Friday, April 20, 2018

DIRTY TRICKS: VERA CAUGHT BREAKING BISD MAIL RULES

By Juan Montoya

The son of Brownsville Navigation District Place 4 candidate Javier Vera has been caught violating Brownsville Independent School District rules on the improper use of internal school mailboxes for political purposes.

Rivera High School Principal Norma Jean Canales issued an email warning to all school administrators, staff and employees reminding them that use of the boxes to stuff political campaign literature was against district policy approved by the BISD board of trustee.

The missive was issued after teachers at the school complained that veteran Rivera High School and Early College teacher and baseball coach Adan Vera had stuffed his father's literature into their mailbox despite the prohibition.

Javier Vera, Adan's father, is running for the position left vacant by Carlos Masso. Steve Guerra and Los Fresnos resident Patrick Anderson are also candidates for the position.

Additionally, they said that Adan Vera had used school property (i.e. paper and copying machines) to reproduce copies of several campaign leaflets in support of Javier Vera's candidacy to the port seat.

That seems to go against the BISD policy that clearly states that unless you're the U.S. Postal Service, you cannot stuff school internal mail with political literature.

"No officer or employee of the district may knowingly use or authorize the use of an internal mail system for the distribution of political advertising..."

"Political advertising means a communication supporting or opposing a candidate for nomination or election to a public office or office of a political party, a political party, or a measure that:

Appears in a pamphlet, circular, flier, billboard or other sign, bumper sticker or similar form of written communication..."

There is no indication whether Vera's actions will result in a write-up or in further discipline.

"Mr. Vera is a grown man who knows better," said a Rivera High School teacher who sent us the photos above. "If this is the type of behavior his father taught him – to break the rules – I don't think we need that kind of public servant. We're deeply disappointed with these types of tricks."

40 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just another reminder of the culture of corrupt politics in BISD and the RGV. Let's hope BISD deals with it seriously. The baseball coach probably wants his players to play by the rules in their games; so he should play by the BISD rules. Let's hope a reprimand is coming to him from BISD. Let's watch his demeanor on the baseball field and see if he follows the rules. I won't be voting for his dad....so he lost one vote already.

Anonymous said...

Norma Jean is in violation of many things going on at Rivera HS. If Mr. Vera use school supplies this isn’t the first. Ask the school secretary. She has taken many supplies from Rivera while she has been there. Norma Jean allows clerical
Staff to make up time while they have been out all day, but then at the end of the week have their 40 ours with no days docked or taken from their time. Staff clocking out at10pm under no supervision. So before you target Mr. Vera, look into the the stealing that is going on with time sheets.

Anonymous said...

Pinche rata!!! Seguramente se lo aprendiĆ³ al papa! Arriba Guerra! Arriba Mexico!

Anonymous said...

Another "So Mexican" moment. Why the surprise?

Anonymous said...

50 years in prison for Escamilla???!!!

Anonymous said...

And to think that I was going to vote for the man but after this, NO WAY! Steve will be getting my and my family’s votes. Enough will these people who think they are above the law.

Anonymous said...

Greenhorn

Anonymous said...

OMG.
Send him to the principal's office!

No pasa nada.

tom landrie said...

Not voting for Vera.

Anonymous said...

He should be charged with this and he should be disqualified now.

Anonymous said...

Wow, someone finally did something about it as Norma Jean, for this has happened before and pushed under the table. Depending on Young Vera's personal record with BISD and his conduct, he will be handled accordingly.
All of us make mistakes and we must learn from it. I am sure he will never do it again! Kudos to Norma Jean, for she is following policy and is doing her duty to report it - she obviously knows that this is not allowed and if she did not report it, her position would have been in trouble. More power to administrators who insist on doing what is right and proper. And little Vera, you fell, get up and apologize and go on being a great teacher.

Anonymous said...

And Trump is worried about leaks. Juan certainly has a lot of dedo's running to him.

Anonymous said...

He is not gonna win

Anonymous said...

Javier Vera is an arrogant DICK. The apple did not fall far from the tree obviously.

Anonymous said...

As a retired educator I find it hard to believe this young man did not know what he was doing. This is not what we need anywhere in our town as a leader. What a disappointing post.

Anonymous said...

Dam chicken coupe is falling apart and they're concern about a dam mail box. BS!!! Investigate kickbacks, employee abuse by supervisors, nepotism and other more important matters.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Vera, a nice person and excellent teacher, they must clean house with all the kiss asses secretaries that do nothing all day.look at all the real stealing instead of a piece of paper in the mail box.

Two cents Worth said...

Was leaning towards Vera ..changing to Guerra with 43 extended family votes.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Vera did not have any bad intentions with distributing the flyers. He was simply trying to help his father. Who has been dealing with the passing of both of his parents. He clearly was not aware of the rule bisd has in regards to the campaigning. Whoever took this picture and is making those comments obviously has malicious intentions. If you’ve ever exchanged words with Javier Vera, you’d know he is one respectful and honorable man. He is loved by everyone and in my opinion he is THE MOST qualified candidate for the position as Port Commisioner.

