Texas Watchdog.org
Shady ballot brokers are “doping the vote” in the Rio Grande Valley, an election-watch group says. Now the FBI is on the case.
“(The politiqueras) took voters to their weed man after voting,” Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for True the Vote, told Watchdog.org.
Trafficking in petty cash and dime bags, politiqueras round up voters for South Texas candidates, nearly all Democrats. The pay-for-ballot activity has resulted in 11 federal indictments so far.
Republicans are turning up the heat on state Democratic Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, a Brownsville resident and longtime political kingmaker in the Rio Grande Valley.
“He needs to come clean with the people of Texas (about whether he) personally participated in the corrupt practice of using politiqueras to commit voter fraud,” said state GOP Chairman Tom Mechler.
Hinojosa’s office did not respond to Watchdog’s request for comment, but the political boss has been outspoken in blasting Texas’ voter ID law.
“It’s comical that Chairman Hinojosa runs all over the state denouncing voter ID when the FBI is investigating voter fraud in his backyard,” Mechler said.
Citizens Against Voter Abuse, a local election-watch group, turned over evidence that mail-in ballots were manipulated by politiqueras during recent local elections.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office will prosecute Brownsville residents Jose A. Garza and Rafael Elizondo on multiple counts of possessing marked ballots without the consent of the voter. Each count is a felony, punishable by up to two years in jail and fines up to $10,000.
The alleged voter fraud was committed during a Democratic Party primary runoff election in 2012. In 2014, six women were arrested in connection to voting irregularities during another party primary. All of the indicted politiqueras have a Democratic Party vote history.
CAVA president Mary Helen Flores says her group is preparing to deliver more names to authorities.
“Corruption starts by stealing elections,” said Flores, who asserts that mail-in ballots are especially vulnerable to vote rigging. “We’ve seen the exact same handwriting on 50 or 60 (mail-in) ballot requests. It’s a huge red flag.”
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Though the Obama administration has downplayed vote-fraud allegations, the FBI’s San Antonio office is taking those charges seriously in South Texas.
17 comments:
Gilberto "Capo" Hinojosa come clean, sure? All those who know Gilbert Hinojosa knows that he has a very dark cloud over him and know for shady deals.
Republican's use "campaign Workers". ""Mexican Democrats" use Politequeras . The FBI has been "investigating" these allegations since the historic election of 1948. The Feds are still investigating.
We are easy culos. All politicians rape us. Mexicans will take it and take it and take it.
Dags
So, I’d like to start by debunking five immigration myths that these politicians are peddling and that are widely repeated by their supporters.
1. “I’m not against immigration. I’m against illegal immigration.”
This is a standard trope — up until a few days ago, when perennial Republican candidate Rick Santorum called for cutting back legal immigration by 25 percent, particularly among low and unskilled immigrants. Like Trump impugning all Mexicans, not just the undocumented, Santorum has now laid bare yet another distinction without a difference.
2. “Mexicans are flooding across the border.”
Uh, no they’re not. Illegal immigration from Mexico crested at the beginning of this century because of terrible economic conditions in Mexico and a completely understaffed Border Patrol. Undocumented Mexican immigration finally started to fall after 2007. Border apprehensions have fallen by 75 percent since about 2000, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2010, there has been no net migration from Mexico — that is, more people coming than going. In fact, more Central Americans are apprehended these days than Mexicans.
3. “We are in the middle of an unprecedented immigration crisis.”
No, we’re not. That crisis came and went years ago. In fact, the number of people entering the country illegally is similar to the 1970s and stable — and that’s according to three different think tanks with very different political views: conservative, centrist and liberal. (The Center for Immigration Studies, the Pew Center and the Center for Migration Studies respectively.) Even if you took the Center for Immigration Studies’ worst-case estimate, about 400,000 people enter the country illegally from all points on the globe, far less than in 2007 and more akin to what we saw in the 1970s. The overall population of undocumented immigrants has fallen from 12 million to 11 million, in fact. This is a phony crisis, manufactured by presidential ambitions.
