Bobby Wightman-Cervantes, Brownsville's blogging legal eagle despite disbarment, disagrees with my posting about Jennifer Stanton's qualification to run for mayor in the city of Brownsville.
If Bobby's contention is legally correct, Ben Neece went to unnecessary trouble in establishing a residence in downtown Brownsville to run for City Commissioner, District 4 and any future candidates for city office in Brownsville need not be concerned about living precisely within city limits.
FWIW, we post Mr. Wightman's legal observation below:
Sorry Jim you have the story all wrong on Stanton.
By law the city can no longer decertify her because early voting already started.
Montoya's claim she never registered to vote with the city is bogus. No such process exists.
§145 of the code "c) A candidate in an election other than the general election for state and county officers may be declared ineligible before the beginning of early voting by personal appearance by the authority with whom an application for a place on the ballot for the office sought by the candidate is required to be filed."
The city has verified she is still on the ballot and has not been decertified.
The last I checked we are a land of laws, not bought and post garbage my Montoya paid for by Gilbert Hinojosa.
Almost to a person every comment on he story is an attack on Hinojosa and Jared.
The story was very fluid. Any candidate could have challenged her before the deadline for the printing of the ballots. Not one bothered to challenge her.
What does that say about them? Cameron County lists her as living in Brownsville.
It is like DC they are part of the US, with no real representation at the national level.
ETJ areas are in part controlled by the city but have o voting rights.
They are looking at an emergency meeting to put the blame on the city attorney and secretary.
They can drop her but if a lawyer steps up it will hold up the run-off for a while.
But I agree the Herald is a joke and no one takes them serious, and if all of Montoya's comments are an indicator they are calling him out as bought and paid for by Hinojosa.
Since when does anything stated by Montoya is law?
First I did not disagree with you as to Jennifer being able to run for mayor, i simply pointed out by law it was too late to disqualify her. Also as to Ben Neece I proved through city documents he did not live at his downtown resident at his made up address. I proved at the time he signed the Application form he was in an ETJ resident. I proved there was no certificate of occupancy for the area he was building out in the Galonsky building, But the city secretary ran cover for him. And for the record. my law license bar number appears on pleadings before the Texas Supreme Court and one trial court in Cameron county. The state bar is a criminal enterprise and will sooner than later be held accountable for what they are publishing. I was never under Texas law disbarred. but repeating a lie always helps to spin a story. Jim when a law firm will pay you $3,000 for 15 minutes work let me know. I was in Peru when the request came via email for me to do a project. They offered $3,000 for what was 15 minutes work. They had no idea how to fix the problem and figured it would take weeks for the associated to find the law library. They offered the money and I accepted. I finished before going to bed that night and held it for three days and emailed back what they wanted.
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