By ELIOT ELCOMEDOR
Editor-In-Chief
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - The star-crossed mayor here was busted on a charge of driving while intoxicated, while a former city commissioner was arrested in connection with alleged spousal abuse. So, how exactly did that go down in this honor-starved town of 120,000 oft-whipped souls?
Who knows?
A new day came following the shenanigans involving Mayor Pat Ahumada and ex-City Commissioner Carlos Cisneros and...nothing happened. No rioting in the streets, no hellfire voices raised in alarm. As a patron of a downtown cafe put it, "We're used to it. We're used to Brownsville men drinking and whipping on their wives."
The mayor, no stranger to controversy during his public service journey, quickly declared he would not be resigning. Cisneros reportedly resigned, but his post was that of cohort for County Judge Candidate John Wood, who it is said wasted no time in ridding his ascending campaign of a man characterized in the press as someone who took out his mysterious frustrations on his defenseless wife.
Odd as it may sound, booze and wife-as-punching bag lags low on the community shame ledger, there below kicking and gutting puppies and working as sheriff and then going to prison. Nothing came from any of the mayor's colleagues on the Brownsville City Commission. Not one voice rose to challenge him on his decision to stay as figurehead leader of the community. Booze, then, has a friend in town - as apparently does whomping on the little woman. Cisneros has not gone public with why things went south on lovely South Padre Island between him and his wife. Que lastima.
Ahumada called his arrest an unfortunate incident. But how can that be? The mayor knows full-well what he drank and how much. Why not own-up, ask for forgiveness and at the very least know that you'll take it like a man. Cisneros has no ground to stand on if, indeed, he beat-up his wife. Who knows about these guys? They merely fall into that long line of alcohol-fueled Bad Boys willing to do the Perp Walk while wholly believing there just cannot be anything wrong with violating the law. That's Life in Brownsville for the soiled Macho Community.
Mayor Pat Ahumada should resign immediately.
That would be the honorable thing to do. Cisneros should take his legal lumps and willingly fade from the public eye. Photos taken at the police station should be shame enough. But we doubt that these two social acrobats will change their habits. They are All-Border, All-The-Time, merely the latest foot soldiers in an army of pathetic Brownsville men who do not know the meaning of the word.
Pity...
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7 comments:
As Out casts Of Society, Chicanos / Mexican - Americans Living in This Shunned border town. We Lack Leaders that stand against anything; NO VOTE , NO VOICE....We Are NOBODIES !!!!
ANON: That is so. We have seen no "Leaders," only a long stream of self-serving charlatans and publicity-hungry failures... - Editor
Hey, someone just announced on myharlingennews.com, that DPM is running for mayor of Brownsville, is that true???
Anon:...Our info from up north is that he is planning on making a serious run at the mayorship. We shall know more when he establishes residency in Brownsville and commissions a campaign staff... - Editor
Wow, dpm for mayor, heck, nothing wrong with that, wow, he better get ready because, from what I have read on other blogs, there are some crazy people outt here throwing stones, all over the place. good luck
ANON: You should know that DP-M can take care of himself nicely. He knows critics will rise from the gutters, but he'll have his say, and that say will win over more than any number of ten-percenters who hit the streets to scream at him. It promises to be not only entertaining, but educational. The bar will be raised considerably, that's for sure... - Editor
Well good luck with his campaign but he has to live in the city for a certain period of time.
I am sure he defend himself, my comments are, get ready, because it does get nasty ouf in the streets.
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