(Ed.'s Note: The National Rifle Association loves Janie Lopez, currently the vice-chair of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District and Republican candidate for Texas House of Representatives District 37.
She is running against Democrat Luis Villarreal, who favors sensible gun safety legislation and limiting access to assault weapons to people under 18.
Lopez, endorsed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, kowtows to the NRA platform of unbridled access to firearms, and that organization has spent millions to support candidates who parrot their platform. Under that platform, they have come out against raising the age to purchase assault weapons from 18 to 21, enhanced background checks, and the banning of large-capacity magazines for these weapons.
If such gun-safety measures had been in place on May 24, the mass shooting of 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County might have been prevented without infringing on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
She is running against Democrat Luis Villarreal, who favors sensible gun safety legislation and limiting access to assault weapons to people under 18.
Lopez, endorsed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, kowtows to the NRA platform of unbridled access to firearms, and that organization has spent millions to support candidates who parrot their platform. Under that platform, they have come out against raising the age to purchase assault weapons from 18 to 21, enhanced background checks, and the banning of large-capacity magazines for these weapons.
If such gun-safety measures had been in place on May 24, the mass shooting of 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County might have been prevented without infringing on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
Large capacity magazines are often used in mass shootings because they allow a shooter to keep firing for longer periods of time, increasing casualties and reducing victims’ ability to escape or intervene
Large capacity ammunition magazines are a common thread in many high-profile mass shootings in the United States. Because shooters with such magazines can fire at large numbers of people without taking the time to reload, those in the line of fire do not have a chance to escape, law enforcement does not have the chance to intervene, and the number of lives shattered by acts of gun violence increases dramatically.
This happened in Uvalde. Could it also happen in her school district? Does she care as long as she remains in the good graces – and good grades – of her NRA mentors?
You remember Lopez. She has come out in her campaign literature saying that she will weed out "corruption."
But you also remember that she was one of several SBCISD board members who attended a vendor-paid banquet at a Brownsville luxury restaurant even though the vendor had an insurance coverage proposal before the board.
Her response? "Well, everybody was doing it."
True leadership.
After social media posted the picture, the board members deleted the Facebook post. And now we understand that the Cameron County District Attorney's Office investigators have visited some of the participants.
Defending gun rights over children's lives, and exhibiting a disdain for the apparent impropriety of being wined and dined by a vendor with a proposal before the SBCISD board. Hmmm.
After social media posted the picture, the board members deleted the Facebook post. And now we understand that the Cameron County District Attorney's Office investigators have visited some of the participants.
Defending gun rights over children's lives, and exhibiting a disdain for the apparent impropriety of being wined and dined by a vendor with a proposal before the SBCISD board. Hmmm.
Maybe the NRA loves Lopez, but we think that sensible people who treasure and want to protect their children's lives and want an arms-length relationship between vendors and their public representatives certainly do not.)
28 comments:
All of these Mexican women running as Republicans must be wildly sexually deprived. What else could they possibly be looking for in a political party well-known to be anti-Mexican?
That is sexist, but it also is a possible theory.
They are offering political cuckoldry.
Methinks.
There never really is easy entry into the established Democratic Party's valley hierarchy. That is why all of these Republican Mexicans ran to the nearest alternative.
They are as shallow as the tiny post-coital puddle left by a 70-year-old man's sperm on a dog-tired wife.
Carlos Cascos invented the Fake Republican Movement. It's convenient, but the reality is that these Mexicans will accomplish nothing. Being used always has been a problem for Mexican women. They can't escape it, apparently.
Sad & triste, Triste & sad.
fact.
JMHO
Janie Lopez has the sort of face that quickly set her apart in high school. You know, that slack jaw and fleshy lower part of the face. Guys knew they weren't "keeper" material, which set down a sort of Value system.
Who would even consider such a woman as a leader?
yeah.
Janie Lopez, Mayra Flores, Monica Dela Cruz are NRA Babes. They are against gun control. They are AR 15 advocates. Remember Uvalde, these are the guns that kill your babies and these Malinches are against the control of theses weapons of mass killing. You put your babies lives in these Malinches hands and guess what they do not care about their lives. Think about it. Remember Uvalde when you are in the voting booth.
EL VALLE ES DE LOS DEMOCRATAS
A VOTAR MI RAZITA
Another Nobody?
What has she done? Never heard of her. Has she helped the homeless, fed the elderly, worked the neighborhoods?
NO.
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Mayra Flores - "It made me realize we're doing something different. I was born in Mexico, I know my culture, I'm bilingual, soy raza, I know my people better than anyone."
she forgot - "Soy bean"
ja ja ja
Todas estas viejas deben de irse de voluntarias al ejercito en ves de andar de papeleras.
put one's money where one's mouth is
Todas son como el pendejetes de trumputo papeleras mamonas...
