If you had voted in one city commission district for the past 17 years and three days after you registered to run for city commission in a neighboring district claiming that you lived there all along, would this not raise legitimate questions about your true residency?
That, apparently, is what happened in the case of Rosalio "Leo" Rosales, who is one of four candidates running for the District 3 position non the city ballot, the incumbent Melissa Zamora choosing not to run for reelection and devoting her time to being the public relations rep for Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz.
We digress, but we must say that her talents have been made obvious in the first 100 days of the Saenz administration, with domestic abuse billboards dotting strategic spots on the county's thoroughfares and a memorial vigil held for the children slaughtered by convicted murderer John Allen Rubio.Nonetheless, District 3 candidates in order of their place on the ballot are David Belleperche, Debbie Portillo, Martin Sarkis and Rosalio “Leon” Rosales.
Belleperche is an unknown quantity, having arrived in town recently. Portillo has been the executive secretary for United Brownsville, the shadow government funded with public "donations" by local entities, Sarkis is a small businessman who runs a mechanic and state-inspection station, and Rosales is the director of the Good Neighbor Settlement Home, a social service agency that feeds the homeless.
Some have taken umbrage with our mentioning that Rosales until March 4 had listed his address with the Cameron County Elections Office at 1029 Squaw Valley, an address that would have put him in District 4, a position now held by John Villarreal. Three days after he filed his application for a place on the city election ballot, he filled a change of address form at the county elections office listing his new address as 5810 Hitching Post, an address that now puts him in District 3, the position for which he filed to run as a candidate.
To the uninitiated, this may not seem like a big deal, but if you had sworn to the Sate of Texas you lived at the Squaw Valley address to get a voting card, and at the same time you are swearing that you lived at the Hitching Post address for the last seven years, what are the voters to believe?
Rosales may be a likable enough candidate in some quarters, but this matter has to do with some rather basic features of our electoral process, namely: If you are registered to vote in a different district and had voted as recently as last November's elections in that district, then Presto!, you register to run in another district and stated in a sworn statement that you had lived there for the last seven years, were all the times you voted in the last 16 years in the other district fraudulent?
Regardless of the objections from any camp, these are legitimate questions for this candidate. To opine otherwise just reveals the degree to which some people will overlook the obvious when they seek to establish their own unspecified agenda.
5 comments:
Zamora's efforts in the DA's office present an illusion of good works....there is little or no real evidence that anything in the DA's office has changed, except the person sitting in the chair. If Melissa's job is to promote the DA, then she is doing that. The DA is advertising, but is he really doing anything? Has anything changed in that office? Has the prosecution of criminals been taking place? We don't know, because all the money is being spent promoting the man, and we hear nothing about effectiveness of his role. To me its all a big smoke screen....to give the impression of action, but not really showing evidence of action. This smoke screen means that all sorts of "old" crap continues, while Saenz takes his moustache out in the breeze for these promotions. And, how much is this smoke screen created by Zamora costing us???? And which of her friends, allies or business interests are benefiting from our tax dollars??????? Will we ever be able to trust anyone in the Cameron County Courthouse??????
The new DA is just grandstanding in a frenzy to hog media attention....going so far as to using those slaughtered children for his agenda.
Just you watch.... the Rubio case will be resurrected to divert attention from the real issues plaguaing Cameron County....corruption-corruption-corruption.
He will probably dig out some other spectacular cases to try to pull the wool over our eyes.
Wouldn't be surprised if he pulled out the Susy Mowbray or Dora Cisneros fiascos.
Juanito have a great spring break y te portas bien que nada te questa.
juanito, i think you need to focus more on the corruption, the sports park $35 million dollar fiasco and then the nonresponsibility of no one, no bidding or purchase order process in place, the high paying jobs at the county de david garcia and pistol pete sepulveda, they seem to be a bit too darn high for me as a taxpayer. Elected officlas need to get more responsible, the city mayor and city commission, county elected officials,Bisd trustte board or do we eventrust them anymore? They better pray that us poor taxpayers dont croak cuz then who the hell is going to pay those taxes so they can continue with all of these cinverguenzadas? el chiefo
Dos Frias blog had this story on Luis Saenz and Melly's bullshit. check it out.
"..y te portas bien que nada te questa."
Nombre! Cuesta bastante, portarse bien previene a uno de emborracharse y hacer desmadre.
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