Local attorney Cesar de Leon make it official today by filing for Estela Chavez-Vasquez's vacant seat on the City of Brownsville commission.
De Leon was accompanied by a group of his supporters and said he had collected 160 signatures. A candidate for city commission only has to have 100 certified signatures of city voters who live within the jurisdiction of his city commission seat.
Chavez-Vasquez resigned her seat after it was learned that she had moved to Los Fresnos and had bought a residence there.
A call to the City of Brownsville's Secretary Office to ask how many candidates had field for the city commission drew a response that we would have to file an information request with the city and wait the 10 perfunctory days the city has to answer the inquiry.De Leon no stranger to goings-on at the city.
On February 6, he accompanied the outgoing General Consul of El Salvador Sandra E. Agreda to receive a proclamation from the city commission for the work she had done at the end of her diplomatic tour. Agreda and the consul for Guatemala had used the pro bono services of De Leon to set up a branch consulate in Brownsville at Texas Southmost College's ITEC building on Mexico Boulevard.
Agreda's story is an interesting one. In her youth, she had joined the Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla group fighting the Salvadoran Army. She then got her law license and entered her country's diplomatic service and exchanged her rifle for the arms of negotiation.
She then worked for the Salvadoran consulate in Houston before she was named by El Salvador President Salvador Sanchez to open a consulate along the U.S.-Mexico border. She was key in addressing the recent humanitarian crisis involving women and unaccompanied and minors from her country and Guatemala.
In recognition of De Leon's pro bono efforts to assist the consulate branch of his country in that emergency, Sanchez, El Salvador's president, sent him a personally-signed flag of El Salvador.
10 comments:
Hummm...
he's from Mexico!
the city Secy is closing ranks. To protect their sta t u s quo and obviously want to show their power by slowing things down. Too many city employees seek to protect their jobs by being defensive and. Assholish.
Teodoro de la CRUZ is from Canada.
(he's from Mexico!)
Actually, he's claiming to be from El Salvador. An even sorrier country than Mexico.
Dags.
cesar de Leon is the right candidate for the job. Is about time for a change
Judge Cascos was born in Mexico. Kissinger was born in Germany; so was Einstein. Gov. Rommey of Michigan also born in old Mexico. Da mayor was smuggled in as baby Moses .
And you're still stupid !
Ah, better being stupid than more stupid .
Long live Nacoville !
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