Anonymous said...

you all better be current on your property taxes before running your big mouths..

.... can I hear crickets please?!

Anonymous said...

Those of you making disrespectful comments and false accusations have no idea what you’re talking about. You more than likely don’t even look into each candidate who is running. Keep your mouths shut instead of giving your two cents about something you have no clue about.

Anonymous said...

Thats the beauty of this blog--

1. Theres a subject thrown out by the administrator.
2. Everyone and their mother give their opinion and pretend to be experts on the subject.
3. No one is right because no one know what the fuck they're talking about.
4. Its goes on and on and on - to the extreme point that the same people making derogatory comments on the first day, come back to the blog and begin to defend the same person they insulted, discredited and declared war on 10 days earlier!!

Its fabulous!! Its like a magnet for stupid people.. they now have a place of gathering! Congrats Juan, you are the leader!

Anonymous said...

Can’t disqualify a candidate for that dumbass. Wishful thinking huh? Can’t count on your guy to win without a “fix”?

Anonymous said...

Big f..g deal. Why not look into millions being stolen in our out of control bisd by trustee’s and admin? The place is a rat fuk.

Anonymous said...

PINCHE GENTE ENVIDIOSA

Anonymous said...

To: April 23, 2018 at 4:07 PM

Welcome stupid is as stupid does. We were wondering when you would show up. The magnet really works. Thanks Juan for the magnet...

PINCHE PENDEJO/A

Anonymous said...

As an individual who encounters Mr. Adam Vera frequently i feel confident in saying he is an individual of profound character. Not only is Mr Vera a coach but he is a life teacher and an individual who uses his knowledge and experience to aid and supplement as well as council students who trust in him. In all reality we live in a very unperfect world where mistakes are made. We live in a country where so much animosity surrounds the leader of our country and vulgar statements he makes. Rather than slandering an individual for his mistakes it should be used as a moment of teaching. The intentions that Mr Vera had were in no way incorrect. This goes to show the immaturity of who took their time to slander Mr Vera. Adam Vera is a man of profound character and a man with a good heart and always positive intentions. In all reality this mistake is being used for political advantages and in every way biased.

Anonymous said...

High School Principal typing ADDS instead of ADS? Wow, just saying...

Anonymous said...

Anony @ 10:48am..

you felt alluded to didn't you? LOL

Thanks for proving my point!!

Vader141 said...

Me.vera is an amazing teacher he that wasn’t aware that he couldn’t do that it was a honest mistake. To the teacher that is giving him a bad name can go eat ass

Vera’s Student said...

Adam Vera is a very respectful and awesome teacher. It’s sad that people have to put it all over social media. If it doesn’t involve you why are you posting it? Let him be, he knows what he did wrong. He is a very good man, stop bashing him.

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Anonymous said...

All these so call corruption just makes the gringo feel more at home.

Anonymous said...

Julissa Cisneros at 3:05.....You could probably state your point better if you would drop "ass"from almost all your sentences . Also, the word you need is "their ".......not, "there."

Anonymous said...

Correcting misspells and grammatical errors when the shit house is sinking is typical of BISD priorities.

Anonymous said...

The story that ostriches will stick their heads in the sand when they are frightened is a prevalent one. The idea is that the ostrich will feel perfectly safe and believe that they are completely hidden, so much so that a person can walk up to them and pluck a feather or even capture the bird very easily.

I just passed by the main office of BISD and say a bunch of ostiches...

Anonymous said...

Oh come on...got look at the other bisd candidate for tsc. Self promoting left and right and is bffs with the bisd higher ups. Its who you know folks. A lot of complainers here but the bisd only works for bffs and top dogs. If you are a regular teacher or staff, forget it, they take out the bisd policy and legal and all sorts of bs.

Anonymous said...

say or saw? jig saw or just saw or saw the button or saw who or saw what

confucies says “The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see or saw.”

Anonymous said...

I've noticed Vera commenting multiple times in here. He's already in trouble for playing video games with students using District property and now this. I don't have anything against him, but all those saying that he is a saint are very far from knowing the rammificarami and implications of what he's done.

Anonymous said...

**To: April 24, 2018 at 12:36 PM

The magnet is working Juan (re: April 23, 2018 at 4:07 PM) you did a fantastic job on creating a magnet that attracts (stupid people) according to poster at April 23, 2018 at 4:07 PM and repeatedly:

You have a non-integrated personality and are refusing to accept or believe something, or a statement to contradict someone or something. If you don't agree with what has been said about your actions or beliefs it does not give you permission to insult everybody that post comment here. You are insulting YOURSELF, simply by posting and reposting and in reality you are alluding to yourself, oh - you are so adroit.

rita