Remember when we told you about the rampant "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" compadrismo plaguing the Cameron County Works Department fostered by Pct. 2 Commissioner Ernie Hernandez?
We outlined how Public Works Director Louis Ara and his supervisor Santana Vallejo have stuffed that department with their compadres, relatives and in-laws, often resulting in material losses for the county as in the case of the Carmen Road overlay fiasco that is being redone today after Vallejo and his crews supposedly finished an expensive overlay less than a year ago.
We outlined the fact that Ara's sister, a former Hernandez employee at Ernie's Fiesta Graphics, is now the receptionist for Pct. 2; how one of Vallejos brothers is in the colonia road crew, and how Vallejo's compadre Rosendo Rodriguez and himself have somehow slipped through the cracks after being the targets of a homeowner's complaint that they were selling driveway pipes they dug up during county road projects.
The complaint against the men were dismissed,
according to sheriff department officials, on a "technicality."We also outlined how Vallejo's placing of inexperienced an foreman on the Cameron Park colonia project had resulted in at least one worker getting injured after the foreman did not follow safety procedures and a trench caved in on him causing severe injuries and resulting in costly medical bills for the county.
We also wrote how Rosendo's brother Ricardo was given a position in the Cameron County Cameron Park crew simply because Vallejo and his brother Rosendo are compadres.
Now we learn that Ricardo Rodriguez is no longer with the Cameron Park crew following yet another mishap involving heavy equipment while he was the operator.
Apparently, Ricardo Rodriguez was given the job of operating a backhoe with members of the road crew assisting him as they worked on roads in Cameron Park.
One of them, one Noe Santibañez, was working helping Rodriguez when the operator lost control of the hydraulic arm and struck Santibañez, causing injury that fortunately turned out to be non-life threatening. However, as is the policy of municipalities and governmental entities, the fact that an onsite accident occurred required that the operator be subjected to a test for the presence of alcohol or other controlled (illegal) substances to determine whether their consumption may have contributed to the accident.
Rodriguez, apparently, refused to take the illegal substance test and is no longer part of the colonia road crew. Now, will the fact that his brother Rosendo is Vallejo's compadre lead to a reinstatement somewhere else on the county payroll, or will county administrators apply the rules impartially on this one?
13 comments:
The question is where is the suposely commissiones i think insteaded of commissioners we should call them turtlers because they waik n hide there heads in side iam aresidented of cameron county i have seen a lots of things go on n one person i tried to talk n take her to see with her own eyes but she said she would call me and she never came or call and i can prove it last thing i saw they did part of the parking lot of la hacieda de los reyes .Sofia u know it and this thinks are going to continue as long that Sofia n ernie hernandez dont stop this shit to happen .
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LEARN;WE HAVE "RATS" IN THE SYSTEM.THE FLEET-MANIT. SUPERVISOR,WHO HAS TWO COUNT INDICTMENT BY THE GRAND JURY,FOR ABUSE OF OFFICAL CAPACITY,STILL WORKING FOR THE COUNTY.HE GOT A $8,000.00 RISE FROM COMM. GARZA PCT.3;TALK ABOUT TRUST,LOOK WHAT THEY PLACED AS SUPER. OF PUBLIC WORKS,HIS PEOPLE; SANTANA; RUBEN' GILBERT,ALL THIS PEOPLE ARE CAUSING US TAX DOLLARS
LOOK AT THEIR TRACK RECORD,;STANA, CITY OF BROWNSVILLE,"RAT",RUBEN MAKING WORK FOR 8 MONTHS,TILL THE COLONIA FUNDS KICKED IN.
HAVING LAW ENFORCEMENT GO TO CAMERON PARK, RUBEN'S CREWS NEEDED TO BE MORE SAEFTY AWARNESS. OF THE SCHOOL BUSES.
AND ONR MORE TIME ;COME OCT. WE WILL BE ASKING FOR A TAX HIKE;TO COVER PETE'S AND DAVID SALARIES OF HALF A MILLION DOLLAR.