4. “Yes, but we’re talking about criminals. Being in this country illegally is breaking the law.”
Not quite. Being in this country without authorization is a civil matter, according to the federal statute, subject to civil remedies. It’s not unlike that unpaid parking ticket in your glove box, except you can’t get deported for the parking ticket. Crossing into the United States without legal authorization is a crime – but it’s a misdemeanor generally punishable by a $50 fine. Coming to the United States outside proper channels does not exactly make somebody El Chapo.
5. “OK, OK. But there’s a crime wave sweeping the border. It’s chaos and mayhem.”
Um, no. Crime along the entire U.S.-Mexico border went down even as the murder rate in Mexico went up in the first decade of this century. El Paso and San Diego were declared two of the safest cities in America, and more recent FBI data still shows border cities to be safer than many others. Even in South Texas, crime decreased according to an analysis of Texas and FBI data by the Houston Chronicle. That’s down, not up. And yes, the feds bring the preponderance of their cases on the border — for immigration and drug-trafficking. Where else would they bring them?
The data is somewhat incomplete, but it is accurate to say that there is absolutely no proof that Mexican immigrants are somehow responsible for more crime than anyone else. In fact, one study by the Center for Migration Policy — which, granted, is decidedly friendly toward immigration — found that Mexican citizens are incarcerated at about one-fifth the rate of native-born American citizens. Rick Perry once claimed that undocumented immigrants were to blame for 3,000 homicides in Texas — a claim rated “pants on fire” by Politifact Texas because everyone killed in Texas then would’ve been killed by a Mexican. Please.
So, why thank Trump? Because he is forcing his party to come clean on immigration and people of Mexican descent in general. It will be telling to see where the politicians and their followers turn out. But from me for now: Thank you, Donald Trump.
- Dags
When the geography is a cesspool, well what do you expect. You have Da Blimp as an example of all that is ugly about Browntown. Ha ha ha
El Culo is all Brownsville ever wanted.
Of course he will. I expect there will be a press conference in which he enumerates the fraud in detail probably going back many years and fully explains his role in it all. It is likely he will also touch on other wrong doing as well. Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer (of course, I know you were not asking a question. You just wanted to accuse him of something while being able to deny doing it. It's a trick Wightman likes to use to).
Does Mary Helen Flores date Mexicans? If yes, I'm in, baby.
Gilbert es joto.
The county is in big trouble with the Gilberto Hinojosa, Jared Hockema, Remi Garza triumvirate. Watch out for more stolen elections CAVA.
Gilberto Come clean, please, I don't think so, he is the mastermind behind all these illegal activities and has been for decades along with many other county elected officials and at the city level as well. Cava has done a great exposure job but really it has not completely stopped. CAVA needs to go after the Elected officials that use this system over and over, that's where they need to focus their next fight and resources from now on. CAVA Go get them. cca
Gilberto is representing that shady Weslaco commissioner rivera on a case where the judge menton murry ruled that voted were illegal or obtain in a fraudulent way, wow what a great attorney and democratic party chair, Puro Pedo. case has been dragging on for amost 3 years now, that Riveras term is almost up, no pos wow gilberto good stragety.
The ones you really have to watch is Igor Ganchonsky and Da Mayor now that Cubar and the U.S. Have normalize relations . So, Nacos get your heads out of your Derrières.
CAVA delivering more names? Please.
Mary Helen, you should really run for office...since you live the limelight so much.
By the way, i like your smile.
The Right-wing rabid Republicans like SS Gohmert, Heinrich King, No-Nothing Teodoro de la CRUZ., Waana Be Rubio Boy. Are scared shitless about the "Brown-Peril" that's creeping up their Derrières, etc. Oh, Donaldo, he is good entertainment.
It's a Mary Helen Flores love fest! And what's not to love.
Wish Mary Helen would run for DA. She'd clean up Cameron county, not just the elections.
MARY HELEN FLORES FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY!!!
This guy is a cross between a cockroach and a sly fox. Sad state of affair for democratic party.
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