<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246</id><updated>2012-01-31T03:22:12.416-08:00</updated><category term='OBAMA HILLARY OBAMA HILLARY HISPANIC VOTE'/><category term='Joseph Huerta'/><category term='HOMERO VILLARREAL'/><category term='ABEL HERRERO'/><category term='EL DEFENZOR'/><category term='Albert The Healer Huerta'/><category term='Sexual Touching'/><category term='Phoebe Arriago'/><category term='Mikal Watts'/><category term='CONNIE SCOTT'/><title type='text'>REAL SOUTH TEXAS POLITICS</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>70</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-5470517428082788917</id><published>2008-08-22T20:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T20:17:14.928-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CONNIE SCOTT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ABEL HERRERO'/><title type='text'>ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM</title><content type='html'>DEFENZORMAGAZINE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, August 22, 2008&lt;br /&gt;THIS JUST IN FROM THE NUECES COUNTY COURTHOUSE AT 5:30 P.M: AN AMENDED 200 PAGE CELIS INDICTMENT FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"IS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL USING THE INDICTMENT AS A POLITICAL FOOTBALL AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND TRIAL LAWYERS AS MANY CONTEND??"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ATTORNEY GENERAL AMENDS INDICTMENT AGAINST MAURICIO CELIS AND ACCORDING TO WHISPERS AT THE COURTHOUSE IT INCLUDES CHECKS ISSUED BY PROMINENT ATTORNEYS TO MAURICIO ON PERSONAL INJURY CASES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR ASKS "IS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL USING THE INDICTMENTS AS A POLITICAL FOOTBALL TO CRIPPLE TRIAL LAWYERS AND AS A HARASSMENT TACTIC TO DEMOCRATS AS TONY "THE PITBULL" CANALES HAS INDICATED OR IS THIS THE REAL DEAL?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR HAS JUST LEARNED THIS EVENING FROM CONFIDENTIAL COURTHOUSE SOURCES THAT AT APPROXIMATELY 5PM CST TODAY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AMENDED ITS INDICTMENT OF MAURICIO CELIS WITH A WHOPPING 200 PAGES! SOURCES ALSO REVEAL THAT THERE ARE CHECKS FROM CERTAIN LOCAL ATTORNEYS. EL DEFENZOR IS ATTEMPTING TO CONFIRM IF THOSE CHECK SOURCES INCLUDE THE WATTS LAW FIRM AND THE LAW FIRM WIGGINGTON AND RUMLEY. EL DEFENZOR WISHES TO UNDERLINE THAT IT HAS NOT CONFIRMED IF THE A.G. IS POINTING ITS HEAVY FINGER AT THOSE LAW FIRMS OR ONLY INCLUDING THESE CHECKS AS SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION FOR MORE INDICTMENTS TO BE HANDED DOWN. MORE TO COME AS THE DEFENZOR BOLTS TO THE COURTHOUSE MONDAY MORNING TO REVIEW THE FILING BUT I AM SURE PATSY "THE CRYPTKEEPER" PEREZ WILL BE WATCHING THE TRAFFIC ON THIS ONE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME MONDAY OR SOONER IF THE ANONYMOUS SOURCES COMMENT ON THIS&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 7:19 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Attorney General, Celis, INDICTMENT, Watts, WIGGINGTON RUMLEY &lt;br /&gt;THIS JUST IN ON HOME HEALTH ISSUE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR LOOKS AT PUBLIC DOCUMENTS TO PIECE TOGETHER WHAT THE SCOTT CAMPAIGN IS IMPLYING AND WHICH ABEL HERRERO HAS RESPONDED TO&lt;br /&gt;In order to provide full coverage on the issue, El Defenzor has analyzed documents filed with the Texas Ethics Commission by Herrero on February 13, 2008. The total pages filed were 31 and the Account No. is 00054318. According to these documents Mr. Herrero disclosed that his spouse's name is Matilde Herrero and that presumably she alone owns 1000 to 4,999 shares of stock in St.Benedict's Home Health, Inc. There are also is an X below that which indicates that the stock held or acquired by "Filer". The document is signed on February 11, 2008 and notarized by an Annette Gonzalez Bennett.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further public records of the Secretary of State reveal an existence of a business corporation which has a filing number of 800514067 and Tax Id number of 32017738157 and whose name is Saint Benedict's Home Health, Inc. located at 424 E. Main Ave., in Robstown, Texas. The Director of the establishment is listed as Matilde C. Herrero (Director and CEO) and Brenda Ramon as Director and President. Interestingly a Bram Enterprises, LLC is next door at 426 E. Main and whose registered agent is Brenda Lee Ramon and members listed of the organization are Brenda Lee Ramon and Rodrigo Ramon, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Defenzor also researched via the internet and uncovered what is called a 5 page "Mattox Opinion No. JM 162 from the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas issued on June 8, 1984 which pertains to Article III, section 18 of the Texas Constitution prohibiting legislators from contracting with the state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If delivered from the Scott campaign these are certainly strong accusations of impropriety which undoubtedly will either be addressed through political ads, debate or editorial and public opinion as well as public record. More to come.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 6:59 PM 1 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Abel Herrero, Attorney General, Bram LLC, Connie Scott, Corporations, Saint Benedicts Home Health &lt;br /&gt;HERRERO ISSUES A PUBLIC STATEMENT RESPONDING TO SCOTT'S RADIO ADS INDICATING IMPROPRIETY OF HOME HEALTH OWNERSHIP &lt;br /&gt; ABEL HERRERO RESPONDS TO SCOTT'S THROWING DOWN THE&lt;br /&gt;GAUNTLET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY HERRERO CAMPAIGN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Scott Starts Off Campaign on the Low Road&lt;br /&gt;As Scott launches the first negative ad, State Representative Abel Herrero welcomes a debate on the state of health care in Nueces County&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CORPUS CHRISTI—In response to the first negative attack of the campaign to represent District 34 in the Texas House of Representatives, incumbent Abel Herrero (D-Robstown) indicated a need for his opponent to educate herself about the state of health care in Nueces County.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the first negative ad of the campaign season, Republican Connie Scott implies that Herrero's wife's involvement in providing health care services to the elderly in their homes is a negative for the community. "It's the first time Scott has been up on radio, and the only thing she has to offer is an attack on my wife. It's no surprise, the people advising Scott's campaign only know how to run negative campaigns" Herrero noted. "I just expected that they would educate themselves on the issues before inviting a debate on what the Republican leadership has done to health care in Nueces County."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the high need for health care in South Texas, the Republican leadership has cut the number of children from CHIP health insurance and maintained one of the lowest Medicaid reimbursements rates in the country. Those cuts have created a shortage of doctors that are willing to treat the neediest of families. "The Republican leadership has systematically tried to starve health care professionals while protecting the interests of insurance companies," Herrero added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herrero's wife, Matilde, is the owner of a small start-up business that provides personal assistance with daily tasks and other care to the elderly and children in their homes. "The fact that my wife owns a primary home care operates as a positive influence. Just as she would share with me the realities of being in the classroom when she was a school teacher, she now reports on the realities on the front lines of a crumbling health care system," Herrero explained. "The fears, hardships and sorrows that some of the elderly suffer are unacceptable in Nueces County. I am proud of my wife for not only having the courage to start-up a small business but to decide to help some of the most needy in our communities."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I was looking forward to a debate on the issues," Herrero added. "But there's no debate if she's not going to take the time to educate herself." To help facilitate debates down the road, Herrero suggested that working with patients struggling to hold onto hope—as Matilde has—would be a good start. "She would do well to hear first hand from Nueces County families about the struggles they face since the Republican leadership — backed by the same money sources backing Scott's campaign — cut services for Nueces County families."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;###&lt;br /&gt;PR - August 21, 2008 - Scott Starts Off Campaign on the Low Road.doc95K View as HTML Open as a Google document Download &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 6:50 PM 2 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Abel Herrero, Connie Scott, Home Health &lt;br /&gt;Thursday, August 21, 2008&lt;br /&gt;THIS JUST IN ON THE ABEL HERRERO VS CONNIE SCOTT POLITICAL JIHAD &lt;br /&gt; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRAlL2VhMc&amp;feature=related&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE LATEST ON THE CARNAGE THAT IS ABOUT TO START...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(DON'T FORGET I'M ON ACCESS CHANNEL TIME WARNER CH.10, RIGHT NOW AT 7:30 P.M AND WILL BE UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE.COM AND MY NEWSPAPER SHOULD BE SHOT OUT LIKE A CANNON WITH ALL OF THIS BY THIS WEEKEND).--HOMERO)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Defenzor has its eyes everywhere and has just seen Bob Jones the minister and shockjock on 1440 KEYS Conservative Radio just leave the Connie Scott HQ. Radiowaves are abuzz with a commercial about Abel Herrero shifting Medicaid dollars to his home health. The Home Health community are reaching for the Midol, Preparation H, and Zantac (did I mention Xanax also?). One anonymous home health aide called me just now and said, "the home health bosses are p.o.'d and saying if true than they are betrayed because he just had public meetings when the HMO's rolled in saying that he would protect them from the HMO's putting them out of business. Now they are wondering if he is the one who helped bring them in with Mayor Ramon in the first place so he could get some home health dollars." Then the aide mentioned some Girling Home Health. Who the hell is Girling? Comments please!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; And now a word from Fil Vela:&lt;br /&gt;"I love the smell of&lt;br /&gt;Napalm in the morning. It smells like&lt;br /&gt;"Victory".&lt;br /&gt;CLICK BELOW:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"PAID FOR BY FIL VELA, TREASURER??!!!"&lt;br /&gt;Ladies and Gentleman it is about to get ugly. The Defenzor tried to reach treasurer of Scott's campaign Filemon "Prodigal Son/Darth Vader" Vela but without success at his local office or at his offices in Houston and San Antonio. Apparently Vela , Connie Scott's treasurer, has no time for El Defenzor and probably has a sweater wrapped around his neck drinking an exquisite wine listening to Vivaldi's "Winter" while the commercials he just paid for on 104.9 every half hour are blasting Abel. Meanwhile, Connie Scott must be nailbiting; however, she did sound cool and calm on the commercial when she endorsed the ad of Fil's greatest hits while he drops napalm on Abel's campaign. Next time Pick up the phone for EL DEFNZOR, FIL.&lt;br /&gt;Here is a sample FILEMON'S ALL TIMES HITS HE LOVES WHEN GOING JIHAD IN POLITICS: CLICK LINK BELOW FOR ONE FIL'S GREATEST HITS (personally I think it's Fil on violin..):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND THEN THERE'S FIL'S ALL TIME FAVORITE WHEN GOING INTO EARLY VOTING called "Flight of the Valkyries" from the movie "APOCALYPSE NOW" (CLICK ON LINK below):&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz3Cc7wlfkI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;......AHHHHH.. I don't know about you but after listening to The Prodigal Son's war music my blood pressure shot down 10 points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh! And while I'm at it here is a piece I performed in between blogging..no kidding, I play classical guitar, this one's for you Fil.&lt;br /&gt;CLICK LINK FOR A DEDICATION TO FIL "DARTH VADER" VELA PERFORMED BY HOMERO VILLARREAL, ENJOY ANOTHER GLASS OF Lafitte Rothschild '62 TO THIS FIL..:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG7VNKh_PE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW BACK FROM OUR COMMERCIAL AND LIGHT-HEARTED BREAK:&lt;br /&gt;Here is what El Defenzor has researched and the hypothesis being formulated... They are undoubtedly hitting Abel with the last few words of this section of the Texas Constitution:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The Texas Constitution&lt;br /&gt;Article 3 - LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT (ALM ="A LA MADRE...(expletive in Spanish for our nonspanish speaking fans its loosely translated to ""Holy ---- they are after me...." . El Defenzor is afterall an equal opportunity blog)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section 18 - INELIGIBILITY FOR OTHER OFFICES; INTEREST IN CONTRACTS: No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which he was elected, be eligible to (1) any civil office of profit under this State which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which may have been increased, during such term, or (2) any office or place, the appointment to which may be made, in whole or in part, by either branch of the Legislature; provided, however, the fact that the term of office of Senators and Representatives does not end precisely on the last day of December but extends a few days into January of the succeeding year shall be considered as de minimis, and the ineligibility herein created shall terminate on the last day in December of the last full calendar year of the term for which he was elected. No member of either House shall vote for any other member for any office whatever, which may be filled by a vote of the Legislature, except in such cases as are in this Constitution provided, nor shall any member of the Legislature be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the State, or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed during the term for which he was elected. (Amended Nov. 5, 1968.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 4:59 PM 4 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Abel Herrero, Connie Scott, Contracts, Home Health, Medicaid, State Representative, Texas Constitution &lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR WELCOMES OUR POLITICAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN AUSTIN &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WELCOME AUSTIN AND ALL OF MY FELLOW TEXANS: My intelligence sources and hits from the nerve center tell me Austin has entered the fold. Welcome.&lt;br /&gt;Here is my intro about what El Defenzor is all about on youtube.com and about the Power Structure in Nueces County. In the video below loaded (*much to the rage of one faction with vested economic interests) I use the example of Peggy Banales County Commissioner race. By way of background this was taped the day before the primary when Peggy Banales faced off against a man of great honor and character Mr. Joe Benavides a retired Gunnery Sgt from the U.S. Marine Corps. Although he strived mightily against the powerbase he was not victorious this time (March 2008). Now Banales faces the Republican Contender in this political Jihad by the name of Pusley. More to come on that. In any event, I use Banales as a microcosm to demonstrate what is happening here in Nueces County which still has a massive power struggle going on between Democrats and Republicans and which has ramifications for the Herrero vs Scott race. For this reason please click link below and again welcome. Your comments shall be posted ordinarily within 1 business day if not sooner. Thank you and God bless. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dedicated to Joe Benavides, Retired Marine Corps who fought the good fight against the powerbase. Thank you for serving, Joe.&lt;br /&gt;CLICK LINK JOE INTERVIEWED:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.joebenavidescc.com/hispeed.html&lt;br /&gt;Click Link now to learn about the powerbase in Nueces County and the struggle within!:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxy_u59AsI&lt;br /&gt;CLICK LINK TO SEE HOMERO VILLARREAL INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE MEDIA IN SOUTH TEXAS:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7X1Q0b_4M&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 2:51 PM 2 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Austin, Joe Benavides, Peggy Banales, Powerbase, Texans &lt;br /&gt;CONNIE SCOTT THROWS THE FIRST STONE AGAINST REPRESENTATIVE ABEL HERRERO &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOT OFF THE PRESSES: SCOTT LAUNCHES A POLITICAL MISSILE AT STATE REPRESENTATIVE ABEL HERRERO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Representative Abel Herrero's opponent Connie Scott has thrown the first stone. In a bold move she allegedly has accused Abel of abusing his office by appropriating funds and legislating on State Medicaid Funds for home healths and then supposedly Mr. Herrero's wife and the wife of his former Chief Rod Ramon (mayor of Robstown as well) have a medicaid funded home health in Robstown. According to the Defenzor investigation and public records, apparently Mr. Herrero disclosed the ownership of St. Benedict's home health by his wife and that of Rod Ramon but it is not clear at this point if Connie Scott is stabbing at something else in the relationship. As many in the community already know Scott is a higher up in the Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse organization and is running against Abel for his seat in Austin as state rep. Both left and right wing Spanish and English radio stations have begun to broadcast this incoming scud missile including conservative talk show host Lago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many have whispered that they are discontent with the Rod Ramon connection to Representative Herrero on both the Democrat and Republican sides of the aisle. Reportedly Ramon is not in Austin with Mr. Herrero any longer. Time will tell whether the attacks on Herrero have merit or not. Herrero as many know had a hard fight against Nelda Martinez a few years back for the seat in 2004 but was victorious. Will Robstown and the rest of the constituents come out again for him or will the newcomer have "the goods" on the Ramon-Herrero connection?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Undoubtedly an issue which will arise is Ms. Scott's dogged loyalty to lawsuit reform which many have long argued has closed the courthouse doors to the poor, children and the elderly and left lawsuit abuse wide open for corporations and insurance companies. The Defenzor will remain neutral on this issue but stands ready to welcome comments from all sides.&lt;br /&gt;WARNING: The Defenzor always says that you better be careful when you sling mud and make sure you are totally clean when you are running for office unless you want a heap of mud slung back. THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN.&lt;br /&gt;____________&lt;br /&gt;AND ON A UNRELATED MATTER: HERE'S A PLUG FOR A GREAT YOUNG LATINO DIRECTOR: JAVIER CHAPA&lt;br /&gt;A PLUG TO A GREAT YOUNG MAN AND NEW DIRECTOR WHO JUST FINISHED PRODUCING A MOVIE WITH ACTOR/DIRECTOR ED HARRIS: APPALOOSSA IS COMING SOON. Javier Chapa (javierchapa@mac.com) is a young director who brings out Mexican American culture on film in a way few can. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CLICK LINK TO WATCH A SCENE FROM JAVIER CHAPA'S AWARD WINNNG FILM "HARVEST OF REDEMPTION": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwKOHgqdc10&amp;feature=related&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:58 AM 7 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Abel Herrero, Connie Scott, Home Health, Mayor Rod Ramon, Medicaid, Political Missile, Robstown &lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, August 20, 2008&lt;br /&gt;HOT OFF THE PRESSES!PAYCHECK PEGGY GIVES HERSELF YET ANOTHER RAISE TODAY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NUECES COUNTY TAXPAYERS FACE THE FIRING SQUAD FROM PAYCHECK PEGGY YET AGAIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;click on video of Homero blasting Peggy back in March and showing how things really work: Pusley check this out!&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxy_u59AsI (PART 1)&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHXwJA1XYtI (PART 2)&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT LENCHO RENDON, JOSEPH RAMIREZ, PEGGY BANALES AND TERRY SHAMSIE STRONGARMED KTMV NOT TO PLAY. WE WILL NOT BE SUPPRESSED!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you even believe it? Paycheck Peggy is voting today to give herself yet another raise for 3 more percent today in commissioners court! What about the poor workers at the county.? Are they getting a raise? Enough is enough. Pusley should be all over this. How much more do you need to get paid for doing a part time job where you rubberstamp the desires of Oscar "Hollywood" Ortiz? More to come.&lt;br /&gt;Listen up Pilgrim!&lt;br /&gt;Pusley has to be thinking: "Peggy, Peggy, Peggy, it's an election year and your trying to give yourself yet another raise...tsk, tsk, tsk, shame, shame, shame know your name. I am going to have to tar and feather you out of town." &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 9:25 AM 10 comments  &lt;br /&gt;A WORD FROM HOMERO VILLARREAL: WE CANNOT BE CO-OPTED &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR REFUSES TO BE CO-OPTED!I just wanted to say as we kick off the political season that many people whom I have exposed or blasted have always tried to say I sell out or have been co-opted. No one says that of the news stations or Caller Times when they bottle up a story like Maximum Manuel's and take big bucks and sell ads and commercials. Oh yes, they are not sell outs. Yeah, sure. As evidenced by this blog nothing is further from the truth. I don't receive a dime for this blog. Who is paying me to write this? NO ONE. The truth of the matter is that I have been threatened, been approached with bribes when that didn't work, sued (I'm a humble man of modest means, good luck trying to get blood from a stone) and if some of these clowns who try to strongarm me come after me so be it. I have the truth as my shield. I find those that attack me using words like "Homero is a sell out" very ironic especially certain judges who say I sell out when it is rumored they themselves sold out for a few pieces of silver and signed certain documents they shouldn't have...but that is a story for another blog entry. Just be rest assured fellow bloggers that we shall finally have a voice and what those who are arrogantly trying to bottle me up don't realize is that the internet has created a voice for those who didn't have one. When I am gone 100 blogs like this will replace me. Keep on blogging and let the official political season begin. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 12:33 AM 3 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Monday, August 18, 2008&lt;br /&gt;IS THE BARACK OBAMA/ AMERICAN PUBLIC ROMANCE FIZZLING? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND THIS YEARS ELECTION YEAR SONG IS:.....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OR WAIT A MINUTE.... BETTER YET AND MORE POLITICALLY CORRECT SONG IS...&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_c-Rrty9sA&lt;br /&gt;Barack "Barry" Obama had wooed everyone for months except the Mexicano down here in South Texas and the Rio Grande Vally. Is it race or disbelief that there is a viable Democratic presidential candidate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does Obama have solid explanations for plans. I mean it is one thing to say I believe in hope..." Well, Ok hotshot, what are you going to do about it? It's like Al Gore running a few thou in electric bills a month while touring the Earth about energy conservation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While McCain is making everyone break out with the cryingtowels in the last debate about graphic experiences with torture and death and how his faith got him through it. Is Barack Obama that grounded? Always searching for a home, the instability of no father figure, the Jacarta living, then Hawaii and then hard partying include marijuan Ok including other hard drugs. Obama in his credit has admitted it was when he was young, but hellooo? you are going to be the President of the United States not because of your color but because of your character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack is liberally talking about dope use, his friends are not the ones we'd like forhim to have and he is great on talking about the future but where are the concrete plans.? They young man is nice and intelligent but as a one term Senator can he lead the free world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And lastly, the bullshit factor: All of these people including whites who supported OBAMA, are they trying to ease their conscience and at the end of the day pull the lever for McCain because OBAMA is to risky: questionable family stability, smoker, ex-drug user with no treatment, and no specific plan on energy, world diplomacy of for starving people at home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MCCAIN: OLDER THAN DIRT but the vets all love him including hispanics down here. Risk that many democrats will cross over down here for MCcain and because of the polticial hatred of Peggy Banales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:14 PM 5 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: ALCHOL, DRUGS, MCCAIN, OBAMA, STARVATION &lt;br /&gt;Friday, August 15, 2008&lt;br /&gt;HAS KAELIN OVERDOSED US?PLEASE LET ME BE ON TV JUST ONE MORE TIME!! &lt;br /&gt;"Oh, I wish I was in Dixie..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE PIC ALMOST SAYS...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;" GOSHDARNIT HOMERO! LEAVE ROOM FOR MY EGO. GOSHDARN MESCANS...."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KAELIN BLASTS BRYAN SMITH THE POLICE CHIEF. HAS KAELIN'S EGO GONE ON OVERLOAD?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;POLICE CHIEF SMITH BEING BLASTED BY SHERIFF KAELIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OP ED TIME: FIRST AMENDMENT ZONE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, let's cut the B.S. and the hype. Truth is truth. He's used his office for partisan reasons and has closed the doors on minorities and Democrats. He jumped all over the Celis deal and that was partisan. What in the world was he doing but executing a Republican agenda?. I am in the middle myself but this is what my sources are telling me. The AG targeted Celis, Kaelin with absolutely no business or bone in it comes out on TV flashing the badge... It's a game to target political foes. And Lencho the blackhand's family is being promoted quick. He has capitalized on the racial agenda. Does anyone know he was married to a Mexican American from Robstown at one time? A few powerful figures in the media are helping him with propaganda, I.E. the show BEHIND THE BADGE on KIII. When Banales hit poor Martin guess who was there half sympathizer for Maximum Manuel and not giving a darn about the guy who Banales almost iced. Most recently Kaelin was blasting the police chief. Kaelin once a constable now has overreached power and has manipulated and persuaded the public with Kaelin stew cooked up by Jim and his crew. The question is what now? Many say the DEfenzor can 't do anything. Yeah, right. Kaelin loves the cameras more than Hugo Berlanga ever did. If there's a camera Kaelin is there! IF Kaelin could he would jump out in the Olympics and comment on policing China!. Many hispanics are saying we voted in the old white southern sheriff because we had Larry Olivares who was far from perfect. The morale of the Sheriff's office presently is horrible. Kaelin is fighting with Bryan Smith. He even said don't come to Corpus because it's dangerous. What the heck is that? Bryan Smith says that not all this stuff can be laid at the feet of Corpus Christi. The violence is not above and beyond other cities. Apparently, Jim Kaelin is trying to overstep his jurisdiction and challenging others' domain like the Police Chief instead of working together for the community. He represents the past. He represents the weeds that need to be pulled. Jesse Mark Flores his opponent has been relegated to the Annex and demoted for having the courage to challenge Kaelin. It's a dangerous precedent to allow one man like Kaelin so much power. Rumors are Kaelin loves his naps in the afternoon and in the squad car and doesn't like to be challenged. Kaelin is shooting Jesse down and attacking his family. He's using everything he can to fight dirty but look at Alexander the GReat, look at the mayor Roy Miller who was the youngest in Corpus christi (opened up the Port of Corpus Christi). We should not dismiss a young man like Jesse Mark Flores outright.&lt;br /&gt;"Was Celis targeted by Kaelin to boost his ratings and give a nod to the Republicans?" KEEP IN MIND IT WAS A CCPD MATTER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's face it, he's coming out every chance he gets on TV. It is so obvious that it is all hype?. The jail situation was hype and TV flash in the pan to get him elected. What has really changed? Not much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to think people. Just getting it out there! Remember that the next time you see TV count the times Kaelin tries to jump in on any story on the 10 oclock news. Can you say overkill?. Many citizens are so devoted to Kaelin and that is fine. But do not be blinded by the media hype ! The DEfenzor challenges the public to entertain the thought of a young leader. Remember, being a Sheriff is not being a bureacrat. It's about being out in the field, preaching hope. The job is not to put people in jail primarily its about community policing. A sheriff should be a faciliator. He shouldnt be a dictator but a facilitator. We have seen with other sheriffs in the past that bureacratic sheriff's don't work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FEDERAL PRISONERS; We are at 90 percent capacity at the jail and send all to the prisons and bring in the fed prisoners for more money...wake up. It's not about justice its about dollars. Kaelin wants the allmighty federal dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TO BE CONTINUED ON DEFENZOR RADIO AND BLOGSPOT...