Duardo Paz-Martinez Named Blogger of the Year, Mean Mister Brownsville Dead Last, But the Sun Still Rose

"Miracles keep happening The sun rose in the east today I sat up and sighed for the millionth time As the dawn was phasing a night away The blues can last for just so long And from the depth There will arise another song And I'll sit here in the sea and the sun Waiting for that other song to come That other song to come"From "Miracles" by Joan BaezIn an analytical, but fair-minded critique of those inhabiting the blogosphere over Brownsville, Duardo Paz-Martinez, a blogger from somewhere near Austin, rates the performances of local bloggers "covering" the recent May 11 City Commissioner Election.(A month from now one final runoff will finish the process.) Duardo Paz-MartinezBrownsville's2013 Blogger of the YearLocal blogger Bobby Wightman-Cervantes of the BROWNSVILLE VOICE is credited by Paz-Martinez(not known to be related to Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez) as being dangerously close to objectivity, but lacking journalistic training.  Bobby is invited back for DP-M blogger tryouts next year. Veteran bloggers Juan Montoya of  El Rrun Rrun and Jerry Mchale of the Brownsville Blues were credited with having the right stuff, but chastised for being low performers.  Both were credited with the facility to turnBrownsville's Blogging Also-Ransit around whenever so motivated. The most unflattering associations by DP-M were saved for my Mean Mister Brownsville blog, linking my function to circus master, con artist P.T. Barnum, for whom a "sucker is born every minute," the freakishly afroed boxing promoter, Don King, who would talk up an epic battle between two cucarachas for a buck and Col. Tom Parker, who forced Elvis to toil in all those B movies.Duardo added these sharp words of counsel:"After Saturday's crushing defeats at the polls, it's all he has left. Barton would be wise to re-visit his opinion of Brownsville, to take his brain to quiet study, to come away with a true analysis of what he has before him. The city commission is not the enemy. Something tells me Jimmy would endorse Letty, Roberto and Martin for the U.S. Senate." That's total silliness, Duardo.  I was not defeated Saturday because I wasn't a candidate.  You won't understand this because you don't live here, but Brownsville lost on Saturday, because the pattern of the mayor using tax dollars to placate his cronies will continue undeterred by a questioning voice or two on the city commission.  As for backing this set of candidates on a national stage, that's ludicrous.  This blog has tried to carefully explain my view on that several times, but evidently not clearly enough.  This is my latest effort on April 27:"That is why local bloggers have spoken out for three flawed, but independent candidates for city commission: Roberto Uresti, Letty Perez-Garzoria and Martin Sarkis. All three have eccentricities, flaws and accents, but none are running for president of the United States. They are running for a unpaid job to provide basic services for the residents of Brownsville and to protect the city's financial, structural and topographical assets."Governor Rick PerryPerhaps, I didn't speak clearly enough.   The skill set for a city commissioner of Brownsville, Texas is different than the necessary skill set for President of the United States or even Senator.  Governor Rick Perry suffered on the national stage, well in over his head.  Seeing to it that a district's brush is cleared, drains cleaned, pot holes filled and empty lots mowed does not require a Barack Obama skill set.  The city commission is not about the grandiose, but the mundane, the basic. The disadvantage in blogging from 500 miles away about Brownsville is the difficulty in actually knowing the candidates personally.  On paper Rose Gowen may outclass Roberto Uresti, but Uresti is different, without an opportunist bone in his body.  He already embarrassingly outworks the entire city commission in terms of identifying, satisfying basic citizen needs.  Had he been elected, he would have worked night and day to run down the individual needs of taxpayers and his phone would have been ringing off the proverbial hook.  Gowen has four years of "service," seldom making a peep unless it was a health-related or green issue.  She stands aloof, superior, indifferent.  Yes, Brownsville lost.Retired nurse Letty Perez-Garzoria would fail Austin's chic test.  Garzoria is earnest, straightforward and unlike incumbent John Villarreal, outspoken.  While Letty was speaking out at city commission meetings, John Villarreal was being groomed to roll over for Mayor Tony by receiving a United Brownsville directorship.  Some say that behind closed doors, Mayor Martin totally disrespected John, calling him a "boy," and ignoring his attempts to participate.  While John should have fought back, he wimped away.  With the Villarreal victory, Brownsville lost again!Kim Jong-unUsing Duardo's specious reasoning, by supporting incumbents Villarreal and Gowen and Tony Martinez' plant Debbie Portillo, the bloggers suddenly become "winners."  Extending that thinking, those who supported George Wallace for governor of Alabama were winners, just as were North Koreans who chant affection for Kim Jong-un. We can only support or not support candidates who file for the job.  Like Rick Pitino, who briefly coached the Boston Celtics in the late 90's used to say to his team and the media: "Larry Bird ain't walkin' through that door, folks."Politically speaking, we could speak similarly: "Julian Castro ain't walkin' through that door, folks."
Source:http://meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com/2013/05/duardo-paz-martinez-named-blogger-of.html

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