"A prophetess is not without honor except in her home town."
Christ did not elaborate on what he meant by similar words. Did He mean that it would be difficult for a community to recognize the greatness of someone they had seen in diapers, skin their knee or throw a fit at the grocery store?
Or, did He did he mean that a shameless self-promoter, not above crushing the "little people" on their ascendancy to the top, might fool outsiders, but would be held accountable by knowledgeable locals?
The latter explanation seems to fit two Brownsville women singled out for global and statewide honors this week.
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| Juliet Garcia |
In honoring Garcia, CNN stated:
“Garcia has utterly reengineered educational opportunities for Hispanics in South Texas, forging, in 1991, the innovative partnership between a community college and the UT system, and helping create UT-Rio Grande Valley, opening in 2015.
Informed locals view Garcia as a traitor, with her "educational opportunities for Hispanics" leading to a 17% graduation rate while intentionally exceeding a local bond issue by spending $40,000,000 over what Brownsville's impoverished voters approved, then trying to gift all of the taxpayer purchased buildings to the University of Texas, one of the richest university systems in the world.
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| City Commissioner Rose Gowen |
The other female honoree is City Commissioner Dr. Rose Gowen, who was given the Great Texas Trail Boss Award by the Texas Trails and Active Transportation Conference for "her leadership efforts in making Brownsville a Bikeable/Walkable City." Gowen's award likely stems from getting the City of Brownsville to cough up sponsorship for TEN seminar enrollees at $350 a pop.
Gowen may be seen by outsiders as a non-practicing physician eager for her community to embrace wellness, exercise and nutrition, but to many locals she is seen as a bully elitist, intent on imposing her personal views on the community, as in attempting to ban the sale of hot dogs at a sports park.
Her portrayal of Brownsville as a cycling community is a lie, pumped up by $50 or 60 thousand per event for CycloBia from the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation.(Gowen is BCIC Board chairperson.) It's all a mere photo-op, amateurishly staged.
The "1,000 riders per day" on the Battlefield Hike & and Bike Trail the City of Brownsville mentioned in seeking a grant for a connecting bike trail through downtown is a lie as any citizen looking both ways before crossing a bike trail knows.
But, perhaps the most damning indictment of Rose Gowen is her eagerness to transfer Lincoln Park, a precious heritage given to District 1, Southmost, to UTB and then use the 30 pieces of silver offered for it to enhance a bike trail.
As angry as local citizens are at both Garcia and Gowen, the Messiah would likely say: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
As angry as local citizens are at both Garcia and Gowen, the Messiah would likely say: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
Kinda like when the Brownsville Herald wins newspaper awards despite the fact that it's really a useless rag devoid of anything even resembling news.
ReplyDeleteLMAO WHAT A JOKE!!!! WHAT POOR REPRESENTATION FOR THE REAL HARD WORKING WOMEN IN THE AREA. THESE TWO PUSSIES DO NOT REPRESENT ME IN FACT THEY BRING SHAME TO US WOMEN ESPECIALLY TO US LATINA WOMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteClassless comment. And Valley women wonder why they are abused by their spouses. Big mouths!
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Real Latinas don't use ALL CAPS.
ReplyDeleteREAL LATINAS THAT HOLD REAL JOB/BUSINESSES, ARE OUTRAGE WITH THESE POOR EXAMPLE OF WOMEN REPRESENTING US!!!!!!!!!!!
Deletejulieta LA PENDEJA garcia REAL RECORD:
!-50% OF FRESHMEN DROP OUT WITH MASSIVE DEBT.
2-AFTER 4 YRS OF COLLEGE ONLY 4% OF THE STUDENTS MANAGE TO GRADUATE, WHICH MEANS 96% FAILED TO DO SO, ALONG WITH EVEN MORE MASSIVE DEBT.
3-THEN AFTER 6 YEARS ONLY 16% DO FINALLY GRADUATE THAT MEANS 84% FAILED. FAILED TO GET ANY KIND OF DEGREE, AND START AS FAILURES IN LIFE WITH DEBT THEY CAN'T EVEN PAY.
