PENA SINS

 At The McHale Report we agree with Juan Montoya's El Rrun Rrun that Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees President Minerva Peña can't count on her Christian hypocrisies to restore the credibility and the integrity that the district has lost as a result of her comadre politics.

In the last South Texas Independent Journalists Association (STIJA) poll Peña is clinging to a 37% to 36% lead over athletic icon Joe Rodriguez. Marisa Leal, who has been acting emotionally distraught on the hustings, is trailing at 27% for Position 7.

After a dozen seasons of talking non-stop, you would have thought that Peña would have had her said, but she is plucked parrot that never tires of squawking. We are glad that Jesus isn't alive to observe the monster than he has created. Unlike Lazarus, he wouldn't have wasted his time raising her from the dead. We can hear Our Lord and Savior now: "Let her rot." 

Will the voters bury her come November 3? Somebody needs to nail the last nail in her political coffin. Reports El Rrun Rrun: 

Minerva Peña, who's been on the board for 12 years and is now board president, sat through all this and said nothing. She, like Joe Rodriguez, is running for reelection. Only Marisa F. Leal has no business or known past dealings with the BISD. 

Peña was a force on the board when lawyer Baltazar Salazar was chosen to be board counsel back in 2013 and he has reciprocated by publicly endorsing her. Salazar is  a master of deceit and manipulation of the board and has been personally bent on destroying whoever stands between him and the $300,000 salary. 

Peña has been his all-too-willing ally to her "old friend."

He had a major role in subsidizing a PAC to destroy Catalina Presas-Garcia and now he has vowed to destroy Laura Perez-Reyes who dared to probe into his criminal record and tried to rid the district of his scourge. 

And what advice does he give Minerva and her buds about walking quorums? None, apparently. Aside from that, in her 12 years on the board, Peña has remained silent about the two suicides of a BISD board president and the department head of Food and Nutrition Services and remained so during the Barbacoagate when rotten meat was served to students at the BISD cafeterias that was purchased from a Mexican processor in violation of USDA rules.

And at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, she was overheard many times saying it was all a hoax meant to generate money for medical providers. Funny, when the district petitioned the Texas Education Agency for another month of distance learning, it cited 11 dead BISD employees, 179 positive cases, 6 district departments closed and 16 campuses shut down because of the virus. This even before students were allowed on the campuses. Was this her epiphany moment? 

Minnie has ridden her Porter Belle past glory days into elected office and continually uses the bully pulpit of the board president to beat her chest and proclaim her Christian love for all the students and taxpayers while at the same time riding herd over a wasteful school district, a tax increase without voter approval and the continued shenanigans of her favorite administrators.