MAILBOXGATE GETS "CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER" AS STORY REFUSES TO DIE

Mayoral Candidate Trey Mendez with

Alex Ramirez on the Right

Historians tell us, although people my age already know that Watergate was totally unnecessary.  Richard "Tricky Dicky" Nixon had easily kicked George McGovern's ass in the '72 election and the dirty tricks he employed were superfluous, beyond stupid.

The, as yet unsolved mailboxgate, Brownsville's mini-Watergate, with pictures of flyers of the Holy Trinity, the slate of Trey Mendez, Nurith Galonsky and John Cowen illegally taped to mailboxes in Southmost, seems equally silly, if not moronic.

Alex Ramirez, sort of a Roman Perez Lite, sent us numerous examples of the slate's flyers affixed to mailboxes, but only after City Commissioner Candidate Jessica Puente Bradshaw sent the first photos, pics she claimed she'd received from Southmost political gadfly Roman Perez.

Alex Ramirez, in a rambling conversation with this blog's editor, eventually threw Nurith Galonsky under the bus, claiming that "dumb politiqueras" hired by Galonsky to tape flyers to Southmost fences goofed and affixed them, in many cases, to mailboxes.

Rodrigo Moreno

Ramirez, as some have noted, not exactly articulate, could not explain exactly why he sent us the photos.  He claimed to work for or with Rodrigo Moreno of Pink Ape Media Inc., a firm retained by all three of the Holy Trinity slate, raking in over $200,000 in advertising fees in the primaries from Galonsky, Mendez and Cowen.

Seemingly, Moreno would not use young Ramirez to simply create controversy or "stir things up," especially when his three extremely generous clients were either favorites or virtual locks to win their respective races.

Yet, one politico told us:  "That's Moreno's thing.  He likes to stir up shit like that."(Our email to Pink Ape Media Inc. went unanswered.)

Back to Alex Ramirez.  The young man, who claimed to work with Moreno, said some negative stuff about Moreno's client Trey Mendez, put the blame for the flyers on Nurith Galonsky's "dumb politiqueras," but generally praised John Cowen.

We almost believed some of what Ramirez told us, at least until we were sent the picture at the top of this article showing young Alex Ramirez directly behind Trey Mendez at a campaign event.

Yes, "curiouser and curiouser!"