By RON MEXICO
Staff WriterBROWNSVILLE, Texas - The couple seated at a nearby table couldn't help but be loud. Thanks to the noisy joint, one had to raise one's voice to be heard, even across the dinner table. "I don't know," the man was saying in one one of those late-night flick voices. You know, deep and haunting, uttered as if from the gutter. I strained to listen, cause I hadn't heard the woman's question.
She repeated it.
"What will Brownsville be like after the mayor is kicked out of office?" she posed, eyebrows lifted to the low ceiling. This was thrown out seconds before she inhaled deeply and sat back on the table's chair. Her companion made a face and shook his head. "You don't know?!" asked the woman.
"No," he said tersely. "I don't know, and no one else knows, okay?"
The scene could have been one out of any political movie, one where the mayor finds himself in a world-class mess. Pat Ahumada, the mayor of this border town of some 120,000 love-starved souls, has been in some sort of mess or another during the last six-eight months. Booze grabbed him last, or so goes the allegation. Ahumada was arrested and the tale was that overweight city cops had nabbed him drunk behind the wheel of his vehicle. It was enough to bring out what locals call El Chisme.
Will the mayor serve out his term, which expires next year, or will he resign and bid farewell to a city he surely believes is snakebit? No one knows, and no one is talking.
WWAD: What will Ahumada do?...And what about the whispers on the Internet and the talk in the hair salons and bars? Candidates are said to be waiting on filing day. Two of them are the mayor's colleagues on the Brownsville City Commission. WWAD?...
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1 comment:
If Mayor Auhmada had any decency he would resign and quit making brownsville the laugh of the Valley.
He won't he likes the limelight, hopefully Pas-Martinez will unseat him.
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