(Ed.'s Note: This morning those Brownsville Independent School District staffers and administrative personnel who work at the Brownsville Academic Center (BAC) were treated to donuts and coffee by BISD trustees Joe Rodriguez and Carlos Elizondo.
Some questioned the propriety of two incumbents of the board giving donuts and coffee to district employees who make up part of the electorate in this year's board elections. Since both are still on the board, their generosity is suspect. There are three days left for early voting which ends Friday. The election is next Tuesday. What do you think they are hoping to get in return for their generosity? This is not the first time that Rodriguez has skirted the law. Just last week he was seen soliciting "support" from people entering the back door of the Central Library well within the restricted area where candidates cannot campaign. With his trusty walker in hand, he greeted voters with a smile. When the election judge was notified he was electioneering, she sent a election worker and shooed him away, but not before Rodriguez had buttonholed a few people entering the voting area. Rodriguez is facing challenges from Prisci Roca-Tipton, Randy Gonzales, and Jorge Valdez
We won't even enumerate Elizondo's troubles with the law. We just don't have the space here. He faces Erasmo Castro and former BISD trustee Otis Powers.
The pushing of once's candidacy would seem to fall under the prohibition of local school board policy (GKB Local: Title: Community relations, Subtitle: Advertising and fundraising) against political advertising.
BISD local policy prohibits any activity if "the advertisement is political, including
advertising for or against political candidates, or for or against political
propositions and/or referendums."
According to the district's website, the BAC is "an alternative education school serving middle school and high school students in the Brownsville Independent School District...At BAC, we are dedicated to providing a positive learning environment which incorporates the BAC Respect Model as a daily guide to help reinforce the values of respect and self-discipline.
The BAC's primary goal is to serve students' academic needs in an environment which stresses the importance of self-discipline and respect. Students who are referred to BAC for either a 30 or 45-day placement. It is left up to principal Hector Hernandez and the BISD administration to follow the policy at his school campus.
But maybe Rodriguez and Elizondo need a refresher course on ethics and local district policy. Should they be referred to the BAC for 30 or 45 days?)
15 comments:
If all it takes are coffee and doughnuts then those people DESERVE what they have as a board.
Last time I check you DONT have to vote for anyone that you dont like. In a democracy my vote is secret unless I publicly declare it.
Those two are using old PRI tactics. For American born, they sure know how to use Mexican tactics.
I am embarrassed they are from Brownsville. They DON'T represent Hispanics .
To: October 30, 2018 at 12:05 PM
Neither do you idiot those tactics are old inspired by cronyism and corrupt politicians from the east coast. Pendejo
Uuuyyyy!!!
puros taquaches viejos
Coach Joe and Elizondo are both as crooked as cork screws. They seem to think that they can do anything they like and avoid elections rules and are just un-ethical. Send them both home. They see BISD in terms of money to be made and not education for our kids.
If they choose to break the rules before they get into office, what chance do we have if they are elected. Dirt bags the both of them.
Just voted and didn't vote for either Coach Joe or Elizondo....need to get corrpution out of BISD. Drain the BISD swamp!
What would you call what Dr. A is doing to advertise for her slate of cronies that she knows she can control. She is asking for money to help them get elected and so how do you think Drue, Prisi and Otis plan to pay her back?
Have you read what she wrote about Coach Joe on Facebook? How can she call herself a true professional? Oh, but she does no wrong - only others!
I agreed, boot them both out.
I voted for Powers, Caty. Tipton.
I voted for the scumbag Rene Oliveria as being the most drunken drug sorting scumbag in Brownsville.
Yes, Drain the swamp VOTE, Caty, Powers and Tipton. The others are just not qualified.Just saying.
A vote for the SPA's minions will result in her becoming Superintendent.
The SPA will load the board with her people, resign her position on the Board and assume the 300K BISD Super Job that she has always thought she deserves anyway.
Don't believe it.
Ask her.
A vote for JoeRod and his crew will be the same old crap, more turf and scoreboards.
So you're screwd either way, best you can hope for is to split the new members were there has to be some compromise on both sides.
I'm on the BROWN team. Drue Brown that is.........
Check out the real picture and see who else is in the picture....there you will find the one person, SA...that is so desperate for power that shell stop to any level.
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