The Hernandez's, Organized Crime Without Impediment, Thriving in Apathy

There are no assassinations like the violent turbulence of the Chicago mob families in the 1930's, no drug turf war like the one between the Zetas and the Gulf cartels, but make no mistake, the Hernandez are a crime family, living outside the law, stealing elections, ignoring ethics and election codes and getting away with it.


The simple, unvarnished truth is that there's no local enforcement of any kind with the integrity, fortitude or will to deal with this crime family.  The Brownsville Police Department kept the case of the Ernie Hernandez orchestration of the illegal hiring of his convicted felon brother-in-law Robert Cadriel for 30 days while figuring out an expedient way of not touching it, finally settling on "out of our jurisdiction."  

Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio was quoted in 2008,  saying he uses politiqueras, not paying them, but allowing them to intercede on behalf of traffic offenders.  The statistical anomaly in the primary involving mail-in votes seems to indicate Lucio has not changed his philosophy.  Look for no help fighting political corruption there.

District Attorney Armando Villalobos has always looked the other way on political corruption, and no wonder, as he's up to his own eyeballs in and indictment for the same.   His days now are spent looking for angles of defense, investigative missteps, anything to beat this rap.  

A possible safety net, Election Commissioner Roger Otiz has shown the utmost complicity in tolerating political corruption,  yielding meekly to the heavyhandedness of Gilberto Hinojosa, ignoring the cries from poll watchers of numerous abuses and treating ballots with such carelessness that even the simple arithmetic of a voting count becomes a comedy of errors.   Now, in this election, Ortiz enforces the trivial, the inconsequential straws of the Election Code while ignoring the rafters of significant abuse by the crime family.   

Cameron County is down to one last hope;  the voter.  Only a heavy voter turnout July 31 can overcome the cheating by the Hernandez's, the slimy work done by the arrogant politiqueras and the unfortunate herding of our elderly, disabled and mentally challenged citizens like cattle to the polling booth to follow the mob's sample ballot.  Remember in professional polls, Erin H. Garcia showed a following of 15%, but actually garnered 25% in the primary.  That upswing represents a huge block of harvested votes to overcome.


Since the 2010 Ernie Hernandez-Ruben Pena trial for voter fraud focused on mail-in ballots, the politiqueras under the direction of the Hernandez's have switched strategies to herding the elderly, the disabled and the mentally challenged in vans to the polling places.  Witnesses have observed the election officials go out to these vans, ask the how many ballots are needed, while the "voters' remain in the vehicle.  


Brownsville and Cameron County have suffered two decades of personal enrichment, stolen elections and cronyism from the Hernandez's.  If we miss our opportunity to vote on July 31, we enable that corruption to continue on into the next generation.  No one else will stop the crime spree if we don't.