CORTEZ'S MONEY-MAKING ACT GETTING A BIT STALE...

(Ed.'s Note: Whether it's spending the public's nickel on travel to education conferences in Las Vegas, Miami, etc., landing a lucrative jail commissary contract through his relatives in the Cameron County Sheriff's Department administration, or advancing the employment opportunities for his relatives, former Brownsville Independent School District board member Ruben Cortez knows how to sniff out a dollar. It doesn't take a lot of learning to hustle a buck because his educational attainment consists of a Graduate Equivalency Diploma (GED) which he has parlayed into a license to print money for himself.

Now he wants to be your Texas House of Representative for District 37 in the runoff election against  Brownsville land developer Luis Villarreal. How long will local voters put up with this act? Early voting start May 16 and ends May 20. Election day is May 24.)