READING BETWEEN THE LINES AS BLOGGER BLASTS ERASMO, PROTECTS BEN AND CESAR!

"Blogger for Hire" by Diego Lee Rot

While playing school marm to a precocious seven year old and caretaker to a once strong woman, now weakened by diabetes and brain damage, this blog, the Brownsville Observer, suffers.  I haven't attended a city board meeting in some time, don't know What's Goin' On, seldom answer my phone.

But, I read the Brownsville Herald, for what it's worth, read the blogs and, most importantly, read between the lines.

Brownsville's most respected blogger, Juan Montoya, and most read blog, El Rrun Rrun, is reached on my I phone by tapping a large "E" icon.  I tap that icon several times a day.

Daily, Juan educates us on Brownsville's racist, greedy gringo history, nudges us to notice when the city's political stars are aligned, but, also writes for monetary compensation, money.

We won't foolishly pontificate on the morality of writing advertisement copy, political spin, hit jobs or Russian Facebook "news."

Just recognize it when you see it.

$PAID FOR STORY #1: 

ERASMO IS A CRYBABY AND A CRIMINAL FOR CALLING OUT BEN NEECE

This part-time blog reported the post city commission meeting dustup between Erasmo Castro and Commissioner Ben Neece.

Erasmo had filed a police report because he felt that a Ben Neece-led audit committee had violated the Texas Open Meetings Act.

No blows were reported, but the two fighters were reported as threatening each other with police reports until all the world's forests were cut down to make paper.

Juan got busy on his keyboard, portraying Erasmo as the world's biggest crybaby, but also detailing his encounters a decade or so ago with the courts system.

Ben's embarrassing situations in life were not mentioned in the news report.

$PAID FOR STORY #2:

F.BI. SHOWS COMPASSION FOR ENDANGERED, THREATENED CITY COMMISSIONER CESAR DE LEON

City Commissioner Cesar de Leon, who someday hopes to be immortalized in Washington Park with a rock of pure granite from the Cesar Mountains of West Texas, was visited in his oficina de leyes by no less than the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

But, let a more proficient blogger, Juan Montoya,  tell the story:

"Just this morning one of our seven readers called us concerned that she had heard that FBI agents had visited De Leon's office at the corner of Van Buren and E. 10th streets and wondered whether the commissioner was in the sights of the federal government.

We inquired (as we are wont to do at times) from the office and were told (anonymously) that federal agents had indeed gone aknocking there. But they weren't there to ransack De Leon's office or take his computer. Apparently, they were there to make sure that Elizondo was not acting on his veiled threats (warnings?) about hurting him "on purpose" or otherwise."

So, we're told in the story, and we are led to believe. . . . . . that root n toot'n agents of the F.B.I. paid a courtesy call on City Commissioner Cesar de Leon to make sure that big, bad Carlos Elizondo was not bullying the shit out of him!

What law enforcement compassion!  Who knew?  The F.B.I. deal with hurt feelings or, like Dr. Phil, provide a safe place to talk about hard things.

St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 15:  "Let the reader use discernment."