Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall,"
You thought they were all a’kiddin' you..."
Like a Rolling Stone, by Bob Dylan
By Juan Montoya
For the better part of two decades – more than 20 years, in fact – University of Texas at Brownsville President Julieta Garcia was the undisputed queen of the Harvard by the Rio Grande.
She wheeled and dealed with the combined assets of the Texas Southmost College-UTB "partnership" as she pleased. She made sure her sycophants and supporters got the plum jobs, doled herself out a fine salary and increases while the university was pinching pennies and indebted the community college district taxpayers into the next decade with bond issues to construct palatial edifices on the campus.
Who can forget how she gave herself a $30,000 raise with a transfer of that amount for the English Department to her salary slot to augment her salary to more than $340,000 while requiring the departments to implement cuts.And how about the issuance of the $68 million construction bond issue after voters rejected her first call for $123 million bond issue only to find out after the cash was spent that by shifting this here and moving this there she actually ended up spending the original $123 million voters be damned?
Meanwhile, their kids were paying the highest tuition and user-fee rates in the entire state. But it didn't affect her then, did it?
Now we hear her lamentations that she is relegated to an office that has no "large windows with a beautiful view" that was meant to be a sleep lab when the bucks were flying fast and furious?
"This is our home now," Garcia told a reporter for the local daily and one could almost see her in sackcloth and ashes gnashing her teeth in despair.
It is probably a comedown for Queen Julieta to find herself in such a predicament. She is now having to sell her South Padre Island condominium and settle for living in the former president's house on Jacaranda Street in the Rio Viejo section of Brownsville. Even that home was made available for her from her masters in Austin who had pliant State Rep. Rene Oliveira pass a special measure in the legislature authorizing the sale of it to her. Her buddy IBC President Fred Rusteberg loaned her the money she needed to close the deal.
When UTB was cut off from the TSC trough, the gravy stopped and she felt as if "we were holding up the facade of a university," she said.
Now she is hoping that the UT System Regents will appoint her as the president of the Brownsville component of the UT-Rio Grande Valley, the newest name given the Community University, University of the Americas, or one of the many PR inventions that the "partnership" generated to sell it to the media and masses.
She still laments the fact that TSC and UTB separated.
"To say Thank God the separation happened, you just can't. There were too many people that have been affected by it. "
It's funny now that she is on the receiving end of the cutbacks that Julieta now feels the effects of actions that she started years ago when her eyes just got too greedy and she wanted to do away with the community college and transfer all of its assets to the UT System. And, for the first time in decades, a majority of the TSC trustees told her plain and simply "No."
Now she's is a windowless office hoping the UT System will pick to be the UT-RGV-Brownsville president or onsite director, quite a comedown from queen.
"Aw, how does it feel ?
To be on your own ?
With no direction home ?
Like a complete unknown ?
Like a rolling stone ?
16 comments:
Good Riddance!!!!!!!
Julieta is crying in her beer like Ernie Hernandez....the cry of loss due to their own greed and mismanagement. Shame on Julieta for being such a whining bitch.
The Herald article was an effort for Julieta to portray herself as the "victim"; lost in her windowless small office on the backside of the campus. She continues to accept her big salary, but refuses to accept responsibility for her own downfall as the Partnership Queen.
She sits bemoaning her small office, while McAllen, Edinburg and even Harlingen stake their claim (by offering big bucks) to what will be the new university...while the Brownsville community searches for second-hand offerings and tries to hang on by a thread to just a small piece of the UT-RGV pie.
She has finally admitted the truth. It was a "facade of a university" and she was the fake face of it. Thats why the UT bigwigs have taken away the keys, the big window, the emperors clothes and the imaginery Juliet Garcia. Pride goeth before the fall it says in the Bible and you can count on that for the truth.
"Viva La Vida"
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old [queen] is dead! Long live the [queen]!"
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you go there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever wanna be [queen]?
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
EVIL CANNOT NOT GO UNPUNISHED...PERIOD!
TONIA MARTINEZ YOUR NEXT.
They should put her in a tower with an iron mask, the evil cunt. And to think she almost got away with killing TSC...
Get real it was kiko Rendon who put TSC into the despair it is in now. Sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Julie my dear looks like the chickens came home to roost. Your kingdom is coming to a swift end very fast like the wicked witch of the wizard of oz. how does it feel to be on the other end of the broom my deary? On your way out please dont let the door hit you in your big fat rearend. adios baby, asta la vista.
Brownsville will be left with what it has always had, a phony, little, satellite campus and the rest of the Valley will receive the plums. Why the hell does she not move her office to the "Casa de Nylon", plenty of window views from there.
It is too bad all her lackeys will not receive the same fate because they are worse than she is.
The truly sad thing is that Queen Julie has had years with a large salary and will leave with a great pension. She should have been shown the door years ago, but instead BISD named a school after her just like they did with the leech Eddie, I'm only in this for myself, Lucio Jr.
I once asked this person deep with political Bro. inside info. how was it that "Aunt Jemima" wielded so much "power and influence"? His answer was : the bankers, bldg. contractors. Sweetheart deals. All these went to them which made them wealthy and herself too!
Why do you day that?
juan ai agree with 9.51, city will get a little satellite campus thanks to julie the wicked witch of the south, what a scam she has been runnign all of thes elast 20 plus years. puro pedo.
Turn the lights the party"s over, right julie? Dat utb tity is drying up pretty darn fast chula.
She will be kept on to schmooze the schmoozable people, who still think she is just swell and to keep the Brownsville Herald giving the new UT-RGV good press. She no longer has any real power, as Allen Artibase runs the show taking direction from UT System and not the former head hen. She has had her feathers clipped. What is left for her is a figure head post until she retired in a couple of years amid much fanfare, abrazos and all that silly shit. They will name something after her and she will slowely fade away, appearing yearly at Serape Club to get her strokes. The is toast, the band still plays, but she no longer sings.
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