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| Mayor Trey Mendez |
It's beyond time for the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation and the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation to be disbanded.
So foul is the odor of the Trey Mendez administration and the BCIC, hiding behind limited liability corporate entities, not one, not two, but at least three such, to funnel money to the mayor and his goofy cronies like Ramiro Gonzalez and Michael Limas.
We had a small share in uncovering facts, but Juan Montoya has nicely captured and summarized what's currently known in his blog, El Rrun Rrun(https://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2021/10/bcic-has-been-very-very-good-for-trey.html).
While much of the current scandal has centered around the BCIC, the City Commission has turned GBIC into the polar opposite of what a 4A "economic development" entity was meant to be, intentionally and unethically staffing the entire board with the city commissioners and the mayor.
4A was designed to REMOVE the awarding of economic development assist money from politics, lest politicians get their grubby little hands on it and divert it to themselves and their cronies.
Brownsville is teeming with honest, intelligent, educated citizens who could serve, if asked, so the current makeup of GBIC is intentional, not accidental, temporary or provisional.
Disband BCIC and GBIC now! Save the $1,000,000 or so it costs us each year for staff, building and attorney fees. Both entities are doing NOTHING for the city except funneling money into the hands of rotten politicos.
Much of the blame can be laid squarely on Trey Mendez, who fooled many of us into thinking he was different from the scum that have scandalized Brownsville and Cameron County politics in the past.
Choir boy looks cannot hide the fact that Trey has been and continues to be a greedy profiteer, using programs designed to help a community pick itself off the poverty floor to enrich himself to an extent no other Brownsville mayor has done.
Just saying the word "community," as in Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, brings a little throw-up to my mouth.
I have to take responsibility for taking my eye off the proverbial ball for a while as I used to cover the city.
For nearly a year, I was almost AWOL, recovering from triple bypass surgery and relishing my own personal reinvention with a new wife and outlook.
But, now I'm back, doing whatever it is that I do, observing, while trying to understand the mechanisms that control Brownsville, while still holding it back.
A couple years ago, watching Trey's inauguration, I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was outgoing Mayor Tony Martinez, saying "Give 'em Hell, Jim!"
Trey Mendez et al deserve every bit of the exposure, criticism and yes, Hell, they are receiving now. They are not worthy of our city or its people.
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very well said Jim, keep it up. I refresh your page 3 times a day, you're an asset to our city !
ReplyDeleteThanks. It gives me no pleasure to find rot in our city.
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ReplyDeletePinche enano culero!
ReplyDeleteThey pay no property taxes because they approve their own historical designation on property that generates income and on their homes while the rest of us see tax increases every year.
ReplyDeleteThen they give themselves grants (free money) to fix and raise the values of their properties that are tax exempt.
Who do you think is the contractor that gets the grant money to repair and remodel the properties for these thieves?
List of people getting some or all of these benefits at our
expense:
Mayor Trey Mendez
Commissioner Rose M. Zavaleta Gowen
Judge Elia Cornejo Lopez (and husband Leo Cornejo Lopez)
Harry McNair and wife Reba Cardenas McNair
Ex Mayor Tony Martinez
I'm sure there are others but these are the ones I know about. In the meantime the rest of us struggle to pay our taxes.
And I still haven't forgotten The University of Texas buying the property, completely remodeling it and then selling it to Juliet Garcia at way below market value.
And let's not forget La Casa Del Nylon that we got screwed on and the PUB Tenaska deal that we're getting screwed every month we pay our utility bill.
Chingada madre! I'm tired of this shit! I'm changing jobs and leaving this crook infested city. They keep doing this and nobody does anything. I'm moving my family out of here and let the rest of you keep paying for this people to keep enriching themselves.
Oh, I almost forget. Don't forget the $800,000+ that Dr. (?) Eder made in 6 months with the Covid testing contract that was handed to him by the mayor and city commission WITHOUT BIDS AND FOR OBSOLETE TESTS. Where's the DA? Where's the FBI?
You whining ignorant slut, it happens in every community!
DeleteVato maleducado.
From the classless, failed, irrelevant blogger. . . . . nothing of substance
Delete"Vato maleducado" for giving facts. You idiot. I'm giving you facts. Educate yourself. These people are getting rich off our backs and you say "vato maleducado" for giving you facts? And "I'm an ignorant slut" because it happens in every community? Chingada madre, todo tiene remedio menos la pendejes. Stay pendejo my friend.
ReplyDeletesorry, that guy has been trolling my blog for eleven years
DeleteQuestion. Does the mayor receive no pay? Surely, they're all going to be corrupt when the incentive of being an unpaid mayor is funneling city money into their pocket.
ReplyDeleteSure, paying a mayor wouldn't guarantee that they still wouldn't be corrupt but I feel that maybe, just maybe, someone receiving a salary might have better intentions.
But I'm probably just thinking of some fantasy scenario considering the valley's long standing tradition of political corruption.
Trey spent over $100,000 in 2019 in his campaign for mayor, a job that theoretically pays nothing.
DeleteThe U.S. Supreme Court threw out lawsuit against Trump on the Emoluments Clause (re: his hotel in Washington, D.C.). Politicians can be businessmen, too.
DeleteMendez has done nothing wrong, at least based on the information pushed by your breathless reporting.
Big difference between what Trump did and what Mendez is doing. Trump was kept his businesses running while he was President. Mendez is using inside information and people to make money and get free money. Why do you think this Ramiro guy resigned? He's buying properties downtown while he's approving the city to buy properties and pump money downtown. What happens to the value of his properties when the city pumps money into the area? What Mendez is doing is not business. It's corruption.
DeleteEddie Lucio III also said he wouldn't run again to focus more time on "business", any thoughts on whether they are all doing this together?
DeleteThat would be a good partnership between Eddie Munster and the Midget.
DeleteIs the enano a Democrat or a Republican?
ReplyDeleteHe must be a Republican because only Republicans do this. Democrats are about helping the poor not about enriching themselves. LOL! So keep voting Democrat.
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