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Reports have reached us that the Association of Brownsville Educators (AOBE) has endorsed state district court administrator Frankie Olivo for Position 2 in the upcoming November 3 Brownsville Independent School District board election.
Olivo reportedly received 76 percent of the vote from the organization that is comprised of employees from janitors to teachers, from gardeners to coaches.
Olivo is former BISD board member Erasmo Castro's nephew and blogger Jerry McHale's nephew by marriage. Castro resigned over a DWI and McHale is a retired teacher. Olivo is also the court administrator for the 404th District Court now presided by Judge Ellia Cornejo-Lopez.
The AOBE's women are a forgiving bunch, it appears.
Just two short years ago in April 2018 when he was already a mature 31 years old, he was charged with stalking and sexual harassment. The victim was a married woman and a mom.
At the time, Olivo controlled the administration of a district court, a position of the highest sobriety and responsibility. Officers arrested him in court and hauled him off for booking following the issuance of the indictment by a grand jury.
He was given pre-trial diversion where the state agrees to remove the defendant from the ordinary channels of prosecution so that he may complete certain conditions. Once the defendant meets the conditions, either the prosecutor or the court will dismiss the charges, which they did.
This is what the two charges specify. They state that Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018: "initiated communication (with victim) that had the intent to harass, annoy, alarm, or embarrass (her) and in the course of the communication make and obscene comment to wit: a photograph of a male subject's penis, and (his) conduct did cause (the victim) to feel harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.
The second charges states also that: Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018 made an obscene comment to wit: "a message notification from the defendant that when opened showed a male subject stroking, holding, and jerking his penis around with his left hand while recording acts with an electronic device with his right hand (which caused victim to feel) harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended."
Now think about this. He is running for a position that involves placing him on a board of a school district that controls a $500 million-plus budget, the livelihood of 6,000-plus employees, and the welfare and education of more than 40,000 students. A board member is also a role model for students.
He is now 33 and was 31 years old when these events occurred. And in his defense he says that: "As selfish as this may sound, I'm glad I went through it. It affected a lot of people but it taught me a lot. I was taught to forget the mistake but always remember the lesson."
It's only been two years ago. It cannot be dismissed as a childish prank or the excesses of youth. Ya era mañoso.
We don't think the victim (a married woman with children who as a legal clerk has to work with the courts) is as willing to forgive and forget as the courts or Olivo himself. And if he is elected (stranger things have happened) he could decide on the employment of BISD applicants who would have to swear (like the AOBE members did) that they had never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, which includes lewdness.
The employment policy of the BISD states that: "No one convicted of a felony or any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude will be considered for employment in the district...Moral turpitude is "an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private or social duties outside the accepted standards of decency and that shock the conscience of an ordinary person (i.e., public lewdness).
Who would want Olivo on the BISD board? His boss Cornejo-Lopez is currently embroiled in a federal lawsuit with the BISD over alleged violation of her daughter's civil rights. And she has never hidden her desire to land the board counsel gig on her old board. Would his presence on the board make it easier to negotiate things?
What does AOBE stand for? Association Of Browntown Exhibitionists?
The AOBE's women are a forgiving bunch, it appears.
Just two short years ago in April 2018 when he was already a mature 31 years old, he was charged with stalking and sexual harassment. The victim was a married woman and a mom.
At the time, Olivo controlled the administration of a district court, a position of the highest sobriety and responsibility. Officers arrested him in court and hauled him off for booking following the issuance of the indictment by a grand jury.
He was given pre-trial diversion where the state agrees to remove the defendant from the ordinary channels of prosecution so that he may complete certain conditions. Once the defendant meets the conditions, either the prosecutor or the court will dismiss the charges, which they did.
This is what the two charges specify. They state that Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018: "initiated communication (with victim) that had the intent to harass, annoy, alarm, or embarrass (her) and in the course of the communication make and obscene comment to wit: a photograph of a male subject's penis, and (his) conduct did cause (the victim) to feel harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended.
The second charges states also that: Olivo from March 20 to March 26, 2018 made an obscene comment to wit: "a message notification from the defendant that when opened showed a male subject stroking, holding, and jerking his penis around with his left hand while recording acts with an electronic device with his right hand (which caused victim to feel) harassed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended."
Now think about this. He is running for a position that involves placing him on a board of a school district that controls a $500 million-plus budget, the livelihood of 6,000-plus employees, and the welfare and education of more than 40,000 students. A board member is also a role model for students.
He is now 33 and was 31 years old when these events occurred. And in his defense he says that: "As selfish as this may sound, I'm glad I went through it. It affected a lot of people but it taught me a lot. I was taught to forget the mistake but always remember the lesson."
It's only been two years ago. It cannot be dismissed as a childish prank or the excesses of youth. Ya era mañoso.
We don't think the victim (a married woman with children who as a legal clerk has to work with the courts) is as willing to forgive and forget as the courts or Olivo himself. And if he is elected (stranger things have happened) he could decide on the employment of BISD applicants who would have to swear (like the AOBE members did) that they had never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, which includes lewdness.
The employment policy of the BISD states that: "No one convicted of a felony or any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude will be considered for employment in the district...Moral turpitude is "an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private or social duties outside the accepted standards of decency and that shock the conscience of an ordinary person (i.e., public lewdness).
Who would want Olivo on the BISD board? His boss Cornejo-Lopez is currently embroiled in a federal lawsuit with the BISD over alleged violation of her daughter's civil rights. And she has never hidden her desire to land the board counsel gig on her old board. Would his presence on the board make it easier to negotiate things?
What does AOBE stand for? Association Of Browntown Exhibitionists?