Se me puso votar a la fuerza,
Sin valerme el gobernador
Hoy de plano me encuentro perdido,
Se hizo de aguas ya mi reelección,
Se hizo de aguas (Se hizo de aguas),
Se hizo de aguas, (Se hizo de aguas),
Se hizo de aguas ya mi reelección,
Ya me espero, (ya me espero),
Hasta Noviembre, (hasta Noviembre)
Se hizo de aguas la pinche elección
Special to El Rrun-Rrun
Just a few days ago, on a scale of 1 to 10, to Brownsville Navigation District Board chairman John Reed, the idea of postponing elections for the board until November was probably a -10.
The elections - scheduled for May 2 - were scuttled with the disaster declaration by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott with the primary runoff elections decided March 3, would be postponed until July 14.
Nonetheless, with the board of the Texas Southmost College - which usually holds the elections at the same time as the port - voting unanimously Tuesday to err on the side of caution and postpone its election until November to avoid COVID-19 contagion of voters and elections workers, Reed had no choice but to postpone it too.
This despite the fact that is a previous teleconference with the college and the Cameron County Elections Administrator Remi Garza, he had vowed to hold the elections May 2 come drought or high tide. If needed, he said, the port would hold it on its own using its staff and have only one polling place at the BND administration building.
There are three seat up for grabs on the BND board, Places 1 (Ralph Cowen, incumbent), Place 3 Reed, incumbent) and Place 5 (Sergio "Tito" Lopez, incumbent).
Brownsville hotelier and investor Grana is challenging Reed for Place 3 and Lopez is facing Bill Berg, an engineer who is anti-LNG and associated with the "No Road" movement in Brownsville's West Side.
On the TSC side, Adela Garza faces Jorge Luis Sifuentes for Place 1. Alejandra Aldrete, Ancelmo Naranjo Jr. and Antonio Guevara, are candidates for Place 2. Delia Saenz faces no challengers for Place 4.
Turnout in the BND and Texas Southmost College has been traditionally low because they're held in May. Does Reed know that moving the election to November in a presidential year will insure that the voter turnout in the general election will balloon and could potentially blow him out of the water?
There are three seat up for grabs on the BND board, Places 1 (Ralph Cowen, incumbent), Place 3 Reed, incumbent) and Place 5 (Sergio "Tito" Lopez, incumbent).
Brownsville hotelier and investor Grana is challenging Reed for Place 3 and Lopez is facing Bill Berg, an engineer who is anti-LNG and associated with the "No Road" movement in Brownsville's West Side.
On the TSC side, Adela Garza faces Jorge Luis Sifuentes for Place 1. Alejandra Aldrete, Ancelmo Naranjo Jr. and Antonio Guevara, are candidates for Place 2. Delia Saenz faces no challengers for Place 4.
Turnout in the BND and Texas Southmost College has been traditionally low because they're held in May. Does Reed know that moving the election to November in a presidential year will insure that the voter turnout in the general election will balloon and could potentially blow him out of the water?
Today, Reed and the board bit the bullet and on a motion by BND commissioner Steve Guerra and seconded by Ralph Cowen, had to join John Wood and Lopez to make it a unanimous vote.
Reed, in his public service announcement couched it altruistic terms and said the vote was "a further step to safeguard the community from the potential spread of the coronavirus. The deferral will safeguard poll volunteers and the voting public, and is pursuant to a proclamation of the Governor of Texas and a related advisory issued by the Texas Secretary of State."
Well, if you're being run out of town, make it appear that you're leading the parade. Right, John?
Well, if you're being run out of town, make it appear that you're leading the parade. Right, John?
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All he needs is a white suit and a cone hat...
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