The latest Greater Brownsville Incentive Corporation's (GBIC) fiasco has sparked outrage throughout the community. T-Mobile's decision to close its Brownsville facility and terminate nearly 500 employees after receiving millions in local taxpayer incentives is the latest in a long line of GBIC failures.
Just as culpable in this boondoggle is the Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC), GBIC's bastard child that survives on a taxpayer annual subsidy in excess of $500,000. In the opinion of an angry and growing minority, they concur with the charges of corrup
tion and incompetence and are hurling brickbats at the two entities operating out of glass houses.
Just as culpable in this boondoggle is the Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC), GBIC's bastard child that survives on a taxpayer annual subsidy in excess of $500,000. In the opinion of an angry and growing minority, they concur with the charges of corrup
tion and incompetence and are hurling brickbats at the two entities operating out of glass houses.The following diatribes describe the frustration that many feel toward GBIC and BEDC. In the wake of the T-Mobile mess, Brownsville Blues has rec
eived scores of e-mails that are unanimous in their condemnation of GBIC and BEDC. Here is a sampling of those outbursts:
Juan Garza: Hello! Anybody home? How come nobody is answering the phone at GBIC and BEDC? Has T-Mobile cut their service because GBIC and BEDC couldn't come up with millions more in bribes? When are our business leaders going to accept that they are a bunch of losers? Of course, they don't give a shit. It isn't their money.
Jose Martinez: When is GBIC going to wash its hands of that greasy bastard Ruben "El Gargajo" Gallegos Jr.? Why is Mayor Tony Martinez, who isn't related to me, putting up with this pendejo's bullshit? "Gargajo" tried to undermine Martinez on the tollway with intimidating tactics. It's time that somebody put that fat fuck in his place. He could be Ernie "The Eel" Hernandez's evil twin!
Maria Gonzalez: As long as Jason "Jackass" Hilts is running BEDC, the taxpayers are going to take a bath. When he doesn't have his hands in our pockets, he is charging luxury items for himself on the
compa
ny card. Brownsville's economic future is controlled by thieves and thugs. Mexico used to complain about being so far from God and so close to the United States. I can understand our neighbors' sentiments. We may be residing in the most corrupt community in the country.
Carlos Cardenas: What about all the sweetheart deals that the Brownsville Herald chooses to ignore. Why isn't the newspaper and Emma Perez-Trevino investigating the multi-million-dollar industrial park and Gallegos' relationship to the former owners of the land who sold their acreage at an absurdly inflated price? The Herald never nabs any of
the crooks because its lazy reporters don't arrive at the scene until after the crime has been committed.
Overheard on Scott Street: What is going to happen to the people who work there? Are we going to put them through the same old hoops of retraining and job seeking at Cameron County Workforce. That bunch there is useless. What they ought to do is auction off the property and building and distribute the money among the workers. Think of the mortgages that won't get paid, the car payments that won't be made and the income that is going to be missing from those homes!
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