McALLEN BLOGGER CONCOCTS CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT MARTINEZ AND MENDEZ COLLABORATION

Eduardo "Paws" Martinez

Eduardo "Paws" Martinez, an out-of-town blogger, launches written missiles daily at Brownsville, some say from a seedy motor hotel in McAllen, using a Kim Jong Un guidance system that typically results in words no closer to the mark than at take-off.  

He refers to Brownsville's favorite watering hole as Cobblestones, instead of Cobbleheads, is a quarter to a full turn off in his assessment of every Brownsville political candidate, whipping those who fail to respond to his Facebook overtures with a soft spaghetti strand from a can of Chef Boyardee.  

Paws' most recent political commentary, not exactly Pulitzer-worthy, infers a close political alliance between incumbent Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez and challenger Trey Mendez.

Paws types:  "Sitting Mayor Antonio “Tony” Martinez and third challenger for the post Juan “Trey” Mendez are said to be joined-at-the-hip on any and all business matters that come – and could keep coming – out of City Hall."

No one, except possibly Kim Jong Un's best buddy, Dennis Rodman, would find that statement close to credible.

Had Paws accessed some free McAllen WiFi for last Sunday's Whine and Cheez podcast, he would have seen Martinez and Mendez verbally sparring throughout with Mendez taking the mayor to task for $3.5 million in speculative real estate purchases, lack of tranparency in the Tenaska deal and signing over a deed to himself on a tax auction property near his law office.

Erasmo Castro, Whine and Cheez podmaster, turned to me after last week's show, remarking: "Did you see Tony and Trey going at it? Wow!"

Yet, Paws' blog guesswork gets even more ludicrous as he describes mayoral candidate Charlie Cabler as an "outsider," but with "insider knowledge." LOL!

You can't make this stuff up, folks!

Notice the McAllen blogger's two incongruous sentences placed together:

"Cabler is standing out as the “outsider” of the trio."

"He’s running on certain insider knowledge that comes from serving as the city’s top administrator for 13 years."

No high school editor worthy of his Minecraft lunch box would allow those two sentences in the same editorial.

While the Pulitzer is out of reach, fast Eddie(Paws) should be under consideration for the Donald Trump Fake News Award.