendaayhoo
DeleteThis is what happens when you have WOMEN involved in politics . Silvia is a dumb bitch Vote for Martin!
ReplyDeleteSilvia is a dumb bitch Vote for Martin!
ReplyDeleteWho Martin the Hoto Wifebeater, NO WAY!!!
Martin has been milking the Port and BISD, we need new blood at at least if a new face.
To Oct 12@ 8:27pm commentator:
ReplyDeletePrecint 11 Chair, as well as few other precincts were appointed since Sylvia needed the votes to appoint a vice-chair.... Tell me who you hang with, and I'll tell you who you are!
I support anybody but the eel, and his cartel
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