BUC BACKS CATY AND RAUL: COMES UNDER CHEEZMEH GUN

By Juan Montoya
The Brownsville Unity Council has endorsed Raul Lopez for Justice of the Peace 2-2 and Caty Presas-Garica for Place 5 on the board of the Brownsvile Independent School Board, and earned the wrath of non-endorsees and cyber politiquero Erasmo Castro of Cheezmeh.
"As we move forward and steer this BISD ship in the right direction,The B.U.C. Brownsville Unions Coalition overwhelmingly endorse Mrs. Caty Presas-García for her Re-Election bid for Trustee Place 5.
Albert Alegria leader for (BEA) Brownsville Educators Association encourage Teachers, Classified, Administrators and Certified to support and VOTE for Mrs. Presas-García for a NEW VISION of Commitment to the education Community!"
No sooner had the BUC made the endorsement that the mierda hit the fan from the usual (and some unusual) quarters.
Don Clupper, a retired teacher running for Place 5 against Presas-Garcia, of course didn't agree with the labor unions' choice. And neither, apparently, did some bloggers, most noticeably a disgruntled cuber politiquero from Austin who fancies himself as a sort of Pied Piper for the forlorn voters of Brownsville. Erasmo Castro, who goes under the self-labeled title of Head Cheez, chided the BUC for supporting "anti-union" candidates. We suspect he thinks of Clupper, an Association Of Brownsville Educators member, and Lopez,a bail bondsman, of being anti-union.
Funny, but even the AOBE endorsed Butch Barbosa, also running in Place 5 against Presas-Garcia, and not Clupper, a retired algebra teacher.
Of course, there was no peep from Castro when the same AOBE endorsed GED certified Ruben Cortez over teacher and Assistant Superintendent from San Benito Celeste Sanchez with more than 45 years experience for the District 2 seat of the Texas State School Board of Education.
Catro's horse in the JP 2-2 race, Erin Hernandez Garcia is no labor leader, either. But we guess that just because Lopez is running as a Republican in Brownsville that makes him anti-union.
Brownsville, as folks are wont to say, is different than Austin, or for that matter, any other place in Texas.
Clupper, still under the delusion that Le Gran Fromage from Austin is going to deliver him the Place 5 election, makes liberal use of their page to deliver the typical sour-grapes message. He urges Caty to resign because of the mess at transportation. Mmm. Maybe he should deliver that message to Jose Hector Chirinos, a candidate to the board like himself. After all, the mess that exists there had its genesis during his watch. In fact, Presas-Garcia was one of the board members who approved the administration's recommendation to remove him after an audit was conducted in the department.
And to show just how petty El Señor Donaldo Clupper has become, he even commented that the number of patches on BUC officer Rico Bocanegra led him to believe that "he is a Camp Fire Girl. LOL."
Those of us with some experience in mass media know that a graphic composed the way the one that has the gun aimed at the BUC members and Lopez's heads is no fluke. It was done deliberately, even if cloaked in the "shooting themselves in the foot" rhetoric. It is a veiled threat and reveals the mindset of the rancid politiquero from Austin. He knows what he's doing.
Yet, he considers any comments made about him to be criticism from those that don;t understand his messianic purpose. He is, after all, a self-styled minister ready and look after his gullible (and dwindling) flock. In fact, he just about declares himself a martyr.
 In a calculated display of Christian goodwill, he labels the "3 or 4"officers of the BUC "full of shit" and says their endorsement of Presas-Garcia will result in "more money for pachangas and beer at the Vermillion."
But, hey, he is willing to suffer the slings and arrows of his tormentors (for a slight fee, of course).
"Despite the fact that I am constantly in the minds (dare I say hearts?) of my detractors, I think little of them," intones Le Fromage. ""May we continue to unite as family-friends and as a community."
Across cyberspace, Mean Mister Brownsville's Jim Barton urges voters to vote against Presas-Garcia and Argelia Miller running for Place 3 against Otis Powers because he sees an evil conspiracy afoot where both women are "bitches" of Carlos Quintanilla, the Accion America activist who oversaw the formation of the PAC that defeated Rick Zayas and Ruben Cortez in 2010.
He then goes on to regurgitate the circumstantial links between the women and Ted Parker of HealthSmart, the health services provider sued by the BISD at the urging of the former majority in the waning days of the 2008 BISD board campaign.
Apparently, Barton has some grainy black and white photographs identifying someone who looks like Presas-Garcia and Quintanilla at the Grassy Knoll in Dallas when JFK was shot.
It is the common logic that when Zayas and Cortez convinced the majority (Joe Colunga and Rolando Aguilar and Minerva Peña) to file the lawsuit under the pretense they could recover $14.3 million from alleged overcharges by HealthSmart, they had their eye on the potential impact of the lawsuit on their re-election chances.
The voters didn't buy it then, Jim. And after spending $100,00s on that snipe hunt, it is highly doubtful that any board majority in the near future will open that Pandora's box again.