THE MOVING FINGER WRITES, AND HAVING WRIT, MOVES ON

And the Lord did sayeth unto to him, "I have caused to be sent many messengers, but your heart was hardened to their words."

By Juan Montoya
Things are getting "curiouser and curiouser" in this city election cycle.
None more so than in the race for District 2 between Jessica Tetreau and incumbent Charlie Atkinson.
If you remember, state officials determined that his first opponent Ezequiel “Zeke” Silva was ineligible to run for the position because of as felony case conviction back in 1994 for having two driving while under the influence arrests.
Silva pleaded guilty and was given 10 years probation, which he served, in 1995. However, he did not get deferred adjudication nor did he request a pardon. So, after being in and off the ballot at least twice, he was finally off. Tetreau, likewise, was first denied a place on the ballot as a write-in candidate when city officials determined that she did not have enough signatures on her petition. However, they later determined that she qualified under state election code rules and they acquiesced and she will be on the ballots in time for the May 2 early election voting.
While this was going on, many felt they detected the machinations (a la Wizard of Oz) of city contract attorney Mark Sossi and Atkinson trying to influence the city staff into disqualifying each new opponent as they appeared.
Now the Rrun-Rrun has learned that new evidence has surfaced that as late as November 12, 2010, she reported to police that she lives at 2100 San Marcelo, Apt. 162outside the District 2 boundaries.
The information is contained in a police report she filed against her husband Arturo Kalifa in an Assault (Family violence) complaint she filed against him where she lists (and signs) her name as Jessic Kalifa.
In that incident, she told police Kalifa had assaulted her and inflicted a scratch on the right side of her neck.
If the information she gave police is correct, then Atkinson's complaints that she lives outside the district and filed illegally as living with her parents and siblings at 15 Heather Lane might have some credibility.
As far back as September 2007, Tetreau and her husband Arturo have compiled a record of domestic disturbances that have sent Brownsville Police Department officers to the San Marcelo address on at least three occasions.
In the first one, after he complained to police that she had hidden his keys to prevent him from going to his business (a night club), they were advised by the officer to seek counseling and "legal help for their long-lived personal problems."
In the next incident on June 2009, officers were again called to fill a complaint report by her against her husband and his son after they allegedly assaulted her at the club.
The questions of her residency have reached the point where she has complained to friends and supporters that someone had installed a video camera ion the apartment next to the San Marcelo address, and that she suspects it was at the behest of Atkinson. Atkinson, of course, denies he had anything to do with it.
Charlie, whose abrasive in-your-face style rubs many the wrong way, may be on the point of filing a complaint against Tetreau's candidacy with the state, we are told. Whether he will remains to be seen. Whether he can do anything to prevent her name from being on the ballot with a scant week before early voting begins May 2 appears highly doubtful.

However, this weekend a number of Tetreau supporters were pounding the sidewalk and knocking on doors in District 2 in support of her candidacy. Add this to the fact that the social networks and media have vowed to unseat him with the aid of Cameron County commissioner Ernei Hernandez, and we may have the m,akings of a "perfect political storm" that may just work to topple the commissioner.

"There is no secret to the fact that Ernie hates Atkinson and that Ernie never forgets," said a Tetreau supporter. Between Ernie's mail-in ballots and his detractors in the blogs, it may be too much for him to overcome. This could be a historical election."