Word reached us early Monday that Roy De Los Santos Sr., father of city of Brownsville Commissioner Roy De Los Santos Jr., died at his home from a sudden heart event.
We met Roy Sr. in the 1970s when he was the agent of the International Longshoremen Association Local 2995 and battled with the Port of Brownsville stevedores to secure competitive wages for the port workers who went down into the dark holds of ships to load and unload massive cargoes of sugar, bananas, steel, etc...
He was hugely supportive of labor and we remember walking the picket lines with him when the Steelworkers Union was trying to unionize Marathon LeTourneau, now a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine.
He was a good public servant, a good family man and a friend of labor. We were lucky to have traveled a bit of this road with the likes of brother De Los Santos. He will be missed.
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Unions kill jobs
We are all born to die.
No one gets outta here alive.
Live while you're alive.
Live it large.
RIP ROY Sr. It was nice to have met you many years ago. Till we meet again. God Bless
There are SEVERAL count them SEVERAL pendejos running for re-elction in CITY positions. There are part of the problem they support bike trails, murals, hiring their family and friends, high salaries to known voting friends, give away city funds to other countries and their citizens AND NOW THEY ARE ASKING FOR YOUR VOTE. DO YOU THINK THEY DESERVE OUR VOTE? POTHOLES GALORE, TRAFFIC LIGHTS DON'T WORK AND ARE RED AT EVERY TRAFFIC LIGHT CORNER, THROW AWAY CITY FUNDS ON MURALS, FLOODING, NO AIRPORT AND IT GOES ON AND ON.
ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR THESE PENDEJOS?
DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE, NO ONE, NO ONE EVER AGAIN THEY HAVE PERFORM FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND VOTING FRIENDS.
The city of Brownsville has announced the top three local finalists to create a mural downtown, and they want your input.
ANOTHER $250,000 THROWN AWAY, WHEN IS THIS GOING TO STOP Y LAS BIKE TRAILS ANOTHER 20 MILLION.
FOR NOTHING
VOTE EVERYBODY OUT DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE.
THIS IS INSANE ONLY MODADOS GO DOWNTOWN AND WHILE YOU ARE THROWING CITY MONEY AWAY OFFER THEM A NEW CAR AND DINNER FOR A WHOLE MONTH ITS NOT YOUR MONEY ANY WAY...
April 12, 2023 at 9:30 AM
Good points. But we should demand our political leaders to work and propose on big projects. They need our guidance. They do not know what the people need. They have other interests, deals, etc
Flood streets: only people that drive during a storm know the streets that can be used to get home.
BUMPS: only people that know the neighborhood know where the bumps are....they are not painted regularly
Garbage/Trash: Remember when trash was picked up TWICE per week !!!
More communication is needed to inform residents and politicians about what the city needs. Most people are focused on earning a living and not on other things....
Hey, the Mexicans going downtown are there to support the cartel's business associates. Which is our local city government, the cartels run Brownsville. The Brownsville PD enjoys the cartel money, all that tax revenue from a little address with 10 LLC's attached to it. Especially these industrial companies in District 2. Planning and Zoning are doing a great job for the city, residents, and most importantly the CARTELS.
they think $250,000 is peanuts so they want the voting citizens input. Why now? FIX THE POTHOLES, FIX THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS, FIX THE AIRLESS PORT, LOWER ALL EXEGERATED SALARIES.
Citizens write this down on your input if you can get one. I hear they are assigned to special friendly people.
printed on the no customers daily (herald), and purchase one of their number ONE flier for another 20 grand. Its not your money throw it away.
10.10 am i agree some of these city manager $330K and DEPUTY cm $240K, asst city managers $212K salaries are way to high and they dont produce NOTHING AT THE END OF THE DAY, CHECK OUT WHAT OTHER CITIES PAY THEIR CM OR ASST CM, AND THEY ARE LOWER. PLUS THE CITY DONT FIX ANYHTING, JUST SAYING
DO NOT RE-ELECT NO ONE, NOBODY, EVER AGAIN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO GET, IF YOU RE-ELECT ONE OF THESE BABOSOS? NADA NADA Y NADA, said one of them...
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