BIZZARRO HERALDO LAUDS GARCIA'S DISMAL TENURE

By Juan Montoya
Remember when we were kids and read Superman and Spiderman comic books?
Superman comics sometimes came up with the Bizarro episodes, a kind of bizzare mirror image of the superheroe who did everything the opposite of Superman.
Bizarro first appeared in a a Superboy edition in 1958) as a character that looked like Frankestein's monster that possessed all the powers of Superboy.
He only appeared a single comic book story. Later that year, the adult Superman version featured him in "The Battle With Bizarro."

According to Wikipedia, "This storyline also introduced the strange speech patterns that became synonymous with the character, with all of Bizarro's comments meaning the opposite (e.g."bad" means "good"). The newspaper version also wore a "B" on his chest, as opposed to the distinctive "S."
If you read today's editorial in the Brownsville Heraldo in support of former UT-Brownsville President Julieta Garcia, you will immediately be struck with the bizarre similarity between Superman's Bizarro and the convoluted logic of the editorial writer.
For starters, the writer argues that Garcia's history at UTB-TSC "portends success in new post."
Just what success is the writer referring to?
Was it the annual TSC "transfers" to the UT System that amounted to about $1 billion over the course of the "partnership."
Or was it the 17 percent graduation rate for UTB-TSC students over six years that the "partnership" had achieved?
Or perhaps it was the less than 50 percent retention rate for freshmen?
Or maybe it could have been that residents here – living as they did in the poorest community in the United States – were paying the highest tuition and student service fees of any community college in the State of Texas.
Garcia –earning a salary of $340,000 a year –didn't take credit for all these "successes."
Garcia showed her true colors when she tried tro ramrod a proposal through the trustees to transfer all of TSC's assets to the UT System to remove the burden of some $200 million in real estate and college assets from local residents. They could, of course, keep their district functioning until the bond debt she incurred over the past 21 years to build the monuments to those luminaries was paid.
The Herald can "thank her and applaud her for the 'remarkable' work she's done...," if they want to.
But we remember that the voters of the district shunned her candidates to the board and told her in no uncertain terms that they had had enough of these "successes" which only impoverished them even more than when she appeared in the picture.
The Heraldo can make believe all they want that "up" is "down" and that "bad" is "good."
But we all know that Bizarro Julieta was not the Superwoman she has been made up to be. And the editorial writer of the Herald should not wear the Olde English "H" on his chest, but instead a distinctive "S" which would be more true to his finished work product.