Monday, May 1, 2017

WHY VOTE AGAINST ROSE GOWEN AND JOHN VILLARREAL? HOW HAVE THEY FAILED? LET US COUNT THE WAYS...

(With Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

To John and Rose, from us:
You ask us what have you done that we won't vote for thee?
Let us count the whys, just bear with me

You have gone along with Tony 
To raid this town and people 
To depths and breadths and heights 
Our souls can only reach, when feeling out of sight

You two voted to give away Lincoln Park to the UT
And had Mark Sossi say the vote was only to "convey"
And planned to move the park next to a sewer plant
Where our kids and elderly folk could play

And ethical Rose, while hired by UT,
Discussed it and voted for it anyway
To pass Tony's deal and let it be

Now, after she raided the city budgets
For millions for her bikes and trails – 
For health and joy for two or three –
She runs Sunday ads to raise taxes to patch potholes
And pay for frills like drainage and good streets

You two have let Martinez raid the treasury
To benefit his friends and chosen raza
An used millions of our money to buy their land
And handed him $2.3 million to buy the useless Casa 

You have stood by and saw how he
Signed over half a lot of forfeited land, to himself,
Raised the value of his land and
Then sold it down the street, for a nice fee
And you pretended not to see...
To the ends of being and ideal grace. 

You two have also abused us 
To the level of every day’s 
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
And voted to hike the cost of our water and our light
For a Tenaska electric plant deal no one has ever seen...
And probably never will by day or night

We abhor this freely, as men strive for right. 
We'll vote against thee purely, as they turn from praise. 
We'll work against thee with the passion put to use
 In our old griefs, and with our childhood’s faith. 

We'll be against thee with a passion we have seemed to lose 
With our lost saints. We're against thee with the breath, 
Smiles, tears, of all our lives; and, if God choose, and the you win,
We will be against thee, but – because of your past ways – 
We'd rather see you lose, you see


(Ed.'s Note. Early voting continues today [Monday] and Tuesday at early voting sites. Election is Saturday at the voting precincts. Please vote.)

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Neece pays you to write this shit? LOL

Anonymous said...

Juan, why are you always stealing what others write, bro? Vato jambon!!!!

Anonymous said...

Nice touch on the poem. Isn't "Elizabeth" Blimp's middle name? Ha ha ha

Anonymous said...

ja,ja,ja "from us"

Anonymous said...

John Villarreal and Rose Zavaleta Gowen are guilty of supporting secret negotiations to spend millions of tax dollars to buy worthless property, failure to produce jobs and bring business to Brownsville. Their efforts to support spending millions on real estate in support of Julieta Garcia have provided nothing to the city and UTRGV has failed to provide the educational opportunities to our community. We are back to where we were 25 years ago....in the days of Pan Am, our students end up having to travel to Edinburg to complete work for a degree. Thanks for nothing, Tony Martinez, John Villarreal and Queen of Bicycles...Rose Gowen. Thanks for nothing!!!

Anonymous said...

Obviously you don't like the facts bro

Anonymous said...

Villarreal and Gowen need to go...Martinez SUCKS!!!!

Anonymous said...

Vote out
Vote Neece, Castro and Munguia

Anonymous said...

BECAUSE THEY SUCK!
BECAUSE THEY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEIR CONSTITUENTS!
BECAUSE THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES BETTER THAN US!
BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE JACKSHIT FOR THE PEOPLE OF BROWNSVILLE!
BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT BIG MONEY INTERESTS!
BUT MAINLY BECAUSE THEY SUCK!

Anonymous said...

can you imagine "brownsville cheezme commission"...yikes

Anonymous said...

I can imagine a Brownsville with a real city commission representing the true will and meeting the needs of the community. I can imagine a Brownsville City Commission that has legitimate unbiased investigations into backdoor deals paid for with taxpayers' money, that is what I can imagine.
IMAGINE BROWNSVILLE
A UNITED BROWNSVILLE.
IMAGINE!

Anonymous said...

BECAUSE THEY SUCK!

Martin Rivers said...

Talk, talk, talk; If you all have to flap your gums, do it at your neighbors. Tell them to get off their complacent asses and GO OUT TO VOTE !

rita