WIGHTMAN, DEFENDER OF OUR MORALS AND ETHICS ASSERTS: "FLASH: "LUCY LONGORIA IS NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION"

By Juan Montoya
After all the vitriol and angst created by the publishing of a photograph of two Brownsville Independent School District trustees eating at a public restaurant with a board candidate and his firefighter friends, the truth behind it being posted in a local blog is finally emerging.
You've seen the photograph.
It shows Catalina Presas-Garcia (her back to the viewer) and Luci Longoria (left) talking with Carlos Elizondo (El Calvo on the right) and other firefighters.
Were they hiding in plain sight? Were they engaged in some conspiracy in  full view of the public? Could they have been (gasp!) freely associating as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution?  Oh, no! Not that!
It was taken surreptitiously by Christina Flores, the daughter of Robert Rodriguez, a candidate for the BISD who is running against firefighters union president Carlos Elizondo. She, in turn, is married to Arnold Flores, an administrator with Cameron County who ran for county clerk and was defeated by Sylvia Garza-Perez. That makes Arnold Flores son-in-law of Rodriguez, the BISD board candidate.
That Ms. Flores took the picture has been confirmed despite the denials from some quarters. But what was not so certain was who had sent Robert Wightman the photo and that he published in his blog hinting at some sinister motive behind the trustees meeting with Elizondo and his friends.
Wightman (in nun's habit, at bottom right) quickly dreamed up of some dark conspiracies such as:
He charged that Elizondo, Longoria and Presas-Garcia were bent on running for office and "just piss on law enforcement – calling them fools for putting their lives on the line to run down criminals," without providing a scintilla of proof.
And..."firefighters are willing to piss on the children and teachers, they now openly piss on law enforcement to insure their corruption prevails."
And.."I have filed a criminal complaint on Luci Longoria. The evidence is not disputed. What firefighters Carlos Elizondo and the other two num-nuts in the picture fail to understand is as firefighters you never, ever cross your compadres in law enforcement."
All this from a picture?
We must admit that we didn't foresee the thousand motives and words that were fancifully created in Wightman's fertile brain. Just what Presas-Garcia (the mother of two children from her ex, a policeman) and Longoria and Elizondo did against cops is never explained.
Now, we have learned that we were not correct when we said that Ms. Flores sent Wightman the photograph. No, it was Arnold, her husband. He simply used another internet address and sent it fully knowing that Wightman would – as he usually does – blow it out of all proportion. We understand that there is some domestic turmoil in the Flores household as a result of that little slip on Mr. Flores' part.
(The aim here was guilt by association. But if there is guilt by association with Elizondo, as some of Mr. Rodriguez's supporters assert, does this mean that they have thrown in their lot in with Wightman and support his squalid inclinations, be they what they may be?)
Wightman, of course – true to form – concocted  his usual fine crop of conspiracies.
Now we learn that he hasn't stopped there.
He has already tried to throw a wrench in the works of the BISD election by demanding that the district throw out the candidacies of Shirley Bowman and Joe Rodriguez because they want to use a nickname on the ballot. This, he said, will allow Mary Rey, the poster child on how not to raise your children (both are in prison for murder), to waltz in to take her place on the board and dispense her wisdom on childrearing to our children.
To the BISD administration's credit, they are taking this misanthrope's babble with a few tons of salt.
But wait, it doesn't stop there.
He has already complained to the Texas Ethics Commission that Longoria is deceiving the fine people of the BISD by announcing on her campaign signs that she is running for reelection. You see, the fine rapier-like legal mind of his figures that since Lucy is not running for the same seat on the board, she cannot be running for reelection to her old seat. So, the sage disbarred barrister figures, she is not running for reelection, but rather, her signs should read, "elect" instead of "reelect."
Are you still with me?
Let's see. Longoria is currently a trustee on the BISD board. She is running for reeection to the board, except for a different seat. But she is not running for a seat on the San Benito school district, or Los Fresnos, or even Mercedes. She is running for reelection to the same board on which she is now a trustee. The fact that she is not running for the same seat doesn't change that.
We would be willing to wager that if Longoria's signs said "elect" instead of "re-elect," Wightman would have argued the opposite.
Anyway, these legal contortions may distress some and distract others, but that is the whole purpose of Wigthman's diatribe. He has always opposed Longoria and others who ignore his high-falutin' legal dribble and hates it when he is ignored for the fool he is. So he resorts to the tried-and-true strategy of legal malingering to make his targets waste their time and money to address his non-issues.
The Texas Ethic Commission lawyers should reassess their approach to anything that originates in what's left of the medication-addled noodle of this wacko.