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By Jim Barton
Brownsville Observer Blog
Juan Rene Hernandez and his dad, proud residents of 430 E. Fronton Street, did everything asked of them at the August 7, 2019 City Commission meeting to petition for the restoration of their home street back to its historic name.
They called on all 82 E. Fronton Street property owners, asking for signatures, mailing requests to those who'd moved away by certified letter, signature requested. They were successful in obtaining signatures from the necessary 75% of homeowners to overturn the City Commission's poorly-thought-out decision to rename the portion of E. Fronton from Palm Boulevard to Sam Perl Drive as McNair Family Drive.
The fly in the ointment was a campaign by the McNair family that resulted in seven of those who signed Hernandez's petition also signing McNair's, so now City Attorney Rene DeCoss wants the confusion cleared up and the City Commission reluctantly tabled the item for the time being.
"While there is no provision for a petition rebuttal, we have to make certain the intent of these signees," commented City Commissioner Ben Neece.
"I want all of you to know that everyone up here(all the commissioners and the mayor) are behind your effort," City Commissioner Nurith Galonsky told E. Fronton residents at the meeting.
One young man did speak up about intimidation by the McNair family, although, to be honest, he did not seem like someone who would be easily frightened.
Family patriarch Harry McNair came off as a blithering idiot with baseless comments, published in the Brownsville Herald, pontificating about the origin of the word Fronton.
Attorney Michele Sanchez, paid by someone, made some irrelevant arguments, implying that each lot, not each owner, should count for one vote, claiming "that's how it's done in Greenville."
Mayor Trey Mendez, also an attorney, responded that whatever Greenville does is not relevant in Brownsville.
Nevertheless, Mendez, who admits the city has totally botched this name change, wants everything done correctly this time.
"Haste makes waste is what my dad always told me," Mendez stated.
They called on all 82 E. Fronton Street property owners, asking for signatures, mailing requests to those who'd moved away by certified letter, signature requested. They were successful in obtaining signatures from the necessary 75% of homeowners to overturn the City Commission's poorly-thought-out decision to rename the portion of E. Fronton from Palm Boulevard to Sam Perl Drive as McNair Family Drive.
The fly in the ointment was a campaign by the McNair family that resulted in seven of those who signed Hernandez's petition also signing McNair's, so now City Attorney Rene DeCoss wants the confusion cleared up and the City Commission reluctantly tabled the item for the time being.
"While there is no provision for a petition rebuttal, we have to make certain the intent of these signees," commented City Commissioner Ben Neece.
"I want all of you to know that everyone up here(all the commissioners and the mayor) are behind your effort," City Commissioner Nurith Galonsky told E. Fronton residents at the meeting.
One young man did speak up about intimidation by the McNair family, although, to be honest, he did not seem like someone who would be easily frightened.
Family patriarch Harry McNair came off as a blithering idiot with baseless comments, published in the Brownsville Herald, pontificating about the origin of the word Fronton.
Attorney Michele Sanchez, paid by someone, made some irrelevant arguments, implying that each lot, not each owner, should count for one vote, claiming "that's how it's done in Greenville."
Mayor Trey Mendez, also an attorney, responded that whatever Greenville does is not relevant in Brownsville.
Nevertheless, Mendez, who admits the city has totally botched this name change, wants everything done correctly this time.
"Haste makes waste is what my dad always told me," Mendez stated.
22 comments:
La caga, McNair. La caga.
El Coco Mendez will betray La Gente, Juan. Receding hairline is a clue!
I heard he showed up with a white bucket of paint...
Chicken little and the boy who cried wolf turned out to be right and at the end both suffered the consequences as a result of people in power not listening.
"SOUNDS LIKE BROWNSVILLE TEXAS "
Seriously, what is it about "HAIRLESS HARRY" that turns you people into rabid jackasses?
Ben Neece needs to step up! Shit, stop being a go-along, dude! You're like the Mama Cass in the band!!!!
what he should do is PAY TAXES JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE HERE. PINCHE MAMONES. The city should investigate these bozos and they should start paying just the rest of us pinche culos.
Its clear he's using his position to benefit him and his whole family NO SHAME kick him out of all city boards. We don't need these kinds of persons
Pinches gringos start paying your share tit suckers
Change Elizabeth Street to Juan Montoya Boulevard!!!
Only the latest pissing match between Local Browns and Local Whites. Yawn.
The debate over the name of the 10-mile (16.1 kilometer) boulevard on the city's mostly black east side began shortly after the council's decision in January to rename The Paseo for King. Civil rights leaders who pushed for the change celebrated when the street signs went up, believing they had finally won a decades-long battle to honor King, which appeared to end Kansas City's reputation as one of the largest U.S. cities in the country without a street named for him.
Its like el gran southmost (los piojos) with a gringa as their representative of the mostly ALL hispanic citizens (cough cough)...
Who’s the one that screwed the pooch in the first place? Why was this even allowed or entertained as an idea to begin with? Don't blame Trey, this happened before the election...
Stupid McNair thinks his dad was a united states president.
The phony mayor mendez said, we are not Greenville? But why is Brownsville doing what is done in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and New York city? This mayor is blind like a mole. Brownsville is a joke and city commissioners is plain stupid.
David Crockpot chickened out...
We need more people like the Hernandez NOT AFRAID TO STAND UP! GRACIAS GBY.
Coco Mendez! Coco Mendez! Pinche racist Coco hillbilly jotito parrot! Learn to new racist palabras puto perico!
I can remember when McNair was criticized by his sewing ladies for the pay they got considering the hours they put in to help him become a millionaire and his high and mighty son and his wife. They think they are above others, so why not just change the name of a street for their ego-building needs.
If McNair does not know the meaning of frontera, it is because he could care less. He doesn't know the word because he is a gringo, but his wife can surely tell him what it means. Fronton is the English version of frontera.
Frontera means an area/line that faces/separates another area/country, in this case, the Rio Grande River that separates Matamoros from us. "Would you give that word to me in a sentence?" "Many of the workers at McNair used to cross the frontera to come work at their sewing factory." Remember that? You paid them less money but you forgot about that, right. Maybe the McNairs would like to pay for all the name changes that will be required on stationary and advertisements for the companies that have lined that street since I can remember.
Playing the world’s smallest violin here...
The city and state should do away with "Historical Designation " bullshit, this is only a smoke screen so that the greedy people would not have to pay property taxes. These so called communty leaders should be setting the example for the rest of us who do pay our taxes. Leave the street name Fronton. Historical designations should be only be aluthorized for museums or other public places not personal properties. Millions of dollars can be generated if these greedy people would be forced to pay their fair share.
To November 7, 2019 at 9:49 AM
OK, Mini Me! Have fun, but go show off your useless talents on some other blog.
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