Even if you are too busy to see the voting site signs outside the Central Public Library, if you see Arcelia Flores Villalon and Cecilia (Ceci) Rosas in the lobby, you know there's an election on.
Flores, the polling place judge and Rosas, her assistant, have traditionally run the most popular early voting place as long as anyone can remember. For example, in the Texas Southmost College board elections, of 4,401 votes cast in the early voting period, 2,525 were cast at the Central Library site, or 53 percent, more than half. The remainder were cast in the six other sites.
Likewise, in the recent Brownsville Navigation District election, 2,662 votes of the 4,127 cast in the early voting period were cast there, or 64.5 percent.
With early voting taking on more importance (65 to 70 percent of the vote comes in then), it is not unusual to see a candidate or two peeking in occasionally furtively trying to gauge how their fortunes are faring.
But they can only do so up to a point and can't be wearing their campaign shirts or do any campaigning within the boundaries marked off by placards stuck into the ground all around the polling place.
This time it's the runoff election for the Democratic Party that brings the two ladies and their crew to run the polling place.
Depending on where you live, you may be able to vote in the District 37 State Representative race between challenger Alex Dominguez, a county commissioner for Precinct 2, or the incumbent Rene Oliveria. Again, depending on where you live, you may be able to vote in the Precinct 2, Place 2 race between challenger Javier Reyna,a a Captain in the Cameron County Sheriff's Dept., or the incumbent Jonathan Gracia.
Countywide, there's the runoff for 197th District Court between Carlos Masso, a Brownsville attorney and Brownsville Navigation District commissioner, and Brownsville attorney and former magistrate Adolfo Cordova. This is a heated race and includes Willacy County.
Statewide, Sheriff Lupe Valdez, an Hispanic woman, is in a runoff with Andrew White for a chance to run against GOP incumbent Greg Abbott.
Ceci and Arcelia are sticklers for decorum and polling place rules. You can't talk politics within earshot of the polls. And forget about taking pictures that could even remotely show the identity of a voter inside. For example, they'd never allow these two Cordova supporters (left) wearing his T-shirt to openly campaign within a few steps of the doors of the polling place as these two workers did. Witnesses say they were allowed to talk to the ladies with the backs to the camera before they walked in the door.
Outside the polls there are also rules. Taking photos there is a different matter, of course. We were able to get a photo of them when they were walking the perimeter to make sure the campaigning distances were not being violated by the candidates or their supporters. At a distance, on the Central Boulevard entrance, campaign workers for the various campaigns held up signs at the passing traffic urging the potential voters to blacken the oval for their candidates.
Election day crews like this are at work across the entire county. They fulfill one of the most important functions of our democracy. It is up to you now to do your part and vote.
Arcelia and Ceci are in the house. Must be election time.
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Please tell them NOT to go to veterans park its full of dog shit and smells even worst. Children can no longer play there, homeless have taken refuge there. Parks director no where to be found.
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) advises that just one gram of dog waste (the weight of a business card) contains 23 million fecal coliform bacteria -- almost twice as much as human waste -- along with other parasites and viruses that can be passed to adults and children and other pets. These include: E. coli, salmonella, rabies, giardia, hookworms, tapeworms, roundworms, parvovirus, and canine hepatitis.
Simply walking in a yard or on a sidewalk where dog waste has not been removed, then entering a home, will track bacteria and parasites inside to be deposited in carpets, beds and clothing and can infect anyone in the household -- a special danger to young children, pregnant women, those with suppressed immune systems or the elderly.
Rains also bring heightened concerns about dog feces left in yards and public parks. Harmful, toxic bacteria seeps into the ground where it can live for weeks or months.
“When dog waste is allowed to remain on the soil for long periods, rainstorms will begin to dilute and break apart the feces and slowly spread the bacteria on other contaminants into local water sources,” the AAPAW warns.
America's estimated 83 million pet dogs produce 10.6 million tons of poop annually, according to LiveScience.com. (Adding the litter of 90 million cats, the combined effluence fills more than 5,000 football fields, ten-feet deep each year.)
Studies have traced 20 to 30 percent of the bacteria in water samples from urban watersheds to dog waste. Dog poop that washes into water supplies can also harm or kill wildlife.
I voted at the clinic on Price Road. I hope
people take this election SERIOUS.
If you don't vote, YOU DONT have the right to criticize local
politicians. YOU NOT VOTING is what elected them.
So Cordova wants to be judge but he can't even instruct his volunteers on the do's and don't's of elections. And what's up with the election judges that allow that sort of conduct. They should know better. And those Fat Fucks that think they're above the law. You know who I'm talking about, the Sanchez brothers! Why don't someone just report them already?!
Alarming are the russians developing a dog (shit) bomb to attack the US?
Great info on the dog shit. I'll be sure to steer clear from any piles. But I didn't see any at the veteran's park. They have that carpet grass like they do in golf courses and I didn't see any dog shit. Actually, looked pretty clean.
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There you have it NOW DO SOMETHING OR DON'T VOTE FOR THIS JERK.
I go there to walk and run. When I run I don't see any dog shit but I can smell it, but when I walk I can see it almost every where. Lately it's been amazingly clean, maybe because of early voting. I hope they do keep that park clean of dog shit, and not only on special occasions but all the time.
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