Time to post-up some tough-talking Democrat women against these fake politiqueras.
Is Mary Esther Sorola up to it?
Adela Garza?
Caty Perez-Garcia?
Daniela Lopez Valdez?
Nurith Galonsky?
Old Mexican dudes, like Dan Sanchez or Trey Mendez, won't cut it against these foghorn-wielding locas!!!
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If Republicans win control of the U.S. House of Representatives next month, they could hold the government’s credit hostage to force spending cuts ― including to programs like Social Security and Medicare.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other lawmakers said this month they’ll use the federal government’s “debt ceiling” to try to pry policy concessions from Democrats.
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CARLOS CASCOS should have returned to the Democratic Party and primaried Eddie Trevino. Demos might have gone for it.
Cascos is faking that Republican allegiance.
He knows it, and we know it.
Seems to me democrats are desperate. All eyes are on them so election cheating will be much more difficult.
These fake-ass bitches are brainwashed nymphs of the white boy elites in DC and they don’t even know it.
If any of them get elected, they’ll know it soon after. Go buy yourself some knee pads girls!
(What else could they possibly be looking for in a political party well-known to be anti-Mexican?)
I so agree with you!!!
Eldelasprietas.
I wonder how these women will feel about themselves when they are older and have grandchildren.
All theseThese women are delusional, just like Marjorie from Georgia. They are desperate to be white. Well, they will deport your ass the moment you art an intelligent question.
To all you anti-gun control cry babies! There is enough gun control in this country and plenty of rules and laws. Just because one supports gun rights doesn't make them a killer or a bad person. I am sure that there are plenty of democRATS who own and support the right to own but don't make it know publicly because of you anti-gun babies. Then to keep using the Uvalde incident as your trump card, shame on you!
cuantos llevan su AR al marrano aqui en el valle? francis y sus groomers gonna take them away
The AR 15 makes the feel machonas.
They want to prevent abortion so the babies can be killed later.
To put it mildly they do not think rationally.
TSC, Port, City, County , STISD , BISD Officials , Lucio's , Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez where have your voices been in speaking out for the city of Brownsville in reference to the theft committed to BPUB residents by some of your friends? Where is your outrage ? All of you tax us yearly and beg us for votes when you need us. You represent yourselves and don't care for the people you tax. All your projects should be investigated and audited. Boycott businesses these people are involved with.
Nambe, democrats lost the battles and now the WAR, too much being culeros and keeping new younger candidates out, it was only a selected few who could run every time there was an county election, for any elected cameron county office, it has been like that for the last 40 years or more, gilberto hinojosa, juan magallanes, joe rivera, ben uresti, aurora de la garza, tony yzaguiree-me vistes, luis sanez, just to name a few assholes in the local Democrat party, so now you all are crying about these red wave ladies, pos tough shit, time to pay your dues and the Red Wave is coming and its nobodys fault, but the democrats in power thats who, starting with the great democrat state party chair gilberto hinojosa. You democRATS took the voters for granted for too damn long and now turned the people away. Vote Republican come October 24, 2022. throw the RATAS out? ,
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(VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
I truly agree that EL VALLE ES DE LOS DEMOCRATAS. The valley has the dumbest people in the country. A survey conducted in 2021 indicated Brownsville ranked number 18 as having the most idiots in the country. Did you guys at least get a trophy?
We don't need gun control. We need idiot control.
So where did she picked up her AK or AR, in the cotton fields? In Tennessee they don't sell weapons to meskins, and in texas MENOS. She can't tell the difference between a cotton ball and a bullet. FACT.
Next think you know they will try to band Vehicle. They kill people when they are driven drunk. It’s not the Machine it’s the OPERATOR.
might as well band what ever kills, love kills, a bed kills, women kill, a bone will kill your ass if it chokes you, ants, bees, tigers, crocks, gators, jelly fish, they all can kill, karate kills, a kiss can kill your ass in a ny minute, a baseball can kill your ass, sleeping can kill, electricity can kill the states use electric to kill if you kill, poison can eliminate your ass, planes cars trucks motorcycles anything that moves can kill your ass, noise can kill you, motion vision and sound can kill your ass also, not eating can kill you and get you fat also, living on this planet can kill your ass das why muskies wants to go to the moon.
Why is Montoya afraid to post comments reminding his readers that Kika de la Garza and Solomon Ortiz were "A" rated by the NRA? Even Vicente Gonzalez voted against a recent assault weapons ban. The AR15 is the most popularly owned firearm in the USA.
The AR15 didn't kill those children and teachers in Uvalde. A person who was allowed to commit animal cruelty with impunity by his community did and with the cowardly complicity of a police chief who probably voted for Democrats for most of his life. Blame your culture and not the gun.
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