For months now, we have heard that an out-of-town blogger has been beating on a dead horse and ragging Associate District Judge Louis Sorola and his wife JP 2-3 Mary Esther about supposed delinquent property taxes on his homestead.
Post after post – we are told – this self-appointed paragon of righteousness and governmental fiscal integrity has carried this non-story and fake news proselytizing and berating public officials who don't shoulder their fair share of property taxes.
Why he includes JP 2-3 Sorola in his screeds is not explained since it is obvious that the properties are under his name and were obtained by the District Judge in a prior marriage.
So we did something rather simple that any high school newspaper reporter would have done to ascertain a basic fact. We went to the Cameron County Appraisal District and asked to look through the file. We leafed through it and lo and behold, there was a receipt from Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector Tony Yzaguirre dated August 31, 2017 indicating that Sorola had paid his taxes in full.
That was a full month before he was appointed by a panel of district judges as an associate judge. It is now almost December and the amputee story (no legs) is still being carried as truth.
We also didn't see Mary Esther's name in the documents at all, indicating that she has nothing to do with the property accounts. Yet, that didn't stop people from commenting on her on an unrelated story.
That newshound we were talking about earlier prides himself in being the arbiter of the journalism profession and the master of intellectual discourse. But it is obvious that facts such as the receipt we found at the CCAD files only get in the way of a good story where he can hammer away at the perceived tax deadbeat and inflict collateral damage on his wife from his safe perch in McAllen.
He has even gone so far as to try to reach District Judge Gloria Rincones to snitch on her associate judge and inform her "Sorola owes Taxes!" To her credit, she has ignored him.
We are told the Sorolas aren't the only ones who have been covered by this bird's droppings. Blogger Jim Barton, whose wife Nena is recovering from debilitating strokes has also come under the spyglass of this newshound. In the case of the Sorolas the point could be made that since they are both public officials their expectations of privacy are lessened. Fair enough.
But in the case of the Bartons, where the blogger ridicules the fact that they live in a trailer park and pokes fun at Nena's illness, it is plain mean and shows a streak of evil toward other people that can't be disguised by flowery language and ornate rhetoric. Not written, but between the lines, he insinuates from his cyber megaphone: "You are below me, you white trailer park trash."
If putting down other people is the only way that some people think they can place themselves above their brethren, it shows someone so consumed by narcissistic need to glorify himself at the expense of others that he doesn't care what hurt he inflicts on them or those close to them.
Sorola was sworn in in October, long after he had paid his taxes.
Yet, we are told that as recently as this weekend the fake story of him owing taxes has been propagated by the misanthrope in McAllen. Will he apologize for this obvious failure to touch the basic bases in publishing a lie as the truth? Or will there be some sleazy, smug way for him to to justify his basic reporting shortcomings and meanness exhibited toward these folks under the guise of journalistic excellence?
18 comments:
How can someone spread untrue information to the public? This person should be sued for slander and abuse of public media.
FAKE NEWS here, too, juanito. Be honest, bro.
The blogger you reference has some knowledge gaps with respect to property taxes, possibly not being a payer. Nena and I live in an RV, a recreational vehicle, not taxed as a home. The small amount of tax assessed us is for the porch, not the RV. Several years ago, workers from the Cameron County Appraisal District came out and measured our porch, assessing us accordingly. We happily pay the annual assessment and enjoy the convenience of an overhead awning, porch and steps. So much for investigative "journalism" from a McAllen coffee shop!
This clown has nothing to offer but criticism. He is a blight on our community with his failed reporting skills. How he kisses up to captain Bob and his supermodel girlfriend is repulsive. The fact that Jerry McHale gives him air time is just sad. It's obvious that he can't work as a journalist because he doesn't have a job. As if he was retired. It has been well documented by Jerry that he can't keep a job as a reporter. Now your story is proof Beyond doubt. For some reason he is obsessed with Brownsville. Yet, he offers nothing. It's either to compete with you and his hero Bobby or he's being paid to spew out his hatred. It appears, that he believes he is some kind of Playboy. His pandering to border bitches and fake trips is nothing short of adolescent.
Wow, blogger at 1:03. That would put everyone in Brownsville in court being sued by someone who has done something wrong and has not paid their dues. Did Minerva Pena every
play her taxes?
wow
Graphic is too small. Can't see date. Make it larger, juan.
"abuse of public media" - what is that? Free speech ring a bell?
Depends on what you called untrue information, he as a political public official had been in office way before he decided to run for judge, and had not paid his taxes. Question should be if he wasn't running for judge would he have paid his taxes? He supposedly is now judge, "how would he treat the regular Cameron county taxpayer citizens who were behind in their taxes?" We as Cameron county tax payers are yearly notified by Tony Yzaguirre that our taxes are due, and if we are behind there is penalty fee. One month before he runs for judge, he hurries on out to pay his taxes. The question should be "are public officials allowed to not pay their taxes on time or better yet not pay them at all?" His now wife is also a public official and she above all should have known about her fiancé's tax arrears. She is mentioned because she is a justice of the peace who "MARRIES" people for money and for her to place the innocent victim is bull shit. This is my opinion
Fuck the blogger. MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE should expect others to be mean to him. That happens when you talk about others.
They are working on that already
Enlarge the document! can't read it to make up my mind, bro.
If Sorola owes -owed - taxes, his wife should have helped! Agree on that.
What ever happen to the sheriff's office shakedown were a Captain Garza was suspended ???? Why was the Blog removed is he special ??? The public wants to know ???? There is alot more going on there !!
Odd that you use "fake news," juan. That's a Trump thing, bro!
Sucks !!
There is nothing more pathetic than a moron with a megaphone
And we don't want fake news, especially in this blog, where all literature is absolutely a FACT, carved in stone, bullet proof, unequivocally a TRUE statement.
It breaks my heart to see fake news in this blog, its a tarnish in a perfect tract record. A record that held this blog in the highest standard among all blogs all over the world.
Mmmmm dem fajeeters were gooood
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