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| Mayor Trey Mendez |
It's beyond time for the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation and the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation to be disbanded.
So foul is the odor of the Trey Mendez administration and the BCIC, hiding behind limited liability corporate entities, not one, not two, but at least three such, to funnel money to the mayor and his goofy cronies like Ramiro Gonzalez and Michael Limas.
We had a small share in uncovering facts, but Juan Montoya has nicely captured and summarized what's currently known in his blog, El Rrun Rrun(https://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2021/10/bcic-has-been-very-very-good-for-trey.html).
While much of the current scandal has centered around the BCIC, the City Commission has turned GBIC into the polar opposite of what a 4A "economic development" entity was meant to be, intentionally and unethically staffing the entire board with the city commissioners and the mayor.
4A was designed to REMOVE the awarding of economic development assist money from politics, lest politicians get their grubby little hands on it and divert it to themselves and their cronies.
Brownsville is teeming with honest, intelligent, educated citizens who could serve, if asked, so the current makeup of GBIC is intentional, not accidental, temporary or provisional.
Disband BCIC and GBIC now! Save the $1,000,000 or so it costs us each year for staff, building and attorney fees. Both entities are doing NOTHING for the city except funneling money into the hands of rotten politicos.
Much of the blame can be laid squarely on Trey Mendez, who fooled many of us into thinking he was different from the scum that have scandalized Brownsville and Cameron County politics in the past.
Choir boy looks cannot hide the fact that Trey has been and continues to be a greedy profiteer, using programs designed to help a community pick itself off the poverty floor to enrich himself to an extent no other Brownsville mayor has done.
Just saying the word "community," as in Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, brings a little throw-up to my mouth.
I have to take responsibility for taking my eye off the proverbial ball for a while as I used to cover the city.
For nearly a year, I was almost AWOL, recovering from triple bypass surgery and relishing my own personal reinvention with a new wife and outlook.
But, now I'm back, doing whatever it is that I do, observing, while trying to understand the mechanisms that control Brownsville, while still holding it back.
A couple years ago, watching Trey's inauguration, I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was outgoing Mayor Tony Martinez, saying "Give 'em Hell, Jim!"
Trey Mendez et al deserve every bit of the exposure, criticism and yes, Hell, they are receiving now. They are not worthy of our city or its people.
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