By Juan Montoya
What do you do if you have someone on the Brownsville Independent School District board of trustees who:
1. Is under indictment for Theft by a Public Official and Misappropriation of Fiduciary Property?
2. Is accused of stealing $8,000 over two years from the Brownsville Firefighters Association's Political Action Committee?
3. Is accused of stealing between $20,000 and under $100,000 from those same funds over the six years he was listed as treasurer of that PAC?
4. Was removed as treasurer by the Texas Ethics Commission after he failed to file yearly reports of the PAC to the TEC as required by law after one year, but neglected to tell his fellow firefighters about it and continued to control the PAC's credit card?
5. Was sued by firefighter Sacramento Diosdado who claimed that someone (nobody knows who) had changed Elizondo's grades on a captain's civil service examination so that his grade went up from 69 to 71?
Diosdado had scored a 70, and the changes placed Elizondo over him for consideration for promotion to that rank. After the story came out, the civil service director resigned citing emotional stress problems.
6. Had his record expunged to erase any mention of a felony charge against him for stealing materials from Los Fresnos lumber company?
7. Remained on the BISD board when he was a city employee despite the fact that the city's policy manual specifically prohibits it citing potential conflicts of interest?
Would you believe that Cowen has been pushing to make him president of the BISD board for months now and that the item on Tuesday's agenda of the board meeting was placed by Cowen to make it a reality?
Now, we know that Cowen is the chairman of the BISD Facilities Committee and needs every vote he can get to push through his agenda. After all, there will be $100 million of construction projects on the table and who better but Phil would want to direct how that money is spent and into whose pockets it will go? Think of it as Elizondo's vote being worth a mint.
Now, we all know that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but the general tone of Elizondo's public service has not been one of honesty or integrity.
So what do we want to teach the children of BISD?
That if you steal, cheat and lie you just might be made president of the BISD board?
Now, it takes three trustees to place an item on the agenda, so try to figure out who agreed to place it there. Joe Rodriguez certainly needs Elizondo's vote for this $1.4 million scoreboard for Sams Stadium. And Carlos wouldn't mind being named president to thumb his nose at his detractors and Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz.
Can you lower the bar any further down guys?
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Mary Esther Sorola for JP! Wightman is NOT from here!!!!
La Blimp has NO chance against Mary Esther for JP. Audit his donations, juan. He'll pay his bills with it.
This must be like Alabama, they rather have a sexual predator than a democrat. This is the city that forgives and forgets fast. Joe Rodriguez got reelected to Board so why should this be any different.We need a change but until we change the way people think in this city and county our fates are doomed with these type of politicians.We get what we vote for. By the way a new scoreboard wouldn't be bad at the stadium,the one that is currently there is old and outdated for a city of 6 high schools that use the facility.Need to find a way to fund it.
BROWNSVILLE voters are by every stretch of the imagination the laughing stock of any other American city. WE ARE FOOLS to allow RATS TO RULE OUR POLITICS and steal from our children.
A, B, C
Anybody
But
Cesar Lopez!!!!
Y El Jesse Weenies?
Wightman must be drunk with ideas that he is candidate material! NUNCA, CABRON!
Elizondo must have some major blackmail dirt on Cowen for him to be pushing for this.
Can't believe i voted for this imbecile .
Mira, you se que Diosdado esta bien tapado. (which as to why Elizondcalls into question why Elizondo got a lower score) y no se si es Hoto Diosdado, pero se creye bien sabroso el puto.
Lol!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Mary Esther Sorola for JP! Wightman is NOT from here!!!!
December 11, 2017 at 11:35 AM
First, I DONT know Mr. Winghtman, I don't know Ms. Sorola, but if the basis of voting for someone is that they are local natives, I just want to say that local natives have DESTROYED Brownsville's standing in the RGV and they only look after themselves and their friends. Examples?: Many in county, school district, university .
Sometimes people that are not from here but have settled and made Brownsville their home are better off than locals.
It is time to have a change in the positions board members serve. It is Elizondo's turn but with a "tainted history" we have to wonder if it is ethical to place him in such a leadership position. Next comes Joe Rodriguez, but he is not a "spring chicken" anymore and could not handle the stress, even though he does have a lot of know-how about the district's policies.
Minerva has already been there and done that and we could not handle another term of her feeling she is Queen Minerva - she does anyway! I don't want to sit here and listen to her tell us for the millionth time that "she knows because when she used to work for the state......" and blow kisses and bang her heart showing her faith de pecho. Sylvia Atkinson is a vindictive vieja who has the possibility of being a good person if she would just stop thinking that she is better than anyone else and everyone should bow to her. She is out to get Zendejas blaming her for doing the job Carl Montoya should have done way before Zendejas was even around. If she can prove that she is for the children and not for herself and her dear-ole friends, then it would be possible for her to take over. She just needs to learn that her shit does stint and that people are aware of her intentions. Laura is too new to the situation and is just learning the ropes and finally getting into the action. So what do we do? Run the district without a school board? Hum - can that be done? Cowen would have us there until 5 in the morning with his kind of stories. When are the next elections for school board?
Can you report on the BDIC Dec 11 agenda that Erasmo Reported on his fb? The Director wanting another big money raise from 85k to 130k...shit, where can I apply to these city jobs. Who approves these raises, Gowen?
Carlos will give me a job at 90,000 dollars a year to count cars passing by the alley behind his house. 30 minutes break ever 30 minutes.
Cowen supporting Elizondo is stupid, but indicates that the Cowen, Elizondo, Rodgriguez agenda to control the BISD Board of Trustees is in action. These guys are power mongers and corrupt. We have too many who think elected office is a way to make money and these guys now go to the top of the list. We cannot trust our elected officials in Brownsville.
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