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| Roger Ortiz |
If Escobedo was auditioning to become Ortiz' replacement, he may have changed his mind after an incredibly hectic count that went into the wee hours this morning. With eight representatives chosen for each candidate the throng assembled at the BISD administration building on Price Road at 8:00 AM Tuesday November 20, 2012. Rather than get together the day before, Escobedo and Carrillo chose to wait till the day of the count to provide a training session for participants. This got things off to a very slow start with the Brownsville Herald reporting that by 4:00 PM fewer than half of the 30,000 ballots had been counted. The additional task of separating the general election ballots from the BISD ballots was necessitated as the Election Administrator had not provided separate ballot boxes.
In spite of the difficulties, a final count was reached somewhere around 4:00 AM with Jose Chirinos achieving a ten vote victory over Linda Gill-Martinez for BISD Place 7, 14,726 to 14,716.
ADDENDUM, corrections, additions:
Norma Carrillo, the administrative assistant to Roger Ortiz was not present during the count as someone had reported to me. The election office was represented by Fred Garza briefly, then primarily Melissa Saldana. The orientation was very brief with actual counting starting around or before 10:00 AM.
Cameron County Democratic Chair Elect Sylvia Garza-Perez made a late appearance. Her Republican counterpart Frank Morris did not.
One mystery remains. The ballots, carefully separated into two boxes at the polling places, one for the general elections, the other for BISD, arrived in white boxes sealed in yellow tape with the two elections mixed. That necessitated the ballots be sorted out. Another matter sort of swept under the rug was the fact that the machines that count the ballots failed at a couple of the polling places.
Linda Gill-Martinez stayed for the count. Her counterpart Jose Chirinos was represented by Cecilia Barrera.
Thank God and the volunteers, it is over! After reading Texas election law, BISD jumped the gun on the canvassing and swearing in of the new members. It needs to re-do the ceremony and re-elect officers. Cata should not be VP and should oversee the "Trash" collection committee! With respect to Linda Gil, she needs to check into rehab and BISD needs to start random drug testing of all employee's! How this woman was allowed to teach our children is beyond me!
ReplyDeletethank goodness. Based on the people that were there representing Gill, i'm glad she lost. She had nothing but scum in there.
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DeleteYou must have been looking in he mirror when you saw the scum.
To the 9:41 poster. You're also talking about the people that voted for her and about 12,000 that voted for Cata! Brownsville has a lot of scum buckets just existing in Brownsville.
ReplyDeleteWell Linda is struggling with an addiction problem. Thus her following represents the type of person she is. Sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease publish your name if your statement is based on facts, otherwise quit your cowardly innuendos.
ReplyDeleteChirino's camp doesn't fare any better...THIEVES!
ReplyDeleteOkay Mr. C! Time to let Dr. Montoya do his job! I know he's been a puppet for a while, but I can tell you he is ready to make some positive changes at BISD! Don't hesitate to do some public "Bitch Slapping" when necessary! You don't come to a gun fight with a knife; load up and get ready for some bear! Bring some pride back to BISD and lift the moral of all district employees!
ReplyDeleteEl Ssn Martin de la Porra could not even fight his own fight. He had his his toothless amazon woman come in and do the job for him! Hiding behind a woman's skirt....que macho es eso!
ReplyDeleteI heard Roger has a job offer in the elections office of San Antonio LOL
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