By RICARDO KLEMENT
Staff Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX. - Sometime this morning, the mayor of this scandal-weary bordertown will roll out of bed and begin his new week, days after being cleared of charges he stole a $26,000 check. It's a new start, is what the much-whipped residents would like to tell him.
Mayor Pat Ahumada's time in office has been marked by his staunch opposition to federal erection of the so-called Border Wall, a tireless fight for protection of stray dogs, and a penchant for dressing down his fellow public servants on the Brownsville City Commission. Today, the indomitable mayor starts anew.
In cafes and laundromats and bars and social clubs, the words being aimed at the mayor centered on a desire that he buckle down and get things done, as in things for the community.
"He has a reputation for being in the news for the wrong thing," said Juanita Dolores Buitron, a resident of the La Ultima Cumbia Nursing Home here. "I would like to see the mayor do something positive for everybody in town. It's been years since I felt good about being from here."
At the bus station, a new arrival from La Feria said he knew "something" about Brownsville, but that he would give himself a few weeks before forming opinions. "I am against the wall, so I have that in common with the mayor," said Steve "El Pelon" Guajardo, as he threw a backpack over his shoulder and sauntered out of the busy bus terminal. His walk was the walk of a person happy to be in town, glad to become yet another resident.
But at La Movida Bar, a despondent woman tired of being hounded by sex-starved men and aggressive cops, said she hoped the mayor would construct a free motel for the poor. "I would love to have a clean bathroom," she said. "One that would flush without backing-up on my toes. I hate it when that happens. If the mayor can have a big heart for loose dogs, he can have a bigger heart heart for....yeah, that."
In general, the mood of the city was a strange cross between crippling boredom and wild expectation - as it has been for the past 300 years.
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15 comments:
She needs a different line of work, if you ask me, a free hotel for sex, who does she thinks she is??? Lady Madonna????
We believe she may just be another 14th Street hooker, a woman perhaps doomed to a life of carnal sin and illegal drugs, what men know as the Deadly Combination. But who knows? It's too bad society writes these sexual losers off so readily, isn't it?...Editor
I can't answer the question, maybe an adonis cop,similiar to the police officer in short, shorts can capture this cat-woman at Rucker-Carrizalez, they give free room and board . How about that???
Am I seeing el Rocinante in disguised. TEll me what's with all the naked women on your side bar?
Naughty, naughty, dp-m, naughty, naughty.
That'll work, although perhaps we should honor these women, these "public servants," as they were honored in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah. Prostitution has been around longer than cops. In Brownsville, many Movidas would fit the prostitution imagery, no? So, you don't do it for money, but you do it for social-climbing or prestige (doing a local powerbroker) or just to know you're alive...it's still dropping your pants. Is the weeping whore working 14th Street bars any different than the female school principal doing the superintendent for a promotion, or the politician getting a little from his fawning secretary? Why does she do it? Of course.... - Editor
Honor them, diplayed on a blog naked, Your kidding, you must be kidding.
Most Recent Anon: We list only two naked women. It sits with our intent to post a small percentage of nudes as a way to mix our varied content. We had not received complaints until yours waltzed-in bearing the credo of The Vatican. Your complaint has been received. (2.) DP-M is not naughty; he is a caring, educated Man happy to please... - Editor
You must be high on something, how can you compare a professional to a bi-polar whore. Who wants a hotel for free sex..........
Get over the hang-over from the hillbillys saloon.
I only ask a question about the naked women, from what I have read on other blogs,dpm is probably a pervert.
Anon: Your thinking is too linear. Read the reply one more time. We are not comparing them as much as we're saying there is no difference between a woman who sleeps for money and one who sleeps for position. Not in the truest definition of the word. Yes, one may be cultured and wear better clothing, but if you stand them next to each other naked...would you make the same argument? It's women doing the Funky Chicken we speak of, not merely a whore and a non-whore... - Editor
DP-M a pervert? Ah, no. He has no need to be a pervert. With women, he is a lucky guy. However, if you go nuts on us and believe that creative sexual positioning is perverted, then he may qualify. But who will argue with a man whose only self-styled duty is to please women, to afford them every pleasure in bed. Yours is a question better left to his women, and we hear no complaints from any of them... - Editor
Mr. Editor, you have a way with words and I have noticed you nutralize many bloggers who opposed your views.
Comparing prostitutes to hard working people and lower them down to movidas it is beyond me. (i give up)
I suspect it is NOT beyond you. Movidas are a big part of the RGV culture. And we don't mean a prostitute is the equal of a Hard-working woman. They are on the same level, however, when they decide to undress. One may do it for money and nothing more. The other one may believe she is in love. Our point: Sex has no idea whether it is a prostitute or schoolteacher seeking pleasure. It gets to a boiling point either way. Ask yourself: Do I do a prostitute the same way I do a non-prostitute. Perhaps you do...- Editor
Doesn't your crew have better things to do, than to be writing about Movidas, that subject matter is a private thing, leave it alone.
Movidas (adultery) are a contributor to the destruction of the family. We are against it, as we are against abortion and racism and bigotry... - Editor
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