By Juan Montoya
If you pick up a copy of the Brownsville Herald at the Stripes today, you will see an ad for Mark Anthony Cortez for Position 1 on the board of the Brownsville Independent School District.
He says he's "committed" to the students of the district with "leadership that inspires."
Cortez is fortunate we don't have any debtor prisons here, or else he might truly be "committed" to a jail cell until he pays off his debtors and the very BISD where he is trying to get elected.
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The district knows him so well that its lawyers were "inspired" to file a lawsuit against him for delinquent taxes that in the aggregate between the BISD, the City of Brownsville and Cameron County total more than $10,000.
In past posts we have listed two other lawsuits against Cortez for welshing on a credit card from Walmart for more than $2,300 (which was negotiated after our post appeared) and a judgment against him from a bank of more than $12,000. We don't know how that poor lender fared on that one.
This is the guy who want the voters of the district who want them to entrust to him the $550 million annual BISD budget, the education of 40,000 students, and the the livelihood of 7,000 BISD employees.
He is running in a field of five that include Caty Presas-Garcia, Jose Valdez, Due Ellen Brown, and Tim Ramirez. Incumbent Cesar Lopez withdrew and did not seek the position.
He is counting on the fact that his mother is JP 2-1 Linda Salazar (the babe above), who has turned her office into a marriage ceremony maquila, raking in more than $120,000 yearly on the 600 marriages she performs during the year and is probably bankrolling his campaign twisting arms of vendors to get him cash.
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He is also counting on the coat tails of his brother Ruben Cortez, the GED certified member on the Texas School Board Of Education. The are both running in tandem as can be evidenced by the illegal-sized signs mounted on trailers across the city bearing the red tag stamped by city code enforcement inspectors. (In the graphic above, the red tag is clearly seen pasted on Ruben Cortez's forehead)
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Not only have the brothers been cited repeatedly for the violations by the city's citations, but, – unlike Carlos Cascos and Eddie Treviño – they have not heeded the enforcement. There are at least three or four signs with the red tags prominently displayed on their surface.
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This thumbing of their collective noses at the city indicates a disdain for the rules that everyone lives by. Clearly, they are counting on Mommy Dearest to stop the $500 daily fine for disregarding the size restrictions on their political signs.
After all, Mark Anthony Cortez's traffic violations and small claims lawsuits somehow ended in his mother's court where she dismissed them or passed them on to friendly judges for dismissal.
It's much like Trump when he tells reporters "I'm the president and you're not."
They are Linda Salazar's sons and we're not, so who give a rat's ass what anyone thinks or does?
If you pick up a copy of the Brownsville Herald at the Stripes today, you will see an ad for Mark Anthony Cortez for Position 1 on the board of the Brownsville Independent School District.
He says he's "committed" to the students of the district with "leadership that inspires."
Cortez is fortunate we don't have any debtor prisons here, or else he might truly be "committed" to a jail cell until he pays off his debtors and the very BISD where he is trying to get elected.
The district knows him so well that its lawyers were "inspired" to file a lawsuit against him for delinquent taxes that in the aggregate between the BISD, the City of Brownsville and Cameron County total more than $10,000.In past posts we have listed two other lawsuits against Cortez for welshing on a credit card from Walmart for more than $2,300 (which was negotiated after our post appeared) and a judgment against him from a bank of more than $12,000. We don't know how that poor lender fared on that one.
This is the guy who want the voters of the district who want them to entrust to him the $550 million annual BISD budget, the education of 40,000 students, and the the livelihood of 7,000 BISD employees.
He is running in a field of five that include Caty Presas-Garcia, Jose Valdez, Due Ellen Brown, and Tim Ramirez. Incumbent Cesar Lopez withdrew and did not seek the position.
He is counting on the fact that his mother is JP 2-1 Linda Salazar (the babe above), who has turned her office into a marriage ceremony maquila, raking in more than $120,000 yearly on the 600 marriages she performs during the year and is probably bankrolling his campaign twisting arms of vendors to get him cash.
He is also counting on the coat tails of his brother Ruben Cortez, the GED certified member on the Texas School Board Of Education. The are both running in tandem as can be evidenced by the illegal-sized signs mounted on trailers across the city bearing the red tag stamped by city code enforcement inspectors. (In the graphic above, the red tag is clearly seen pasted on Ruben Cortez's forehead)
Not only have the brothers been cited repeatedly for the violations by the city's citations, but, – unlike Carlos Cascos and Eddie Treviño – they have not heeded the enforcement. There are at least three or four signs with the red tags prominently displayed on their surface.
After all, Mark Anthony Cortez's traffic violations and small claims lawsuits somehow ended in his mother's court where she dismissed them or passed them on to friendly judges for dismissal.
It's much like Trump when he tells reporters "I'm the president and you're not."
They are Linda Salazar's sons and we're not, so who give a rat's ass what anyone thinks or does?