D&M Leasing's Mike Hernandez III Proposes Alternative Online News Website

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D&M Leasing's Mike Hernandez III

D&M Leasing's Mike Hernandez III, a self-appointed savior of Brownsville and Cameron County, wants to control more than local politics.

After a disastrous, amateurish showing in the Texas Southmost College and Port of Brownsville elections, where despite throwing at least $140,000 at 5 candidates, he went 0-5, now Hernandez wants to get into the online news business.

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His local contact?  Well, actually, not local. Hernandez has been engaged in email dialogue with vagabond blogger, Eduardo Paz-Martinez, currently writing from a coffee shop in McAllen.

Yes, THAT Eduardo Martinez, the notorious co-author of the fake Elvis impersonator article, an act of fake journalism Eddie justifies by saying it happened "after" his short stint with the Brownsville Herald:

"The Elvis Hoax Story came more than a

Eduardo "Elvis" Martinez

decade after I’d left The Herald. It was the brainchild of my college friend Paul Infante, who died in 2015, and it came after a hoax about some “cigar-shaped spacecraft” seen over Houston. At the time, I was living in Fort Worth and Paul was selling dental supplies while living in Spring, just up the road from Houston.

The plot was concocted as one plots a story, with a beginning, a middle and an end. The “press release” was written about that Elvis gathering in Brownsville and Faxed to newspapers across South Texas. The Herald bought it, perhaps because it was to be the site of the convention, and the next thing we knew, it was Big. Paul had been listed as the contact, under the name of Paul Le’Infant. He did catch some flak, but never enough to make him stop laughing. We both pictured dusty, little Brownsville tugging at its lapels and say, 'Hey, we made it to the Big Time!'”

Whatever!

Anyway, Hernandez and "Elvis" have been discussing a new online newspaper for Brownsville.  The car dealer suggests in email, that, after he finishes his business with Jerry McHale (a $1,000,000 lawsuit for defamation) that perhaps Jerry, Juan Montoya and Eduardo Martinez could write for the new website.

Hernandez would provide the funding and set the ground rules.  Below is a reprint of the portion of email dealing with the proposed online newspaper originally sent to Eduardo Martinez:

From: mikeh@dmautoleasing.com>

You(Eduardo Martinez), Montoya and McHale can always consider getting together after that and establishing some rules regarding journalistic ethics and then establish a single, legitimate online news source covering RGV. You could stationed in McAllen and the other two in Brownsville. The news source would cover the following:
A) An aggressive investigative journalism effort specifically targeting public corruption or complete incompetence and any abuse of the poor by anyone in power. Crime is of no interest.
B) Texas and Mexican history. Montoya seems to be especially good at this. History helps answer a lot of questions for people interested enough to read it as long as it as unbiased if at all possible.
C) Fiction short stories about border life. You and McHale are good at it. If they are fiction then it needs to be clearly disclosed as such and if involves graphic sexual content it also needs some simple method of verifying that the reader’s age. Leave the character assassination for hire BS and the cheezmosos for the bush league bloggers.

In return OP 10.33 will sponsor a large percentage of your overhead and help promote it as a service to the community. We will have no editorial say whatsoever. If I feel that you guys have broken our agreed-upon in advance rules I will notify you all privately but formally. If we cannot come to some kind of terms then I reserve the right to pull my support.
Thanks,

Mike

Before presenting his proposal of a new online newspaper, Hernandez gives McHale two other options to settle the lawsuit:

1. In a nutshell, leave town and leave the Brownsville community alone once and for all. I’ve known of McHale for decades.

OR

2. Agree on specific terms about his reporting on me and my organization and “collateralize it” with a six figure (monetary) Agreed Judgement

In other words, the D&M Leasing part owner wants his boys to "target public corruption and complete incompetence," but "agree on specific terms about reporting on me and my organization."

D&M Leasing, OP 10.33 and Mike Hernandez III just "get curioser and curioser."