By Juan Montoya
Even though she's sailing her fantasy world in far-off Disney World, JP 2-1 Linda Salazar is working her money-making magic by having other judges stand in for her in weddings she scheduled during her vacation time.
On Friday, a wedding party arrived expecting Cameron County Cupid Salazar to perform the wedding ceremony only to find that it was going to be performed by JP 5-1 Sally Gonzalez, from Harlingen. "We thought is was going to be Judge Salazar, but it turned out to be someone named Sally," said one of the bride's attendants. 'We didn't know who she was, but it was nice of her to come down from Harlingen."Why Gonzalez?
That's what a county staffer at the Levee building wondered when he overheard that Gonzalez was in the building to perform the wedding. "We have two other JPs in Brownsville on the second floor," he said, referring to JP 2-2 Johnathan Gracia and JP 2-3 Mary Esther Sorola. The couple who was getting married live in Brownsville. "Did Salazar and Gonzalez work out a sharing deal where Gonzalez performs the weddings while Salazar is on vacation and split the fee rather than let the Brownsville JPs do them and charge the fee?"
Many people don't know that the county makes no other money from a wedding than the $82 that the couples pay the Cameron County Clerk for the wedding license.
Many think that the more wedding ceremonies that a JP performs, the more money the county keeps.
However, under Texas law, the JPs are allowed to keep whatever they charge the couples. The fees by Brownsville JPs usually vary from as low as $150 if performed in the office during working hours, to $200 if it's within the city and outside the courthouse, or $250 if it's on Sunday or holidays in Brownsville up to $300 any time out of Brownsville.
It is a lucrative side to public service that Salzar has tapped on. She averages some 600 weddings a year, more than any of the 10 JPS in Cameron County. At that rate, at an average of $200 per wedding, it nets her a nifty $120,000, more than double her $53,000 annual salary.
Oh, well, someone has to pay for Mickey and Minnie's Disney World cheese.
6 comments:
Only in Brownsville can this happen, Linda is as bent as a butchers hook, don't vote for her ever again.
Both are rats, one has a bigger tail than the other!
Juan in Hidalgo County a building inspector was given a $150k bond for bribery charges. When are we going to get a DA that has the balls to investigate the BEDC and GBIC, as there's written proof of theft and corruption that has been going on for years. Do we have to wait for the DA to join Armando Villalobos before anything is going to be done. Do we have to watch daily and see what Jason Hilts has used his credit card being used for personal use daily for more than the average wage, and he just laughs at the people who are in charge. Or watch as Rene Oliveira drives drunk from an accident only to laugh at us law abiding people, he is a lawyer and should be treated like a criminal, if that was joe public we would still be in jail while they count the number of offenses being charged. Juan this sends a message to the people of Brownsville, if you want to get ahead in Brownsville, join the Democratic party, get elected to any board and be corupt, and bring your children up the same way, be on drugs, and also a drunken thief. Viva La Brownsville.
Juan in Hidalgo County a building inspector was given a $150k bond for bribery charges. When are we going to get a DA that has the balls to investigate the BEDC and GBIC, as there's written proof of theft and corruption that has been going on for years. Do we have to wait for the DA to join Armando Villalobos before anything is going to be done. Do we have to watch daily and see what Jason Hilts has used his credit card being used for personal use daily for more than the average wage, and he just laughs at the people who are in charge. Or watch as Rene Oliveira drives drunk from an accident only to laugh at us law abiding people, he is a lawyer and should be treated like a criminal, if that was joe public we would still be in jail while they count the number of offenses being charged. Juan this sends a message to the people of Brownsville, if you want to get ahead in Brownsville, join the Democratic party, get elected to any board and be corupt, and bring your children up the same way, be on drugs, and also a drunken thief. Viva La Brownsville. Now the BISD is going to sfart night classes in CORRUPTION with guest speakers, Jason Hilts, Gilbert Salinas, Rene Oliveira, Mayor Tony Martinez,Louis Saenz DA, and many more.
Linda is just hot sauce on the Taco, she has nothing on the Jackass Jason Hilts or Rene Oliveira, or Tony Martinez or Gilbert Salinas or The DA Saenz or the board of GIBIC or the BEDC. But corruption is corruption, even for hot sauce Linda.
She has been corupt since day one and she must go, if it is to jail then 5 years is enough time for her.
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