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The city commissioner foursome voting to retain the bootlicking "McNair Family Drive" designation for what has been known since 1850 as "East Fronton Street" faced a moral dilemma last Tuesday night and were found deficient.
Theirs was a moral, political and democratic failure.
All four, Commissioners Rose Gowen, Jessica Tetreau, Joel Munguia and john Cowen, tried feebly to rationalize their obvious failure to recognize the will of the people by pretending to have issues with the wording of the new city policy on changing street names, a policy they were comfortable enough to vote for just weeks before.
Yes, they were under pressure, pressure exerted from two distinct sides: the owner/residents of East Fronton Street and the McNair family, who own three warehouse buildings with East Fronton addresses.
Commissioner Gowen admitted to such pressure when she stated, "I will never consider the renaming of a street again."
Had the majority really ruled, had democracy really worked in this case, the voices of the vast majority of East Fronton residents would have been heard, but instead, four commissioners chose to listen to the voice of one rich, influential family seeking to aggrandize their family name.
It was a simple, clear-cut case of pandering to the so-called rich and famous, ignoring the principle of self-determination and failing to reward citizens who did exactly as they were told by the same city commissioners.
And don't let the last minute semantics used by the foursome to justify their vote against the people fool you. That was insincerity at its worst. The simple fact is that they did not want to alienate a powerful, influential family in the city, residents of East Fronton Street bedamned!
If you vote in Brownsville city elections, you've now been given clear, unmistakable proof that these four do not represent the ordinary citizens, but instead, the rich, powerful and influential.
All four, Commissioners Rose Gowen, Jessica Tetreau, Joel Munguia and john Cowen, tried feebly to rationalize their obvious failure to recognize the will of the people by pretending to have issues with the wording of the new city policy on changing street names, a policy they were comfortable enough to vote for just weeks before.
Yes, they were under pressure, pressure exerted from two distinct sides: the owner/residents of East Fronton Street and the McNair family, who own three warehouse buildings with East Fronton addresses.
Commissioner Gowen admitted to such pressure when she stated, "I will never consider the renaming of a street again."
Had the majority really ruled, had democracy really worked in this case, the voices of the vast majority of East Fronton residents would have been heard, but instead, four commissioners chose to listen to the voice of one rich, influential family seeking to aggrandize their family name.
It was a simple, clear-cut case of pandering to the so-called rich and famous, ignoring the principle of self-determination and failing to reward citizens who did exactly as they were told by the same city commissioners.
And don't let the last minute semantics used by the foursome to justify their vote against the people fool you. That was insincerity at its worst. The simple fact is that they did not want to alienate a powerful, influential family in the city, residents of East Fronton Street bedamned!
If you vote in Brownsville city elections, you've now been given clear, unmistakable proof that these four do not represent the ordinary citizens, but instead, the rich, powerful and influential.
12 comments:
El Panson Barton has a flair for the obvious. LMAO
Rich, powerful, influential - in low-ass Brownsville, worst city in the Rio Grande Valley? LMAO
In Matthew 26:23–25 and John 13:26–27, Judas is specifically identified as the traitor. In the Gospel of John, when asked about the traitor, Jesus states: It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.”
El taidor de Brownsvile Texas I will dip my bread in his dish and give him the longest piece.
IUDAS Thats all I have to say
Who's the artist he needs to design a traffic map for the city engineers.
Barton has that XX sex chromosome. Writes emotionally.
Judas, betrayal en grande johnnie cowen.
Business as usual in Browntown. There is not one elected official that can be trusted to do the right thing. They can however, be trusted to do what is in their own personal interest.
White vanity. White commissioners naming a street where Hispanic residents live, after some old white leech paying zero tax, tax free warehouses.
That's one way of kissing ass. MAMONES
Breaking News:
The artist on this story was just hired to draw the city commissioners at a meeting he's already half way, but wait the county just did the same but they all want to go see a rocket launch and the artist is suppose to draw all of them watching a explosion opps I mean a rocket launch...
folks you all thought J cowen was on your side? looks like the flag has been raised and now we know the rest of the story. Think again, puro Asadon i say. like the rest of his family. good day
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