THE FEW THAT DO GET A DEGREE I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY LESS THAN 1% STAY HERE AND BECOME PRODUCTIVE TAX PAYING CITIZENS...WHY CAUSE THERE'S NO JOBS TO BE FOUND HERE!
4-NOT ONLY ALL OF THE STUDENTS THAT ATTEND UTB END UP WITH MASSIVE DEBT SHE HAS LEFT MASSIVE DEBT BONDS FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY FOR US TO PAY FOR DECADES.
julieta IS A COLOSSAL FAILURE IN MY BOOK.
As for gowen WHY DID SHE CLOSED DOWN HER PRIVATE PRACTICE WHEN MOST DOCTORS HAVE "MAC MANSION" CLINICS? DID THE FBI CLOSED HER DOWN? MALPRACTICE? OBVIOUSLY, gowen IS NOT A GOOD DOCTOR AND/OR UNABLE TO MAKE IT A GO IN PRIVATE PRACTICE. WHAT DOES SHE DO? GOES TO WORK FOR AN INDIGENT CLINIC WHO MOST THAT GO THERE ARE THE ILLEGALS THAT LIVE AMONG US. OH AND OF COURSE MANAGES TO BUY HER WAY IN BECOMING A CITY COMMISSIONER TO STEAL FROM THE TAX COFFERS.
IF WOMEN THINK THESE REPRESENT "SUCCESS" BOY ARE WE SCREWED!!!!
Progreso police say a carjacking suspect who grabbed an officer's gun was then fatally shot by another officer.
ReplyDeleteOn Thursday afternoon, police arriving at a car accident learned that the vehicle had been carjacked, with the victim receiving minor injuries. Officers then located another vehicle nearby carrying the 19-year-old suspect.
Police Maj. Raymond Vasquez said that after the suspect wrestled with the two officers trying to detain him, he was shocked with a stun gun, but that was not completely effective.
Vasquez said the suspect, who was not identified, then grabbed the gun of one of the smaller officers, pointing it at that officer before the other officer shot him.
Pussy has been greatly devalued in Browntown by the above CAPS commenter. Sad.
ReplyDeleteHow sad for our community that two frauds are thusly honored. Of the two, Gowen is perhaps the most dangerous because she has a tiny bit of legislative clout with one vote on the city commission (two if you count her partner in mischief Tony Martinez). Garcia is well-entrenched in the fable-like liberal clique that not only runs the country but is ruining it as well.
ReplyDeleteRose and Julieta are two of a kind....enormous egos and out of touch with the majority of the community. Rose hasn't convinced BISD to focus on wellness and good health...and Julieta has failed the same at UTB.
ReplyDeleteBoth want their faces on their projects, but hide away for other issues, especially if it is negative. Rose is a Zavaletta, a family of arrogant bullies who always have thought they were smarter than all humanity. Julieta is a follower of the Kardenas Klan management style....cheat everyone and make them think you are doing it for the public good. Both of these "ladies" are full of themselves and little they do is for the public good....and everything they do is for their own good...their egos.
Unfortunately these two women aren't really "prestigious" and we have to wonder who nominated them for this recognition. I like the top picture....reflective of how each of these women see themselves.
ReplyDeletethe bad part about the CNN accolade is that she is being praise for forging an "innovative partnership" between UT and TSC. If it was so innovative, why is it that it was NEVER copied in 20 years, and then utterly failed after some people caught on that the partnership was only usurping the resources of the community college and its taxpayers for the benefit of the university, essentially creating a faux 4 year institution with no prestige. She did not help create UT-RGV. At best, her failures led the UT system to realize that a real university couldn't work in Brownsville. They had already invested several hundred million in brownsville and couldn't just leave. So the UT system made lemonade out of lemons and decided to merge the two valley institutions. This will end up hurting brownsville and help McAllen grow even more.
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