DID DENISE START BLOODBATH
Was BISD Trustee candidate Denise "La Gata" Garza the catalyst for The Brownsville Void's Publisher Booby Witless-Cervezas' blood bath threats against the Association of Brownsville Educators' (AOBE) leadership--President Veronica Borrego, Vice President Micaela Escobar, Secretary Laura Rosenbaum and Treasurer Elizabeth Torres--after she insinuated they were corrupt?
Her statement against the organization certainly furthered the narrative which Witless-Cervezas commenced after the San Benito clerk's disparaging remarks in regards to the association: "The AOBE forum was not a level-playing field. You had one candidate answering as if he was reading from a teleprompter and another candidate being coached on the side on how to respond. Particular candidates already knew they would be getting an endorsement."
There is no doubt that Garza is against Los Tres Buitres--Erasmo Castro, Carlos Elizondo and Virus Cardenas. She has company as the latest South Texas Independent Journalists Association (STIJA) has the trioka trailing by hefty margins as their detractors view "El Trio Frio" as the district regressing rather than progressing. It is an opinion that we share with STIJA, which has already endorsed businesswoman Daniella Lopez-Valdez against Castro, retired policeman Eddie Garcia against Elizondo and attorney and incumbent Philip Cowen against Cardenas.
Garza, however, is an aberration among the candidates, particularly in her race against Frankie "El Aguila" Olivo and Jaime "El Junior" Diez. She is promulgating the strange platform that a higher education isn't important. Is it because she has no significant college credentials to command the respect of the community and the educators? Instead of projecting a positive image, she promotes a negative message about pursuing a college degree. Olivo is studying for his Master's and Diez recently achieved his Bachelor's. Both are articulate and write well, two talents that Garza is sadly lacking.
"This explains her reason for not appearing at the AOBE's forum and failing to answer AOBE's questionnaire," opined a former Brownsville Herald columnist. "She didn't want to embarrass her with semi-literate skills. Both her foes complied with AOBE's requests. For her to turn around and say that it was not an even-playing field competing for an AOBE endorsement when she refused to participate in the process itself is blatantly disingenuous. She sounds as hypocritical as Wightman-Cervantes who claims that he wants to defend women against sexual predators and in the following breath is threatening them with a 'blood bath' if AOBE females don't endorse his candidates."
Garza did everything within her self-fulfilling prophecy regarding her relationship with AOBE. She sought rejection by her actions and she achieved her enigmatic ends. She finished last as Olivo received the organization's endorsement with 78% of the vote in a democratic and transparent election by the organization's members. Diez collected 13%. There were 11% who were undecided and Garza had zilch in her column.
"Garza wants the women of Brownsville to support her, yet she defies the all-women leadership at AOBE, even going so far as to intimate that the likes of respected educators Borrego, Escobar, Rosenbaum and Torres as bought-and-sold puppets of a special interest," continued the journalist. Rather than repudiating Wightman-Cervantes' who is calling for a 'blood bath' against the association's hierarchy as well as hundreds of other BISD women, she says nothing about this unholy crusade.
"As has been asked numerous times about her: What is Denise 'La Gata' Garza hiding? What she isn't hiding from the electorate is that her clandestine campaigning is not resonating. Her mysterious backers must have told her that a victorious outcome was a slam-dunk. She is discovering, to her chagrin, that in the eyes of her critics she isn't a Michael Jordan gliding to a triumph with the greatest of ease. In fact, she is beginning to look like an intellectual pygmy against her two foes who are running up and down the basketball court with the best of them. They like the competition. Even though it's summer, Garza seeks hibernation."
There is no doubt that Garza is against Los Tres Buitres--Erasmo Castro, Carlos Elizondo and Virus Cardenas. She has company as the latest South Texas Independent Journalists Association (STIJA) has the trioka trailing by hefty margins as their detractors view "El Trio Frio" as the district regressing rather than progressing. It is an opinion that we share with STIJA, which has already endorsed businesswoman Daniella Lopez-Valdez against Castro, retired policeman Eddie Garcia against Elizondo and attorney and incumbent Philip Cowen against Cardenas.
Garza, however, is an aberration among the candidates, particularly in her race against Frankie "El Aguila" Olivo and Jaime "El Junior" Diez. She is promulgating the strange platform that a higher education isn't important. Is it because she has no significant college credentials to command the respect of the community and the educators? Instead of projecting a positive image, she promotes a negative message about pursuing a college degree. Olivo is studying for his Master's and Diez recently achieved his Bachelor's. Both are articulate and write well, two talents that Garza is sadly lacking.
"This explains her reason for not appearing at the AOBE's forum and failing to answer AOBE's questionnaire," opined a former Brownsville Herald columnist. "She didn't want to embarrass her with semi-literate skills. Both her foes complied with AOBE's requests. For her to turn around and say that it was not an even-playing field competing for an AOBE endorsement when she refused to participate in the process itself is blatantly disingenuous. She sounds as hypocritical as Wightman-Cervantes who claims that he wants to defend women against sexual predators and in the following breath is threatening them with a 'blood bath' if AOBE females don't endorse his candidates."
Garza did everything within her self-fulfilling prophecy regarding her relationship with AOBE. She sought rejection by her actions and she achieved her enigmatic ends. She finished last as Olivo received the organization's endorsement with 78% of the vote in a democratic and transparent election by the organization's members. Diez collected 13%. There were 11% who were undecided and Garza had zilch in her column.
"Garza wants the women of Brownsville to support her, yet she defies the all-women leadership at AOBE, even going so far as to intimate that the likes of respected educators Borrego, Escobar, Rosenbaum and Torres as bought-and-sold puppets of a special interest," continued the journalist. Rather than repudiating Wightman-Cervantes' who is calling for a 'blood bath' against the association's hierarchy as well as hundreds of other BISD women, she says nothing about this unholy crusade.
"As has been asked numerous times about her: What is Denise 'La Gata' Garza hiding? What she isn't hiding from the electorate is that her clandestine campaigning is not resonating. Her mysterious backers must have told her that a victorious outcome was a slam-dunk. She is discovering, to her chagrin, that in the eyes of her critics she isn't a Michael Jordan gliding to a triumph with the greatest of ease. In fact, she is beginning to look like an intellectual pygmy against her two foes who are running up and down the basketball court with the best of them. They like the competition. Even though it's summer, Garza seeks hibernation."
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