Friday, May 2, 2014

District Attorney Information Officer Ignores Our Request for Press Releases

From the editor:  The press release below, shared by Bobby Wightman of the Brownsville Voice, got my attention.  It just seemed inappropriate that Wightman would receive these press releases while the actual Cameron County District Attorney website was pitifully at least a year behind on press releases.  

Melissa Zamora, Public Information
Officer for District Attorney Office
While understanding that Bobby Wightman-Cervantes and Melissa Zamora have a special bond, I sent an email April 25, 2014 to the District Attorney's Public Information Director Zamora, asking that I be included in the press release distribution.  

Bobby Wightman-Cervantes
That request was ignored which leaves the public at a disadvantage.  Wightman and Zamora will certainly have a viewpoint, but this blog usually sees things those two miss.  I sincerely doubt the readership of the Brownsville Voice approaches this blog, but that's irrelevant.  Why is it that Wightman gets special treatment with respect to press releases simply because he and Zamora are cozy?

Juan Montoya of El Rrun Rrun blog enjoys a close access to District Attorney Saenz and presents the view of the district attorney on his blog.

So, we have Luis Saenz and Melissa Zamora represented on the blogs.  What about an independent view?  

Just send us the press releases Melissa as requested.  We will go over them with a fine tooth comb and share our viewpoint with Brownsville.



Below is the most recent press releases listed on the District Attorney's website.  Obviously, Melissa Zamora is at least one year behind in updating the blog.


Please find a list of the most recent press releases.
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15 comments:

  1. They don't see you as a credible blog, Barton. You'd be on the list if they did. Either that or they don't trust you, which is probably where they are. Keep improving and maybe next year.

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    1. Actually, I'm a blogger, not a blog, but thanks for the feeble attempt at cleverness.

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    2. fuck you duardito!

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  2. Www.cameroncountyda.com

    All the press releases are posted as they are released.

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    1. This looks like a new website. I simply googled "Cameron County District Attorney," then went to the site on the top of the listings. It must have been an old site. Nevertheless, I did not receive a response.

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  3. All the press releases are there Barton. What are you talking about?

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  4. Somebody please explain. Is not Saenz the arch-enemy of the Blimp? If so, why is his employee, Sra. Zamora, providing him with special privileges? The Junior High antics of local politics is too much for my feeble brain to comprehend.

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    1. Melissa is friends with the Blimp. She doesn't want to be trashed like her boss....so she gives him information.

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  5. Melissa Zamora is incompetent. She must be giving Luiz Saenz "special" services that cause her to be so far behind in her assigned job. Luis has a reputation as a "womanizer"......maybe he is.

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  6. I don't know about incompetent. I've never seen so much positive media coverage of the DA's Office since she's been there. The website looks pretty damn good too.

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  7. Jim your claims about my relationship with Melissa are simply false. Since it was made clear to Saenz I would not print all of his propaganda I have received nothing from Melissa - before that I was on the list - you seem to think it is Melissa's fault you did not ask earlier to be placed on the list. After Saenz ordered me cut off everything has been done as a public information request. _ something you yourself can do.

    Instead of playing the game of saying I am Melissa's voice because you have no sources willing to talk to you at the DA's office - you might want to learn to nurture relationships with ADA's instead of doing the blame game and blaming Melissa Zamora.

    Also you statement insults Saenz in ways I would not even insult Saenz. You are suggesting my negative coverage is Melissa's voice - that is shameful. Saenz is many things - but being totally stupid is no one of them. He is very artful at the game of politics. He would never tolerate Melissa feeding me or anyone else negative information on him.

    My sources are county employees and ADA's who have come to trust me. It takes time to nurture those type relationships - you might try working at it instead of defaming Melissa and saying I am her voice - shameful is all I can say. And again not even I would insult Saenz with such an insult of incompetence to not know Melissa is feeding me information.

    Bobby WC

    Bobby WC

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    1. Anyone notice a pattern here? First, our friend, denies the charges but in an oblique manner that does not directly address the charge of his receiving inside information from Zamora. He states that he was cut off from the official list when he would not "print" propaganda. Then he states: "After Saenz ordered me cut off everything has been done as a public information request. _ something you yourself can do." What does everything mean? Because later in his comment he gloats about his nurtured sources within the DA's office. Or, does he mean that a PIR is the only contact he has had with Zamora since he was removed from the list?

      But of course, he must bring in an attack on Saenz by way of Jim "insulting" the DA by thinking he could be so stupid as to allow Zamora to feed negative information. Notice that he does not say that Zamora did not feed him negative information, only that the DA would not be so stupid as to allow it.

      Next, he works on the old self aggrandizement by pointing out that he has nurtured sources within the DA's office.

      Then comes the attack on Jim for not "working" on said nurturing instead of "defaming" Zamora.

      Why does he not just come flat out and say he has never received any DA office information from Zamora that was not included in official press releases or requested by a PIR? I will leave it to the reader to ponder the question.

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    2. Wightman, you are a child. Operating a free blog and boring the fuck out of an entire town is all you have left. Sad, real sad.

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  8. At least he operates a blog Duardy, beats trolling blogs in a city you are not even from. Get a life loser.

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