&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 10:02 PM 8 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Honey with a razor blade, Kaelin &lt;br /&gt;Older Posts Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Blog Archive&lt;br /&gt;▼ 2008 (113) &lt;br /&gt;▼ August (15) &lt;br /&gt;THIS JUST IN FROM THE NUECES COUNTY COURTHOUSE AT ... &lt;br /&gt;THIS JUST IN ON HOME HEALTH ISSUE &lt;br /&gt;HERRERO ISSUES A PUBLIC STATEMENT RESPONDING TO SC... &lt;br /&gt;THIS JUST IN ON THE ABEL HERRERO VS CONNIE SCOTT P... &lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR WELCOMES OUR POLITICAL BROTHERS AND SI... &lt;br /&gt;CONNIE SCOTT THROWS THE FIRST STONE AGAINST REPRES... &lt;br /&gt;HOT OFF THE PRESSES!PAYCHECK PEGGY GIVES HERSELF Y... &lt;br /&gt;A WORD FROM HOMERO VILLARREAL: WE CANNOT BE CO-OP... &lt;br /&gt;IS THE BARACK OBAMA/ AMERICAN PUBLIC ROMANCE FIZZL... &lt;br /&gt;HAS KAELIN OVERDOSED US?PLEASE LET ME BE ON TV JUS... &lt;br /&gt;BLOGGERS ARE SENDING IN SUPPORT FOR PUSLEY &lt;br /&gt;PAY CHECK PEGGY IN TROUBLE? &lt;br /&gt;HUERTA'S UNDER ATTACK AND RUNNING FOR COVER &lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR NEW SHOW ON CH 10 TIME WARNER: THURSDA... &lt;br /&gt;How Will Elections Affect Robstown in the Next Few... &lt;br /&gt;► July (16) &lt;br /&gt;LATEST ON HURRICANE DOLLY AP WIRE &lt;br /&gt;HURRICANE DOLLY &lt;br /&gt;NURSES CRY OUT FOR BETTER STAFFING TO SAVE ALL PAT... &lt;br /&gt;WATTS NOT INDICTED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF HIS WIFE &lt;br /&gt;SPOHN SOUTH HEPARIN INDUCED DEATHS HIT NATIONAL TV... &lt;br /&gt;HEPARIN CONTRIBUTES TO DEATH OF TWINS &lt;br /&gt;HUERTA: IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FULLY AWARE OF HIS ... &lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR TV: HOW POLITICS WORKS &lt;br /&gt;A WORD FROM OUR LEADER OF THE BLOG MOVEMENT IN SOU... &lt;br /&gt;NUECES COUNTY ROUND UP &lt;br /&gt;Check it out ladies and gentleman.... &lt;br /&gt;HUERTA THE HEALER? 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HILLIARD AS WELL AS BARGER? &lt;br /&gt;BANALES: VALLEY STAR TELEGRAM HAS A DIFFERENT SPIN... &lt;br /&gt;BANALES LEAVE OF ABSENCE. HMMM. MORE LIKE LEAVE TO... &lt;br /&gt;BANALES. FREEDOM OF SPEECH.JUST IN CASE THEY SHUT ... &lt;br /&gt;MORE NEWS DARRELL BARGER HELPING OUT BANALES LIKE ... &lt;br /&gt;BANALES: ANOTHER NEAR MISS BY MAXIMUM MANUEL WHO'S... &lt;br /&gt;WHERE IS THE TXDOT WITNESS &lt;br /&gt;BANALES MIRRORS WHAT COURT CLERK DID &lt;br /&gt;BANALES STORY:read all posts but read this one sav... &lt;br /&gt;► April (4) &lt;br /&gt;► March (14) &lt;br /&gt;► February (7) &lt;br /&gt;► January (28) &lt;br /&gt;► 2007 (20) &lt;br /&gt;► December (20) &lt;br /&gt; About Me&lt;br /&gt;homero villarreal &lt;br /&gt;12 year veteran of publishing. Educator and social commenentator as well as radio and TV personality. &lt;br /&gt;View my complete profile&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-5470517428082788917?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5470517428082788917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=5470517428082788917' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5470517428082788917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5470517428082788917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/08/eldefenzorblogspotcom.html' title='ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-5991649407116855702</id><published>2008-07-21T23:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T00:02:16.088-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BLOGS OF NOTE: EL ROCINANTE</title><content type='html'>As the American Prince it is my duty to keep fellow bloggers apprised of hard full metal jacket sites like"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.elrocinante.com. wow. here's a sample in the continuing investigation of health care gone bad: (NOTE THE EXCERPTS ARE IN NO WAY ENDORSED OR ENCOURAGED BY REAL SOUTH TEXAS POLITICS BUT JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE, ENJOY OR DESTROY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, July 2&lt;br /&gt;GRAY RETURNS FROM COSMETIC SURGERY &lt;br /&gt;Anthony Gray, State Representative Rene Oliveira's longtime aide, has returned to Austin a new man. "I've spent the last two months in Nigeria getting a few procedures done," he began as he sat at a Sixth Street bar surrounded by gorgeous women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. "With the tremendous revenues from the oil industry, it is African's most booming country. Cosmetic surgery is the rage among that country's rich and it is relatively inexpensive. Most the doctors are from Sweden so you're talking pros, not those Brownsville butchers who can take a beautiful woman and make her ugly." Like most Americans, Gray's decision to change his life has been inspired by Barack Obama. "He's the man," continued Gray. "Once you go Barack, you never go back. As our future president, nobody wants to be white anymore. All the chicks are going to want to fuck a black man and I want to be in a position to join the fun. I've already noticed an improvement in my sex life. My boss is pissed. He says that I'm getting more (edited) than he is and that's unconstitutional!" Gray confesses that he isn't finished going under the knife. "I still have a white man's penis," he admitted. "Unfortunately, there aren't any black (edited) available so I'm on a waiting list. I'm so desperate to be the complete sexual fantasy for the rep's female constituents that I'm thinking about buying a gorilla penis on the black market. Every female in touch with her sexuality wants to be ravished by a monster and I want to be that monster." Not everyone is pleased with the change. "I miss the old Tony," says BISD Trustee Otis Powers. "He was a good guy. I don't recognize this Tony." &lt;br /&gt;Posted by EL ROCINANTE at 4:59 PM   &lt;br /&gt;Sunday, June 29&lt;br /&gt;DOCTORS SLICE EACH OTHER'S THROATS &lt;br /&gt;Dr. Pisharodi's partner Hussain is waging a war and as usual the Monterrey mafia has circled the wagons. Hilarious: They are all foreigners ripping us off and raping medicare and medicaid, but they have the whitest lawyers representing them including some Houston asshole who was down last week condescending as ever to Judge Limas. Thank you for coming down and educating us on what the law is. Can you say: THE FEDS WILL COME DOWN ON THESE PEOPLE SOON! When will Brownsville stop Adams and Graham and their Houston bagman from defending the Monterrey Mafia? Where is the U.S. Attorney? Have they even heard of the liver biopsies that were going on nonstop? Whistleblowers rise up!!! Valley Regional Medical Center is being sued again by Dr. McGlynn and Pisharodi's boy, Dr. Hussain. I hear the medical mafia has Del Castillo and Bagepalli as their bagman now to try to gut people. Their scumbag lawyers are at their best, but justice will prevail. Valley Regional Medical Center: AKA--The medical mafia. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Polyphemous Pangloss, ER's medical expert, is presently in Darfur with an international team of doctors accessing that region's dire situation. He will not return until the end of July. Without his expertise and with most the staff on vacation, we have no inside information on this present medical controversy. We are combining two submissions sent to us. We don't even know if they're true, but we do know that our physicians--just like every other rich person in Brownsville--are stealing millions. Like the Port of Brownsville that stole millions from the taxpayers and produced nothing in spite of its many promises of an international bridge, the medical community charges Brownsville patients top dollar for an inferior product. But doctors face no accountability for their corruption and incompetence. High school football coaches lose games and the public demands their termination because the mainstream press holds these mentors responsible. Physicians lose lives, but they escape punishment because The Brownsville Herald doesn't hold them to the same high standards as they do for the coaches. Several of our doctors are murderers. Many are thieves. Our hospitals hasten deaths. When covering medical news, that is ER's objective perspective. We have no sympathy for the millionaire mercenaries who descend upon Brownsville like flocks of buzzards and pick our bones.) &lt;br /&gt;Posted by EL ROCINANTE at 7:55 AM 4 comments   &lt;br /&gt;4 CommentsClose this window Jump to comment form &lt;br /&gt; Anonymous said... &lt;br /&gt;Like the Port of Brownsville that stole millions from the taxpayers and produced nothing in spite of its many promises of an international bridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you add salt to my wound..............&lt;br /&gt;any news on the turd and sucio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, 29 June, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Anonymous said... &lt;br /&gt;Most of the doctors in Brownsville are here for the free money....medicaid and medicare. Many local doctors won't see patients who have other insurance. The medical fraud that takes place here is amazing and the local doctors....are guilty of thievery, fraud and corruption. Crooks all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, 30 June, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Anonymous said... &lt;br /&gt;Can you believe the Monterrey Mafia, Handley and the hospital have the same attorney from Houston who looks like he can't try his way out of a paperbag and we have the pompous windbag from Adams and Graham coupled with a judge who doesn't put up with rednecks from Houston. The ice is breaking. NOw McGlynn is a raging tiger and has the Monterrey Mafia for fake liver biopsies. Man, the feds are coming. You watch. Hopefully, their crooked lawyers will rat them out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, 30 June, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Anonymous said... &lt;br /&gt;Word on the street from the nurses here in Brownsville: The Monterrey Mafia is worried about the Pisharodi partner lawsuit and don't want their sworn statements taken because of the years of shit they've been pulling on us and the people they have put in graves and the money they have raped the government over, plus their peckerwood lawyers aren't helping in a BROWNsville town trying to make these guys look like healing angels. Dr. Pangloss knows better and so do we. Not only that but another doc is suing and another planning to sue. Los va llevar a la chingada mi gente! This is better than the novelas. General Corrupt Hospital!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-5991649407116855702?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5991649407116855702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=5991649407116855702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5991649407116855702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5991649407116855702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/blogs-of-note-el-rocinante.html' title='BLOGS OF NOTE: EL ROCINANTE'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-714480641372848329</id><published>2008-07-16T23:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T23:59:34.226-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EL DEFENZOR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HOMERO VILLARREAL'/><title type='text'>VISIT WWW.ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM FOR THE LATEST</title><content type='html'>Hats off to Mr. Villarreal for bringing out the truth. Real South Texas politics is on vacation but defers to the great blogs of South Texas for the time being and asks you to hold your leaders responsible. Real South Texas Politics will be revving up the engines in September when the battle begins...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-714480641372848329?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/714480641372848329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=714480641372848329' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/714480641372848329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/714480641372848329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/visit-wwweldefenzorblogspotcom-for.html' title='VISIT WWW.ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM FOR THE LATEST'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-7422897233710265491</id><published>2008-07-08T01:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-08T01:05:21.718-07:00</updated><title type='text'>POSTED WITH PERMISSION FROM HOMERO VILLARREAL ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM</title><content type='html'>ENJOY MY READERS:THIS THING IS HOT. WWW.ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DEFENZORMAGAZINE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, July 7, 2008&lt;br /&gt;HUERTA: IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FULLY AWARE OF HIS ACTIVITIES WITH THE FAITHFUL &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; DEFENZOR DEMANDS TO KNOW FROM THE CHURCH.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MATTHEW 24:11:&lt;br /&gt;And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray&lt;br /&gt;ALBERT "THE KTMV HEALER" HUERTA????????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH LOOKING THE OTHER WAY WHEN IT COMES TO HUERTA? IS THERE TACIT APPROVAL FOR WHAT HUERTA IS DOING?&lt;br /&gt;The Defenzor is linking the Huerta issues together. First we have Rene "The Survivor" Rodriguez' "Crotch Lawsuit" with Joseph. Now we are all questioning the Huerta's motivation for getting the Catholic Church into his activities? Did the Pope approve his practices and using priests and nuns in "Our Father's House?" I have Catholic Clergy in my family. I have never heard of this practice. Is the Church fully aware of what is going on here? HAS BISHOP EDMUND CARMODY AUTHORIZED THIS CULTIST AGENDA? HEALING? ISN'T HUERTA BENEFITING? IS THIS HONEY WITH A RAZOR BLADE? . Many of the Catholic faithful have contacted me and begun to question this practice coupled with the potential conflict of practicing law and referring cases. Many questions are posed. This is only the beginning. Has the church made an exception of Huerta and his healing activities? Eucharistical minister hall pass? Is this coming from the very top to let Huerta do what he needs to do because he has tithed sufficiently? I believe Huerta has talked more with God then the Pope!&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME.....&lt;br /&gt;HV????? HUERTA'S ROLE? DEFENZOR INTELLIGENCE REVEALS HE HAD AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE! JACKPOT? OPUS DEI WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:13 PM 1 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Albert Huerta, BISHOP EDMUND CARMODY, CULT, HERESY &lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR TV: HOW POLITICS WORKS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CLICK LINK. THIS IS THE EL DEFENZOR SHOW SAMPLE: "HOW SOUTH TEXAS POLITICS WORKS".&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxy_u59AsI&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 2:54 AM 1 comments  &lt;br /&gt;A WORD FROM OUR LEADER OF THE BLOG MOVEMENT IN SOUTH TEXAS: WELCOME MY FRIENDS &lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR HAS HIT THE BIG TIME ON BLOGLAND!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM OUR FEARLESS LEADER HOMERO VILLARREAL:&lt;br /&gt;Welcome Brothers and Sisters of the Blog Revolution:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOMERO VILLARREAL HAS BEEN THREATENED, SUED (GOOD LUCK) AND HAS BEEN CRITICIZED BUT ALWAYS HAS RISEN ABOVE IT ALL. PEOPLE SHOULD QUESTION WHY WHEN A LATINO PUBLISHES VERIFIED DOCUMENTS IS HE SEEN AS A YELLOW JOURNALIST, BUT WHEN A REPORTER FROM THE CALLER TIMES DOES A HALFBAKED JOB SHE'S A HERO?! HMMMM. DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT DOES IT? OH WELL, THEY DIDN'T TEACH ME THE SUBJECT "FAIR" AT COLLEGE STATION WHEN I STUDIED MY UNDERGRAD AND MASTERS THERE. THEY DIDN'T DO IT EITHER WHEN I SAW THE CHICANO AND LATINO MOVEMENTS COME IN TO OUR SOUTH TEXAS TOWNS IN THE 70'S AND WITNESSED VIOLENT CHANGE. I ONLY MENTION MY COLLEGE DAYS IN PASSING BECAUSE MANY IN SOCIETY THINK IF YOU DON'T DRIVE A FANCY CAR, LIVE IN A FANCY HOUSE AND KEEP UP THE APPROPRIATE APPEARANCES THEN YOU DON'T HAVE A VOICE! WRONG!!! KEEP READING AND NOW YOU DO HAVE A VOICE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TO MY READERS AND VIEWERS: PLEASE&lt;br /&gt;VIEW MY YOUTUBE SHOW SAMPLE AND HOW I ANALYZED PEGGY BANALES AND JOE BENAVIDES RACE AND USED IT AS A METAPHOR FOR HOW POLITICS WORKS IN SOUTH TEXAS. WARNING, YOU BETTER REACH FOR THE ANTACIDS IF YOU ARE PEGGY BANALES OR LENCHO RENDON.... THIS WAS BANNED FROM KTMV BY LENCHO RENDON AND OTHERS AND THE KTMV FAMILY BURNED ME AND DIDN'T PLAY IT BUT ALL IS FORGIVEN BECAUSE I AM ON ACCESS CHANNEL AND AM GETTING MY WORD ACROSS. HERE IS THE BANNED SPEECH AT OR AROUND THE MARCH PRIMARY THAT PEGGY "PAYCHECK" BANALES WON. SHE REALLY DOES NOT LIKE JOE BENAVIDES... :&lt;br /&gt;CLICK ON LINK:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxy_u59AsI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NUECES COUNTY COURTHOUSE (AKA THE BELLY OF THE BEAST)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I have worked very hard to enhance the blog to include pictures of our leaders and to include information and links that will verify what I say. I again assert my First Amendment Right and as part of the press these people are for the most part public figures or inject themselves daily in the public. Many have reaped the great rewards of power and money and that is good but they must be held accountable and we as a society should question what happens around us and not be fooled by the "spin" of mainstream media. I thank you for your increasing support. Now with my show and now with the newspaper and blog I will be reaching a whole new audience all the way up to Houston and beyond. My heart is with my Latino people but also with anyone, white, black, asian or elderly that have felt helpless against the tide of taxation, ripoff of our money and felt helpless about it. If you cant blog, get your grandson to open it up and print the articles. NOTE: VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED and for Mature Audiences. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FREEDOM OF SPEECH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am with you my people and excited about the future of the blogs.. Someone needs to take up for the little guy. South Texas Chisme has its place but it is too busy reporting about issues that are geographically distant and less entertaining than what is happening in our on backyard. They have also repeatedly not linked me so what choice do I have. Once I have mastered it, I will begin to even upload cartoons and video to further enhance your blog experience . So read on and comment whichever way you please. I have put on the moderator button only for those who continually threaten violence which happens and who spew nothing but racial hatred or worse attacks on women and children not apart of the political scene. There is a code of honor and you must follow it in this political war. We are all in this very serious war to find the truth and those who threaten innocent people in this war shall be forever banned from the site and blasted. Otherwise, have at it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WE NEED WRITERS: ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE IS WELCOME TO SUBMIT A PIECE FOR REVIEW. I CANNOT GUARANTEE I WILL PRINT IT BUT A PORTION OF IT MAY BE USED WITH CREDIT GIVEN TO THE CREATIVE PERSON SUBMITTING IT TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT . THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FURTHER NOTICE: The comments left can be done so anonymously and your input is yours and yours alone but I will not reveal sources even if you leave a name but do not want it disclosed. When in doubt you can email . http://www.southsidedefender@gmail.com/ or read my paper. I have been doing this over 10 years and journalism in all forms is in my blood. From the courthouse steps to cyberspace, our voice shall be heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RESPECTFULLY,,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HV (Homero Villarreal-Proud son of South Texas and Robstown)&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Donations are always welcome to keep the WEB BLOG AND PAPER GOING. BOTH ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC. Your support is appreciated. It takes input from many of us to do what we do and to not only maintain a paper but also run a blog, TV and Radio spots. If you would like to contribute to our cause please email me at http://www.SOUTHSIDEDEFENDER@gmail.com. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 1:50 AM 2 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Blog, El Defenzor, Freedom of Speech, Homero Villarreal &lt;br /&gt;Sunday, July 6, 2008&lt;br /&gt;NUECES COUNTY ROUND UP &lt;br /&gt;REAL POLITICAL PULSE NOT THE WATERED DOWN SMALLER TIMES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; NUECES COUNTY COMMISSIONER BETTY JEAN LONGORIA. BEST FRIEND OF PAYCHECK PEGGY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BETTY JEAN: "HMMM, MAYBE I SHOULD NOT HAVE SHELLED OUT THE MONEY FROM THAT ROAD BUDGET EARMARKED FOR THE POOR PEOPLE ON COUNTY RD 52 AND GIVEN IT TO THAT DARN PAYCHECK PEGGY AND MAXIMUM MANUEL BANALES FOR HIS EXTRAVAGANT NEW OFFICE ON THE 5TH FLOOR AT THE COURTHOUSE. , OH HELL, I'M OUT AND RETIRED HERE SHORTLY. SCREW IT. MORE FISH TO FRY BUT WHERE ELSE CAN YOU WORK PART TIME AND MAKE 80,000.00. I AM SURE GOING TO MISS IT. IF I PLAY MY CARDS RIGHT I GET A RETIREMENT. LIFE IS SWEET..." BETTY JEAN...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MARISELA "UP AT THE CRACK OF DAWN"SALDANA, JUDGE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"GUYS, I HAVE NEVER BEEN LATE. EVEN IF I HAVE ,YOU KNOW THE TIME BADGE MACHINE AT THE PARKING GARAGE AT THE COURTHOUSE WILL BE OUT OF ORDER COME ELECTION TIME LIKE IT WAS AGAINST FRED "THE ATOM BOMB" JIMINEZ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marisela: Who is drooling for her position in 2010?. Fred "NUCLEAR BOMB" Jiminez again? Some strong name ID Latina already on a bench or working for a defense firm? Oh, Boy. Time will tell. Meanwhile, the judge has settled in and I have not heard anymore timeclock or sleep ins lately but if you do hear about it feel free to blast her here.&lt;br /&gt;THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS. GOOD NEWS ON WIFE THE JUDGE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone is lighting Velas (pardon the pun) on the Democratic side that Fil "The Prodigal Son" Vela stays in Houston, D.C., Rome or wherever he is sipping on exquisite wine with a sweater around his neck and planning another landslide in South Texas with his Blackberry smoking with overuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VELA: "What are you guys looking at? (AS IF VELA IS ALMOST ASKING US) .....Yes, it's a John F. Kennedy PAINTING and I bought it for a lot of money in my early 30's. So what's it to you?Peace. I'm gonna need you fellow Hispanics come November when you are nailbiting about a straight Democratic Ticket which probably won't happen" Well, this is what I think Vela would say if this picture started talking. The Ivy League trained Guero and son of a federal judge is back again and has been setting up shop in the old Democratic party building he rented out to the Democrats when Solly was at the helm (dripping wet with irony) no less along with an army of other lawyers headed by Cecil "The Locomotive"Starcher. It's like legal barracks in there or a lawyer "Fight Club" but with better toilets. The first rule in Fight Club...HV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FILEMON "THE PRODIGAL SON "VELA PULLING THE DEMOCRATS VOTES AGAIN TO HIS SIDE OF THE SANDBOX? El Defenzor heard his wife was under the weather and she is in our prayers. I will hold back blasting her unnecessarily as a gentleman should while she recuperates, plus she's in the Court of Appeals, a much safer place than with us humans down here at ground zero when she first stepped down and started the shitstorm with Marisela campaigning without campaigning in 2006. Hope you feel better Judge Vela. Anyway, Fil Vela is just cracking his knuckles and about to throw around some political muscle come November. With Huerta, Watts and others distracted with the "Crotch Lawsuit" some are calling it (see below) does this mean curtains again for the Democrats in November for half the slate???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure some picture Fil Vela in a vat of boiling oil screaming, "Please!, OK! OK! Yes, I will come back and pour hundreds of thousands into you Liberal Democrats even though you battle each other and refuse to unify against the storms that come in the form of political hurricanes, and yes to you guys especially with your hands out, Mexicanos that need to get a real job!!!" The question El Defenzor asks is why does he stay in Corpus Christi? My theory : His darling Rose and Power and political games. What else? This is where he made his bones as a mega trial lawyer folks!Keeps life interesting when you are loaded like Fil and backstabbed by his detractors as the "Darth Vader" of politics. Go get them Prodigal! Or how about a nice chianti and fava beans?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Are the Democrats still screaming, Clarice.....?."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PAYCHECK PEGGY BANALES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PULSEY! WAKE UP!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, I know the pantsuit is a stretch, but I'm on a budget...I just got my hubbie Maximum a brand new office at you Nueces County Taxpayer's expense. Betty Jean helped me. Don't forget like I always say, I will keep working harder if you guys pay me 80,000.00 a year part time."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PAYCHECK PEGGY UNDER FIRE FOR HELPING VOTERS BUILD A SECOND OFFICE FOR MAXIMUM AND BORROWING MONEY FROM fellow county commish BETTY JEAN "C.R. 52" Longoria TO DO IT. Plus although she beat Joe "The Marine" Benavides in the Spring, it still brought out more than she could bear like the Lencho "The Blackhand" Rendon connection, the EDC stuff, her voting LIKE A ROBOT ALONG with WHAT OSCAR "Hollywood" Ortiz told her to do. This horrible debating in front of the camera plus all of the excess terminal baggage slows her down and she is relying on Maximum to call in the airstrike and of course for the interior designers from "while you were out" to leave her Maxi Manuel's office before November spotless and trendy..&lt;br /&gt;PAYCHECK PEGGY BANALES VS PULSEY: a real nailbiter especially since we have Filemon "The Keymaker" Vela backing up Pulsey and he and Rose (may she recover quickly) Vela are still the darlings of the Republican party. If Mccain wins there is a big chance Judge Vela may be moving up. Although I have blasted both of them in the past they do have their strong points: Chief of which is they didn't give a darn if the Democrats were slitting each others throats in 2005 and 2006 and the Velas saw the writing on the wall and left the blood bath and took their money with them. Some Democrats still are bitter but from a cold hard political analysis: Who is the Court of Appeals Judge and a good candidate for federal judge now? These are the same whiners who act Republican, cut shady deals and get cush "accounting jobs". You know who you are. Get over it and quit hating. Anyway, Banales has had her share of bad luck and incompetent mistakes like she and Betty Jean "Ok I will help you Peggy but you owe me" Longoria throwing money maximum Manuel's way for a Tajmah Hall on the 5th Floor of the courthouse and also Maximum getting away with hitting people twice just makes the Banales name a clinker on the piano of politics right now. "Pulseless" Pulsey better get to work. If he hits the ground running he stands a chance seeing the numbers from 2006. And for God's sake "Pulseless" Pulsey go in some Hispanic neighborhoods and roll up your sleeves. You've served in Tulosa! Go Warriors!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Like a good neighbor...."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loyd "Ok I screwed up on the Packery Channel deal" Neil- The under the radar County Judge. Oh, well, when you had Terrie "9-11"Shamsey slashing and burning and pinching two pennies together and canning 500 people, do you blame him?. Loyd's deal is&lt;br /&gt;"spend, but tax and also don't forget to buy insurance! How many times have I done told y'all!"&lt;br /&gt;Mayor Neil: As for Loyd "Want to buy some insurance?" Neil: Silence on the airwaves. Keeping his head down as is Mayor Henry "I'm just praying for retirement" Garrett.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abel Herrero and Connie Scott: Abel looking good, not much word from Scott. Another one of Fil "The Prodigal Son Returns" Vela's candidates Too close and too early to call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; "Ihad to kick Nelda Martinez' teeth in to earn respect and juice but once I did it the Watts floodgates of coin flowed in. Did you guys realize there is no limit on contributions for state rep?. Now that I have kicked Mayor Ramon, (at least publically) to the curb maybe I can have another win. Sure we only bring out the Robstown vote for me and Solly and no one else..but hey that's show biz. Don't forget I gave back the Mauricio money- well, not to Mauricio who needed it for his legal defense fund, but to the YMCA so I could buy some more votes and cover my ass...that's politics ladies and gentleman and Solly and Juan did it too so don't kick me in the groin. I got rid of Mayor Ramon so leave me alone!."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seriously, Abel has been through hell and high water with his dad's death and now must face Connie"Every Lawsuit is bad" Scott while while keeping half an eye out for the Elephant Man below if he gets paroled early. Great. I'm surprised there was not good old fashioned Robstown justice with this clown below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"NO! I WAS NOT IN THE SOPRANOS! FOR THE LAST TIME YA TE DI JE!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"DENNY'S WAS A SET UP!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ok, Ok, I shouldn't have cut in line at Dennys and then hit a guy. How'd did I know that was Abels' dad fighting me for the "MoonoverMyHammie" plate? I know I'm pretty stupid. For the last time I did not look tough, scary or overbearing in the least in front of the jury in my own defense on the stand. AT least I tried not to scare jurors 1-12 and no I didn't used to come out on the Sopranos. I don't cut line in prison now. I'm reformed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Background:*BOZO OF THE DECADE ASSAULTED STATE REP HERRERO'S DAD AT THE DENNY'S FOR ALLEGEDLY GETTING INTO IT FOR A CUT IN LINE. CAN YOU SAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WITH EVERYONE SHOUTING "NO CUTS" TO HIM? TRIAL DECISION TO SEND HIM UP A LONG TIME ON APPEAL BUT AS I AM STARTING TO UNDERSTAND ..GOOD LUCK. COLD DAY IN HELL ON THAT ONE. YOU CHOSE THE WRONG GUY TO MESS WITH OVER SOMETHING STUPID AND YOU COST SOMEONE THERE LIFE. WAY TO GO BOZO. OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO ABEL AND HIS FAMILY AND THE FAMILY OF THIS MAN WHO NOW WENT TO PRISON FOR STUPIDITY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; GUY "FULL METAL JACKET" WILLIAMS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Longoria: "Guy Williams: I am gunning for you!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guy Williams: "Come on and get some Jose. I got you between my crosshairs like Charlie in the Bush! And I'm a doglover too! Walter Furley and Little Orphan Animals and Denny Vales are backing me!