CASCOS CAMPAIGN DIVERTED, DERAILED BY UNWISE ENTANGLEMENT WITH BOBBY WIGHTMAN-CERVANTES

Bobby Wightman-Cervantes

Just over seven years ago, Nena and I walked into the office of Tad Hasse at City Plaza.  There were two desks in the office, one occupied by Tad, the other by a kid named James Zavaleta, Tad's assistant.  A desk top computer sat atop each desk.

Since we'd just started blogging a few months earlier, Tad has some advice he called the Eleventh Commandment: "Nothing good ever comes from talking with Bobby Wightman."  

On Facebook, Zeke Silva refers to him as "Bobby Whiteman," no racial slur intended.

Many local politicos, including Melissa Zamora, Jessica Tetreau-Kalifa and others have learned the hard way, reading flattering words in Bobby's blog one day, then feeling a piercing of cold steel between their shoulder blades the next. (There is a flip side to this as I told a longtime TSC trustee.  If you could handpick someone to write a negative article about you, it would be Bobby.  No one will understand what the hell he's trying to say.)

Tad Hasse knows this.
Chris Valadez knows this.
Carlos Cascos knows this.
Morgan Cisneros Graham should know this.

Only the uninitiated, inexperienced, brand new politico would not know this basic Brownsville truth, and allow themselves to fall into the deceptive quicksand of the BROWNSVILLE VOICE and Bobby Wightman-Cervantes.

Tad Hasse, Bobby Wightman-Cervantes

Based on a headline in the BV, it now appears Tad and Bobby may be colluding, although, as history shows us, love can turn to hate any moment.  Here's what the Bobster promises:

I HAVE A STORY WHICH PROVES BARTON IS PRINTING LIES ABOUT ME AND TAD HASSE BASED ON STORIES BEING WRITTEN BY ROMAN PEREZ, AND A TON OF EVIDENCE REBECCA GOMEZ CAN NEITHER READ NO WRITE IN ENGLISH, AND DUARDO'S DELUSIONS AND LIES

"Rebecca Gomez can't read no write?"    

She writes better than you do, Bobby.  LOL.

Roman Perez writes my stories?  That's a laugh.  The only one I've ever allowed to write a line of my blog articles is grandson Jack.

Over the years, Tad Hasse has sent me many humorous anecdotes, poems and witticisms, with the recommendation;  "Use it on your blog if you want."

I've never taken Tad up on it, as my humor and his are never a match.  He's obviously cleverer.

Tad in Uniform

I did furnish Scoutmaster Tad some ammunition that could be used against me.  Here is the direct quote from our Facebook conversation:

Tad: And I smell Roman in all of this

Me: roman told me what sanchez told him. . . I said I have to hear it from the captain himself, so captain bob inboxed me and I quoted him directly"

Tad:  When he decided to run, he called me over to his house. Rebecca was there and they both said she was his treasurer. Fuckups after that point are all on Bob

Meanwhile, the Carlos Cascos campaign train has been derailed, with multiple cars overturned in the ditch.  

While Republican operative Tad Hasse confers with Bobby Wightman-Cervantes and County Chair Morgan Cisneros Graham writes a long letter to Duardo Paz-Martinez, airing grievances, Carlos Cascos is likely livid.  

Several have told me that the G.O.P. did nothing wrong.  Sham campaigns are a common, not illegal political trick, I'm told.  

Others describe Captain Bob and Rebecca Gomez as "fuck ups."  But, who recruited them?  Is that the way a professional, experienced campaign is run?  

Is this what happens when you violate the Eleventh Commandment?