Well, as if by magic, the subject of last night's executive session at the meeting of the City of Brownsville Commission changed right before the eyes of the full chamber waiting to give Mayor Tony Martinez and his rubber stamp commissioners an earful about them giving away Lincoln Park.
Suddenly, instead of addressing the issue that had been leaked ahead of the meeting, the public was informed that it was the Cueto Building parking lot they were talking about behind closed doors.
That's about par for the course with this mayor.But there is some grumbling in the ranks of this city commission, we hear.
And if it's not about giving away Lincoln Park to one of the wealthiest universities in the world, then it's about some of the shady real estate deals that Martinez has engineered and then presented as a fait accompli to the beguiled commissioners.
It seems that la Casa del Nylon deal was presented to the commissioners as a purchase of convenience because the city would just hold on to it until the Univesity of Texas at Brownsville would buy nit from them. So the commissioners, convinced by Tony that they would only hold on to it until it was resold to the UTB, went along with the exorbitant $2.3 million price tag.
Ge this. The land belongs to Martinez political supporter Abraham Galonsky. Galonski's neighbor is Horacio Barrera, Martinez's law partner. Martinez negotiatioed on behalf of Galonski with his law partner who represented the city. Sweet, ain't it?
Then, when the UTB was asked when they were going to buy the Case del Nylon, some commissioners were disabused of the idea by none other than Julieta Garcia and her UT System compadres who told them in no uncertain terms that the UTB was simply not interested in purchasing it. At least not at the $2.3 million the city had paid.
And that, children, is how the mayor is making the sausage over at the city. Your tax dollars at work.
7 comments:
Dam that's pretty dum!
Sausage : it nakes some people fat, and it gives others heart attacks.
That's a good metaphor for what's going on at the city commission. Some people are getting fat off these deals, and the rest of the city is left in poor health.
If Pat Ahumada were Mayor, he would have given Golonsky five million! Ahumada is Golonsky's lap dog.
I've seen Da Mayor In a nun's habit,I've him in splendor wearing his Emperor's regalia and I've seen him disguised in a wolf !skin, and a sheep skin. What's next?
First of all, there should be at least three appraisals done when it is public money. You go with the one in the middle. How was the La Casa del Nylon appraised at 2.5 million when it has absolutely no economic value? There is no cash flow, it cannot be rented, no one would buy it for over $200,000 if that. Put on the market, auction it off and see what you get. How do these people get away with this kind of malfeasant? Parking lot for $250,000 when you park on any nearby street all day for free? Yea, that makes economic sense.
The sausage went right into the anal pore of ALL the Idiots that voted him in...without vaseline.
On Da Mayor's sheep , wolf. Dog's disguises you forgot to mention the flea powder !
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