Three Candidates Try to Get the Jump on Opponents with Illegal Campaign Signs

From the editor:  Perhaps the first indication of suitability for public office is the ability to navigate through the hoops of filing requirements, campaign signage, campaign finance reports, etc.  If these well-established obstacles prove too difficult for a candidate, how effective will they be once in office?

The current City of Brownsville Municipal Code allows for campaign signs "60 days before an election."  With our municipal election scheduled for May 9, the earliest campaign signs could legally appear would be March 10.  

At least three current candidates, Pat Ahumada, William Garza and Cesar de Leon are in obvious violation of the municipal code.  De Leon has campaign signs all over town despite his initial submission of 100+ signatures of registered voters being rejected.  Young Cesar presented 11 or 12 pages of signatures, but had only one page notarized.  It must be embarrassing for a lawyer with a substantial educational background to be flunking such simple tests of fitness.

Ahumada and Garza, neither in their first rodeo, should simply know better.

(Photos by Nena Barton)