No Candidates Shine As Interlopers Joust for Control of BISD

Cata Presas-Garcia with Mentor Quintanilla Pushing
 Infamous Milk Scam in Dallas

The hope of teachers, parents and taxpayers for honest, articulate, knowledgeable, independent candidates for BISD trustee did not materialize.

All nine candidates who remain in the the races for four seats have baggage, lack basic skills or are obviously RUI, running under the influence of interlopers far outside the designated boundaries of BISD.

If the Brownsville district were populated with one room schoolhouses without the modern amenities of a budget swelling to over $500,00,000 annually including state turnback funds, Erasmos Castro Dragustinovis, Carlos Quintanilla and even Ernie Hernandez, Jr. would not give a rodent's posterior about which trustees supervised the administration of student education.

But con artists and corrupt politicos have finely tuned senses of smell, sniffing the scent of currency from hundreds of miles away or from as close as Cameron County Precinct 2.   Since rodents do not like the light, no candidates wear jerseys with their sponsors name clearly advertised.   Disinformation abounds:  "Quintanilla has no money." The initial disclaimer: "Cheezmeh doesn't support candidates." Or: "Ernie is busy serving the residents of Precinct 2."

Quintanilla Only Needs One to Succeed

Quintanilla's involvement with BISD, his support of certain trustee candidates, is related to one overriding issue, blocking the reinstatement of the $14,300,000 lawsuit against Healthsmart for overcharges.  

Cata Presas-Garcia
 

This year's dismissal of the lawsuit hinged on a Quintanilla-controlled majority of Lucy Longoria, Christina Saavedra, Enrique Escobedo and Cata Presas-Garcia.  So, now Q needs Cata, who has recently softened, feminized her name to Caty. to be re-elected.  Caty has become a lightning rod in her own right, forming a brutal tandem with Sylvia Atkinson utilizing a bull-in-a china closet approach to terminating, downgrading and reassigning administrators.  Presas-Garcia, not an educator or educated, does her best work for Quintanilla and Linebarger, and has upgraded her clothing, accessories and ride substantially while visibly supported only by her husband's teacher salary.  

The B.U.C. endorsement will help Caty, but if all of the disenchanted teachers vote, she will have trouble.  Somewhat bolstering Presas-Garcia's campaign is the ad copy written by skilled journalist Juan Montoya of El Rrun Rrun, who has a master's degree in journalism from Ann Arbor.    

Two Proud Cheezers:  Clupper and Gill

Linda Gill

Two candidates remain tainted by association with Brownsville Cheezmeh:  Linda Gill and Donald Clupper.  

Linda Gill initially reached out for an interview, but was later instructed by her master from Austin, not to meet with me:  Here is her message the morning of September 28:

"Jim.. once again I have woken up sith sever rhuematoid arthritis symptoms. Ihaven't checked the weather buy can garauntee its somewhere very close. I'm having lots of trouble moving around. Wish I I could say I will be better by this afternoon but I chose to get off my meds a few months back."

I've not heard from her since.  Those attending the  AOBE candidate forum, described Gill's remarks as incoherent.  At Moses Sorrola's meet and greet for BISD candidates, Linda split as soon as she saw Nena was videotaping the candidate's speeches.  Does Linda know that school board meetings are videotaped?

Donald Clupper

Donald Clupper is ingratiating and full of himself, but honest.  He is a math teacher who did his job, had some personality issues within BISD, but dammit, he did his job, even when he was assigned to special needs children.  

Although Donald was a bit fooled by the silver tongued con artist Erasmo Dragustinovis, exhibits a cranky personna and is not Albert Einstein reincarnated, he is the BEST choice for place 5.  Despite the B.U.C. endorsement, Presas-Garcia is a Quintanilla plant, doing the bidding of the con artist from Dallas.  The other candidate, Butch Barbosa, is connected to Ernie Hernandez, Jr.  Clupper, despite being fooled by Cheezmeh is the only honest choice.

Among the other candidates, both Shirley Bowman and Argelia Miller have indicated they would vote to reinstate the $14,300,000 lawsuit against Healthsmart for overcharges.