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| "I believe in Brownsville" Yeah, right! |
As mayor he once pledged to protect the assets of one of this country's poorest communities. Instead, he offers them up as if they were his own to anyone with influence, prestige and prominence.
He has never cared one whit about Brownsville. It is a dirty city compared to his native Harlingen. He uses what few assets Brownsville has to promote Tony. Do you remember when he tried to "lease" a substantial part of City Plaza to newly elected Congressman Filemon Vela for $1.00 per year? Public outrage fueled by the bloggers exposed that deal and the City Commission courageously adjusted the going rate of leasing city property to market value. Wealthy Vela said "thanks, but no thanks" and utilized his own office space for his congressional substation.
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| Brownsville's City Plaza |
As reported in Mean Mister Brownsville February 3, 2013:
"The University of Texas is an extremely wealthy university by any measure despite what their fundraising appeal literature implies. The Permanent University Fund or P.U.F., which includes the oil and mineral rights generated on over 2,000,000 acres of Texas land came in at 8.8 billion in 2008 and is now certainly higher, yet that is only 8% of UT's total funding.
During the entire UTB/TSC relationship, UT acted as if their hands were tied with respect to financial support for that combined institution, citing a rule that P.U.F. funds were only available for pure UT branches, not those affiliated with another entity, like TSC.(No mention was ever made that UT easily had enough funds to alleviate some of the burden of one of the poorest cities in the United States.) So Brownsville, as always, was allowed to suck it up and assume the tremendous financial burden of perhaps as much as 1 billion dollars by 2034 to pay for the infamous Juliet Garcia's extravagant ways. Please don't forget that when Garcia's request for a 105 million dollar bond issue was rejected by the taxpayers in favor of a more modest 65 million, she went ahead and spent 105 million anyway. Yes, arrogance beyond belief!"
This comment from the same article seems to be apropos now:
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| Martin Sarkis |
Recall anyone? But will he tickle your pickle for a nickel?
ReplyDeleteWhere are our city commissioners?
ReplyDeleteUT Brownsville, the name for now, will have a massive drop in enrollment in the Fall. The enrollment will never recover from splitting with TSC, which was a natural feeder. No one, and I mean no one, from outside of Las Prietas on the NW to Southmost on the SW will be crazy enough to come to UTB or whatever the hell they come up with. By the way, the UT The Americas is already taken by a Mexican University in Puebla. UTB totally screwed themselves by joining the REAL UT system because this means that have to REAL students who are actually prepared for university work. Brownsville does not have the population to support a UT REAL system university because not only are the numbers too low but the quality of the pool is very poor. They will be lucky to have 3,000 students FTE in the Fall. And, their freshman class with be 80% remedial classes. There should be one and only one, campus for the UT Magic Valley, that should be in Edinburg. All Brownsville needs and can support is a decent junior college. But, keep up the farce until the big boys in Austin catch on to the local movida...
ReplyDeletewow.. barton you are an hypocrite.. what have you or your family done for this town?? absolutely nothing how come you dont go and talk to miss juliet? how come you dont go to the city comission and start a movement? you are just an old tired and haggard man that goes around town with his old wife, taking pictures, digging in ropa usada and then lo and behold! think that you can make a difference this is the last day i read your crap, sorry but you are way to stupid to be writing about a town that does not like you and where you dont belong.
ReplyDeleteSour grapes over Jim's continuous exposure of Tony Martinez's raping of Brownsville. To Anony 9:59am, go read a book, you are practically illiterate. We are guaranteed that YOU have NEVER done anything for this town so shut the fuck up.
Deletesarkis sarkis sarkis whatever.. he took that name from his wife! he is a scoundrel you think you know that man? that is why your blog lacks credibility, you associate yourself with murky characters, true.
ReplyDelete(you associate yourself with murky characters, true.) LOL. But, no comment.
ReplyDeleteDags.
Dags,
DeleteYo pensaba que tu habias retirado, pero sigues pendejando. Es cierto lo que dice la gente, un Narciso, siempre Narciso. Tambien dicen aqui en Tabasco que lo mas que sube el chango, lo mas que vea el culo.
I BELIEVE ( I can make some profit in politics, ignorant , low information and apathetic voters, they'll be none the wiser) IN BROWNSVILLE!!
ReplyDeleteCASA loses funding from Harlingen...hmmm I wonder why? Is the interim executive director incompetent? I think so! What business does Ofelia River having running a non-profit? None. Ask CDBG Harlingen why CASA wasn't funded. Inquiring minds want to know.
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