Saturday, May 1, 2021

NEECE-CARDENAS, DE LOS SANTOS-BRADSHAW RUNOFFS; TERM LIMITS FOR MAYOR (PROP 1), COMMISSIONERS (PROP 2) PASS

 

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Extremely low turn out because candidates suck and people are fed up with brownsville corruption.

Anonymous said...

Two business partners were coming to setup in Brownsville but after listening to erasmo, elisondo, Trey and Neece they decided to go to Harlingen

Anonymous said...


Tough sledding for Ben Neece, Brownsville simply has no concept of good public service. It remains an under-performing, under-achieving town...perhaps because it wants to, or maybe it's because it is, as they say, an inherently suck-ass town.

Ben should have won overwhelmingly!

Chalk another one for Matamoros.



Anonymous said...


“The biggest takeaway from the beginning is that I asked each one of my opponents … that I was not going to be negative and that it was all going to be a positive race,” Whitacre said, adding that she wanted to set an example.

“It’s important that we respect, because that’s what McAllen is all about,” she said, “it’s important that we get along and it’s important that we have the same passion and that is for the city.”

Anonymous said...

Trey is a big fish in a very small pond, and does not know it.

Anonymous said...

The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous Commute

Each day, Mexican farmworkers endure a grueling journey to get to their jobs in US lettuce fields. This year, that journey turned potentially deadly.

Covid.

Anonymous said...

Pedro Cardenas - Matamoros Slow Invasion.

Anonymous said...


The term limits for mayor is a bad deal. Brownsville is a City Manager style of governing. Term limits would work in a mayor form, however. Juan "Trey" Mendez is not the problem here; he's a political eunuch, actually.

What's he proposed that might be considered detrimental.

The day-to-day schtick is handled by City Manager Noel Bernal. Get rid of his unelected ass if the city's trajectory goes awry.

Bad vote, Brownsville.

Stability is what you sorely lack.

Fact.

Anonymous said...

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In a narrow sense, the Real ID is the product of a 15-year effort to ensure, in the aftermath of 9/11, that applicants for passports and other identifying documents provide secure underlying documentation. (Real ID applicants have to provide documents showing their legal name, date of birth, Social Security number, citizenship or immigration status, and two proofs of address.)

More broadly, the Real ID is the product of an extraordinary social transformation. Thanks to more than a century’s worth of slow bureaucratic labors, our modern passport and ID systems control how individuals come and go, and identify who is “in” and “out” — who gets to drive, who gets access to social benefits, who gets to vote.

The United States has a wall already. It’s just made of paper.

Anonymous said...

Harlingen is much better than Browntown. Good leadership and city management there. Less corruption also.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Jessica Puente's showing is remarkable. Don't count her out! Roy de Los Santos is a rookie; she's been there before.

And with Neece faltering so stunningly, she could take over the city commission.

Isn't Jessica also from Matamoros?

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

I guess some voters just don't like to kiss rings or things

Anonymous said...

Trey has minnow balls!!

Anonymous said...

If you leave it entirely up to the city manager, he'll bankrupt the city in no time as he floods the city operations to outside consultants for extremely high fees. I wonder why he needs so many deputy/assistant city managers if everything is done by outside consultants.

Anonymous said...

I go to Harlingen to visit a friend, but have been to the mall IT"S DEAD, downtown Harlingen is DEAD. All you find in Harlingen are the Border Patrol, INS, the hospital and a whole street of doctors. Brownsville has more traffic, a lot more stores, and even though the mall is also half dead, JC Penney, Dillards, have more patrons than the Harlingen stores. I really get depressed when I go to their downtown area. Sad. Brownsville downtown has A LOT of traffic downtown after 12 noon. A LOT of Brownsville, San Benito, Los Fresnos, Port Isabel and SPI residents have been shopping with the Orientals downtown. We still cannot compare with the upper valley (McAllen), but downtown looks better than the Harlingen downtown streets. Brownsville needs more than Mexican restaurants downtown or the exclusive for professionals only restaurants on Washington at night. Back in the day, Neisner, Terry Ferris, Parisian, Gibson's Kress,Zales, La Popular, El Tropico Cafe, the ONLY junk jewelry store downtown was LA PULGA on Levee and 90% of Brownsville went DOWNTOWN. Mayor and commissh are lacking the vision or lacking the effort? I didn't vote on Saturday because the only vote was going to be for commissioner at large. If I could vote for the ones going on second round I would vote for Roy de Los Santos. He is not a newbe, he was part of the port comissioners, he is active in his community and is a Brownsville native, graduate of Rivera HS first graduating class.

Anonymous said...

Matamoros is like that movie the body snatchers. A meskin trying to clone a gringo hahahaha pendejos...

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