Mayor Martinez and Commissioner Gowen Do Not Care About Brownsville Taxpayers or Their Assets

Mayor Tony Martinez

Never assume that Tony Martinez and Rose Gowen care one whit about Brownsville residents needs or wants. During their tenure, the unethical pair have run roughshod over taxpayer assets, squandered taxpayer dollars as if it were Monopoly money and shown a total disdain for public opinion.

Gowen's surliness in written communication with citizens is legendary and unprecedented.  Tony's foray into speculative real estate with taxpayer dollars seems amateurish by business standards, but he was not playing with his own money.  At least a dozen buildings were bought for which the city has no designated use, the anchor being La Casa del Nylon, bought for triple its value at $2,300,000, but still empty, decaying.  Martinez does not operate his own businesses this way, but he could not care less about spending taxpayer dollars.  Just think, without the foolish real estate purchases by the mayor and city commission, no tax increase would have been needed.

Commissioner Rose Gowen

Rose Gowen displays a similar mindset. Remember the original plan she pushed for converting one lane of E. 6th Street called for two bike trails running parallel within 100 feet of each other.  What adult would even consider such a silly plan? This just illustrates how committed Gowen is to her agenda. Bike trails come before any other city need.  Southmost will have a bike trail before it has sidewalks if Gowen has her way.

Why are we restating the obvious?  Because the ugly disrespect for taxpayer assets will soon resurface with a renewed attempt to gift or sell the city's irreplaceable Lincoln Park.