CHEEZMEH DROPS THE PRETENSE: WITH ERIN HERNANDEZ AND MASSO ALL ALONG DUPING THE GULLIBLE

By Juan Montoya

With the start of early voting, the ringleaders at Cheezemh are are discarding the pretense that they have been honest brokers and abandoned the charade that their forums or for-a-slight-fee "debates" were anything but a stage to prop up their candidates and set up the others who attended unaware that there was a pr-set agenda to these meets.

Erasmo Castro, who goes by the name (aka) of head Cheez, lamented the fact that the group (or whatever is left of his followers) could not continue to focus on the issues and instead had to choose and endorse particular candidates for public office.

He predicted that his courageous stand would be ridiculed by bloggers and commenters on the blogs.

"I am sure the bloggers and Zekeee are going to have a field day with this post, but if you know me at all you know that the Cheez is not moved by what idiots post on their blogs or what worst idiots post anonymously there. I hereby ask that we unite and support not only Erin Hernandez Garcia for Justice of the Peace, but also to support Carlos Masso as the Democratic candidate for District Attorney of Cameron County."

Well, for once he was right.

Those of us who have been raised here and have been involved in local politics have seen interest groups for pay like Cheezmeh come and go. They stay until the pickings are no longer ripe and disappear like a flash in the pan.

Erasmo says that he will gladly take claim for the group's "triumphs" in electing the likes of city commissioner Jessica Tetrau-Kalifa and John Villarreal. Are you sure you want to take credit for electing a commissioner who tarnished the people's office by getting involved in at least five case of domestic violence, only to escape prosecution when Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos refused to prosecute? Well, we know how that office has worked, don't we?

And while we're at it, another feather that Erasmo is claiming for his cap is that of electing Villarreal. Well, Johnny boy showed his true colors as a patriot and defender of American freedoms when he insisted that the city administration remove the Citizens Against Voter Abuse (CAVA) booth from the EarthFest celebrations.

Apparently, while in the shadows of the federal courthouse where the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights are defended, Villarreal disdainfully deprived the group of its First Amendment rights with one arrogant swoop.

Even her American flag was removed at his insistence. How dare American citizens display the flag while fighting against the abuse of the right to have fair elections? What will they want next, freedom of religion?

And these are the candidates that Cheezmeh and the Head Cheez want to take credit for foisting upon our citizenry?

What are we to think of their support for Erin Hernandez Garcia and Carlos Masso?

Come off it. There is not patriotism, community grass roots sentiment or any groundswell for these endorsements. It's money and self-interest, pure and simple.

When Masso gave them money, they turned on Luis Saenz with a vengeance, running ads unearthed from 17 years ago against him. And Cheezmeh has always been in the pocket (and taking from it) of the Hernandez clan.

So when the group holds "forums" and "debates" to lure the gullible, there has always been a hidden agenda working behind the scenes to conceal the real intentions of the leaders of this group from the unsuspecting public.

So call whoever is not lured by your siren song "idiots."And you can say that (as you did about Mary Helen CAVA), that she's full of "sh_t," or whatever other sobriquets they use in Austin, or East Texas.

But for someone like Castro, who has been convicted of felony theft once, and then not once, but twice, convicted of theft by check and has had poor Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants charge in federal court that he and some of his relatives (sister Linda, for example) took their money under false pretenses and are operating a continuing criminal enterprise (RICO) slur the name of a local candidate like Saenz who was never been charged or convicted of anything, is absurd.

In crititicizing Saenz's candidacy, Erasmo – Mr. Right – said Saenz was the "wrong" candidate.

Then, in their campaign against Begum – an opponent of their favorite Erin Hernandez –she is ridiculed for having an accent and her having received her education in Mexico. Do you people know where you are? Are you aware that the majority of us living here have friends or relatives in Mexico who do not speak perfect English and who have received their education in Mexico before they came here?

If you want to emphasize the fact that Erin is an attorney, well, she should know better than to be a treasurer for a candidate for political office (Villarreal) when holding a judicial position (magistrate in Primera). It's not only lends her office to a political candidate, but also compromises the integrity of the office.

And remember that it was Erin, after all, that defended the Herandez's harvesting of politiquera votes when Ruben Peña dragged them into court. Oh, we get it now! Could it be that Villarreal, a Hernandez supporter, took offense that Mary Helen might be talking about Erin and his pals Ernie and Norma?
And it was Erin who has maintained the legal farce that her dad's vending machine contract with the county is legit because, you see, he doesn't own the company. Erin became the owner on the county contract when he became commissioner, and now that she is a candidate for JP, her mother Norma suddenly became the legal owner.

It's legal, we guess. But does that make it right? Is that the legal experience we deserve?

Sorry Erasmo, but it is you and your followers who are all "wrong."