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My name is Guy Williams. Sure I've had a rough life, but that makes me the scrapper I am. Sure I'm a loose cannon but the Republicans are just gonna have to stomach me for November. When I get in there I will do what's right whether y'all like it or not" the pictures almost say. Guy is a ballsy candidate. Let's see if Susie Luna on Longoria's side can plant enough IED's for guy come November to pull it off for Jose Longoria. Time will tell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Judge Longoria vs Guy Williams: If Williams will not burn bridges, listen to some Republican advice and hit Longoria hard, he may break the 48%. Remember that Longoria has some good backers but he has made some lawyers allegedly very angry with him and did back up Maximum Manuel on local and some national TV (for what I have no idea-it was a hot potato Jose, don't be foolish backing up Pancho Villa Banales!). Williams has run other times and has always come close. Basically do about half of what you are told Guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now a word from Marisela Saldana again who scraped by against Guy Williams last election...:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ZZZZZZZZ.."&lt;br /&gt;Marisela Saldana: Has settled into the 148th District but who can tell if some young strong Latino from within can strike in 2 years. I hear things but will keep them to myself for now.&lt;br /&gt;"I'm never late! Don't tell me I'm late or you will regret it buster! I just wet my hair in chambers not just out of the shower! FRED IS A LIAR!!!! DO YOU HEAR ME?"&lt;br /&gt;_________________________________&lt;br /&gt;MORE JUDGES WHO ARE PRETTY ENTRENCHED AND KNOW HOW TO KEEP LOW WITH THE BULLETS FLYING ALL AROUND THEM&lt;br /&gt;The Nueces County Judge spots seem pretty stable unless Klager retires from the County Court 4 spot which he has dominated for nearly a quarter century and after having served on the legislature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom"I worked my ass off for this bench" Greenwell-319th District- Strong Judge. Has weathered all sorts of rumors but should have ripped the adminstrative judge position out of Maximum's hands like he had every opportunity to do instead of playing nice guy. Go for the throat Judge Tom! Only Republican on the bench in Nueces County. Like Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves out there! How about Dances with Justice?&lt;br /&gt;Nelva Gonzalez Ramos 347th- Everyone's(and I mean everyone's) darling and very well-liked. I think if anyone announced against this intelligent beauty it would be ritual suicide and the lawyers would be lined up from Ocean Drive to the Courthouse with 2,500.00 checks from them and their wives. Can you say bulletproof ?&lt;br /&gt;Sandra "ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?" Watts: Despite the ex-hubbie with the sex related charges and Mikal never knowing when to shut up, she is reportedly a very good judge. Lawyers say you get a very good handshake in there and an asschewing if not ready. She may survive but if a strong female hispanic and Republican candidate surfaces, break out the Excedrin Migraine Medicine cuz its go time and she will have to knock on another 10,000 doors. Seriously, she's good people and is a rock. Who takes her on better pack a lunch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Defenzor LIKES HER BECAUSE UNLIKE MAXIMUM MANUEL, SHE BELIEVES IN FIRST TIME OFFENDER PROGRAMS AND NOT LOCKING UP MEXICANOS LIKE THEY WERE THE COUNT OF MONTECRISTO. PLUS SHE CAMPAIGNED IN ROBSTOWN LIKE A CHAMP. THE PROSECUTORS HATE HER BECAUSE YOU START AT 8AM AND START AT 1PM ON THE DOT. "COME ON SANDY, " SAY THE PROSECUTORS, "WE NEED OUR TAQUITOS AND LONG LUNCHES AND COFFEE. THIS IS A STATE JOB! WE DON'T HAVE RICH SONS."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAXIMUM's SWEARING-IN CEREMONY: "I hereby promise to give the max to everyone and skate on my own vehicular assaults. I also promise to bow down to the King Ranch, Kenedys, Armstrongs and my controller Darrel Barger and to ask the county for a million dollar office but settle for a 300,000.00 one with crownmolding , a really cool desk and more people to worship me in my own little world. I also promise to pay the ticket for hitting Martin and I promise not to apologize for it, I promise to maintain my arrogance at all times....."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maximum Manuel: El Defenzor's " Walter Mercado from Univision Astrology chart" predicts he will pull a candidate in 2010 but may put it in overdrive (pardon the pun) and still run. Maximum's ego won't allow defeat. Neither will his son who pulled a Rodney King and said "Can't we just get along?" to me last time and I had to unfortunately do the smackdown. Sorry Manuelito. And NO Manuel, Mike "All I saw was Big Red, not blood" Hummel, your former prosecutor and now councilman and self-voted in EDC member(can you say crook?conflict?), cannot bail you out of this one.&lt;br /&gt;MIKE "I SEE BIG RED" HUMMEL&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, I went to cover up for Maximum Manuel in the 1990 homeless hit but I know how to cover my ass. There was no blood on the victim. Just Big Red." the picture says. I'm sure he will swear that being on the EDC and the council is not about money, graft, influence or making himself a ton of money. Sure Mike, sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAST BUT NOT LEAST: OBAMA MCCAIN; From the numbers I think we know how Obama will do in South Texas on the Hispanic end and I think Fil "the prodigal son" Vela saw something way before we did: Huge Crossover from Hispanics sick of hearing liberal whining that they cannot identify with democrates on the national level. We are 10-12 percent of the available vote and what the liberals cannot allow to penetrate their skulls is that Hispanics are THE Family Value unit: Close knit families, hard work ethic, and military service. Put that all together and the Republicans like Fil "Sorry about Rose fellas but you understand" Vela who El Defenzor has reported was a political chessplayer like no other can pull that vote over coupled with McCain's service record. .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama: "Hey! How come I'm smaller than McCain? Age before beauty?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCain: "Grrrrr. Grrrrr. I am constipated, but what do you expect?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUCH MORE TO COME. HV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY 4TH. THE FIREWORKS ARE JUST STARTING. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 12:44 AM 2 comments  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check it out ladies and gentleman. This time do your own investigating. &lt;br /&gt;Hmmmm:&lt;br /&gt;click on link:&lt;br /&gt;http://blocknotice.com/index.html&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 12:26 AM 1 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Saturday, July 5, 2008&lt;br /&gt;HUERTA THE HEALER? HAS EL DEFENZOR REMAINED SILENT TOO LONG? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps I have been too giving and ignored or chose to remain in denial like many of us about the healing deal going on with Huerta for the past couple of years.. I say live and let live until I started seeing him using priests, nuns and Dr. Robert Vela and a cardiologist named Alexander to start allegedly healing people in the crowd and the ever present still printing out alleged money on cases. My sources reveal he just possibly obtained burn cases in a far away county? With what? His Apostles? Prayer? Ladies and gentleman if the followers of this man want to speak out and resolve these possible conflicts regarding his roles in the community you have the floor. The Rene Rodriguez Lawsuit on behalf of the young girl has sure opened up a lot of cans of worms for Huerta, Watts and many others. Why can't they handle their differences quietly? It's like after Thomas J. Henry shot off a cannon about Mauricio lawyers want to do battle scorched Earth style. Do we really want to hear a long draw out court battle over this and about healing and running cases and Watts(again with this guy?) and everyone else. The legal community has lit a forest fire; let's pray that new trees will grow. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE: CIRCUS?, TRUE CHURCH?, CULT? SHAM FOR GETTING CASES? TALK TO US. CLICK THE ANONYMOUS BUTTON AFTER YOUR INPUT ON THE COMMENTS. HV &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:28 PM 7 comments  &lt;br /&gt;WATTS INTERVIEW WITH CALLER 4 MONTHS AGO. LINK TO HEALER AND JOSEPH AND MAURICIO &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will Rene "I've Risen From the Ashes and Tony Tried to Kill Me" Rodriguez use this interview below to hurt Watts and implicate them further in allowing Joseph Huerta near female clients????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click or Paste link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.caller.com/news/2008/feb/03/mikal-watts-talks-openly-about-criticism-hes-faced/&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 3:54 PM 4 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Thursday, July 3, 2008&lt;br /&gt;JOSEPH "THE CROTCH" HUERTA: A LA MADRE, JUVENILES SPEAK OUT! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to confidential sources there are reports that exist that on October 2, 2006 a Sgt at the Nueces County Juvenile Department took statements from girls:&lt;br /&gt;Here are some direct quotes from the juveniles:&lt;br /&gt;" TODAY 10/2/06 MR. HUERTA WAS TOUCHING CADET -------'S LEGS KIND OF RUBBING IT GOING TOWARDS HER PRIVATE. HE WAS TALKING TO US ABOUT MOTIVATION. HE THEN STARTED TO MASSAGE HER SHOULDERS VERY SLOWLY AND THEN LEFT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ON 9/25/06 MR. HUERTA WAS TOUCHING MY UPPER RIBCAGE VERY RUFFLY. I MADE A STATEMENT I THOUGH HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD . HE BEGAN TO LAUGH AND APPROACHED ME AND GAVE ME A HUG TOUCHING MY RIBCAGE. A FEW MINUTES LATER HE SAID HE WAS OING TO GIVE ME ANOTHER HUG. THE 2ND TIME HE WAS TOUCHING MY LOWER CHEST(BREAST) ......(CADET NAME BLACKED OUT)"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 3:25 PM 3 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Albert Huerta, Crotch, Huerta Law Firm, Joseph Huerta, lawsuit, Phoebe Arriaga, Rene Rodriguez, Tony Canales &lt;br /&gt;THE JOSEPH HUERTA INVESTIGATION IS LAUNCHED &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HUERTA AND JIM JONES NEVER SEEN IN THE SAME ROOM? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT???!!! DRINK THE KOOL-AID SOUTH TEXANS....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ONCE t again another PRINCE OF CORPUS CHRISTI like Maximum Manuel is being allegedly coddled. JOSEPH HUERTA SON OF ALBERT "THE KTMV HEALER" HUERTA is being sued by the human missile Rene "I fear no one and have risen from the ashes" Rodriguez. In his Third Amended Petition the Defenzor read to tatters Rene has now included the Watts Law Firm, The Huerta Law firm and alludes to a Greg "The Redhead" Gowan, of counsel to Huerta and Law Partner at Watts law firm, alleging that they should not have let Joseph "The Crotch" Huerta near a rising young singer Phoebe Marie Arriaga.(get in line to read this one at the courthouse unless District Clerk Patsy "the cryptkeeper" Perez blocks your way. In the petition it is alleged that Joseph Huerta sexually touched her (Phoebe) and now with information that the Defenzor has obtained HUERTA MAY HAVE HAD incidences like this at the Nueces County facilities with juvenile girls where he apologizes for grabbing his crotch in one email on July 21, 2006 addressed to a G. Fernandez and a M Toren at Nueces County (Miles and Gloria) and asks to "forgive the crotch grabbing incident" and also being counseled for touching young girls arms and legs and wrapping his arm around them which he indicates in documents that are public record (soon to come) that he did not intend to be sexual and it was all a misunderstanding. Ok, so maybe crotch grabbing is not sexual: hmmm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many know Mr. Huerta was involved in a skiing accident in another state in *(click the following link or cut and paste it for more details: http://www.coastalbendhealth.com/newsarch/news10828.html )where his father the Healer sued for big bucks against the skiing lodge after Huerta's head injury which left him permanently injured but surprisingly is still practicing law. Mr. Rodriguez is going after them with full force and the petition indicates that Mr. Rodriguez arch enemy Tony "The Pitbull"Canales (who Rene is also suing for having a man become permanently injured on his property and where Big Tony allegedly threatened the San Antonio lawyer working on the case but not confirmed) and also Straussberger Price, a high brow firm in town. The problem with the lawsuit has many layers: 1) Did Watts and Huerta allegedly let a brain injured lawyer practice law? 2) Did they know he was an alleged menace to girls? 3) are any allegations and complaints by juvenile girls at the County true? 4) did nonlawyers at Huerta like Tony "Am I like Mauricio" Calderon get money and finally 5) what shenanigans are going to come out of the closet when Mr. Rodriguez in his pitbull style starts taking Watts, The KTMV HEALER Huerta and especially Joseph Huerta's sworn statements?: Holy Objections Batman!6) and finally questions about Huerta's healing mission using nuns and retired priests from Robstown on his show and is he attempting to get cases out of this project?. Ladies and Gentleman the whole world not just Big Sur is on fire. Stay close to your computer. HV&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 2:39 PM 4 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Albert Huerta, greg gowen, healer, Huerta Law Firm, Joseph Huerta, nueces county juveniles, sexual assault, tony calderon, watts law firm &lt;br /&gt;THE ELITE GET OFF AND COVERED BY THE CALLER TIMES: BANALES WAGONS CIRCLE... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel and Pancho Villa....hmmm. striking resemblance and probably the same size egos....&lt;br /&gt;In their usual manner the Caller Times giveth and taketh away. For once I was under the impression that hardnosed journalism was to take place by Ms. Powell: I was mistaken. In one of the most horrendous coverups the Caller Times is attempting to again protect Maximum Manuel and to also close any doors to the Martin Garcia family. It is our understanding they finally had the sense to obtain a lawyer. Now, from our legal sources we understand that Maximum Manuel may only have 100,000.00 bucks in car insurance. That won't even cover Martin's first two weeks in the hospital. He remains in a very serious state and any lawyer who represents him must be under pressure to obtain more than a mere 100,000.00 but also sue beyond that to take care of Martin for the rest of his life. Perhaps the DPS, Kaelin, the Caller Times and KRIS will coddle Manuel along with his lawyer and controller DARRELL BARGER but the public has grown tired of he and his wife and the "let them eat cake" mentality they have had with our tax money. MUCH, MUCH MORE TO COME and make sure to pick up a Defenzor at your local taqueria and stores around the Coastal Bend.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 2:33 PM 1 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Labels: Citation, coverup, darrell barger, Manuel Banales, Martin Garcia, maximum manuel, Wreck &lt;br /&gt;Older Posts Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-7422897233710265491?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7422897233710265491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=7422897233710265491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7422897233710265491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7422897233710265491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/posted-with-permission-from-homero.html' title='POSTED WITH PERMISSION FROM HOMERO VILLARREAL ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-1271400048498524140</id><published>2008-07-05T15:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T15:44:34.687-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Albert The Healer Huerta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joseph Huerta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sexual Touching'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mikal Watts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Phoebe Arriago'/><title type='text'>WATTS "I'm High to Have Been Interviewed" Watts</title><content type='html'>Despite the heat he has faced, the upcoming lawsuit by the lawyer on steroids Rene "I've survived the nuclear winter" Rodriguez and upcoming sworn statements he will have to cooperate with Watts gave this interview a while back. For guys that have a lot of dough they are sure stupid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.caller.com/news/2008/feb/03/mikal-watts-talks-openly-about-criticism-hes-faced/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-1271400048498524140?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1271400048498524140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=1271400048498524140' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1271400048498524140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1271400048498524140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/watts-im-high-to-have-been-interviewed.html' title='WATTS &quot;I&apos;m High to Have Been Interviewed&quot; Watts'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2299452230647697405</id><published>2008-07-05T15:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T15:41:26.313-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JOSEPH HUERTA STORY HITS THE FAN</title><content type='html'>AP in Robstown right back at HV at Eldefenzor.blogspot.com. Holy Shit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.eldefenzor.blogspot.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2299452230647697405?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2299452230647697405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2299452230647697405' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2299452230647697405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2299452230647697405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/07/joseph-huerta-story-hits-fan.html' title='JOSEPH HUERTA STORY HITS THE FAN'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-49757833220050005</id><published>2008-06-24T00:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T00:52:26.314-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NEW DEFENZOR:</title><content type='html'>Just when things got a little bit of a lull, Homero is back!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-49757833220050005?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/49757833220050005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=49757833220050005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/49757833220050005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/49757833220050005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-defenzor.html' title='NEW DEFENZOR:'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-8729998725692670974</id><published>2008-06-09T23:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T23:11:32.337-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GOING NATIONAL MAXIMUM</title><content type='html'>1. Honorable J Manuel Banales - Corpus Christi, Texas : Citysearch.com&lt;br /&gt;Get details on Honorable J Manuel Banales - Corpus Christi, TX, at Citysearch - over 1 million user reviews &amp; editorials about local businesses.&lt;br /&gt;www.citysearch.com/profile/10145179&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Nueces County Record Star&lt;br /&gt;District Judge J. Manuel Bañales has announced that he has filed for reelection ... Local News. Judge Manuel J. Bañales seeking 6th term on district court ...&lt;br /&gt;www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15909748 - Cached&lt;br /&gt;2. H &amp; R Block Inc. News - The New York Times - Narrowed by 'BANALES, J MANUEL'&lt;br /&gt;News about H &amp; R Block Inc. Commentary and archival information about H &amp; R ... PROTECTION, DECISIONS AND VERDICTS, TEXAS, BLOCK, H &amp; R, INC, BANALES, J MANUEL ...&lt;br /&gt;topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/h_and_r_block_inc/... - Cached&lt;br /&gt;3. USATODAY.com - Does 'Scarlet Letter' judge cross the line?&lt;br /&gt;... state District Judge J. Manuel Banales imposed a unique probation condition ... ask the 13th Court of Appeals this week to overturn Banales' ruling on the signs. ...&lt;br /&gt;www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/07/10/texas-judge.htm - Cached&lt;br /&gt;4. Judge Manuel Banales Accident - Brightcove&lt;br /&gt;A local TXDOT worker is in critical condition and a local judge is hospitalized. ... Judge Manuel Banales Accident. Jun 5, 2008 Added 1,058 Views 0 Comments ...&lt;br /&gt;www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1590217046%0A&amp;channel=1184510347 - 59k - Cached&lt;br /&gt;5. Texas Judge Orders Notices Warning of Sex Offender&lt;br /&gt;The Crime Line ... judge who required the warnings, Judge J. Manuel Bañales, later reduced to ... Judge Bañales said Texas laws requiring that sex criminals' ...&lt;br /&gt;www.crimelynx.com/sexsign.html - Cached&lt;br /&gt;6. Caller.com - Photos from Corpus Christi and the Surrounding Area&lt;br /&gt;... Court Judge J. Manuel Bañales on Thursday near the Interstate 37/Padre Island Drive interchange. ... 37 when J. Manuel Bañales, 105th District Court judge ...&lt;br /&gt;www.caller.com/news/2008/jun/06/banales/?printer=1 - Cached&lt;br /&gt;11. Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Sex offenders must post signs&lt;br /&gt;Corpus Christi Caller-Times Sex offenders must post signs ... District Judge J. Manuel Bañales called about 55 registered sex offenders to ...&lt;br /&gt;www.callertimes.com/2001/may/19/today/localnew/496.html - Cached&lt;br /&gt;12. [DOC] &lt;br /&gt;falcon.tamucc.edu/~crijweb/105thDistrictCourtJudgeManuelBanales.doc&lt;br /&gt;62k - Microsoft Word - View as HTML&lt;br /&gt;105th District Court, Judge Manuel Banales. ADDRESS: ... Judge Manuel Banales. IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR (If different from above): TYPE OF SERVICE RENDERED BY THE ...&lt;br /&gt;falcon.tamucc.edu/~crijweb/105thDistrictCourtJudgeManuelBanales.doc&lt;br /&gt;13. Nueces County Record Star&lt;br /&gt;Judge J. Manuel Bañales of Corpus Christi was sworn in Friday to a four-year ... Since 1987, Bañales had served as judge of the 105th Judicial District Court ...&lt;br /&gt;zwire.com/site/news.cfm?...&amp;BRD=1157&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=172073&amp;rfi=6 - Cached&lt;br /&gt;11. TxDOT Worker, Judge In Hospital After Car Accident - KRIS-TV - MSNBC.com&lt;br /&gt;CORPUS CHRISTI-A TxDOT worker is in critical condition after he was hit by the car of District Judge Manuel Banales on Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25008484 - Cached&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. banales v. 13th court of appeals&lt;br /&gt;THE HONORABLE MANUEL BANALES, JUDGE 105TH DISTRICT COURT. OF NUECES COUNTY, Relator ... entered by the relator, Judge Manuel Banales of the 105th District Court of ...&lt;br /&gt;www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/74307.htm - Cached&lt;br /&gt;13. TxDOT worker critically injured in wreck with judge | Latest State ...&lt;br /&gt;... Department of Transportation worker and Judge J. Manuel Banales, of the 105th ... Banales' injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, police said. ...&lt;br /&gt;www.star-telegram.com/448/story/685539&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-8729998725692670974?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8729998725692670974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=8729998725692670974' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8729998725692670974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8729998725692670974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/06/going-national-maximum.html' title='GOING NATIONAL MAXIMUM'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-4128246458634896264</id><published>2008-06-09T22:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T23:00:41.808-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LOOK OUT MANUEL BANALES!!!EL DEFENZOR IS BAAAAAAAAAACK! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.</title><content type='html'>skip to main | skip to sidebar &lt;br /&gt;DEFENZORMAGAZINE &lt;br /&gt;IN CASE HOMERO IS TAKEN ALIVE BY THOSE IDIOTS TRYING TO SHUT HIM DOWN: HERE IS HIS BLOG SO FAR:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday, June 9, 2008&lt;br /&gt;BANALES LEAVE OF ABSENCE. HMMM. MORE LIKE LEAVE TO CYA &lt;br /&gt;Banales snuck out of the hospital on sneak mode and now is laying low. El Defenzor was distributed as is our first amendment right at the courthouse steps and people rapidly snatched up the papers. Now we have learned (see below) that Barger is yet again covering for Maximum MANUEL BY STASHING HIS CAR AT MIKAL WATTS CAR WAREHOUSE. Unbelievable. And as usual Kaelin has shot off his mouth stating that Banales was going 91 mph (allegedly).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE ON FIRST AMENDMENT. THE DEFENZOR CAN DISH IT OUT AND TAKE IT. Our legal eagles pro bono have notified me that overlawyered called upset after making slanderous and libelous remarks named Frank called up lashing out after he put our publication down. That is his first amendment right as is ours. I understand freedom of speech and it sometimes comes at a price but that is what is needed for a free society. Overlawyered can say what they want and so can I but please do it after researching and not listening to some disgruntled plaintiff lawyer named Braugh who we hav caught redhanded with his law firm trying to control judge elections on e-mails also collectively known as the Club. Mr. Frank should respect us for our efforts since he is singlemindedly going after lawyers. Actually our causes are similar. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 10:18 PM 1 comments  &lt;br /&gt;BANALES. FREEDOM OF SPEECH.JUST IN CASE THEY SHUT IT DOWN &lt;br /&gt;TxDOT worker injured in accident upgraded to serious&lt;br /&gt;By Stuart Duncan (Contact)Originally published 02:20 p.m., June 9, 2008Updated 02:20 p.m., June 9, 2008&lt;br /&gt;CORPUS CHRISTI — The Texas Department of Transportation worker injured in a recent traffic accident has been upgraded from critical to serious condition, officials at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial said Monday.&lt;br /&gt;Martin Garcia, 34, was injured in a traffic accident involving 105th District Judge J. Manuel Banales last Thursday near the ramp connecting South Padre Island Drive and Interstate 37.&lt;br /&gt;The Texas Department of Transportation has set up a fund for donations for Garcia: Checks should be made payable to the “Martin Garcia Fund.”&lt;br /&gt;Martin Garcia Fund&lt;br /&gt;c/o Navy Army Federal Credit Union&lt;br /&gt;P.O. 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He should put a sign on his car that says "I am a stupid driver stay 200 yards away".&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 709973 on June 9, 2008 at 2:35 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Boy--they sure are keeping it hush hush aren't they? I hope Mr. Banales realizes what he's done....Has he apologized to the vicitim and his family yet?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711346 on June 9, 2008 at 2:47 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Hush hush is right...Mr. Banales is not above the law and all information should be presented...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713050 on June 9, 2008 at 2:49 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Prayers to the injured worker...anyone know if there are any 'file' photos of him being shown? I believe I might know him from school...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 444846 on June 9, 2008 at 2:49 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;The family of the victim needs to sue the judge so he can pay the medical bills. The family has no need to be asking the community for help. He will clean his hands with this one.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 699260 on June 9, 2008 at 2:51 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;If you Google:&lt;br /&gt;Manuel Banales Accident&lt;br /&gt;About the 8th title down is a site which I am unable to access at this time:&lt;br /&gt;"DEFENZORMAGAZINE: BANALES IS GETTING AWAY WITH A THIRD CRIME?" and "Manuel Banales who has hit antoher man in the past..."&lt;br /&gt;Curious, so if anyone goes there, please update the rest of us...&lt;br /&gt;Sweetie ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 353956 on June 9, 2008 at 2:54 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;It sure is funny how the local news reported on a couple of accidents this weekend and by the time they made the newscast they already knew what the drivers were being charged with. As far as this case is concerned, they have reconstructed the scene, taken measurements again and still have not come up with any charges. I'm not a police investigator, but could excessive speed or failure to control his vehicle been contributing factors. I wish our local law enforcement and city government would stop trying to sweep things under the carpet and just treat everybody equally. I'm quite sure that if the roles would have been reversed and the TXDot worker had hit Judge Banales, charges would have been pressed right away and the TXDot worker would have probably been thrown in jail. I am sure that we will hear less and less of this accident as the week wears on and our local DA and law enforcement will hope that everyone just forgets about it.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 592398 on June 9, 2008 at 3:12 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 699260&lt;br /&gt;I went to that site and it seems as though the judge hit a man crossing the street in 1990. The judge refused to get out of his car until Mike Hummel came to the scene and picked the judge up and they left. The man that was hit was offered a undisclosed amount of money and accepted it.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 277671 on June 9, 2008 at 3:19 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the judge should have his drivers license revoked. It's apparent he doesn't have the skills.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 389468 on June 9, 2008 at 3:20 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;The Defenzor site simply pulled the Caller-Times first article on the "accident" along with the subsequent 137 postings.