"For my friends, anything.
For my enemies, the law."
Oscar Benavides Larrea
Former President of Peru
Compadrismo, cronyism, "in-law-ism," is alive and well at BISD, also known as the Brownsville Independent School District.
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| Rick Longoria |
As reported yesterday in Juan Montoya's El Rrun Rrun, some on-the-way-out, crooked politicos on the local school board have created a position for their boy, disc jockey/City Commissioner Rick Longoria.
The $85,000 political perk is a a newly created administrative position Ricky will evidently fill for the balance of the 2018-2019 school year, Administrator for Marketing.
Goodness! How was BISD doing its marketing in the first semester before the hiring of slick Rick?
What if we told you that the appointment will be made ONE DAY before these same politicos likely get voted out of office November 6 in a Monday, no-public-comment-allowed special school board meeting?
Unbelievable! No, compadrismo!
Advertisement for the newly created position opened October 11, but was shut down on Halloween, October 31.
One of my annual neighbors at the RV park, a shop teacher at BISD, was very upset with my publishing a few years ago a pic of his friend, Rick, shirtless, holding a Star Wars lightsaber.
"Why would you do that?" he asked in an extreme Southern accent.
When I explained that one of Rick's ex-girlfriends had wanted to send the pic with full frontal nudity, but I refused to receive it without it being cropped first, the teacher calmed down.
I ran into the shop teacher last month at the RV park pool.
"How's your buddy Rick?" I queried.
"Oh, he's OK. He's supposed to be in charge of taking non-working computers back to the shop, and he keeps telling me he'll come by and get mine 'tomorrow,' but he never does. Well, you know Rick!"
Yes, we do.
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| Required Qualifications for Rick's New Job |
no shit?
ReplyDeleteShit, no?
DeleteMoreover, Texas has all but banned voter-registration drives, which is how many low-income and minority voters are registered, through laws that bar anyone but a deputy voter registrar in a particular county from registering voters in that county; if they tried to register a voter in another county, even they would be breaking the law. From trying to register to casting a ballot, it is hard to vote in Texas, maybe harder than in any other state.
ReplyDeleteThat’s by design. Although Republican dominance of Texas long predates these new voting restrictions, their implementation is part of a national GOP strategy of maintaining political control through scorched-earth culture-war campaigns that target historically disfavored minorities and the targeted disenfranchisement of the populations whose growth and influence could challenge that control. It is a consciously counter-majoritarian strategy for a party that wants to maintain its power indefinitely.