The totals are in – and unless the provisional ballots make a difference – 57 percent of the voters said no to Tony Martinez.
The runoff with former mayor Pat Ahumada will tell whether the other four candidates, Robert "Bob" Sanchez, Brenda Joyas, an William A. Garza will cast their lot with Ahumada against the incumbent.
Did the backbiting and bad blood between some of the contenders result in a split of the vote that will allow Martinez to waltz in for a second term? Will the candidates for mayor who said they wanted a dif
Early voting dominated the election with nearly two thirds of the vote occurring between April 27 and May 5.
Meanwhile, District 1 and District 2 incumbents Rick Longoria an d Jessica Tetreau got a message from about half of the voters that they weren't exactly pleased with their performance. Tetreau – if the provisional votes hold true to the split between her and challenger Sergio Zarate – will take her seat at city hall knowing her political capital has been greatly eroded. Those that conjecture that she beat the Lucio Machine should realize that the Lucios campaign for the Lucios and no one else. If there had been a Lucio running against Tetreau, she would have been history. But, of course, it's much more delicious to throw in a conspiracy theory to stir things up.
The same holds true for the landslide win of Cesar de Leon for the At Large "A" position left vacant by Estela Chavez-Vasquez with a 54 percent draw in his favor over the other three candidates. Depending on his consensus-building skills, de Leon might just be able to form a coalition that would make the mayor's runoff election irrelevant. We already know that Deborah Portillo went against Martinez's efforts to fire City Manager Charlie Cabler.
And if Longoria manages to shake off Roman Perez's in their second runoff race, he too, may find it easier to form an alliance with de Leon, Tetreau and Portillo and gain a majority.
Let the jockeying begin.
17 comments:
Will Erasmo support Tony, Pat, or neither candidate?
Robert Sanchez already heartily endorsed Pat. Brenda received such few votes, it doesn't matter if she's behind him or not. Rumour has it William Garza is soon to endorse as well. If the people don't want Tony, which is clear, they need to get up and vote against him.
57 percent? I'm 100 percent against Tony.
Seems like only yesterday that Tony Martinez was giving himself credit for moving the railroad out of town....but oopps, it hasn't happened and may not happen before the runoff election...maybe never since the Mexican side is waiting for a big mordida to get off their asses. While its easy to say all the candidates who ran against Tony might get together to defeat him, won't happen. While I don't know much about the female candidate, the others are narcissistic assholes and most are likely to support Tony. We can only hope that we can get 57% to vote against Tony Martinez. That would be great.
Had Cesar de Leon run for mayor, he would have won outright. Now were left with bad vs. worse,
Pat "Check-Deposit-Gate" Ahumada and Tony "Self-Annoited-Walks-on-Water" Martinez. Both a bunch of low life crooks stealing from the public coffers. Martinez will win because Ahumada has been kicking around too long, has too much baggage, and, most important, alienate the other opposition candidates during the campaign. I will pass on this choice - no "hold-my-nose" and vote for the lesser of two evils. I want no part of voting for either of these two creeps.
Pat went straight to the weak link Robert Sanchez for support. People that helped Sanchez will never vote for Pat.....stop dreaming. Tony will win big.
Pat went straight to the weak link Robert Sanchez for support. People that helped Sanchez will never vote for Pat.....stop dreaming. Tony will win big.
So what you are saying is that our city commissioners do NOT have the best interest of their constituents but their own individual interests and they form coalitions to what suits them best. In other words, none of them have a mind of their own and they look after themselves and no one else. Good to know, next time you write about individual candidates and place their negative agendas. Based on your article, no matter who they are, all they care is me, me, me and no one else.
politicians are about Me , ME, and Me, whoever thinks else is completely wrong. My pocket is the one that counts. hard decision to make here which one is worst? I guess I will flip a coin and then vote.
What else is new in Brownsville and the majority of the people involved in the political process?
Lucio Machine works for the Lucio Machine only!
What do You want.? White collar thiefs like Tony Tormenta?
BROWNSVILLE...MATAMORAS...MATAMORAS...BROWNSVILLE...THEY BOTH LOOK THE SAME TO ME. Just a bunch of stupid, thieving Mexicans.
Learn to spell before you post your ignorant racist rants pendejo !
Brownsville is just a good suburb of matamoros. Cops and streets are better here. Restaurants and hookers better over there. Medical care?, it's a toss up. Politicians? Can't tell the difference.
"Mexican" denotes a NATIONALITY and not a RACE; you stupid fucking Mexican.
You're still a racist . ....even your family thinks so pendejo !
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