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 707626 on June 9, 2008 at 3:25 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;HEre you go my babydoll sweetie:&lt;br /&gt;DEAR READERS:&lt;br /&gt;Evidence building that it was Banales who they are talking about on the comments of the Caller article that hit a homeless man on Leopard and it was hushed up. Hummel reportedly (Councilman Hummel) came and picked up Banales who refused to exit the vehicle after he hit the man and they took off from the scene. Hummel was Judge Banales' prosecutor at the time according to sources. Now Banales has hit another man and everyone is trying to coddle him and protect him while Martin Garcia's life and future hang in the balance. Banales' son is out taking pictures of the accident scene while working for Banales protector Darrel Barger who has tried to come after the Defenzor before on the Marty Huerta reporting and almost had me arrested. I am not afraid of Banales or Barger and it is my first amendment right to print information that I believe in a reasonable and responsible manner is the truth. For too long people protect the rich, the elite and the powerful in this town. The reason I got involved on this story was seeing how the media (particulary KDF Fox News and KRIS) tried to downplay what Banales did. They disgustingly had Kaelin coming out saying "the judge is oK..." Who cares when a 34 year old man was needlessly and violently struck by Banales. The family should be outraged. A perfect example of Kaelin playing politics. Again he sticks his nose in CCPD business like on Celis just to show his face on TV. So many other comments that smell fishy like Valdez conflicting himself out, the media spin that his car "slid off the road". What happened to accountability? Some are saying that he made a statement in the E.R. that he was sleepy. Who's fault is that? The roads? Come on Banales, take your medicine and be expected to be treated like anyone else. When you escape your responsibility you set a poor example and resentment for those who have no money in your courtroom that get sentenced by "MAXIMUM MANUEL". Documented proof coming. And I grow tired of those readers who say this is yellow journalism or I have no facts. YES I DO. Just because the Defenzor does not have multimillion dollars and Birminghams' EDC connections to print or suppress what they want does not make me any less a journalist. The Freedom of the Press in this nation was not made for rich newspapers to suppress facts. The internet has changed this. Make sure to pickup a copy of my paper which is free and watch for this blog and watch for my TV show. I will report the truth and not SPIN as KDF Fox and KRIS did. Shame on you.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 459079 on June 9, 2008 at 3:27 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Defenzor is a local version of National Enquirer - only a lot more vicious. The Mexican version of the White Boy's We the People rag sheet......&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 236373 on June 9, 2008 at 3:33 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I here that the Judge has been asked to be in the next Speed Racer movie.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711762 on June 9, 2008 at 3:54 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Why do they need money for medical bills! It should be covered under workers comp! Plus the judges car insurance should take care of the rest.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 242194 on June 9, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 707626&lt;br /&gt;I also saw the headlines in the paper, the comment by Kaelin and heard the news reporters saying "the judge is okay"...&lt;br /&gt;My first thought each time was "what about the gravely injured TxDOT employee?" My prayers are with him and HOPE that whatever punishment the Judge gets is equal to what the everyday person would get.&lt;br /&gt;My son was towing a trailer, doing the speed limit and the trailer hit some "liquid"of some sort on the road. The trailer spun out my son for a moment landed up going in the opposite direction. He did not hit anyone or anything, but still got a ticket for almost $200 for "failure to control the vehicle".&lt;br /&gt;Judge Banales did a WHOLE LOT MORE...he should get a REALLY BIG FINE and his insurance should pay all this innocent victim's bills...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 699260 on June 9, 2008 at 4:28 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 707626&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much!&lt;br /&gt;Just a side note...My first husband called me Babydoll and my current husband is the one that "christened" me Sweetie...LOL!&lt;br /&gt;Sweetie ;-)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 707626 on June 9, 2008 at 4:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 699260&lt;br /&gt;GOD you are soo hot!!!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 707626 on June 9, 2008 at 4:31 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 699260&lt;br /&gt;I will call you "Muffin".&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712987 on June 9, 2008 at 4:59 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 707626&lt;br /&gt;Wow, I did not know any of this. If you are telling the truth then all I can do is shake my head. I know there is always cover ups and if we the people do not know then it doesn't matter. If this is the judge's second hit to someone then maybe some eyes need to be opened before everybody raises cane about this.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712987 on June 9, 2008 at 5:02 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 707626&lt;br /&gt;Are you working on husband #3, Sweetie. =)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 346709 on June 9, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;ITS ABOUT TIME THE CALLER-TIMES PRINTED SOMETHING ABOUT MR. GARCIA, RATHER THAN HOW JUDGE BANALES IS DOING. YOU WOULD THINK BANALES GOT THE WORST OF IT BY THE ATTENTION THE PAPER AND OTHER MEDIA ARE GIVING HIM.&lt;br /&gt;NOTICE THE WORDING OF THE CALLER-TIMES "Martin Garcia, 34, was injured in a traffic accident involving 105th District Judge J. Manuel Banales last Thursday near the ramp connecting South Padre Island Drive and Interstate 37." WAS INJURED IN A "TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVOLVING 105TH DISTRICT JUDGE... NO HE WAS HIT AND INJURED BY VEHICLE DRIVEN BY BANALES!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 245928 on June 9, 2008 at 6:08 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Available space, incomplete details, and presstime might have impacted the reporter's initial submission.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 389468 on June 9, 2008 at 7:53 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Not even. This is the Caller-Times at its bets/worst.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713038 on June 9, 2008 at 10:12 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Allegedly:Darrell Barger, Defense Attorney who defends auto manufacturers has taken hold of the car involved in the motor vehicle hit on Martin Garcia and have put in Mikal Watts Lot where he stores his cars to sue manufacturers. The coverup continues, blame the car and not Banales and sue the car manufacturer so apparently the car is not inspected by DPS. Very strange. Investigators hot on their trail.. Be careful Barger and Banales. No one knows what type of blood was taken. That is apparently a lie. Every nurse and doctor in town knows that an alcohol specimen and a blood specimen for drugs can be done at Spohn within an hour. Nurses are talking that the tests were not even done.&lt;br /&gt;allegedly Straight from Kaelins mouth: Kaelin calculated Banales going 91 mph. DPS GUYS TOOK MEASUREMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;Don't cover up Banales.&lt;br /&gt;accident scene: Allegedly Tires depressing thegrass right then and there. No attempt to stop or apply brakes. Hear us attorneys for Martin Garcia and family. Big car would have left skid or mudmarks. Nothing is there. Go take your own pictures and make sure your lawyers are not in cohoots with Barger and Banales. Do not let them sell you out.&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713050 on June 9, 2008 at 10:15 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;sweetie, calm down, jeez...keep your muffins in your bag.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 338518 on June 9, 2008 at 10:42 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Judge Banales is a good man. It is a horrible tragedy and I have been praying for the victim and his family. I can see clearly because I don't have any hate in my heart and realize how horrible this is for both sides. The sad thing is that most of you that are criticizing probably wouldn't be so concerned about the victim if he had been hit by another ordinary citizen.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713038 on June 10, 2008 at 12:08 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;338518:Thanks Peggy. Good one.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713038 on June 10, 2008 at 12:14 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;699260: Its wwwdot eldefenzordotblogspotdotcom &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 10:17 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;MORE NEWS DARRELL BARGER HELPING OUT BANALES LIKE HE HAS FOR 20 YEARS &lt;br /&gt;Allegedly:&lt;br /&gt;Darrell Barger, Defense Attorney who defends auto manufacturers has taken hold of the car involved in the motor vehicle hit on Martin Garcia and have put in Mikal Watts Lot where he stores his cars to sue manufacturers. The coverup continues, blame the car and not Banales and sue the car manufacturer so apparently the car is not inspected by DPS. Very strange. Investigators hot on their trail.. Be careful Barger and Banales. No one knows what type of blood was taken. That is apparently a lie. Every nurse and doctor in town knows that an alcohol specimen and a blood specimen for drugs can be done at Spohn within an hour. Nurses are talking that the tests were not even done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;allegedly Straight from Kaelins mouth: Kaelin calculated Banales going 91 mph. DPS GUYS TOOK MEASUREMENTS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't cover up Banales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;accident scene: Allegedly Tires depressing thegrass right then and there. No attempt to stop or apply brakes. Hear us attorneys for Martin Garcia and family. Big car would have left skid or mudmarks. Nothing is there. Go take your own pictures and make sure your lawyers are not in cohoots with Barger and Banales. Do not let them sell you out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 8:00 PM 2 comments  &lt;br /&gt;BANALES: ANOTHER NEAR MISS BY MAXIMUM MANUEL WHO'S DRIVERS LICENSE SHOULD BE REVOKED &lt;br /&gt;VICTIM QUOTED FROM THE CALLER TIMES COMMENTS:&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 319029 on June 6, 2008 at 5:22 p.m.Judge Banales, You may not remember me and I sure didn't know you outside of your "State Judge" license plates that morning on Alameda and Doddridge when you almost ran me over.Perhaps I can help you with your memory Judge Banales, I was starting to cross the street in the direction of Bank of America from Frost Bank when you made an illegal lane change from the through traffic lane to the turn lane, then ran the red light and almost hit me while I was in the crosswalk with a "WHITE CROSSWALK" light in my favor.You may not remember with all of this information since you sped around the corner chatting with who I assume was your wife. When I got home I told my wife the whole story of the guy with a mustache and judges license plates that almost hit me.I didn't know who you were until I saw your car on TV with the top cut open and you being carried away on a stretcher. If I were ever approached by law enforcement or an attorney I would be more than happy to relay my "experience" with your driving "under oath."In my brief contact with you that Saturday morning, I don't think you belong behind the wheel of a car and definitely not in a position of authority in our community. Yet you are a judge! Outrageous!I hope there is not another cover-up that is so common with investigations in Corpus Christi. My prayers are with that TEXDOT worker &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 1:28 AM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Sunday, June 8, 2008&lt;br /&gt;WHERE IS THE TXDOT WITNESS &lt;br /&gt;The TXDOT worker who flew out of the way. The Defenzor is trying to locate him. I hope he is not being pressured to help Banales out on this one. let's add it all up: missing lab reports, the car's fault, the witness being intimidated, maybe a big financial settlement for the family to be quiet and the injured man is in the works,(Like settlement in 1990), this spells him getting off but as they say, "You can beat the rap but you cannot beat the ride". Who is a betting man like me and Kenedeno who may say that he will not run in 2 years? He is pridefilled, perhaps he will. Time will tell how this unfolds. Meanwhile , El Defenzor continues to investigate. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:55 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;BANALES MIRRORS WHAT COURT CLERK DID &lt;br /&gt;She was charged with a felony for putting on makeup. Apparently he drives like a maniac according to his fellow parishioner on the Caller Blog and has hit a homeless mentally challenged man on August 20, 1990. He allegedly reported he was sleepy (where's the accountability and the drug screen). The mainstream media is personifying a vehicle so Banales doesn't take the rap: "The Car Slid" "The car hit a man" I imagine that the Cadillac talks as well and will break down on the stand and say, "It was me, not the judge!" More to come. Seriously, the Cadillac may talk: Where is the blackbox???? &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:52 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;BANALES STORY:read all posts but read this one saved in case Caller Times Pulls the Plug &lt;br /&gt;IN CASE CALLER TIMES PULLS THE PLUG AGAIN, HERE ARE SAVED COMMENTS AND ARTICLE. YOU NEVER KNOW. &lt;br /&gt;BE SURE TO READ ALL ENTRIES ON BANALES IN THIS BLOG TO GET THE FULL COVERAGE ON THIS WE ARE DEVELOPING. AS YOU READ WE HAVE VERIFIED AND CONTINUE TO VERIFY FACTS IN THIS STORY AND ARE ASSERTING OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Judge's car slams into transportation worker&lt;br /&gt;Man on ventilator; Banales' injuries not life-threatening&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Gongora/Caller-Times Law enforcement officers inspect a car belonging to 105th District Court Judge J. Manuel Bañales on Thursday near the Interstate 37/Padre Island Drive interchange. Rescuers had to cut the roof and doors off the Cadillac DeVille to free Bañales, who, along with the transportation worker struck, was taken to the Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial.&lt;br /&gt;A local judge's car hit a transportation department worker crouching near his truck about to fix a sign Thursday afternoon, sending the worker to the hospital in critical condition, police said.&lt;br /&gt;A Texas Department of Transportation heavy-duty pickup with a cherry-picker lift was parked near a ramp connecting Padre Island Drive to southbound Interstate 37 when J. Manuel Bañales, 105th District Court judge and presiding judge of the Fifth Judicial Administrative District, entered the ramp. His gold Cadillac Deville slid off the pavement and struck the truck parked a few feet away on the grass.&lt;br /&gt;Two workers had just pulled over to fix a small, directional black and yellow sign about 2:45 p.m., said police Capt. John Houston, when one worker spotted the Cadillac heading straight for the truck and jumped out of the way. Another worker, 34 years old, wasn't able to move.&lt;br /&gt;"He was hit with the full force of the vehicle," Houston said. "He's injured head to toe."&lt;br /&gt;That worker was rushed to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial with life-threatening injuries. Late Thursday he was in emergency surgery and on a ventilator. Bañales' injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, police said. He was taken to the same hospital.&lt;br /&gt;The ramp was closed until about 6 p.m. as Corpus Christi police and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers cataloged the accident.&lt;br /&gt;Houston said officers responded to the accident just like any other of the same severity, and state troopers were called in to help re-create the accident.&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't clear Thursday afternoon how fast the Cadillac was going or what caused the accident, Houston said.&lt;br /&gt;The Cadillac came to rest in the wrong direction, with its roof and doors removed with the Jaws of Life. The truck was some 50 yards away, pushed halfway up an embankment to another ramp by the force of impact.&lt;br /&gt;As officers combed the road and car, a yellow grate from the pickup with three orange cones and a water cooler sat a few feet away from the car's front bumper. The worker who jumped out of the way was just about to set up the cones when the car struck, a transportation department spokesman said.&lt;br /&gt;Bañales has been a district judge for 21 years. As presiding judge of the Fifth Judicial Administrative District, he assigns judges to cases when the regular judge is unavailable.&lt;br /&gt;Contact David Kassabian at 886-3778 or kassabiand@caller.com&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_interface = 'http://cm.npc-scripps.overture.com/js_1_0/';&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_width = 728 ;&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_height = 90;&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_source = 'npc_scripps_corpuschristicaller_3p_t2_ctxt';&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_config = '7894763060';&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_id = 'news';&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_type = 'news';&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_ad_url = window.location.href ;&lt;br /&gt;ctxt_css_url = 'http://media.scrippsnewspapers.com/yahoo/yahoo_cm.css' ;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must follow these rules in order to post comments:&lt;br /&gt;1. 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If you find a factual error or misspelling, email newmedia@caller.com or metrodesk@caller.com, or call 886-3697.&lt;br /&gt;(162) User Comments:&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 389468 on June 6, 2008 at 5:04 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;How horrible!Was alcohol involved?&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240665 on June 6, 2008 at 5:27 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;(This comment was removed by the site staff.)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 232854 on June 6, 2008 at 5:57 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;was he drinking, thats the first question everyone else is asked.........&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 401467 on June 6, 2008 at 6:10 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;He'll probably show up for court. He loves to send people to prison for drinking.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712045 on June 6, 2008 at 6:26 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;First, prayers for the young man seriously injured. May God be with him and his family. Second, I am glad Banales was not seriously injured but I wonder if Banales was speeding or perhaps on his cell phone and not paying attention. I hope DPS does a full investigation and does not form a biased opinion based on the fact that he is a judge.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240803 on June 6, 2008 at 6:30 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers for the injured state employee and his family.&lt;br /&gt;All you people care about is for the judge to be intoxicated.I can't believe the heartless and non compassionate souls that exist in this world.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 449075 on June 6, 2008 at 6:33 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Being a judge should be secondary in this situation. He is not in control of the investigation. I hope he was not on his cell phone, maybe this is a good example of what happens when you try to multitask while driving. May God be with the injuried man and his family. A full investigation should be performed and being a judge is no excuse for failure to CONTROL you vehicle.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 412890 on June 6, 2008 at 6:35 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;sounds like one of our law biding officials was carring some excess speed going into that ramp. He had to have to knock that TDOT truck the distance TV news said.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 389468 on June 6, 2008 at 6:35 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;We don't know if alcohol was involved or if the Judge was preoccupied or if it was merely a bad patch of road, but it's not beyond the real of possibilities for two types of justice in Nueces County . . . Bryan Smith? Mauricio Cellis?Let's just hope a REAL investigation takes place and that the public is informed, both these men are public servants.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711681 on June 6, 2008 at 6:37 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I can't guess on whether or not he was drinking, but in my estimation: Judge Banales was probably speeding. In order for a mid-size car to send a much larger parked truck "approximately 50 yards" and "up an embankment" after impact, I would assume a high rate of speed. I would guess since he's on a ramp with advisory speeds (probably at 40MPH), that he was going much faster than that and that's how he also probably lost control.&lt;br /&gt;I wish the report would state which ramp exactly Judge Banales was entering. There's one flyover ramp that heads towards Calallen and another ramp that heads towards Downtown. I'd like to know where the TxDOT truck was parked, and where Banales veered off the pavement.&lt;br /&gt;I saw the accident yesterday when I was leaving work, and it looked horrible. The entire roof of the mid-size car was destroyed, and I was thinking that driver was seriously injured or killed.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers go out to the TxDOT worker,. I hope he recovers fully. I also hope Judge Banales is doing well.&lt;br /&gt;Curtis Rock&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712601 on June 6, 2008 at 6:45 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;(This comment was removed by the site staff.)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 259150 on June 6, 2008 at 6:51 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe now the Judge will know that accidents CAN happen. Hope the TxDot workers pulls out of this with no long-term effects. Because of the media attention I'm sure the Judge will be citing for "failure to control" his vehicle and/or "driver inattention".&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240803 on June 6, 2008 at 6:59 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 401467&lt;br /&gt;I believe sending people to prison for drinking is Judge Banales job. If they don't get punished then it's the "judges are too soft on criminals" complaint.Wheather he loves to send people to prison I would'nt know.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 233106 on June 6, 2008 at 7:11 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;37 accidents now in the past 15 months for county employees?&lt;br /&gt;Sounds reckless. Will a full investigation checking for drugs and alcohol be done?&lt;br /&gt;Wasn't there a court manager a few years ago charged with a felony because of a cell phone and an accident?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 239123 on June 6, 2008 at 7:25 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Post 233106, I believe it was because of make up. She was putting on her makeup that caused an accident.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers go out to the TXDot employee. Also to Judge Banales.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240803 on June 6, 2008 at 7:39 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Yes, accidents do happen. However when a person makes the choice to get in the drivers seat of a vehicle, while under the influence of alcohol or drugs then thats no accident.I am sure for all of you anxiously awaiting toxicology reports on the judge, maybe you won't be disappointed. Seems some of you are wishing for the worst&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240354 on June 6, 2008 at 7:44 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;so many of you jump to conclusions on what happend. maybe you should be out there doing the investigation. Maybe he had a heart attack and lost control? you never know, but so many of you are sure that it was alcohol related. your minds are filled with so much negativity and so many people hate to live here because of you.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 246492 on June 6, 2008 at 7:46 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 240354&lt;br /&gt;Well said and painfully true.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 389468 on June 6, 2008 at 7:50 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;We weren't the ones driving the car.We weren't the ones who hit that poor TXDOT worker.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 245928 on June 6, 2008 at 7:52 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;omg, bloggeristas !!! Posting privileges removed yesterday have been restored and here we go with speculations, such as faulty tires on the Cadillac. Sheesh, to survive after being slammed that hard and trapped that badly. God bless the TxDOT employee and Judge Banales and all the families and friends.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 699448 on June 6, 2008 at 8:06 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers go out to Judge Banales AND the TXDOT worker as well as their families.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 592398 on June 6, 2008 at 8:12 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;May God be with all involved. I am sure that Judge Banales and his family feel horrible. Come on folks, accidents happen and we have no idea why this one happened.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe he was headed back to work, maybe this or maybe that, but lets wait until the investigation is done.&lt;br /&gt;My son went to school with his daugter and I personally think Judge Banales is a awesome individual. And no I am not hispanic so don't go there. He was very involved with his kids and I think as a judge he is fair.&lt;br /&gt;Keeping everyone involved in my prayers.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 699733 on June 6, 2008 at 8:16 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Some of you all are so stupid. Judge Banales is a fair judge and you all need to give him the benefit of the doubt. He could have been having trouble breathing, having a heart attack or even having a stroke. You all don't know that but you all are just assuming that he was drunk. Instead of being so narrowed minded you all should pray for the TXDOT worker and for Judge Banales as we don't know what actually happened. My prayers got out to Judge Banales and for the TXDOT worker and the families.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 233517 on June 6, 2008 at 8:17 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I like Judge Banales.I wish this young TX Dot worker well and hopefully a full and speedy recovery.Maybe the Judge just lost control of his car when he noticed the parked vehicle. Did anyone ever think about that? Remember, Banales is the Judge who is trying to keep your kids safe from sex offenders, so before you go bashing him without knowing the facts, remember, he is a good judge.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 263127 on June 6, 2008 at 8:18 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Surely authorities administered a breathilizer test to theJudge to allay any future questions by the public about his sobriety. There is no question that a high rate of speed was involved, and there are strict laws regarding caution in work or construction zones. The Judge clearly was the at-fault party to the accident. Judges and Law Enforcement are held to a higher standard than those they serve, so the public will expect a thorough and fair review of his case. In the meantime our wish is for a full and complete recovery by both parties. God be with them.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 238309 on June 6, 2008 at 8:20 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Time to retire; in jail, maybe?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712812 on June 6, 2008 at 8:26 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;i hope judge banales ok. what bothers me is how the news reported the story. to me, it seems the main part of the story was all about judge banales being in a car accident. the story should focus on the fact that a person (txdot worker) was almost killed. my heart goes out to the worker's family. it seems that the judge was driving at an unsafe speed. judge banales will have to live the rest of his life knowing he almost killed someone....and that is heavy.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 237538 on June 6, 2008 at 8:28 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;this is pompous judge..it is mandatory to DPS to take a blood draw if there is a death or possiblity of a death in an auto accident..lets see fit they did.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 235683 on June 6, 2008 at 8:34 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I'm just suprised some of you even know how to turn on a computer...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 235519 on June 6, 2008 at 8:34 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Many of the above comments indeed have merit, BUT lest we forget, Judge Banales and the gentleman clinging on to life are both sons, brothers, husbands and I know the Judge is a Father, we as fellow humans should be less critical and opiniated if we are unfamiliar with the entire situation.&lt;br /&gt;Please be more considerate in comments made.In the interim, pray for their recovery.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 700159 on June 6, 2008 at 8:37 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers for the TX Dot worker and his family as well as Judge Banales. I can only imagine how he must feel. I will keep everyone affected by this in my prayers.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 245407 on June 6, 2008 at 8:49 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Judge Banales is a respected Lawyer, and Judge.&lt;br /&gt;He is not immune from any investigation, HE WOULD BE THE FIRST TO REQUEST AN INVESTIGATION INTO HIS ACTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;I very seriously doubt alcohol was involved, knowing the judge the way I do.&lt;br /&gt;As for the Tx DOT worker, MY DEEPEST PRAYERS FOR YOUR SAFE AND FULL RECOVERY !&lt;br /&gt;SOMETIMES ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, SOMETIMES BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, WE SHOULD NOT BE SO QUICK TO BLAME OR LAY BLAME, OR ASSUME THE WORSE.&lt;br /&gt;PRAYERS TO ALL OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS INVOLVED.