WHat happen to the county judge's ACCOUNTABILITY' INTEGRITY AND TRUST STILL COUNTS;
WHEN ARE THESE COMM. GOING TO WAKE UP,AND SMELL THE ROSES,
WE NEED A CHANGE;COMM. THAT WILL NOT LET THIS KIND OF ISSUE SLIDE OR LOOK THE OTHER WAY.
GOD HELP US.
THESE PEOPLE ARE CLEANING THEIR ASSES WITH THE COUNTY POLICY BOOK! REMEMBER ZERO TOLERANCE. WHY IS ERNIE HERNANDEZ TOLERATING ALL OF THIS? I'M AN EX-COUNTY WORKER AND I REMEMBER SANTANA VALLEJO. HE USED TO DRINK BEER ON COUNTY VEHICLES, ON COUNTY TIME, AND DO SIDE JOBS WITH COUNTY EQUIPMENT.
So you think its only public works?? Compadrismo happens everywhere in cameron county you STUPID ASS. How do you think commisioners get their votes if not for special favors. Get the FUCK out of your bubble BITCH. A fair statement would be "Compadrismo RULES cameron county".
Get off your FUCKING dam high horses people!!! These are hardworking people that do the job that neither you nor I want to do. That is to MAKE decisions that affect so many citizens. You only talk about situations that YOU perceive as being wrong. But I wonder who are your sources for all this “inside information” that you seem so eager to share with all of us? Are these the same people that choose not to GIVE THEIR NAMES when they attack coworkers? They should STAND UP and BACK UP their accusations so that those County employees that are affected can defend themselves. These sources of yours, in my opinion, are backstabbing hypocrites because they only voice THEIR CONCERNS when they don’t get their way at work. What better way to pay back then by casting a black cloud on someone’s work reputation!! Get a DAMN LIFE people and let them do their job...
No more Hernandez. Vote for Begum, Vote for Cookie, vote for Israel Tapia, even vote for the Hernandez that isn't related to Ernie, vote for ANYONE but Erin Hernandez Garcia!!! enough is enough
Pick on other depts as well, this ship happens everywhere in the county. Para que se hacen PENDEJOS!!! All commissioners owe favors even the judge. Integrity my ass!!
pura cakadoddle do
dont leave the tax office and tony yzaguirre out either mucho favors over the pass 20 plus some years verda tony? y la tia aurora de la garza tambien, verda tony? y el primo luis sanez? verda tony?
dont forget crook Joe Rivera, he and aurora pinche garza have been in power for a long time, both of them can already retire. let the new generation get a bite of pie...
The only thing i say that Sofia Benavides dont know a thing about streets. .El Gavino Vasques compadre i mas de Sofia el ase las decisiones yo la verda no endiendo porque se quedo Sofia a mi me gustaria ver la deperdido verla en las obras que se andan asiendo con todo esto que se habla yo lo mejor que hicera caso a la persona que puso el comentorio de lo que paso en LA HACIENDA DE LOS REYES DONDE HISIERON GRAN PARTE DEL PARKING LOT NO FUE POQUITO YO LO COMPROVE SI ESCIERTO .HELP PEOPLE THAT REALLY NEED IT NOT LA HACIENDO LOS REYES. NO EL DE MAQUINIDAS.ERNIE HERNANDEZ CHECK IT OUT AND SEE IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES LA HACIENDA LOS REYES OR MAYBE YOU DONT KNOW WHERES THAT AT OR I HOPE U FINE IT.OR Maybe we should call eye witnes 5 or maybe Sofia can pay that parking lot of her pocket or make all the crew pitch in to recover the matirial they use IN LA HACIENDA LOS REYES I DONT HAVE NOTHING TO RETIRED ILL SEEING WHAT HAPPENS AROUND MY BARRIO OR COLONIA. I WILL
sofia y gavino mas que trabajador? wow i saw them once at motel 6 on the expressway and 802 mas que? wow buen par de sinverguenzas
Motel 6? Only if gabino likes fruit flyes.... What did really happened at hacienda de los reyes????
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