Staff Writer
HARLINGEN, Texas - In the city at the end of a popsicle stick, the burning issue today centered on Lame Duck Mayor Chris Boswell and whether his toney neighborhood was the only one sprayed with mosquito pesticide while the rest of the meatless sandwich that is Harlingen saw no relief.
"The tropical storm Hermine brought us some heavy showers and both the county and the City of Harlingen waited for mosquito spraying from the State of Texas - Gov. Rick Perry," Rubio began in his breathless, soul-sapping tale of annoying bug woe.
Boswell apparently was busy studying - and framing, we presume - the city's proposed budget and, well, he seemed incredulous that anyone would raise the topic of mosquitoes when he's dealing with bigger, more-menacing financial monsters.
But Joe Rubio, a seemingly tireless gumshoe, goes on: "The first area that was sprayed by the city of Harlingen was Mayor Boswell’s residential area. It started to rain afterward and there was no more mosquito spraying. The budget cuts had forced the director of this department to minimize mosquito-spraying because he was down to $150 left in the budget. Therefore, no one got sprayed except the mayor’s area."
Buggy stuff.
Rubio hangs it on Boswell like a towering Shaquille O'Neill dunk on George W. Bush: "Message - take care of the Boss first and the hell with the peasants. Seven days left for the new budget (to take effect), and I guess we can spray for mosquitoes once again if Mr. Boswell suffers the first bite. Sixty-seven-million-dollar budget and we allow city govenment leaders to play the blame game."
In the history of local complaints against city government, MosquitoGate ranks somewhere between residents lining up for the opening of Chick-fil-A and the heart-breaking ousting of the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings from the recent United Baseball League playoffs.
Breathing just ain't ever easy here, as Rocker Bill Haley used to say when he called Harlingen home...
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3 comments:
Actually , Harlingen is a very Tranquil, peaceful and Quiet country Honky - Tonk Town... That's where I met my lovely Wife Maria Tortillas, She used to worked for my family as a sexy mucho bueno caliente maid -- I believe she came from The Ejido " 20 de Noviembre " by Matamoros, Tam.!!!
That no good screwed up town of Harlingen. That city is Damned, it is a going no where. The mayor and all the worthless commissioners suck. Useless bastards.
ANONYMOUSES:...Harlingen is simply going through a tough identity crisis. It doesn't know if it is Sophie Tucker or Maria Felix. The clash is killing that lifeless town, and that is the great joke being lapped on residents by its rural politicians. It's sad, yeah, but there it is. You could open a roadside zoo and Harlingen would see it as progress... - Editor
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