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 269677 on June 6, 2008 at 8:52 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;You do not hear anything about a ticket or any charges? If this was anyone other than a judge. At least failure to maintain control. But nothing.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711504 on June 6, 2008 at 8:53 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers are with both the Judge and the worker.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 241503 on June 6, 2008 at 8:54 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;"A Texas Department of Transportation heavy-duty pickup with a cherry-picker lift was parked near a ramp ...The truck was some 50 yards away, pushed halfway up an embankment to another ramp by the force of impact."&lt;br /&gt;COME ON! Banales must have been doing a very very high rate of speed to cause a heavy duty CHERRY PICKER truck to be PUSHED HALFWAY UP AN EMBANKMENT!&lt;br /&gt;If the TxDot worker dies, Judge Banales needs to go to prison for vehicular manslaughter. He needs to at least step down and serve some jail time for what he has done so far. I sincerely hope this investigation is not muddied by politicians trying to protect him.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know the man but I do want to see justice service equally with the same veracity he used while being a district court judge. I'm tired of seeing local 'politicos' get a slap on the hand for serious crimes while regular folks like us get the book thrown at us. Judge Banales had a strong reputation for throwning books.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 708377 on June 6, 2008 at 8:56 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know if it had been raining in this area yesterday afternoon? It rained on I37 and towards Calallen yesterday afternoon, but I don't know if it rained closer to town. If it did, those ramps would have been filled with oil and extremely slick. Those ramps are death traps after just a little bit of rain. If he took that turn a little to fast he would have went out of control, which is what looks like happened. No One has said that he was drunk or that alchol was involved at all so let's let the police do their job and not speculate.&lt;br /&gt;To the TXDot worker...My prayers are with you and your family! Get well soon...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 351711 on June 6, 2008 at 8:58 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I heard that the sherrif seemed more concerned about the Judge condition then the poor Gentleman that got hit...... according to the interview they had yesterday.... I didn't see it, but heard about it from more than one person. If that is true, how sad.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712040 on June 6, 2008 at 8:58 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I think Judge Banales is a good and honest man. If he had suffered a heart attack or stroke (as some have posted) I am sure the news would be all over it. Judge Banales has a lot of integrity and I seriously doubt he would jeopardize his life and the life of others by drinking and driving.&lt;br /&gt;What I have seen many, many times by CC drivers is they are going so fast down SPID, talking on cell phones, eating, etc., that they almost pass the exit ramp and suddenly veer across several lanes to get to the exit. Maybe the Judge was distracted and suddenly realized that was his exit. Excessive speed was obviously a contributing factor.&lt;br /&gt;Either way, instead of assuming (which I am guilty of) let's just pray together as a community for the TXDOT worker and his family. He was just out there doing his job making an honest living. SLOW DOWN people. Life is too short.&lt;br /&gt;I for one will pray a rosary this morning for all parties involved. Anyone want to join me?&lt;br /&gt;Mike&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 351711 on June 6, 2008 at 9:03 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Our hearts go out to the Victims and their Familys and to the Judges Family as well, hoping a speedy recovery for all.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240926 on June 6, 2008 at 9:12 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;WELL, LET'S JUST HANG THE JUDGE BY HIS THUMBS AND BEAT HIM. I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW SMALL MINDED SOME OF YOU THUGS ARE. JUST BECAUSE YOU DRIVE DRUNK AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE DOES NOT MEAN THE JUDGE WOULD. I'M SORRY THE DOT GUY GOT HIT, BUT I FEEL QUITE SURE THE JUDGE IS QUITE UPSET ABOUT IT TOO. GIVE THE JUDGE A CHANCE. YOU PEOPLE JUST LOVE TO HOPE FOR THE WORST FOR ANYONE IN AUTHORITY. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE PERFECT???????&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 329691 on June 6, 2008 at 9:13 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;(This comment was removed by the site staff.)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 707340 on June 6, 2008 at 9:15 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;"there are strict laws regarding caution in work or construction zones."Yes in construction zones.But this was not a construction zone.This was a broken (for lack of a better term) sign in need of repair.They had not even been there long enough to place the cones.&lt;br /&gt;As for not hearing anything about charges or tickets, shouldn't we be concerned about everyone's well being rather than focusing on fault at this moment?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 329691 on June 6, 2008 at 9:22 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Let's show a little more compassion for the victim in the hospital. Heaven knows how long he will be laid up as for the judge he's banged up but he'll recover, buy a new car and go to work. Will the victim recover? What about his family?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 374265 on June 6, 2008 at 9:25 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;He will probably get away with it, and in the meantime, that TxDOT worker will never be the same, if he lives.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 323020 on June 6, 2008 at 9:26 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;It 's obvious that the cause was failure to control speed,but they indicate they are unable to determine the cause. He'll probably get away with losing a few hours of vacation time like the police chief.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 442726 on June 6, 2008 at 9:27 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I am a friend of the worker and his family. It seems there is so much more concern about the judge, whose injuries were not life threatening, than for the person fighting for his life in the hospital. My heart and prayers go out to my friend and his family.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240803 on June 6, 2008 at 9:27 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 351711&lt;br /&gt;I've heard alot of things too, that does not make them true. We don't know about Sherrif Kaelin's concerns or feelings from what we hear.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 240593 on June 6, 2008 at 9:36 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;there is so much animosity on here for judge banales.... i take it that most of you all have had a loved one or yourself, perhaps, sentenced by this judge!!!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 231171 on June 6, 2008 at 9:39 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Prayers to all involved-it sounds like the judge is going to be ok and hopefully the TxDot worker can somehow pull through.&lt;br /&gt;As for that area, like many others in this city, people drive like "bats outta hell"-so I am not surprised that this has happened and am surprised that it doesn't happen more often. CCPD, who I usually support, never seems to catch the fools who fly around the city at 95 mph in a 30 mph hour zone. Obviously, there is a reason that we don't see more officers on the streets, and that needs to be fixed.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 272666 on June 6, 2008 at 9:40 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I never heard so much bull in my life as in these comments, you and I all know there is going to be a white wash and will be made to go away its called " executive privilege"&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 592398 on June 6, 2008 at 9:41 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Please wait for the investagation to be complete. No one knows what happened, maybe there was a slick spot on the highway, maybe something had spilled out of a tanker, who knows. If he did hit a slick spot and then lost control, the speed of his car could have increased at that point.&lt;br /&gt;Obviously he has angered quite a few in this town.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712985 on June 6, 2008 at 9:45 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;WHY DIDNT THEY STICK HIM WITH A NEEDLE AND DRAW BLOOD FROM HIM? THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THAT TO ANYONE ELSE.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711235 on June 6, 2008 at 9:48 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 592398&lt;br /&gt;when you hit a slick spot you don't speed up, you can't slow down, but you don't accelerate fast enought to move a large truck 50 yards.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712631 on June 6, 2008 at 9:51 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 592398&lt;br /&gt;i agree.. let's wait before we assume. hope the txdot worker pulls through.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 425944 on June 6, 2008 at 9:52 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 351711&lt;br /&gt;How sad of you to spread gossip and rumors that are not true. Maybe you are Mr. Flores himself?&lt;br /&gt;Sheriff Jim Kaelin is adamantly AGAINST drunk driving by ANYONE. He would never try to cover up anything.&lt;br /&gt;He is just as concerned for the seriously injured Tx Dot worker as he is for Mr. Banales.&lt;br /&gt;Nice try for you to try to discredit the Sheriff in all of this.&lt;br /&gt;After all, .....it is an election year isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712985 on June 6, 2008 at 9:54 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 592398&lt;br /&gt;yea dude, what are you smokin' . if im going 30 mph and i hit a "slick spot", my car does NOT speed up. dont you know anything about physics?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 463263 on June 6, 2008 at 9:54 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;This same stuff happens to all stories posted here by CCT... Everybody assumes something in some way or another about the story, but now it's the judge involved and it's all wrong?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 705049 on June 6, 2008 at 9:56 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I feel sorry for the worker. As far as any legal action against the judge, all the lawyers and judges in our legal systems are buddies. They act like they hate each other in court but they'll be sharing a pizza at lunch. Odds are the judge will get off easy.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 409842 on June 6, 2008 at 10:01 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;prayers to the txdot worker&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712987 on June 6, 2008 at 10:02 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 351711&lt;br /&gt;I thought we could not spread lies on here? What you just did is just as bad as the National Inquirer.&lt;br /&gt;Two people were involved in a horrible accident. None of us know the details.&lt;br /&gt;The picture of the judge's car looked scary. I am surprised he survived. As for the TXdot worker, I am hoping he is able to come out of this and have a full recovery.&lt;br /&gt;Does the TXdot worker have children? If so, can you imagine what they are going through? Not only that, what about his parents or other members of his family?&lt;br /&gt;What about the judge? I know he has a family. They are probably worried about both parties. The pain to see a loved one lying in a hospital bed after something traumatic may go away but it will stay with you forever.&lt;br /&gt;Have some sympathy for both worker and judge. Hope for the best out of both of them.&lt;br /&gt;Caller Times, do you have any more details concerning this accident? Please hurry and update before this blog is filled with gossip and rumors.&lt;br /&gt;My thoughts and prayers go out to both families as they go through this.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 409842 on June 6, 2008 at 10:02 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;the judge was on a panel at the federal courthouse yesterday...the discussion was to start at 4 p.m...the accident happened at 3:20...wonder if he was rushing to the panel.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 425944 on June 6, 2008 at 10:06 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 409842&lt;br /&gt;If the accident happened at 3:20, and he didn't have to be at the Federal Courthouse till 4.....then that would have allowed him plenty of time. (there would have been no need to rush)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712985 on June 6, 2008 at 10:07 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 409842&lt;br /&gt;yea it was 3:20, he had one hour to make it to the pow-wow.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 239123 on June 6, 2008 at 10:07 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;post 329691 No it wasn't a closet thing. It was in the news. It happened maybe in the late 90s. I don't remember the name of the female. Maybe someone else remembers that accident.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 452408 on June 6, 2008 at 10:09 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;First and foremost...I pray for both parties, family, and friends and for a speedy recovery for both men.&lt;br /&gt;For all of you who think the book should be thrown at the Judge or that think he will get away with it just because of his standing in the community...I can almost guarantee that since the Judge probably has no prior record (he wouldn't be a Judge if he did), and if he is guilty of anything other than failure to control speed, then he will be granted probation. So all of hoping for prison keep dreaming. And that outcome would have nothing to do with his standing in the community. There was a lady on probation in San Patricio County (where I work) who has killed 3 people at two different times for drunk driving or driving under the influence of drugs and has been granted probation. Only after she tested positive for drugs was her probation revoked and sentenced to prison.&lt;br /&gt;I hope none of you ever make a mistake this great. Because I don't want hear you ask "please don't send me to prison, it was the first time I ever screwed up". I hope the book gets thrown at you. It is unbelieveable how inconsiderate and rude people are. Next thing you know someone is going to assume the TxDot worker jumped in front of the Judge in order to be able to file a lawsuit.&lt;br /&gt;Every single one of you on here crucifying the judge is nothing short of pathetic...and I don't even know the man.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 707647 on June 6, 2008 at 10:11 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Hope the TxDOT worker pulls thru. My prayers go out to them and their family.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 232885 on June 6, 2008 at 10:18 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Those fly-overs going both ways from SPID are accidents waiting to happen. There have been so many accidents on those exits that have resulted in serious life long injury. You know maybe it was just an accident, maybe he was going a little fast, BUT how many of you can say that you haven't done the same thing at some point and time? I for one hope that all parties involved will pull through this.Judge Banales is a good man and like other posters have said, he is a very good family man that believes in what he does as a judge. I am not a supporter of his wifes political position, but they are both decent folk. Some of you people have such a blood lust and hope that the worst is true. You people frighten me more than any political officer ever could. God Bless the Banales family and the family of the TxDOT worker&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 372756 on June 6, 2008 at 10:18 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I think the people on here writinng mean things about the judge are prolly people who have been sentenced by him or have family members who have been sentenced by him. Isn't everyone always complaining about how unfair the system is and how lax the judges are? Now you are slamming him for being too harsh? Is there no pleasing you people? Of course not, cause people love to have something to complain about. I agree with the bloggers who say maybe he did have problems breathing or was in the midst of a stroke. Also he is the one trying to keep our children safe so defintely kudos to him! As for the TXDOT worker, I sure do hope he gets better and my prayers are with him and his family.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712987 on June 6, 2008 at 10:19 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Some people get great satisfaction of bringing others down to their own levels.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711114 on June 6, 2008 at 10:31 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;I do believe that newspapers generally have an obligation to investigate any elected official. This is particularly true when an elected Judge poses as being strict on law and order. For example, was there any recent police report or incidents of this elected official? Or, was this official involved in any previous auto accidents in suspicious circumstances wherein someone was seriously hurt by this man? I would very much appreciate any informative article dealing with these issues.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712710 on June 6, 2008 at 10:38 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers go out to the city employee and Judge Banales. I hope everyone involved pulls through. What a terrible accident.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 376065 on June 6, 2008 at 10:40 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Is this the judge married to Peggy Banales?? The Peggy Banales with the magic funds transfer account??? Poor TXDoT worker. This will be one more coverup to help the priviledged politico class in Corpus Christi.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 235933 on June 6, 2008 at 10:51 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;All you people who speed and disregard other's safty, let this be a lesson to you. Tailgating, speeding, weaving in and out of traffic just so you can get some place faster in 2 minutes just is simply not worth it.&lt;br /&gt;SLOW DOWN!!!&lt;br /&gt;Now the county gets ANOTHER tic on the tally sheet for a motor vehicle accident...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 274667 on June 6, 2008 at 10:58 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;He was probably mad that the money was going toward hiway maintenance rather than building him another $130,000 office!!!&lt;br /&gt;I know that sounds horrible, but hey!!! He deserves it as far as the tax payers are concerned. What goes around comes around. Unfortunatly a low paid laborer had to pay the price once again.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712985 on June 6, 2008 at 10:58 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 235933&lt;br /&gt;we dont need to slow down, you need to move out of the fast lane, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 274667 on June 6, 2008 at 11:08 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Let's be honost about all this.&lt;br /&gt;Had the worker hit Banales as he was crossing the street at the court house, he would have been whisked off to jail immediatly. There would be NO investigation. The worker would have been brought up on charges, jailed, sentenced and hung within 48 hours. Not to mention the civil suits that would then hit him that would cost him his home, cars, job and future.&lt;br /&gt;Just a thought...&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712985 on June 6, 2008 at 11:10 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;two things dont make sense to me. #1) THE CADILLAC SLID OFF THE PAVEMENT.#2) THE TRUCK TRAVELED 50 YRDS.&lt;br /&gt;1: when was the last time you saw a car just slide off pavement?a) in the snowb) in the rainneither was the case in this situation.&lt;br /&gt;2: do you know how far 50 yrds is???? that id half a football field!! the truck probably weighs twice what the caddy does with all that equipment on it.&lt;br /&gt;the judge was in WAY to big a hurry.he should be punished.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 709587 on June 6, 2008 at 11:11 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers go out to that young man and his family , also to the judge, you know, i hear many talk bad about judge banales, but you know what , hes not a bad person , he is looking out for our children , and if hes hard its cause hes protecting us,and he is fair. I believe that he doesnt mean any harm hes doing his job, and this is not about his work , its about the accident and prayfully everything will be ok, God Bless to you all and your familys.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 329691 on June 6, 2008 at 11:11 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 239123&lt;br /&gt;Ooookay, I get! Thanks for clearing that out. It's one of those social diseases and on the bench he looks like he couldn't hurt a fly and dangerous behind the wheel, too!! He needs to go to driving classes along with the other county employees.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 342632 on June 6, 2008 at 11:15 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;i just hope that the police officials do their jobs the way they should and handle this situation the way it should be handled and not any differently because of one person being a judge.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 376065 on June 6, 2008 at 11:24 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 709587&lt;br /&gt;The judge may very well do his job great, but I am one voter who will not forget his wife and her "funny accounting methods" for funding an overpriced remodeling of his office. It is that sense of "entitlement" that makes me angry and should anger every tax paying citizen in Nueces County.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 373365 on June 6, 2008 at 11:24 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;It seems like everyone is assuming alcohol or cell phone use is at fault. Everyone apparently understands these hazards, but I constantly am avoiding collisions from people I see are using their cell phone and driving, and can only guess at the alcohol use. If we know and understand these problems, why are they so common?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712993 on June 6, 2008 at 11:25 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;This judge is something. He hits a worker that gets paid a fraction of what he himself makes and probably will forget about it in a few days. That's the way he appears to be, constantly sentencing people with little regards to the entire situation only to build a name for himself as the meanest judge in Corpus. Why? He deserves no leniency and should have a permanent mark on his record. I don't care how you look at it, he was at fault. There is know faulty roads or misunderstood signs that I have ever seen or heard of before. Let's see who plays the corpus christi people as fools and tries to make this seem like the judge is oh so innocent. I hope that you get the same attitude and judgment that you subject the people that make mistakes get, because yea your not God and some mistakes can be learned without the harsh punishment that you put forth on the people.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712992 on June 6, 2008 at 11:34 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone's making this thing so big because of who is involved. Putting identities aside, let's not forget there is a person clinging to life through no fault of his own. And the second person who caused is in far better shape than the first. I take that exit ramp daily, and I believe that to lose control in that area you must be going at an excessive speed or you are not capable of fully controlling your vehicle on curves. In either case, the driver is at fault for any loss of control. The area did not receive any rain prior, so that can be ruled out. If perhaps there was a slick spot for whatever reason, the driver should be attentive and adjust accordingly. if the driver suffered some sort of episode suchas a heart attack, etc., should there not have been warning signs to cause him to pull over and call for help?As I said I drive through there daily, and saw the accident shortly after it happened. My opinion is that the driver is at fault to some degree and if his inability to control his vehicle was caused by alcohol, or drugs, that that is just wrong.He should be held accountable for his actions acording to the circumtances in which it all happened.I hope the worker comes out okay. I hope the same for the driver as I believe he will be. In any case this will be something to carry on his conscience for the rest of his life.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 709587 on June 6, 2008 at 11:36 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 376065&lt;br /&gt;I understand your concern of his wife spending, but the whole issue is not his other half, its the accident that happened, and we just need to pray that everyone is gonna be ok, and pray for them and there families.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712993 on June 6, 2008 at 11:45 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;IN response to 709587&lt;br /&gt;Give me a break, he is not trying to protect our people. He is trying to protect a certain kind of people.. That money he spent on his over priced office came at some one losing there freedoms price. I wonder who he sentenced to get his hands on the money to make his office. He is not diplomatic by any means. He is however using his wrath of punishment to strike fear in your behind to be kissing up like that.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 376065 on June 6, 2008 at 11:57 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 709587&lt;br /&gt;I sincerely pray that everyone gets well and resumes their life as before; I just don't want to see this driver (Judge Banales) get any preferential treatment because of his community status. Like the paper said, the Judge is not hurt badly, so why did he lose control of that 6000 pound vehicle he drives and why was he is such a hurry? Failure to control speed, for sure.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 709952 on June 6, 2008 at 12:06 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Is this the same righteous judge (judge Bananas) that makes sex offenders put signs in their front yards? Wonder what they think right now. Did you see his car after the accident? I agree with post 712985, but since he's a judge I'm sure everything is in motion to get him off the hook. I'm sure there're a lot of people willing to do him a favor right now in case they end up in his court room.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711318 on June 6, 2008 at 12:12 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I'll probably be banned by the editor for this one, but here goes.....&lt;br /&gt;The appearance of any special interest or privilege in this case is most important. From the first instant it was reported, this was not the case. Mysteriously, this website closed down comments on this article. Go ahead and write an explanation, but it's too late.Conclusion is that it was a petty attempt to abridge free speech.The one local TV news channel that I watched last night, Channel 6, placed this story in third or fourth place, behind a home burglary, with skewed emphasis on the condition of the judge, including the skewed interview with the Sheriff. We could use some pointers from the Soviet's on this type of media manipulation, because these attempts yesterday were amatuer .&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 267132 on June 6, 2008 at 12:26 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Notice the headlines? The judge's CAR hit the transportation worker, not the Judge.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711114 on June 6, 2008 at 12:37 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I would believe that Channel 6 would put this story third or fourth. If an ordinary citizen is accused of a crime they will try to put inflammatory, untrue and prejudicial stories about them and do everything to prevent them from getting a fair trial. Channel 6 News is like fantasy and science fiction broadcast as truth.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 330770 on June 6, 2008 at 1:08 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Isn't this the guy who's wife, Peggy Banales, just voted her husband some $$$ so that he could get a new office off the taxpayer's back. What kind of integrity are you talking about? He gets a six figure salary as District Judge plus a salary for his 5th region duties, his wife gets a nice fat salary thanks to the raise she voted for herself and then they have the gall to take money from the poor people in Annaville and Calallen. Judge Banales is NOT a fair judge. Anyone who practices law in his Court knows that he is state oriented -- Judges should perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice. A judge who manifests bias on any basis in a proceeding impairs the fairness of the proceeding and brings the judiciary into disrepute. Banales has passed judgment in Court for 21 years. Not only people who are brought before his Court but also people who don't agree with him. People in Corpus do not speak their minds for some reason. They do not or can not say what they really mean. He has the power and he knows it and I think people are afraid of him.We must hold these Judges to a higher standard for they are the ones that sit and Judge you and me for this same kind of incident. He would not hesitate for one second to put you behind bars if the shoe were on the other foot. Why are people making excuses for him. It was an accident only because Banales CHOSE to speed, talk on his cell phone or become distracted. He didn't have a heart attack, that is some excuse someone wants us to believe. He must accept responsiblity for HIS ACTION.I too thought Sheriff Kaelin only talked and showed concern with Banales. He did not even mention the poor injured TxDot worker. I feel the preferential treatment already starting. Who gets a visit from the Sheriff when they're involved in an accident. Do you? Sounds like a cover up already starting.My prayers go out to the worker and his family -- you know he's a goverment employee too.