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| Mayor Tony Martinez |
Mayor Tony Martinez is a bully. He has no skills to build a consensus or argue a position on merit. He has to have the advantage or he goes home and refuses to play. He showed total disdain for the public early in his administration by orchestrating the continuance of the ban on the broadcast of public comment with a feeble assist from blockhead City Attorney Mark Sossi. That public comment broadcast ban is both cowardly and undemocratic.
I was not at home when I received a 12:45 PM message that tonight's City Commission meeting had been postponed. The reason given for postponement by City Secretary Estella Von Hatten is both damning and likely a lie:
"In concurrence with Mayor Martinez and Commissioner Rose Gowen, who co-sponsored the special city commission scheduled for this evening, the meeting has been postponed. Due diligence is still in the process of completion so that detailed information can be provided to the city commission."
First of all, if due diligence had actually not been completed on this item, Tony Martinez and Rose Gowen display total incompetence in placing the item on the agenda. Of course, the idea of giving away, leasing or conferring the city's well-suited office and court space is beyond dumb, but that is not why Tony decided to pick up his marbles and go home. The truth is likely that our bully mayor simply did not have the votes. Yes, he can count on the blind, naive loyalty of Rose Gowen and Estela Chavez-Vasquez. On the other side, Ricardo Longoria, Jessica Tetreau and the soon-to-be-departing Melissa Zamora may not be so easily pressured.
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| Commissioner John Villarreal |
The focus seems to be on the swing voter, Commissioner John Villarreal. City Plaza is in District 4, John's district. He must know how convenient it is for Brownsville citizens to park, walk across the street to do city business. The municipal court enclosure is the envy of many other local courts. While John has ties to UTB, he has sworn to protect the interests of the city. This may be that magic moment when John musters the gumption many feel he lacks.
Mayor Tony, of course, has an ace up his sleeve, young Debby Portillo, who has never even voted in city commission elections, yet is the mayor's plant to succeed Melissa Zamora in District 3. If John musters the courage to stand up for Brownsville, young Deb can still give Tony the three votes he needs, once she is installed on June 25th. Martinez will gleefully break that tie.
Double whammy Jim....because of your and other bloggers raising red flags, Tony and Rose may have feared they could create a.reason NOT to vote for Portillo the Bar Fly. Vote Martin Sarkis !
ReplyDeleteMeetings get postponed all the time, people go out of town. Martinez already has his 4 votes and doesn't need Portillo. Quit making up stories, Jim. You and Nena can pay back Sarkis for the beers other ways. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat's apparent to everyone in town but you is that Tony shut the meeting down because he didn't have the votes. He had a quorum, but not the votes.
DeleteJim
I see and what reliable source told you this? Isn't it more reasonable that the commishes are going on vacation? Also, no one said anything about City Plaza until you and Juan brought it up. Ever think he is trying to get rid of the casa de nylon?
DeleteWe have lost all faith in Mayor Martinez. He is not a leader. He is the puppet of United Brownsville....a group of non-elected citizens who are making decisions that are being carried out by their puppet mayor. Our elected leaders are only making decisions to support the un-elected organization which is setting policy for the city. Knowing this non-elected organization is now running things, BISD, PUB, the Port and other organizations are trying to get in on the game, to expand their power. It is sad to see that the only time these "governments" can work together is when it is to expand their ability to be power mongers and corruptors.
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ReplyDeleteThe city mentioned leasing City Plaza to UTB in their explanation for postponing the meeting. I don't know if you consider City Secretary Estella Von Hatten to be a reliable source. As for vacations, that was handled in the previous meeting and discussed here. You're not keeping up.
Jim
She's covering for Cabler who dropped the ball. Quit making conspiracies out of everything. Peace.
ReplyDeleteCabler seems to be the scapegoat, but with Tony running around like a chicken with his head cut off, trying to please Juliet Garcia, Charlie may have just been out of the loop like the commissioners not named Gowen and the rest of Brownsville.
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Cabler was definately the scapegoat. The "burden of proof" or "selling" the item to the other commissioners is responsibility of those who decided to sponsor the item (Martinez & Gowen). They did not perform their due dilligence and did not expect to be questioned. When the commission began to ask, they folded and blamed Cabler for not being ready. He did not suggest the lease so why should he have to convince the commission that it is a good deal? Martinez, grow some balls and admit you were caught.
ReplyDeleteThe world is watching.
ReplyDeleteMartinez would never admit to being caught with his OLD hands in the cookie jar!!
ReplyDeleteWe are watching you Tonya!!!!
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