THIN-SKINNED ERIN GARCIA AND LIFE AFTER JP COURT

By Juan Montoya
There are troubling rumors that JP 2-2 Erin Garcia will be seeking a public office after she leaves her office January 1.
Some rumors have her running for a city commission seat in May. Others say she will run for another JP office in the next two years.
To add insult to injury, we also hear that her father, the infamous Ernie Hernandez, her daddy and a former city and county commissioner, will also be seeking an office after he serves out his stint in deferred adjudication. He has been overheard saying that he may just go for broke and run for the mayor of the City of Brownsville.

If they do run and – God forbid – they get elected, we're in for a fun ride. No one, of course, gives them a chance in hell to win, but that has never stopped the Hernandez from thinking they are the Lord's gift to uplift the unwashed masses and be the representatives of the little people. And we thought that we were over that phase of our political development.
For being engaged in the hurly-burly of local politics, the Herandezes are a thin-skinned tribe.
How thin skinned you ask?
Take this case for example. Remember when the Internet, mainstream media, and the social media was abuzz with chatter of the Cameron County District Attorney's investigation of Erin's office? Apparently, she thought that local political gadfly Zeke Silva was committing slander against her by posting about those investigations on his Facebook page.
Never mind that the purveyor of "legal experience you deserve" confused slander with libel (slander is spoken, libel is printed or broadcast), she also thought that bthe local gendarmes would arrest Silva and charge him with harassment. Don't believe us?
Well, we tried mightily and were able to secure a complaint filed by Ms. Garcia against that loathsome Silva. In it, (BPD complaint 13110051) she complained to police that she and her family were being harassed online by Silva on the social network.
She also stated that "Zeke's posts are slanderous and are accusing her of using her position as justice of the peace to commit judicial misconduct. She also said Zeke is targeting her for political purposes."
The detective who filed the report indicated that the posts "were linked to media (television and newspaper) reports regarding an on-going investigation of Ms. Garcia by the Cameron County District Attorney's Office."
The detective's conclusion:
"the posts are in an informative manner and not in the harassing and insulting manner to constitute harassment as per the elements in the Texas Penal Code."
It took a lowly police detective without a law degree to explain the difference to legal eagle Erin and send her on her way.
But the fact that she went as far as to complain to the police about such minuscule matters is instructive on how the Hernandezes minds work, or in this case, don't.