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 416377 on June 6, 2008 at 1:10 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;how about mrs. peggy give all that extra taxpayer's money she has put aside to fix the judge's office and now help the victim and his family through this tough time. Makes sence.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 399225 on June 6, 2008 at 1:21 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Was Jim Kaelin driving the car or was he the guy that got hit? Why do we blame the Sheriff for every incident in this county? He was not involved. Get a life. Your candidate lost.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 338518 on June 6, 2008 at 1:46 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Judge Banales would be the first to expect that the appropriate procedures be followed in the investigation. He is strict but fair and seems to strive to do the RIGHT thing in everything he does. I have so much respect for this man. He has more integrity than any of you negative bloggers could ever have. I won't give the negativity any more attention. I'm sure that he and his family are devastated over this tragic event. I am so sad for the victim and his family and have them all in my prayers and I'm willing to bet, so does the Banales family.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 449075 on June 6, 2008 at 1:56 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Banales was drunk with power. Now let us see if the law works on people that do not control their vehicle.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 248197 on June 6, 2008 at 2:04 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Notice the headlines? The judge's CAR hit the transportation worker, not the Judge.--Stop trying to over analyze the headline. That's probably how I would title it too and I don't even care about the Judge.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 233198 on June 6, 2008 at 2:16 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;OMG: The ignorance and small minds of some of you people...you have no idea what happened and are already throwing stones at the Judge...simply because he is a Judge....thugs....pfft.....get a life.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 329691 on June 6, 2008 at 2:29 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;The injured worker must be in real bad shape since he will be transferred to San Antonio according to an update. Hopefully the judge will have the decency to inquire or visit this poor man. Yeah! there is alot of concern about the judge forget about the worker who's on lifesupport. Why do they have to mention the judge's car model? Cadillac Deville/Camry/Jeep who cares what he drove, his car did the injuries. He better prepare himself for a lawsuit. Could be in his own courtroom. And those of you who are so concerned about all these negative blogs, it's called Freedom of Speech. Don't login!!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 236373 on June 6, 2008 at 2:34 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I heard he was on his wa y to Taqueria Garibaldi to catch the before dinner special.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 248197 on June 6, 2008 at 2:44 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;They always mention the types of cars in incidents like these. Don't over analyze it.&lt;br /&gt;And for goodness sakes, these are not blogs, these are just comments! A blog is different.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712998 on June 6, 2008 at 2:44 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;My prayers go out to the TxDOT worker, Judge Banales, &amp; both of their families.&lt;br /&gt;Instead of thinking the worst possible outcomes, we should all pray for the best in both recoveries!&lt;br /&gt;Also, we all should keep in mind accidents do happen, and knowing the Banales family, I know they all feel terrible for the accident that has occured. So out of respect, no one should express negative feelings towards the family during this time of suffering. Put yourself in his shoes, no way would this be an easy ordeal to cope with. Just think, if you were laying in a hospital bed with this accident weighing on your shoulders, you too would be looking for positive support!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 233198 on June 6, 2008 at 2:45 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;248197 haha you tell'em.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 444846 on June 6, 2008 at 2:58 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 233198&lt;br /&gt;Maybe, the judge was rushing home, after seeing you at your home. And thats why he was speeding. Maybe you need to get a grip.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 699733 on June 6, 2008 at 3:16 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 712985&lt;br /&gt;You are being very judgemental. Why don't you wait and see what the police find out in their investigation. After reading what might have happened, I think speed was the factor but we don't know for sure. Let us just wait and see and pray for both victims. I am sure the family of Judge Banales feel bad for the other victirm and his family. So, let us be nice about this and quit being so ugly about what might have happened. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED ACCIDENTS. Let us all pray that we are never in accidents.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711114 on June 6, 2008 at 3:39 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;How many "accidents" is Judge Banales entitled to be involved in before he is held accountable for his actions? I believe this is the second serious very questionable "accident" wherein someone was seriously hurt.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 704748 on June 6, 2008 at 4:35 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;hummm............how interesting. I just wonder, how is this going to get covered up???&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 703769 on June 6, 2008 at 4:59 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;he's a judge, trust me he will get out of this with no pain ($)&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 319029 on June 6, 2008 at 5:22 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Judge Banales, You may not remember me and I sure didn't know you outside of your "State Judge" license plates that morning on Alameda and Doddridge when you almost ran me over.&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps I can help you with your memory Judge Banales, I was starting to cross the street in the direction of Bank of America from Frost Bank when you made an illegal lane change from the through traffic lane to the turn lane, then ran the red light and almost hit me while I was in the crosswalk with a "WHITE CROSSWALK" light in my favor.&lt;br /&gt;You may not remember with all of this information since you sped around the corner chatting with who I assume was your wife. When I got home I told my wife the whole story of the guy with a mustache and judges license plates that almost hit me.&lt;br /&gt;I didn't know who you were until I saw your car on TV with the top cut open and you being carried away on a stretcher. If I were ever approached by law enforcement or an attorney I would be more than happy to relay my "experience" with your driving "under oath."&lt;br /&gt;In my brief contact with you that Saturday morning, I don't think you belong behind the wheel of a car and definitely not in a position of authority in our community. Yet you are a judge! Outrageous!&lt;br /&gt;I hope there is not another cover-up that is so common with investigations in Corpus Christi. My prayers are with that TEXDOT worker.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712731 on June 6, 2008 at 5:24 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I was on my balcony right in front of the freeway that the accident happened. The judge lost control from the lane going to Callalen. The truck was right in the middle of the 2 exits in the grass and as you all know that it is also an incline. He hit the truck and bounced away into the TXdot worker. To me it seemed like if he was driving faster than normal but I dont fully know what was happening on his end. I couldnt sleep last night after seeing that poor man get hit. My prayers go out to him and his family. The roof was only gone bc of the Jaws of Life. The whole driver side was smashed in the door almost literally fell off when they tried to open it. I think the judge was more concerned about that man bc they were talking to him than rushed to the TXdot worker. From there they attended to the worker first and almost 20 minutes later they took the judge out of his car into another stretcher.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711762 on June 6, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;My daughter passed the same place about 10 minutes before the accident and said the wind almost blew her car off the road. So that may may have been a cause along with speed.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 233198 on June 6, 2008 at 6:56 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I am just curious.....had he NOT been a Judge would you that are hating be hating? Would the headline had been "Factory Worker or Nurse or Secretary hit City Worker." We do not know the whole story, stop creating it! Also if you think our city is so bad that there is going to be a cover up.....then why don't you move, stop making yourself miserable....Go live in another town.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, I am sure the ones hating on him prolly are not on the right side of the law anyway, otherwise, why would they hate a Judge??&lt;br /&gt;You guys are making yourselves look small and ignorant. You seem to forget, there is a man in the hospital and a family who is hurting too, maybe you should be sending him wishes instead of throwing up all these possible ways the accident happend that you know nothing about, why give him more hatred to read they are already in enough pain!&lt;br /&gt;The lady on the Balcony: She saw the accident and did not even spew hatred, she came across very sympathedic and fair...try taking a cue from her!&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712918 on June 6, 2008 at 7:06 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;I drive that overpass to Calallen every day and it is very tricky, especially on windy days. Most people do not observe the speed limit, those that do either get tailgated or passed up. I believe the wind could have been a factor.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone should just stop with the public speculation of what happened and keep these gentlemen and their families in their prayers. Regardless of their profession, at this time they are two unfortunate human beings in need of everyone's prayers.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713008 on June 6, 2008 at 8:47 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 389468&lt;br /&gt;no&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713008 on June 6, 2008 at 8:51 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 401467&lt;br /&gt;he's a great judge&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713008 on June 6, 2008 at 9:01 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 240803&lt;br /&gt;i agree...everyone needs to pray for both parties. Leave these people alone...focus on healing, prayer and a happy ending ...lori&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713008 on June 6, 2008 at 9:08 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 233106&lt;br /&gt;yes there was a court manager under investigation but it wasn't judge banales court coordinater...and not in his court&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713008 on June 6, 2008 at 9:22 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 449075&lt;br /&gt;no he wasn't and you don't know my judge banales..stay focused on prayer and healing ...quick to judge...stay focused&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713008 on June 6, 2008 at 9:28 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 712918&lt;br /&gt;i agree...please pray for my judge and the other gentlemen in a positive recovery.....lori&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 237099 on June 6, 2008 at 9:40 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;RE: 712918&lt;br /&gt;He wasn't going towards Calallen - he was traveling on SH 358 and taking the ramp to go towards downtown. If the wind was a problem wouldn't there of been more cars being blown off the roadway-? WHY do you say everyone should STOP speculating on what happened when you yourself are doing the same.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712918 on June 6, 2008 at 10:22 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;In response to 237099:&lt;br /&gt;Read post 712731 (who witnessed the accident) and 711762. I'm not speculating why don't you try to read the posts again.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 712664 on June 6, 2008 at 10:42 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 274667&lt;br /&gt;That argument doesn't bear any logic.....&lt;br /&gt;keep the thought, raise you a clue.....&lt;br /&gt;Prayers to the TXDot employee and his family.&lt;br /&gt;Prayers to Judge Banales and his family.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 319029 on June 6, 2008 at 10:59 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;If anyone thinks that I'm saying this because he's a judge, just remember one thing. I'm sure the banks where I was almost hit by this so-called judge have surveillance camera systems, as does the Exxon gas station on the other corner.&lt;br /&gt;Some of you think judges and police chiefs should be held to the same standard as everyone else. Everyone "else" is not a judge or police chief. The low standards of Corpus Christi is what made it what it is today. It's not very pretty.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 254268 on June 7, 2008 at 2:12 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;He killed someone like 20 years ago. How pompous can you be to keep killing people and still get reelected and twist arms to have your wife elected?&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 710237 on June 7, 2008 at 4:42 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;in response to 235519&lt;br /&gt;Well, I think there is so much anomosity towards Judge Banales and of course his wife simply because how they attend to their work and positions. The issues about her moving county funds so her husband could redecorate his new office at City Hall, for him to encourage it, and for her to negotiate with the other commissioners behind the scenes when it came to the vote is the great distractor in all of this. This is what has turned many of the citizens off and this is why, unfortunately, people look upon the Judge and his wife with distrust and disgust. It did not bring out the best in us, I guess, and so people have made their feelings known which they have every right to do so.&lt;br /&gt;Had the Judge and his Commissioner wife handled the above affair differently and not felt so entitled as most citizens felt, I think there would be more compassion towards him. But, it's too late for that. It isn't always the "right way" to go about something when we feel we can control everything and see that we aren't breaking a guideline as in the case of the Judge's office. The Judge and his wife got what they wanted but look at what cost it took on them. I bet they don't feel it was worth it now but this is a lesson to be learned by all public officials.&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I agree, we need to nevertheless pray for everyone. My heart really goes out to Manuel Garcia, the worker, and his family. I am sure this is one of the most horrible events in their life. I am sorry they have to experience it. I am so sorry it had to happen...I am sure the Judge and his wife wished they could control something like this as well as they controlled redecorating the Judge's office.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 709654 on June 7, 2008 at 8:08 a.m.&lt;br /&gt;Uh-oh.&lt;br /&gt;Clear day. No road hazards. No inclement weather conditions. We've all seen the posted signs concerning "workers ahead". Ramps, and their posted signs.&lt;br /&gt;BIG trucks moved 50-yards by mid-sized cars. And not only moved, but pushed up an embankment at that. PUSHED UP. That children takes some hella pushin' by a much lighter object striking a much heavier stationary object. If you think not, try finding a person about 3 x's your body-weight and striking them with enough force to move them roughly 10 feet.Some of you would do well to consult Newton's Laws as well as bone up on such things like Force, Resistance and other saiient matters&lt;br /&gt;If it were me I'd better be hoping like HELL a stroke or heart attack was something it could be pinned on because anything otherwise I'd likely be going on vacation to Hotel Huntsville.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 699936 on June 7, 2008 at 10:24 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;There is a fund for the txdot workers family to help with expenses while he is in the hospital. Navy Army credit union for txdot employee Martin Garcia. thank you and god bless everyone involved in this accident.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 711760 on June 8, 2008 at 6:17 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Its sad how he will probably get away with this because of his position. And as far as everyone standing up for him and the sherriff that is just crazy. I chanllenge everyone and the MEDIA to look into a sherriff deputy with the last name of Solis getting terminated because of a vehicle accident. Why doesnt he get the same treatment. Lets see how far this gets and that will show how the system is when even media keeps quiet about some of this stuff.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 459106 on June 8, 2008 at 8:33 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Okay everyone, there are 3 possible reasons, 1. alcohol related, 2. using the cell phone and not paying attention or 3. Speeding, of which he is known to do quite often. He will not admit to speeding or using the cell phone, so people, don't expect a confession from him. There are ways to find out how fast he was going, or should I say estimate of speed, but what I heard, that is no longer revelent, that law suddenly changed the day of this accident. Mr. Banales, I have seen you at the church driving out of the parking lot like a bat out of hell quite a few times. Tell me Mr. Banales, if you did not have any alcohol in your system, good, but why would you run over this man? Were you going too fast to react and avoid him. Were you distracted by the cell phone, or were you just not paying attention? Will you admit to any of this? I think you should, because if not, that means you did it on purpose? I hope I am wrong, but it has to be one of these 3. You have gone through that route many times, you know that you have to slow down, why did'nt you? Being that you are a judge, you will get away with this, there is no doubt in my mind. I have seen it way too many times in my lifetime. You may be a law abiding citizen and a good judge, but you are human and can make mistakes just like everyone else. So be a man and tell the public the real truth, after all, is'nt that what you ask of the clients, be honest, truthful? Think about it everyone, there is no other explanation, if you have one, let all of us know. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the judge, but he almost killed a man because of his negligence.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 243116 on June 8, 2008 at 10:14 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;As all of you may understand, accidents are just that 'Accidents'. There is a lot of speculation as to the cause of the accident. Our main focus should be on the health and welfare of those involved. As a long-time friend of Martin, I hold no ill will towards the judge. Two families were affected. In retrospect, I just wished that there was just a little more coverage on Martin Garcia as there was on Judge Banales in the beginning. I just pray that everything comes out okay for all involved.Additionally, I don't make it my business to solicit donations but there is a fund already established for Martin as posted earlier. For those who are not fully aware, there is a long and painful road to recovery that lies ahead for him and his family. For those who can, please take a moment to donate. Thank you in advance for your prayers and compassion.&lt;br /&gt;Martin Garcia Fundc/o Navy Army Federal Credit UnionP.O. Box 81349Corpus Christi, TX 78468-1349&lt;br /&gt;God Bless Martin and his family through this difficult time.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713037 on June 8, 2008 at 10:33 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Judge Banales gave me 60 years in prison for a crime....yes he is known to be a harsh man when it comes to the law. However, this same man after 6 years of recieving my letters and those of my wife, he reduced my sentence to 10 years. I am now with my family again. I wish for the best possible outcome for the victim and the Judge. Let us show a little compassion instead of finger pointing with upturned noses.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713038 on June 8, 2008 at 11:25 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Prior motor vehicle to pedestrian collision with Judge Banales happened August 20, 1990. Struck a mentally challenged individual. Also on this present accident it is getting around the medical community that no blood alcohol or drug test was done and the media was told it was. Very bad if true.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713038 on June 8, 2008 at 11:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Apparently if this was an accident why was the DPS given the case and Carlos Valdez is running for cover? If this was an accident why weren't alcohol specimens and drug specimens allegedly not drawn? Why was the briefcase Banales had retrieved by a retired DPS officer instead of being part of the investigation? Why was the press told specimens were taken? Why havent the press told anyone about the August 20, 1990 car accident where he struck a homeless and mentally challenged individual. People need to look closer. This is the second serious hit by him. Where are the blood specimens? The "DPS" is backlogged. Yeah, right. The results will never come out because 98 percent chance they never drew it. Medical community is buzzing about this. Seriously.&lt;br /&gt;Reply to this Post Suggest removal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 713038 on June 8, 2008 at 11:37 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by 233198 on June 6, 2008 at 2:16 p.m:Who do you think you are presuming that the people writing these comments are thugs. Do you in your small mind even begin to comprehend that there is a coverup by the media, sugarcoating and spinning the Judges way, "The car hit the man", "the car swerved off the road". "the car lost control". Wise up and go ask for the police report on August 20, 1990. There will be a big surprise if the accident report is on file which it should be. The circumstances behind that report are very, very suspicious. He struck and seriously injured another man on that date. Do you know that? Who is calling who a thug? I think the word croney best fits you my friend. My prayers are with the poor man who is going to have to undergo surgery to his crushed pelvis and has to have a bag to evacuate out of and is being transferred to get rehabiliation. Remember, he has struck and hurt another and there is also something I heard about a shooting when Banales was in college. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:48 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;LATEST ON BANALES DRUG AND ALCOHOL SPECIMENS &lt;br /&gt;A leak somewhere in the Memorial system reveals that a few people up the chain were questioning why a specimen was not drawn and why an E.R. doctor on duty did not order the specimen of alcohol and drugs on Judge Banales in this serious accident which according to some most law enforcment and medical people is mandatory. We are confirming whether or not this is true and if the "backlog" excuse by DPS is just an excuse. The lab result takes a few minutes and the hospital could run it in half an hour. I hope they didn't thrown away his blood in his sneaked out discharge from the hospital. THE DEFENZOR SMELLS COVERUP. CALLER TIMES, TV STATIONS, RADIO, BLOGGERS, DEMAND THE RESULTS OF THE LAB BE MADE PUBLIC. THE GARCIA FAMILY (WE HEARD YOU HAVE AN ATTORNEY-DO NOT LET THEM SELL YOU OUT! MOST LAWYERS ARE AFRAID OF BANALES AND HIS CRONEYS!!!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE DEFENZOR WILL CONTINUE ITS INVESTIGATION AND BRING THE TRUTH OUT. IF THE FOOLS TRY TO SUPPRESS MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT, LET THEM COME. I BACK UP MY POSTS WITH HARDHITTING INFORMATION WHICH IS KNOWN AND VERIFIABLE AND NOTHING IS MADE UP EXAGGERATED OR IN MY BELIEF NOT TRUE OR DONE TO HURT BANALES, BUT ONLY TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THEIR CRONEYS ACCOUNTABLE..&lt;br /&gt;HV &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 11:36 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;BANALES ABOVE THE LAW, SPOHN AND DPS DO NOT TAKE BLOOD TO CHECK FOR BLOOD AND ALCOHOL &lt;br /&gt;El Defenzor has learned that blood alcohol and drug specimens were indeed NOT TAKEN FROM MAXIMUM MANUEL BANALES. Is this justice? Anyone else who hit and injured a man so severely would have immediately been tested? IS MAXIMUM MANUEL ABOVE THE LAW? Why has DPS taken over the investigation from CCPD? Why did a retired DPS officer come and take Banales' briefcase from DPS? Why did Sheriff Kaelin, former DPS, come out on TV so concerned about Maximum Banales. Why has the media failed to disclose that BAnales had hurt a mentally challenged man with his car on August 20, 1990? Why were the circumstances of that investigation so suspicious? Why was Mike Hummel his prosecutor called to the scene of that accident? NOW THE DEFENZOR IS GATHERING INFORMATIN THAT IN COLLEGE MAXIMUM MANUEL MAY HAVE TAKEN SOMEONE'S LIFE "ACCIDENTALLY". MORE TO COME. &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 9:01 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;BANALES HIT SOMEONE BEFORE. QUESTIONABLE INVESTIGATION. POSSIBLE COVERUP. &lt;br /&gt;For the blogger who accused the Defenzor of having not a shred of proof on Banales:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Hit a man before on Leopard on August 20, 1990.&lt;br /&gt;2) Initial Police Report blamed him, final report which was only one believed to be preserved shows that they blamed a retarded man for the accident.&lt;br /&gt;3) Superior officer arrived on the scene and told investigating policeman to leave. Window up on Banales car. refused to get out of car. Mike Hummel, now councilman Hummel, was Banales prosecutor came to the rescue and got him out of there (IS THIS REGULAR PROCEDURE?) QUESTION ON ALCOHOL EXISTS. Attempting to get police report which should be a matter of public record.&lt;br /&gt;4) One witness for Banales, a man named Barrientos, (used conveniently on police report) other man against Banales saying he blew the red light named Francisco Ramirez (at the time from Robstown) says Banales was doing a high rate of speed, blew the light and struck the pedestrian who was a mentally retarded man trying to lawfully cross the street. MISSING PRELIMINARY POLICE REPORT.&lt;br /&gt;5) Darrel Barger, Banales controller was the lawyer for Banales.&lt;br /&gt;6) The car that struck the man repaired within a few days and not preserved as evidence.&lt;br /&gt;7) Vitim was Francisco Ramon Pena.&lt;br /&gt;8) Final report, believed to be part of the coverup accused the pedestrian of walking outside the cross area&lt;br /&gt;9) Confidential Settlement reached with family&lt;br /&gt;10) State Farm insurance with the adjuster being Tom Rivera, a family member of Augustin Rivera, who worked for Darrel Bargers Firm (can we smell conflict?)&lt;br /&gt;11) Attorney for the family a Mr. Butler.&lt;br /&gt;12) Two investigators who worked the case. One was since found dead named Ms. DeYounger after having knowledge in the Fernandez /Miflin Kenedy case overseen by Banales. Believed to have been found dead in her bathtub from drowning.&lt;br /&gt;13) Attorney contacted Defenzor and stated Mr. Barger said he did not have a chance against him in front of Judge Banales.&lt;br /&gt;14) Barger in on huge class action law suit representing HR BLOCK and attorneys from "The Club" here in Corpus including Hilliard and Sico supposedly settled a great deal of cases. Near the time or shortly after settlment Mr. Barger does a massive renovation of his home. (FISHY?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ladies and gentleman, why wasn't his disclosed to the public by the mainstream media, that he had struck another man in the past? MORE TO COME. EL DEFENZOR &lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 8:49 PM 0 comments  &lt;br /&gt;Older Posts Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-4128246458634896264?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4128246458634896264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=4128246458634896264' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/4128246458634896264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/4128246458634896264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/06/look-out-manuel-banalesel-defenzor-is.html' title='LOOK OUT MANUEL BANALES!!!EL DEFENZOR IS BAAAAAAAAAACK! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3780023577652164416</id><published>2008-06-09T22:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T22:36:12.393-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ONE THING TO SAY: EL DEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM SAYS IT ALL</title><content type='html'>I was in semi-coma watching TV in my semi-retired state and heard about none other than Homero the Animal Villarreal come out of his Alice Catharsis to bring out the truth about the turd in the punchbowl known as Maximum Manuel Banales. This guy is as bad as they come. Let me crack my knuckles and join the fray. Kenedeno, put down your favorite beverage and help me only the way you can. I am putting out the blog signal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me research as well and my two cents on to maximum manuel and his search for untruth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A.P.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3780023577652164416?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3780023577652164416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3780023577652164416' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3780023577652164416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3780023577652164416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/06/one-thing-to-say-el-defenzorblogspotcom.html' title='ONE THING TO SAY: EL DEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM SAYS IT ALL'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-8057052849825865456</id><published>2008-04-13T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T15:48:03.844-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The American Prince is Back and brought the Royals</title><content type='html'>Welcome my friends to the Show that never ends.  