CASTRO MAKES INROADS, FB POSTS COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM

Within the last week, Place 2 Brownsville Independent School District candidate Erasmo Castro has garnered the endorsement of Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz and the Texas Valley Educator's Association.

And while the above have been posted on the candidate's Facebook page and other social media, some past Facebook postings by Castro disparaging BISD students, parents and the people on Brownsville in general, have also been disseminated far and wide.

In them, Castro – as far back as December 2013 and 2014 – when he unsuccessfully ran for the school district – likens little girls to "whores" and local youth as "hoodrats" and "ghetto wercos and wercas" and states that "prego" women are "yucky."

The fliers have been passed around many of of the other candidates' events. At one gathering recently, groups of participants gathered in circles and gasped as they read the eight posts aloud that had been printed on the hoja suelta.

"Parents please don't send your precious little princess out into public dressed like whores...it's aggravating to see /listen to viejos cochinos being pervs..."

Another on posted on Christmas Eve 2014 states: "Never in my lifetime have I seen in Brownsville so many ghetto wercos/wercas...if Brownsville is the poorest city in America now, God help us when these idiots become adults..."

And: "Is it wrong for me to say that I think prego (pregnant) women look yucky even though I think it every time I see one?"

And, referring to the rioting by blacks in Ferguson, Mo., after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson on August 9:

"I would be be sure more sympathetic toward the situation in Ferguson if looting and all Sharpton roaches weren't part of the equation..."

And, referring to local families on social services, : "If you get food stamps and live in housing and you get the iPhone 6 before me, I'm inboxing your social worker...."

"I wonder what percentage of students at the BISD are undocumented..."

Then, as if to double down on the provocative and controversial statements, later the same day, he writes: "Note: If people think that because I am running I am going to apologize to all the rascuachos, scum, hoodrat ghetto people that are  a cancer in our community because they have been bached on this page, then they need to take a seat honey pies..cause it ain't coming..."

Castro is running against incumbent Carlos Elizondo and former trustee Herman Otis Powers. On of Power's supporters say that voters in the barrios were angered when she showed them Castro's Facebook comments.

"Can you imagine if Otis had posted that?," she asked. "He would be strung up from the nearest mesquite. I've always said that if you post on Facebook, it's going to come back and bite you in the ass. School kids have been passing them all around. I wonder how his supporters feel about this?"