Someone pulled Wilmer Valderrama's leg on his recent visit to Brownsville.
You remember him from That 70s Show where he is the obligatory ethnic who is the butt of all the jokes.
They took him out to the the border wall (it seem to be on Esperanza Road where there is a break for traffic by the levee) and he took a photo saying "Here I stand..in Mexico and the United States...AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!"
Well, not quite.
Someone pulled Wilmer's leg (again) when they told him that. If that is Esperanza Road, all he had to do was just go a little farther down the road until he came to Julia Taylor's ranch and tell her she lives in Mexico.
We know Julia from way back, and as Esperanza turns into Monsees Road, she has a large poster asking the U.S. government for help because the border wall has left her property isolated between it and the Rio Grande River. Taylor was originally from England and she will tell you in no uncertain terms what she thinks of the border wall.
She probably wouldn't take kindly to having some Hollywood type come tell her that she is not in the United States anymore.
But it was his meeting with city commissioner Jessica Tetreau-Kalifa where the Fez got a bigger dose of malarkey that he wasn't expecting. Hearing that a celebrity was in close vicinity, Tetreau rushed over to welcome him to our fair city.
Now, since there had been no official notice and Da Mayor Tony Martinez and city manager Charlie Cabler were still suffering from jet lag after attending commissioner John Villarreal and Lynette Benavides' wedding in Sintra Portugal, there was no one to welcome the star to town.
Tetreau immediately grabbed the bull by the horns, a small pin, and a handy cop and and officially gave the lapel pin to Valderrama on behalf of us, her people. In her video she offered him a proclamation and the key to the city.
We are, after all, a giving town.
But doesn't there have to be some kind of a motion before the city commission and isn't it Da Mayor who presents the recognition?
Well, that hasn't stopped our intrepid commish before. She simply grabbed one of her dependable Boys in Blues and asked him to take a photo with her cell phone so the moment could be caught for posterity. That's what cops are good for, and for driving her around as her personal chauffeur on Charro Days.In her short reign a commissioner Tetreau has ingratiated herself with Mr. Amigos, billionaire Elon Musk (even bought one of his Teslas), and lives a very public Facebook life. The Fez just lucked out that she heard he was in the hood so he could meet all of her in the flesh.