Last we left off, the struggle for power between the Economic Development Corporation and the Solomonistas continue...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, Celis has his back against the wall and is fighting now that Carlos Valdez has reconvened the Grand Jury but is doing so with a lot of heart...Many say Celis should have stuck with guys who were tight with CArlos Valdez and taken a slap on the wrist, but noooooo, ego and money over brains for that Mexicano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damon Bentley framing Terry Carter and saying he is cooking the books, but others say he is overcompensating for a naked girlfriend running into a Stripes convenience store and he is Celis in hot pursuit...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rene Rodriguez is back from retirement and looking for payback against Tony Canales. First he is suing Albert Huerta, his son, Tony Calderon and rumor has it has subpoenaed the world and is in full force as the Kukuoy. Attaboy. As you may recall Canales went after Rodriguez 4 years ago as payback for making his daughter lose the State Senate seat Chuy Hinojosa is in and for also making comments that Tony should hide in a closet during the campaign. Now also, rumor has it that Rodriguez is suing Canales on behalf of a guy losing his leg. What's next, a lawsuit entitled  Rene Rodriguez vs The World? And Tony Canales also forgot one thing...Rene has a son who is plotting a generational feud...  More to come...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes the American Prince OR SHOULD WE SAY PRINCESSES AND PRINCES(10 or more people are the prince and have free access to post for you haters and morons and simpletons out there) AND WILL BE SHARING ALL THE DETAILS WE HAVE. NO ADVERTISING OR PAYOUTS OR BRIBES, or lawyers, or politicians HERE LIKE THE RAGS OUT THERE. This is the internet baby. Post what you like, say what you want (within reason and no threats to hurt anyone like some heavy handed thugs have done) and we will all get along fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE AMERICAN ROYAL FAMILY&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-8057052849825865456?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8057052849825865456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=8057052849825865456' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8057052849825865456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8057052849825865456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/04/american-prince-is-back-and-brought.html' title='The American Prince is Back and brought the Royals'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-5183709452818382593</id><published>2008-03-20T21:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-20T21:48:58.203-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GET THE REAL STORY ON ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM</title><content type='html'>GET THE REAL STORY ON ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM. WE ARE ASKING MR. VILLARREAL PERMISSION TO REPRINT HIS BLOG CONTENT.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-5183709452818382593?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5183709452818382593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=5183709452818382593' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5183709452818382593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5183709452818382593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-real-story-on-eldefenzorblogspotcom.html' title='GET THE REAL STORY ON ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-1613882863870532670</id><published>2008-03-05T22:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-05T22:55:44.775-08:00</updated><title type='text'>from EL DEFENZOR: REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. LATEST LAWYER SCANDAL.</title><content type='html'>REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM EL DEFENZOR BLOG:&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, March 5, 2008&lt;br /&gt;ITS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN FOR MORE LAWYERS!!!! &lt;br /&gt;GO TO NUECES COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND PICK YOURSELF UP A COPY OF THE LATEST DIRT TO ROCK CORPUS CHRISTI. WATTS AND HUERTA. READ ALL ABOUT IT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cause No. 08-486-B(NUECES COUNTY COURTHOUSE PUBLIC RECORD): PHOEBE MARIE ARRIAGA VS JOSEPH HUERTA, THE HUERTA LAW FIRM, L.L.P. and EVIDENT MUSIC GROUP (defendants) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACTS&lt;br /&gt;On or about September 27, 2007, Tony Calderon, President of Evident Music&lt;br /&gt;Group, invited Plaintiff to audition at a private party in Corpus Christi, Texas. Plaintiff was told that because of her extraordinary voice, she could be one of Evident Music Group’s singing artists. Tony Calderon, Albert Huerta and Defendant Joseph Huerta told Plaintiff that she could become one of Evident Music Group’s artist only if she agreed to let Joseph Huerta become her manager.............&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EMAILED FROM A HEADING CALLED "THE BAY AREA CITIZEN SICK OF LAWSUIT ABUSE"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS STUFF IS BETTER THAN TV. I'M GOING DOWN FOR A COPY OF THE LAWSUIT TOMORROW. JAIME YOU DO THE SAME!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at 10:45 PM&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-1613882863870532670?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1613882863870532670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=1613882863870532670' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1613882863870532670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1613882863870532670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/from-el-defenzor-reprinted-with.html' title='from EL DEFENZOR: REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. LATEST LAWYER SCANDAL.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-1673637069166721202</id><published>2008-03-04T07:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T07:20:43.871-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AG HALTS PROSECUTION OF CELIS. POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS CONFIRMED</title><content type='html'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE&lt;br /&gt;February 29, 2008&lt;br /&gt;Contact: Jason Stanford&lt;br /&gt;(512) 619-5756&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AG¹S OFFICE ASKS TO HALT STATE¹S CASE AGAINST CELIS&lt;br /&gt;Celis Points to Unexpected Motion As Proof of Political Smear Campaign&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Travis County District Court judge on Tuesday granted a motion filed by&lt;br /&gt;Attorney General Greg Abbot¹s office asking to halt proceedings in its&lt;br /&gt;lawsuit against Mauricio Celis.  Earlier this week the AG¹s office requested&lt;br /&gt;an abatement in the case, citing its desire ³to preserve state resources.²&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Celis, a prominent contributor to state Democratic causes, pointed to&lt;br /&gt;the unexpected motion as further proof that the Republican Attorney&lt;br /&gt;General¹s Office had used the suit to mount a politically-motivated media&lt;br /&gt;campaign against him. The state sued Celis in Oct. 2007, claiming he had&lt;br /&gt;engaged in deceptive business practices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;³Why is it that the AG¹s office thought this case was so extremely urgent&lt;br /&gt;when it was making headlines, but is suddenly willing to postpone it now&lt;br /&gt;that the focus is elsewhere?² asked Phyllis Pollard, Mr. Celis¹ attorney.&lt;br /&gt;³All this about wanting to save resources¹ is a cop out. They certainly&lt;br /&gt;weren¹t worried about wasting taxpayer money when they first filed their&lt;br /&gt;complaint.²&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The state¹s motion to stay the proceedings, which was filed on Feb. 26,&lt;br /&gt;asked for the abatement ³in order to most efficiently and effectively pursue&lt;br /&gt;the aims of consumer protection.²&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;³Greg Abbot¹s purpose in this all along has been to get Mr. Celis¹ name in&lt;br /&gt;the news and smear a politically-connected Democrat.  Now that he believes&lt;br /&gt;he¹s done that, the case itself is simply no longer a priority.  The&lt;br /&gt;Attorney General should be held accountable for exploiting the courts as a&lt;br /&gt;means to carry out his party¹s political agenda,² Ms. Pollard said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday¹s ruling suspended all deadlines and put a stop to discovery in the&lt;br /&gt;Celis case for a period of at least ten months, or until the resolution of&lt;br /&gt;legal proceedings currently pending against Mr. Celis in Nueces County.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-1673637069166721202?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1673637069166721202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=1673637069166721202' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1673637069166721202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1673637069166721202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/ag-halts-prosecution-of-celis-political.html' title='AG HALTS PROSECUTION OF CELIS. 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7046237411301038820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7046237411301038820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/lencho-dictator-rendon.html' title=''/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-8364083839749715192</id><published>2008-03-03T13:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T23:41:50.330-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Many in Alice state David has finally crossed the line. But in a straw poll taken the numbers clearly reflect it is likely Terrell will win yet again (63 percent Terrell 37 percen to Towler).  Towler better fold up his tent along with his croney lawyers who openly supported him.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-8133417109017431133?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8133417109017431133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=8133417109017431133' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8133417109017431133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8133417109017431133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/jim-wells-county-mudslinging-towler.html' title='JIM WELLS COUNTY MUDSLINGING: TOWLER HITS BELOW THE BELT AGAINST JUDGE TERRELL'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-581297257613478497</id><published>2008-02-29T17:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T23:42:26.368-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-581297257613478497?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/581297257613478497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=581297257613478497' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/581297257613478497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/581297257613478497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/joe-benavides-defeats-peggy-banales-in.html' title=''/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-8550607678419479734</id><published>2008-02-28T23:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-28T23:03:01.132-08:00</updated><title type='text'>REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION: EL DEFENZOR: SHAMSIE AND RENDON'S TROJAN HORSE</title><content type='html'>SHAMSIE AND RENDON'S TROJAN HORSE &lt;br /&gt;THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: THE TROJAN HORSE&lt;br /&gt;INVADES ROBSTOWN AND IS LAUNCHED FROM MCKENZIE ROAD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As election seasons go, this shall be one that will not only be memorable for the predicted turnout, but also for the history making event of an African-American and female candidate. Local elections shall be effected by the increased turn out and Texas is a key state in deciding who shall be the most powerful person in the world. Unfortunately, along with the positive and the exciting changes that develop during the political season, the self-serving and those that crave absolute power make themselves known. El Defenzor offers up this opinion-editorial as food for thought for the South Texas voters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE TROJAN HORSE OF ROBSTOWN: Whispers have turned into shouts of discontent as the Rendon-Shamsie machine has openly sought to usurp and control all of Robstown and the northwest side. The Hillary Clinton visit was a very clear example. Both Shamsie and Rendon orchestrated the event down Terry Shamsie Boulevard. A little girl from our humble neighborhood of Casablanca in Robstown excitedly and anxiously awaited Senator Clinton’s arrival in order to present her with flowers. This was not to be. According to eyewitnesses and the little girl’s family, in a blatantly political move, Shamsie and his group TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO BESTOW FLOWERS UPON SENATOR CLINTON WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE LITTLE GIRL so his daughter could present them to the Senator. Lencho Rendon, a once behind the scenes person for U.S. Congressman Solomon Ortiz, now is heavy handedly displaying his power and navigated the events, the media coverage and the access to the who, where and why of the Clinton visit(s). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many in Robstown are beginning to piece together that the Clinton visit was used as a Trojan horse to begin to fully develop the seeds that have been planted during Terry Shamsies one and only term in office where his detractors indicate he was voted in as a Democrat and was clearly a ultra conservative Republican in the way he conducted business. In some areas he cut the Nueces County Budget to the bone and in other areas such as highway work to Dos Logistics and other choice contractors’ jobs were given liberally which has earned Shamsie not only a street named after him in Robstown, but also a new job as an accountant and “consultant” for the huge dollars such as the 20 million dollar school budget. Was Shamsie’s disappearance temporarily from political life a farce to gain even more power? No doubt that is why the Solomonistas, Rendon and Shamsie are lavishing support upon Peggy Banales. It is well-known that Banales awarded Robstown many Nueces County tax dollars over her own constituents on the west side of Corpus Christi and the Calallen area. Lest we not forget Shamsie resides down McKenzie road in Banales’ district and is whispered to have clandestine meetings there to launch the Trojan Horse. It is also known that Ruben Bonilla is angered by the votes that Banales gave on the port location and the large amount of money that Rendon and his newly minted company L.R. Global being managed by a close relative Joseph Ramirez, stand to make off the port business coming from Robstown. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHERE IS THE MONEY INSIDE THE TROJAN HORSE GOING?&lt;br /&gt;El Defenzor wishes to underline that much of this information is public knowledge and of public record if one only looks deep enough regarding the Trojan Horse. FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL. It would be naïve to think that those in power should not take care of their own, but to use a presidential candidate to push an agenda denigrates the political process and proves the theory that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Trojan horse is not only through Hillary Clinton but also through Bill Clinton. The dollars are definitely flowing to the usual politiceras and their minions who are pushing hard for Hillary Clinton as the dollars flow. Former President Clinton is making yet another visit here in South Texas the day before the election. His visit again is theorized to be pushed by Lencho Rendon. In fact the Caller Times alluded to L.R. Global (Lencho Rendon) coordinating this effort. Many of the “old guard” in the Democratic party such as Jesse Soto of A Plus Printing have openly stated on TV that Hispanics “no vota por un negro” (won’t vote for a negro). Soto is a staunch Solomonista and Lencho Rendon supporter and is known and respected as a long-time politico but many were outraged and Connie Gutierrez on the Lopez family station KTMV was quick to water down Soto’s remark by saying it was experience not skin color was why she was supporting Hillary Clinton. Can we unring the bell? Still more troubling is that older Hispanics seem to be spewing out hate speech against Obama: An elderly Hispanic woman in Dallas echoed the same sentiment and stated that the one thing Obama had against him was that he was black! Are we as Hispanics, once the weakest minority, now being prejudice in turn as we have been discriminated against in the past? Is the oppressed now becoming the oppressor? Clearly, Senator Clinton has denounced these acts on TV but didn’t’ her husband the former president a month ago indicate that race was an issue? The Clinton camp would be wise to truly understand that those they have employed and are associated with have caused seeds of discontent in the Democratic party for years as well as those politiceras who have fractured that very party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTIMIDATION OF EL DEFENZOR AND SEEKING OF POWER OVER ROBSTOWN: &lt;br /&gt;When the Defenzor brought out these issues on 104.9 and 93.5 FM on El Defenzor Radio a few days ago, an attempted intimidation tactic was used. Lencho Rendon through intermediaries from the school board and elsewhere used the “carrot and the stick” to attempt to bottle up El Defenzor Radio. All they accomplished was proving that once independent minded people in Robstown including a school board member are on the verge of succumbing to the Trojan horse and are in danger of selling their soul and becoming co-opted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When individuals like Shamsie and Rendon do not share power or opportunity and attempt to intimidate or co-opt individuals in the Hispanic community, it only saddens me all the more. It reminds me that despite 50 years of struggle for equal rights, all we are doing is replacing one white patron for another. As you may recall, it was Vicente Carranza, a former media heavyweight, who pushed for Shamsie to be elected and “hispanicized” him and inoculated the community with Shamsie in 2001 and 2002. As our readers may also recall sadly and unfortunately, Carranza for years led the Hispanic vote on KUNO and later failed in his attempt to crossover to English media in the now defunct Air America led by ultraliberal John Kelley. Carranza heavily campaigned for Shamsie and remains loyal to him to this day. If asked today many would not even realize that Shamsie was a Muslim and was elected in a time (2002) when Muslims were being seen negatively in the media after 9-11. Shamsie played down his affiliation with Islam and played up his marriage to a popular Hispanic judge Nannette Hassette. He was also helped out by the then “Kingmaker” Rene Rodriguez. It is rumored that he stepped down from power because of Rene Rodiguez’ stepping out of the spotlight after his much publicized battle with Tony Canales and when the fellow Kingmaker Fil Vela went to the Republican party. Without the twin pillars of power he once had, Shamsie knew he had to step down. But now he has come back and is seeking not political but permanent power in Robstown riding shamelessly on the coattails of Lencho Rendon. Some would argue he is doing an impeccable job and has many favors owed to him by Robstown. The question remains how long will the people of Robstown and of Nueces County and all of South Texas stomach this vulgar display of power that has been unleashed through this Trojan horse?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE EDC AND RENDON/SHAMSIE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Trojan Horse is being used to further agendas in Robstown and parts in between, so has the power of the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation grown (EDC). Many know of the strong business interests at stake such as the publisher of the Caller Times, heavyweight businessman such as Dusty Durrill and Joe Fulton who have wielded power in South Texas for a long time. Many of the citizens in South Texas do not understand the absolute power that the EDC has in many factions and the disdain they have for the Rendon/Shamsie Trojan horse. It is whispered that the EDC may flex its muscle and usurp the fledgling power that is growing in the Trojan horse. Still others in the EDC and in the know indicate that because the Trojan Horse-Rendon/Shamsie’s powerbase comes from the Solomonistas they are doomed to make the same mistakes as their mentors who have never had a clear media force and have never been inclusive in their power. Their “clica” has always been very stingy with sharing power and has been too closeknit, whereas the EDC have welcomed Hispanics, blacks and business owners from all walks of life in its fold. Some argue that because of this openness the EDC has thrived and has its fingers in many economic pies and has become so powerful that those who challenge the EDC do so at their peril. Be it remember that the EDC finds its roots deep and well nourished from the days of the late and revered Hayden Head, Sr who was the quintessential “gringo patron” who’s power echoes to this day through the EDC and American Bank. From the port to the media the EDC has gained ultimate and conglomerated power in the last several years and has built an invisible steel mesh over all of South Texas that is unbreakable. Some see it as a new world order in South Texas and a microcosm of the military-industrial complex. It remains to be seen if the EDC shall scratch the Trojan horse that itches its hide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOW WILL THE TROJAN HORSE-EDC POWER STRUGGLE EFFECT THE ELECTIONS?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing is clear: The power struggle within the Democratic party is one in which the Trojan Horse-Shamsie/Rendon machine are attempting to dominate and exercise complete control and whatever power, however temporary they have, they will not share. The support they have for Hillary Clinton may be backfiring: One example is a man in Robstown who wished to remain anonymous who said: “If Shamsie and Rendon are pushing her I will vote for Obama. Look at the money being poured into those people, look at the consultants who are pushing her: The same people who give me a bad taste in my mouth about the Democratic party here and it reminds me of why the Democratic party is always fighting-because of those same people who are just looking to line their pockets and don’t give a damn about who is President or not”. Locally, many democrats are rejecting the past political set up where politiceros praised or blasted someone (depending on who was paying them) and are voting their conscience. Although the Obama turn out was not as packed as the Hillary turnout, there remains many who are confident that Obama will win. The Trojan Horse supported Peggy Banales over Rendon’s former aide de camp Joe Benavides who helped Solomon Ortiz could be a costly mistake. If we remember in the not so distant past, Rendon backed Pete Alvarez in a race which led to humiliation for Rendon and the daughter of Solomon Ortiz when Alvarez endorsed a republican after losing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Rendon and his close relative Joseph Ramirez back Banales over Joe Benavides. Will their help and the close affinity to the Robstown deals affect Banales’ campaign negatively? As her campaign has been rocked by question after question of why she 1) voted for measures such as having taxpayers give her husband Judge Banales an extra $140,000.00 office, 2) why she voted for measures to enrich Robstown’s economic development and helping commissioner Oscar Ortiz and 3) why she voted for nothing but projects in Robstown when her own constituents economic development in Tulosa, Calallen, Annaville and the west side grew less than single digits. Will she be able to survive when she steered her vote against her precinct’s best interests and will it cripple her and cause her to become a one term commissioner? Time will tell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EL DEFENZOR WILL NOT BE BOTTLED UP BY THE TROJAN HORSE:&lt;br /&gt;Those who speak out against them like the Editor-in-Chief of Defenzor get paid social calls to remind them that either take the carrot (money) or the stick (threats and intimidation). I say NEITHER. Many have accused El Defenzor of taking money for stories. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. The truth of the matter is that machines like the Solomonistas and the TROJAN HORSE do not respect alternative media and are shortsighted in their treatment of humble alternative media. The thinly veiled contempt is masked by the pittance they attempt to throw out for advertising dollars. The hypocrisy in the media is that no one questions the ABSOLUTE POWER that the EDC has over the Caller Times that even Hispanic leaders (Nancy Vera from LULAC) have been used by the Caller Times to endorse the paper. But remember that nothing gets published without the consent of a powerful EDC member who happens to be the publisher of the Caller Times! (Patrick Birmingham). When El Defenzor speaks the truth in blogs, radio, TV and the newspaper it is with a carrot or a stick that we are confronted: IF we take advertising dollars which are the lifeblood of any newspaper in this day and age we are accused falsely of being co-opted, if we refuse we are reactionary. El Defenzor will not bow down to these attacks, or threats or intimidation and if anything, will launch a full investigation on the Trojan Horse’s activities in the past, present and future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOMERO VILLARREAL&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-8550607678419479734?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8550607678419479734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=8550607678419479734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8550607678419479734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8550607678419479734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/reprinted-with-permission-el-defenzor.html' title='REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION: EL DEFENZOR: SHAMSIE AND RENDON&apos;S TROJAN HORSE'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-253731002426251060</id><published>2008-02-25T22:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-25T22:56:26.922-08:00</updated><title type='text'>EL DEFENZOR ELECTION DAY ARTICLE: REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION</title><content type='html'>POLITICS HEATING UP IN SOUTH TEXAS- PRIMARY MARCH 4, 2008:&lt;br /&gt;An Analysis by Homero Villarreal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE WOES IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:Over the last few weeks it has been increasingly clear that the events of the last few months have affected the political currents in the sea of trouble we know as South Texas politics.  The push by Republicans to overrun the Democratic controlled Coastal Bend is not a new political theory. The Defenzor was first to bring out the political genius of Filemon B. Vela, Jr. His Machiavellian style at politics raised the hackles of many in the Democratic party but also caused a paradigm shift in the thinking of those individuals in the Hispanic community who would argue that the Democratic party itself has not been effective. Democrats have voiced their displeasure over the ineffectiveness (some would say deliberate of Alex Garcia as Democratic chair that has created vulnerability to Republican overrun and therefore multiple candidates have placed their name on the ballot to run). Some believe that Vela is acting only for political gain and for power but the intelligence and constant pressure that he has exhibited in the local, state and national level certainly belies the theory that it is “one man acting alone”. Vela is reportedly spending his time split between South Texas and Washington, D.C.  As the Defenzor reported it was he that is backing Connie Scott in her race against Abel Herrero. Scott is reportedly a major player in tort reform and her husband has very close ties with U.S. Senator John Cornyn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAURICIO CELIS FACTOR:  Another development since October of 2007 which has caused an upheaval in the Democratic party is the indictment of Mauricio Celis. As the Defenzor has argued on television shows such as South Texas Crossfire and on Attorney Mark DiCarlo’s show Voices of the Coastal Bend on the Access Channel,  we firmly believe that Celis has become a target for the ultraconservative and extreme factions of the Republican party who will stop at nothing to prevent heavy campaign donors from aiding the Democratic party. Regardless of the merit of any civil suits the Defenzor has made the argument that the criminal charges for Celis are entrenched in the purpose of humiliating, dehumanizing and taken the power of one of the most powerful and generous contributors to the Democratic party away. It is a very methodical game plan in that if you target someone like Celis you will also affect those who he gave campaign contributions too.  We make no comment on the validity or the right and wrong of the charges leveled against him but we do bring out the fact that politics has much to do with who is prosecuted and who is not in the Coastal Bend by Carlos Valdez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF NUECES COUNTY CARLOS VALDEZ:  Defenzor Radio on FM 93.5 at 1pm weekdays has the last few months brought about awareness that many who have been indicted or who have been prosecuted were at the discretion of Carlos Valdez. Valdez is best known for his prosecution of the Yolanda Saldivar who was convicted of killing the Tejano icon Selena in 1995.  Valdez has held his post and his political powerbase (along with his “court” at Garibaldi’s restaurant here in Corpus Christi) much in part due to the prosecutions which he has made that some whisper are often politically motivated. One of which was the questionable prosecution and revival of charges of a certain dance instructor a few months ago who stood in the way of  one of his crony’s land deal.  