At one time she was the darling of the University of Texas System.
Dr, Julieta Garcia, the one and only president of the UT-TSC "partnership" which gleaned an estimated $1 billion from local community college district taxpayers over 21 years to build her Kingdom on the Rio Grande, has fallen on hard times. The years of battling in the halls of Higher Education, it appears, have taken a toll on her natural good looks.
It's no longer President Julieta. Or president of the short-lived Institute of the Americas. Or advisor to the Chancellor of the UT System.
All that, alas, is gone like the haughty look, the imperious stare, and the pretentious strut.
Now she's back with another money maker. It's a class she will teach to star-struck UT-RGV students called the "Rhetoric of the Border Wall." We have always been amazed at the bag of tricks this woman has thought of to continue squeezing the turnip for more money.
If you remember, at one time the UTB-TSC protested to the federal government that the standard issue border wall was, well, unaesthetic. It was unsightly. It's not that Garcia didn't want to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to guard our borders. It was that, well, the damn thing was just ugly. After spending millions of local taxpayers' money to subsidize the construction of UTB showplaces, it just wouldn't do to have that ugly things mar the spectacle of the Kingdom of Julieta.
So the UTB-TSC took the U.S. Government to federal court, and won.
And what did that victory accomplish? The wall would have to be built, the government conceded. But if you want to make it a pretty wall, well then we'll let the local yokels pay for it.
Agreed, said Garcia's minions.
And so the government has its Border Wall. Garcia had her pretty Border Wall. And the taxpayers got rooked again.
Rhetoric, indeed.