At one time, City Commissioner Rick Longoria was a member of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation.
Those were the days when he and Carlos Cisneros gave Charlie Atkinson a full run of the treasury to dink into his Sport Park, the boondoggle out north of the city off US 77-83.
Rick talked like a Chamber of Commerce booster then. He was a veritable Mariano "Bean" Ayala cheerleader for Brownsville. The GBIC and the sister organization Brownsville Economic Development Council were going to put Brownsville on the map and provide the incentives to drive the city's economic future into the future and beyond.
Not that anyone believed them, or for that matter Ayala. But it sounded good nonetheless.
Fast forward to the new city administration headlined by Mayor Tony Martinez. There's Tony on the United Brownsville website waxing philosophically about the city's bright future and urging all of us to be "All In" for the sake of the coming generations. "Go to school kids. Pay your taxes adults. There's a coming boom and we're riding the crest of that wave."
He is, after all, Da Mayor, and people expect him to be at the front of the parade with his Drum Major hat and staff or maze. It's part of the show.
Well, Tony has been doing such a good job it seems that even the Chinese, across the globe is you sail west like Columbus was urging, have heard Martinez leading the parade. They sent a television crew to film the optimist mayor and Martinez waxed on camera bout the coming boom to his little ol' city on the border.
Well, Rick, who is never at a loss for a discouraging word, just couldn't help himself but had to crack a guffaw at the very notion.
"Boom?," Longoria asked online.
Yes, Rick. Martinez is merely putting on a good face on perhaps a bad current situation. But as a city commissioner, once would expect that you would fall in line like a good soldier as you always have and join in the cheers. Dissing Da Mayor along with his critics when our guests are n town is not really good form, even if he's (as you like to say) is full of "--it."
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Day by day we see McAllen progress and attract new businesses....that attract us to drive up there to spend our money...and other valley cities like, Harlingen and Weslaco seem on a positive path to expansion and new investment. Why not Brownsville???? City and county officials can't survive without the tax dollars invested by our citizens and that means we don't progress. There is no new ideas in our leadership and they "leaders", if we an even call them that, seem content to hold office and do nothing. Doing nothing is obviously perceived as better than failing. And so, we swirl down the preverbial toilet while all around us, cities thrive. Our "leaders" seem more interested in saying "I held the office", than in trying to list improvements they made, might have made or could have made. Brownsville is the perfect bastion for graduates of BISD....where "ignorance is bliss".
Not a "Historic Event" that could get participation from Julie Garcia and her minions. Did the mayor even go???? Does anyone know what Ben Reyna does at UTB....or how much he is being paid...which surely comes out of faculty funds??? How many administrators at UTB are paid from moneys allocated or appropriated to fund faculty positions? Thus, how many faculty positions are being used up to man Julie's administration with her flunkies???
Correction.....Longoria, Cisneros, Atkinson, and Troiani were once a part of the BCIC, not GBIC, big difference!
REPLY TO CORRECTION...LONGORIA Y DEMAS RATAS NO HICIERON UNA CHINGADA CUANDO FUERON COMMISIONARIOS NOMAS ROBARSE LA FERIA DEL 'SPORTSPARK',attencion SR.ALCALDE AHORA QUE TIENE MAYORIA EN LA COMISION HAGANOS UN FAVOR ANTES QUE TERMINE DE SER ALCALDE Y CORRA A TODOS LOS CORRUTOS DE LA CUIDAD EMPEZANDO POR EL MARRANO DE CABLER,Y SIGALE CON SANTANA[PUBLIC WORKS] PETE GLZ[FINANZAS]Y OTROS RATAS QUE NO ME VIENEN A LA CABEZA.POR ULTIMO SR TONY MARTINEZ NO LA CHINGUE Y LIMPIE LA CUIDAD.
Puede limpiar la ciudad empezando con correr a todos los bomberos arrastrados buenos para nada maricones y mamones.
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