Editor-In-Chief
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Journalists with even one year of field reporting experience know of the trade's chief competitive phenomenon: when one news outlet gets wind of a story and hustles to get it, the other media outfits in the area will quickly flock to the same scene. It is known as the "Blackbirds-on-the-Powerline Theory," and it is found to be true time and time again.
The ongoing canvassing of election votes at the Cameron County Courthouse here drew representatives from just about every news media company in the RGVofTexas, bloggers included. It was the story of the day. Questions moved across the city's geography like worker ants. Reporters arrived early Monday morning with satchels full of notebooks and extra pens. They were ready for info, for news that, at last, a winner would be named in the race for county judge.
With a plot - and sub-plots - worthy of a Tom Clancy novel, the story has weaved in and out of credibility for days. Rumors continue to spike like weeds rising against lawnmowers. "The fix is in, and there's a whore involved!" crowed Jerry McHale in his oddly-named political blog, Brownsville Literary Review. Others, such as Brownsville Voice and Harlingen's My Leader News, chimed-in with immediate assessments and a litany of emotional reader pronouncements that came easily, but arrived with few facts. The contest is not yet over. One more precinct box remains to be counted, and its contents will not be revealed until this afternoon. Yesterday's desayuno session at the courthouse was said to be contentious, rivaling the infighting seen aboard the Mayflower as it sailed into what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. Cascos played the aggrieved character in full-disbelief; Wood was said to be spectacular in his part as alleged foil for his party's boss, one Gilberto Hinojosa.
It'll all shake out, not that many county residents would seem to care. This is a political scrap, meaningless to the thousands of unemployed residents who'd rather hear about jobs, useless to those who work a 9-to-5 day and don't have time for games and bullshit, ridiculous to those living better lives in neighboring counties.
But we are taken by the energy displayed on the blogs and in the suddenly-excitable newsroom of the Brownsville Herald. If only it amounted to something positive. Reporting on a fight only benefits the fighters. We have yet to see anything in the daily newspapers - or in the Blogs - about what it would mean to the citizenry if, say, John Wood wins the job. Will it mean anything different than if Cascos is re-elected?
Who knows?
The blackbirds are busy fluttering their wings as they do their damndest to swoop past craggy mesquite branches to find a place on the county powerline...
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7 comments:
Duardo when will you visit the Valley y sus hembras?
Well I agree with you on about 95% of your article. About the 9am-5-pm. I don't know. I hear most of the elected officials are drinking beer and shooting the breeze at the local bars by around 3:00pm. The Palms, siete mares, 1-2-3, la movida,vermillion, just to name a few.
We do needs jobs, Cameron and Hidalgo are the poorest counties in the state, if not the nation.
How obvious this is!
You contradict yourself by saying that SDCFA is not 501c. Well, neither is the Modeling show you went and supported. Are you going to attack them too? Ofcourse NOT right?
This is personal...Melissa, you are not in Middle School! Your boyfriend break up and you have to atack whoever he is close to. Wake UP Brownsville. You don't have a reliable Comissioner
ANONYMOUSES:...(1.) We're told Duardo is completing a course at the Freud Museum in London. Something to do with his lifelong desire to unravel the essence of women... (2.) A call for jobs would help Cameron County, but, alas, it'll the last call for alcohol that these politicians will hear...(3.) We have no new info on Commissioner Melissa Zamora, other than that we understand she is happier than ever these days. We take her at her word... - Editor
Melissa Zamora was on TV the other day, she looks prettier in pictures than live television.
She is right in exposing people who ask for donations when they're misleading the public.
Anon 3 who cares about her personal life. She is human, and single, she can do whatever she pleases.
I was surprised how well, she presented herself on TV. I hear she is communictions major.
I guess nothing should surprised us anymore, Armando Villalobos making comments the integrity of the election, before a complete and thorough investigation.
Than he hands the case to the Texas rangers. You could have called Sherrif Lupe Trevino from Hidalgo, he has trained people in these areas. Furthermore, he would be more credible than the Tx Rangers.
Agreed on your comments section, why ruin such a pretty day, to listen to grown man, argue like kids.
Cheap South Texas politics, that is all it is.
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