With Tuesday's deadline to withdraw as candidates from the November 6 Brownsville Independent School Board election looming, rumors are swirling that board president Cesar Lopez and vice president Carlos Elizondo will join former BISD trustee Luci Longoria in signing to be out of contention.
Neither candidate has confirmed or denied the rumors, but close associates indicate there might be some truth to what up to now are merely rumors.
Longoria formally filed her withdrawal at 2:25 p.m. today. As a result, her name will not appear on the November ballot. With her pulling out of the race, it left three candidates left for the Position 2 seat now held by Carlos Elizondo, namely, Elizondo, Erasmo Castro and Herman Otis Powers.
If the rumors of Eizondo's withdrawals confirmed, it will leave only Castro and Powers in the fray.
And if Lopez pulls out of Position 1, it would narrow the field to (by their place on the ballot), 1. Caty Presas-Garcia, 2. Jose Valdez, 3. Drue Brown, 4. Mark Anthony Cortez, and 5. Timmy Ramirez.
The other seat in contention will remain the same:
Position 4 now held by Joe Rodriguez
1. Randy Gonzalez
2. Joe Rodriguez
3. Dr. Prisci Roca Tipton
4. Jorge Valdez
Elizondo was bound to address questions on the two indictments and 11 charges he is now facing, an issue that he has to which he needs to dedicate his entire attention if he hopes to remain a free man. And Lopez, who tried to leave the president's post and hand it off to Elizondo before cooler heads persuaded him to remain and not expose the district to the shame and ridicule of having a president with 11 felony counts hanging over his head.
At the time, he said he wanted to dedicate his time to his young children.
Will the rumors prove true? We have until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to find out.
12 comments:
si tu. what do you want for christmas?
Who fucking cares?!
christmas came early
Carlos would be smart to quit now and devote himself to proving his innocence and fighting to expose those who are trying to sock it to him. Carlos is innocent until proven guilty and as I read accounts of what is going on, it is evident that someone is out to get him - I call it harassment. If all Carlos has gone through will push out those culprits who are behind this, which may include some other elected officials, then it will all be worth it, but who is going to apologize when it is all over.
Yeah, his greed is out to get him. He is a grown man who played a greedy game and is losing. Soon he will be in jail. He should man up and take his punishment, stop trying to blame everbody else for his fuck ups.
Carlie does NOT have to quit to prove his innocence.
On the contrary he should stay and investigate the “investigators” handling his case.
Go Carlis!!!!!!
El "CABALLO Blanco..Si,Si.
I tried to tell them, why not just go into a room, and decide who wants what then divide it out equally, and stop all the back bitting. We include the scumbag Oliveria as the lawyer and give him his cut, and be happy. Only one can be top of the tree, so why fight.
You can find Carlos Elizondo, on any given day working for Martin SARKIS at Saga state inspection on 13th street.
Donde esta el Caballo Blanco ?
Stay Carlos! Do not give the satisfaction to the nay sayers! Look Yzaguirre ran and won his election by a landslide even though their were numerous bullshit charges filed against him. I declare you will have victory in the election and from all of the charges filed against you! Ignorant ppl do not realize the extreme lengths the powers at be go to just to sabotage good innocent ppl. We need to do some serious house cleaning and vote out these corrupted scumbags!
For all republican teachers go try and get a passport, and when you get denied because you are hispanic go vote republican. PENDEJAS/OS...
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