Valdez has been D.A. well into his second decade and many question why he has been unopposed for so long. Some would argue that is a reign instead of a political seat. Valdez walks a tightrope with the Mauricio Celis case where if he wins he will gain more political power and will vanquish an opponent where there is no love lost in Tony Canales. Many believe that Celis’ choice of attorney’s may affect the state prosecution of the case and his original choice of Rene Rodriguez and Ron Barossa would have made the criminal charges go away with a slap on the wrist. Still others believe that the hardnosed style and trial abilities of Tony Canales will carry the day. The net effect is that Celis has become a political target and political football in an election  year where votes and crossover votes from the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle matter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ORTIZ, JR., HERRERO AND GARCIA: THE THREE AMIGOS:  All three state representatives have pulled opponents and both Ortiz and Herrero have been mobilizing for attacks. The Defenzor has heard concerns by Hispanic voters who claim to have saved Juan Garcia in his struggle to achieve victory over Gene Seamen of not “working in our interests and not being seen around”. It is whispered that he may be considered for a federal cabinet position if his good friend and law schoolmate Barack Obama wins the presidential election and this may or may not have distracted Mr. Garcia. One thing is clear, in Todd Hunter, the former representative of district 32, there is no easy win. Hunter is reaching out to both sides of the aisle and has been seen in the company of ultraliberal John Kelley at reportedly highbrow establishments such as the Town Club here in Corpus Christi.  Such alliances could pull liberal and socialist leaning voters over to Hunter but that is unlikely and may lead to confusion in the Democratic party and resentment for Kelley openly associating with Republicans such as Hunter over Juan Garcia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GREENWELL: In the judge races the sole Republican District Judge Tom Greenwell is in a political minefield.  Greenwell is embroiled in the Celis case and though he withdrew himself twice for presiding over the case and  it was he who allowed the search and seizure as Tony Canales called it.  Greenwell held that the warrant was valid despite Canales’ arguments that it was a “fishing expedition” by the Attorney General and Carlos Valdez.  As readers will recall Greenwell was elected over Marty Huerta and rode the tide of Proposition 12 by the doctors to reform medical malpractice lawsuits and has been on the bench for nearly 6 years.  Other district judges are facing or shall face more Republican candidates like Greenwell according to Republican sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RACE NUECES COUNTY PRECINCT ONE: JOE BENAVIDES VS PEGGY BANALES:  Things are heating up and this is the race to watch. In a surprising announcement the Caller Times endorsed Joe Benavides over Peggy Banales for Precinct 1 County Commissioner in Nueces County. Banales has been attacked for giving herself a 12.5 percent raise while the county employees received marginal raises. It is also rumored she voted to give her husband Manuel Banales an additional office at the taxpayers expense in excess of $140,000.00 which has enraged many.  It is also reported that she backed moves for huge and profitable enterprises in Robstown, Texas over her own Precinct on the west side of Corpus Christi and in northwest Corpus Christi.  It is rumored that although Councilman Bill Kelley did not run against her this time and (in 2004 he lost by less than 150 votes against her) he supports Joe Benavides. Joe Benavides a retired marine and presently a teacher with at-risk kids at the Adult Learning Center seeks to unseat her and basks in the Caller Times favor.  Benavides has pushed for transparent government and vows to refuse a raise for 8 years and in a powerful and symbolic gesture has vowed to remove the screws and bolts from the door of the Commissioner’s office to maintain an open door policy.  Benavides ran in 2004 and finished 4th in the race that won the election for Peggy Banales. Reportedly on the blogs such Real South Texas Politics, Banales supporters including the Rendons and former one term County Judge Terry Shamsie are reportedly getting worried about Benavides and may launch an all out negative attack on retired marine Joe Benavides. Rumors are not confirmed that Solomon Ortiz Jr and Sr. supporters such as the Rendons are openly supporting Banales although Joe Benavides helped the Congressman since 2000 on all of his campaigns.  This support may be another mistake in the Solomonista camp as was done in the support of Pete Alvarez in the Sherriff’s race which led to embarrassment for Rendon and the Ortiz clan when Alvarez turned Republican.  Solomon Ortiz, Jr. is reportedly being groomed for congressman and the only threat to his inheriting the throne is Juan Garcia who may have higher aspirations. Meanwhile, it is known that “Solly” has a war chest of hundreds of thousands of dollars and more coming if the Republican opponent in November 2008 gains traction.  Clips of Joe Benavides are on youtube.com and have interviews of him also sharing that both of his sons are or have been deployed to Iraq and that he is a disabled Veteran which may bring the military vote his way as well as those he see Peggy Banales as selling them out to Robstown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JIM WELLS COUNTY:  The District Attorney and District Judge Races are ones to watch since the national attention on Jim Wells county. The Mayor of Alice has resigned which aids the Mayor Pro Tem, Juan Rodriguez, in perhaps seeking higher office of Justice of the Peace against Lupe Martinez.  David Towler contends in the Alice Echo that Terrell the seated district Judge has ruled unfairly against many plaintiff attorneys in this venue but many attorneys have been split on their support other than Gray Scoggins and Bobby Bourlon who are openly supporting David Towler the opponent of the seated judge and have voiced frustration against Judge Terrell and rage against his rulings.  Terrell won several years ago and was also former city attorney of Alice as well as District Attorney and is well known in South Texas. A reported “wait and see approach” is being taken in a venue where court decisions in a civil or criminal case often make state and national news.   Joe Frank Garza the District Attorney is also facing the democratic opponent in the primary Armando Barrera. Barrera and his brother reportedly are political enemies of both Joe Frank Garza and incumbent Judge Richard Terrell and supported Edie Gonzalez Lemon the present judge of the municipal court against Terrell years ago.  These races and the politics in Alice are never boring. Stay tuned on the El Defenzor radio and right here on El Defenzor newspaper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mikal Watts: Recently Mikal Watts came out openly that he was on Mauricio Celis side and that what Celis did was legally correct. In an article by the Caller Times in February 2008 Watts reaffirmed that he dropped out of the senatorial race and gave up on his exploratory committee because of family, not because of Celis.  Many analysts have voiced opinions that Watts is attempted to minimize exposure to Celis and at the same time insulating himself. He was quoted as saying that very little of his business came from Celis and that he plans to run as soon as his youngest child finishes high school.  It remains to be seen how his position will change the Republican party’s stance or the Attorney General’s opinion on Celis. In the balance many think that Celis having Watts on his side is a plus and it underlines that the criminal charges and attacks by Thomas J. Henry are groundless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celis vs Henry:  Back in October of 2007 it was Henry in an unprecedented attack on Mauricio Celis who stated that “Celis had no law license anywhere in the world” and attacked the CGT law firm Celis was managing as soliciting cases.  The Defenzor has since learned that Henry had to water down his commercial and in fact still ran it despite it being deemed unacceptable by the Texas Bar association. From that commercial Henry reported obtained one client: Paloma Steele. The Defenzor has uncovered that Steele in fact may have had a grievance against Henry at one point and that in Celis’ point of view Henry by using a commercial held invalid by the Bar Association of Texas also violated solicitation rules and that any fees Henry may obtain from the Steele case should ironically be disgorged as well!  Henry also reportedly had an altercation with attorney Bobby Bourlon in Alice when one of his underling attorneys solicited a case from Bourlon of his own cousin by marriage knowing that Bourlon represented the man!  Bourlon was not reached for comment to further elaborate on this development but only shows that some attorneys may argue that if you throw rocks some boulders may come at you if you live in a glasshouse.  Defenzor has previously reported also that a direct quote from Henry was that the only thing criminally that Celis ever did wrong was “try to legitimize himself by giving money to politicians and in this case were Democrats.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE UPCOMING PRIMARIES shall be very interesting for the local voters who must decide on national elections and on local races that are overshadowed by the Celis case, attorneys and nonattorneys warring on each other and certain factions of the Republican party who are vowing to unseat Democrats at every turn. How will Filemon Vela play his cards? Will he wait until the general election to flex his political muscle or will he do so now and will he remain a purist in the Republican party? Will Carlos Valdez work a deal, try the case or lose against Tony Canales in the Celis case?  Will Jim Kaelin, the sheriff suffer serious competition from his Democratic opponents and is it true that he himself tried to make his opponent young Flores back off?  And will a retired marine defeat the wife of a powerful judge in the County Commissioner’s race?  The Defenzor shall be watching and waiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile stay tuned to 93.5 FM-Defenzor Radio weekdays at 1pm and see my interview on youtube.com on my opinions the media and the Celis case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Remain Your Humble Editor-In-Chief, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Homero Villarreal&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-253731002426251060?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/253731002426251060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=253731002426251060' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/253731002426251060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/253731002426251060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/el-defenzor-election-day-article.html' title='EL DEFENZOR ELECTION DAY ARTICLE: REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-647735299663149180</id><published>2008-02-17T00:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-17T00:08:52.334-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBAMA HILLARY OBAMA HILLARY HISPANIC VOTE'/><title type='text'>OBAMA OR HILLARY? ANONYMOUS BUTTON ON SO SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT</title><content type='html'>WHAT ABOUT IT? Obama or Hillary? And please don't feel you have to be politically correct. This is REAL SOUTH TEXAS POLITICS.  I hear Hispanics are saying they won't vote black and that a white woman may fall against McCain. Feedback people. Let's get down to it: Are Hispanics paranoid about him being a former or present Muslim? Is Hillary a lesbian? Feedback....Use anonymous buttons please. They are on for the next 240 hours. WAS HILLARY EXPLOITING ROBSTOWN? Is Ted Kennedy and his family split on Obama and Hillary the kiss of death?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-647735299663149180?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/647735299663149180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=647735299663149180' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/647735299663149180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/647735299663149180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-or-hillary-anonymous-button-on-so.html' title='OBAMA OR HILLARY? ANONYMOUS BUTTON ON SO SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2896042277594683924</id><published>2008-02-10T23:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T23:56:35.951-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JOHN KELLEY: ME THE PEOPLE?</title><content type='html'>John Kelley: Why are they blasting him as "Me The People"?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2896042277594683924?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2896042277594683924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2896042277594683924' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2896042277594683924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2896042277594683924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-kelley-me-people.html' title='JOHN KELLEY: ME THE PEOPLE?'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2763651182734746456</id><published>2008-02-10T22:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T23:36:14.697-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Carlos Valdez Favoritism</title><content type='html'>In a latest rumor of favoritism Roland Garza SHOCKJOCK is busted again for cocaine and the congressman Ortiz is trying to intercede with Carlos Valdez? Why didn't the congressman stick up for Celis and get that dismissed! Let's talk about Carlos Valdez sense of fairness on prosecution. The dance instructor who allegedly was a molester stood in the way of a land deal of one of Valdez' cronies from the Garibaldi breakfast club. Let's talk about it. Write a book about that Carlos, not on Selena.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2763651182734746456?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2763651182734746456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2763651182734746456' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2763651182734746456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2763651182734746456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/carlos-valdez-favoritism.html' title='Carlos Valdez Favoritism'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3731293519927957716</id><published>2008-02-05T23:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T23:00:26.626-08:00</updated><title type='text'>http://www.joebenavidescc.com/</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3731293519927957716?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3731293519927957716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3731293519927957716' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3731293519927957716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3731293519927957716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/httpwwwjoebenavidescccom.html' title='http://www.joebenavidescc.com/'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-4184430152715433028</id><published>2008-02-05T22:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T23:00:03.696-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JOE BENAVIDES WEB SITE. IMPRESSIVE. WIN JOE. WIN. WE ARE ALL BACKING YOU AGAINST PAYCHECK PEGGY.</title><content type='html'>STAY POSITIVE JOE A LITTLE LONGER. SHE IS GOING NEGATIVE. RELEASE THE BIG GUNS HERE PRETTY QUICK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HERE'S JOE'S CAMPAIGN WEB SITE:&lt;br /&gt;CLICK ON THIS:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.joebenavidescc.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-4184430152715433028?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4184430152715433028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=4184430152715433028' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/4184430152715433028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/4184430152715433028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/joe-benavides-web-site-impressive-win.html' title='JOE BENAVIDES WEB SITE. IMPRESSIVE. WIN JOE. WIN. WE ARE ALL BACKING YOU AGAINST PAYCHECK PEGGY.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2255849599782305715</id><published>2008-02-05T21:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T21:46:15.814-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe Benavides: Peggy supporters going very, very negative. They are scared. Good sign Joe Benavides!.</title><content type='html'>Rumor has it they are supporting Peggy Banales and she is is really slipping. For the Caller to cross Maximum Manuel she must be in trouble. Joe has a shot. Go get them Joe! All vets are behind you and your sons in Iraq are as brave as you are. time for transparent government.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2255849599782305715?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2255849599782305715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2255849599782305715' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2255849599782305715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2255849599782305715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/joe-benavides-solomonistas-getting.html' title='Joe Benavides: Peggy supporters going very, very negative. They are scared. Good sign Joe Benavides!.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-9189670342495373843</id><published>2008-02-04T00:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-04T00:13:10.335-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JOE BENAVIDES FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER</title><content type='html'>In a crazy turn of events Joe Benavides has gotten the endorsement of the Caller Times. Whoa!  Benavides on the caller times video deal vowed to not give himself a raise, will do more for kids and will take care of Annaville and Calallen. Recently on Danny Jr's show Peggy was asked that if she represented the west side, Calallen and Annaville why she was voting to have her constituents pay for 4H and the Showbarn? Answer:....(Deer in the headlights). Debates start Friday. People are getting worried. Benavides has her on the ropes. Maximum Manuel better step up. The word is Bill Kelly out there is supporting Joe as well as Joe from Greenwood doors and other players in the game. It will be interesting. Supporters of Peggy include former Judge Shamsie and I hear that the Solomonistas are backing her despite Joe Benavides working on the congressman's campaign. Damn shame. Guess the Solomonistas have a helluva a short memory. Rumor is one prominent judge walked out of a meeting where little Solly Jr. was telling everyone to support Peggy. Ouch. That's gratitude for you.&lt;br /&gt;A.P.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-9189670342495373843?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/9189670342495373843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=9189670342495373843' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/9189670342495373843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/9189670342495373843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/joe-benavides-for-county-commissioner.html' title='JOE BENAVIDES FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3169154607844168673</id><published>2008-01-31T00:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T00:20:46.559-08:00</updated><title type='text'>In  a Few Short Hours: Hearing with Celis against Attorney General and Carlos Valdez</title><content type='html'>Showdown at Tom Greenwell's court on 8th floor Nueces County Courthouse at 8:30am. Someone plesa give us the dirt by going by.!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3169154607844168673?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3169154607844168673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3169154607844168673' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3169154607844168673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3169154607844168673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-few-short-hours-hearing-with-celis.html' title='In  a Few Short Hours: Hearing with Celis against Attorney General and Carlos Valdez'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3133614317287714383</id><published>2008-01-31T00:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T00:19:14.307-08:00</updated><title type='text'>EL DEFENZOR RADIO: out of control</title><content type='html'>Absolutely hilarious today. Homero Villarreal was actually growling and wanting Chili pepper to really rev him up on the air. He basically called D.A. Carlos Valdez a wimp/sellout/impotent/midlife crisis kind of guy who is mowing the Attorney General's lawn and picking the cotton while going "Si Patron, right away!!".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yoU GUYS HAVE TO LISTEN TO HOMERO. HE IS OUT OF CONTROL. This whole Celis/Republican onslaught really has pissed him off. 12:45pm 93.5 FM. It's craaazy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3133614317287714383?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3133614317287714383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3133614317287714383' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3133614317287714383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3133614317287714383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/el-defenzor-radio-out-of-control.html' title='EL DEFENZOR RADIO: out of control'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3232932265267034248</id><published>2008-01-30T23:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T23:59:41.741-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CARLOS AND PATSY</title><content type='html'>Does anyone know why CArlos Valdez does not carry a cell phone or according to rumors not have a computer in his office and run and look up everything using District Clerk computers. That Patsy Perez...you can just smell something is not right at that office of hers. She really knows how to lay low when the bullets fly. Diana DeLeon too. Those clerks. Somethings up. This is  a job for Kenedeno and Associates.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3232932265267034248?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3232932265267034248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3232932265267034248' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3232932265267034248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3232932265267034248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/carlos-and-patsy.html' title='CARLOS AND PATSY'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2935127810299330752</id><published>2008-01-29T21:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T21:58:10.509-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Abel Herrero</title><content type='html'>All quiet in his district. His Republican nemesis who is one of the leaders of the Bay Area Citizens Against Loss Suit Abuse- Connie Scott is lying low until the late summer in all likelihood.  Also there is no need to kick him in the groin while still in mourning for his father who died tragically and senselessly. Supposedly his head guy Ramon- what's his name-is history and many of the people in Robstown believe this to be a good thing. Who knows?  Either way it will be a bloody season. Think Abel will stay on. Time will tell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2935127810299330752?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2935127810299330752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2935127810299330752' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2935127810299330752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2935127810299330752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/abel-herrero.html' title='Abel Herrero'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2271467976519569635</id><published>2008-01-29T21:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T21:52:38.853-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rumors of Juan Garcia Losing Support.</title><content type='html'>Rumors are flying that Juan Garcia is losing support. Wrong. If that means Susie Luna and the other losers who are political prostitutes: Good riddance. Luna is usually the kiss of death for any candidate. Look at her last few races including poor Jimmy Rodriguez.  We do hear that he is the only threat for the US congressman seat against Solomon Ortiz, Jr when Sr. steps down. Does that mean they are going to try to politically whack him like the Solomonistas usually do just like the Sopranos?  Will Juan cut a deal?  This guy is too good to get rid of and too smart. Qualifications:The pedigree, education, service in the armed forces. Wife and four kids, Harvard Law..on and on.  Yeah, he's a threat to Solomon Jr. If they are both smart a deal will be made. Otherwise I see backroom deals with the Republicans by Solomon Sr. to get his son in. A 50 year reign coming up. Hardcore. Whoa.Stay tuned.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2271467976519569635?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2271467976519569635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2271467976519569635' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2271467976519569635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2271467976519569635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/rumors-of-juan-garcia-losing-support.html' title='Rumors of Juan Garcia Losing Support.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-9083349953832048708</id><published>2008-01-29T21:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T21:47:11.349-08:00</updated><title type='text'>LATEST CELIS ISSUE</title><content type='html'>According to the TV media including El Defenzor Radio Celis is fighting for property taken in a seizure. Canales, the attorney for Celis argued that the Captain for the Attorney General's office was making general assumptions with not based in fact about Celis and swore to it. Rumors flew around the courthouse today that Canales had subpoenaed the Captain but he failed to appear. Judge Greenwell did not issue a warrant or order that the Captain appear but did set a hearing for 8:30 a.m. this Thursday January 31,2008 in the 319th court 8th floor Nueces County Courthouse.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-9083349953832048708?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/9083349953832048708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=9083349953832048708' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/9083349953832048708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/9083349953832048708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/latest-celis-issue.html' title='LATEST CELIS ISSUE'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2346272421080610536</id><published>2008-01-29T00:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T00:02:22.558-08:00</updated><title type='text'>PRESIDENTIAL POLLS</title><content type='html'>WHO WILL WIN ON THE DEMS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BARACK&lt;br /&gt;HILLARY&lt;br /&gt;JOHN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ON THE REPUBLICAN&lt;br /&gt;MCCAIN&lt;br /&gt;GIULIANI&lt;br /&gt;ROMNEY&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2346272421080610536?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2346272421080610536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2346272421080610536' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2346272421080610536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2346272421080610536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/presidential-polls.html' title='PRESIDENTIAL POLLS'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-7837898944241044586</id><published>2008-01-28T23:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T00:01:03.350-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SAMPLE POLL</title><content type='html'>WHO WILL WIN:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NORIEGO VS CORNYN&lt;br /&gt;ALEX GARCIA VS THE WORLD (EVERYONE JUMPED INTO A NO PAYING JOB AND THEY WANT MONEY FOR THE CAMPAIGN?HELLOOO? POLITICS 101)&lt;br /&gt;ABEL HERRERO VS CONNIE SCOTT&lt;br /&gt;JUAN GARCIA VS TODD HUNTER&lt;br /&gt;SOLOMON ORTIZ VS TORRES&lt;br /&gt;JOE BENAVIDES VS PEGGY BANALES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE TO COME! GIVE ME SOME INPUT&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-7837898944241044586?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7837898944241044586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=7837898944241044586' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7837898944241044586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7837898944241044586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/sample-poll.html' title='SAMPLE POLL'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3157303947022936740</id><published>2008-01-28T23:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:58:46.342-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ENDORSE YOUR CANDIDATES IN SOUTH TEXAS RIGHT HERE</title><content type='html'>WHETHER DEM OR REPUBLICAN POST WHO YOU ENDORSE RIGHT HERE AS A COMMENT. IF ENOUGH COME IN WE WILL GIVE IT IT'S OWN POST! LET'S DO IT.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3157303947022936740?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3157303947022936740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3157303947022936740' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3157303947022936740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3157303947022936740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/endorse-your-candidates-in-south-texas.html' title='ENDORSE YOUR CANDIDATES IN SOUTH TEXAS RIGHT HERE'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2814766040957520329</id><published>2008-01-28T23:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:57:41.518-08:00</updated><title type='text'>START POSTING PEOPLE! PUT A COMMENT ANYWHERE AND I WILL TURN IT INTO A TRUE POST!</title><content type='html'>PUT YOUR INPUT ON HERE AND I WILL POST IT AND NOT JUST KEEP IT AS A COMMENT. THIS AINT NO SOUTH TEXAS CHISME. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL. LET'S GO BABY!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2814766040957520329?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2814766040957520329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2814766040957520329' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2814766040957520329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2814766040957520329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/start-posting-people-put-comment.html' title='START POSTING PEOPLE! PUT A COMMENT ANYWHERE AND I WILL TURN IT INTO A TRUE POST!'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-6172550512099639337</id><published>2008-01-28T23:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T00:10:35.852-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MAURICIO CELIS BACK IN COURT!STRAIGHT FROM THE PRESS RELEASES!</title><content type='html'>LOVE HIM, HATE HIM, BUT NEVER, EVER IGNORE HIM...MAURICIO CELIS IS BACK IN COURT ACCORDING TO THE MEDIA RELEASE!&lt;br /&gt;MEDIA ADVISORY:&lt;br /&gt;Hearing on Celis¹ Motion For Return of Seized Property TUESDAY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please be advised that tomorrow (Tuesday) the Honorable Judge Thomas&lt;br /&gt;Greenwell will preside over a hearing on Mauricio Celis¹ Motion For Return&lt;br /&gt;of Seized Property.  This follows the challenge from Mr. Celis¹ attorney&lt;br /&gt;last week for the Republican Attorney General to produce any facts&lt;br /&gt;whatsoever to support his innuendo-laden search warrant affidavit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT: Hearing on Celis¹ Motion For Return of Seized Property&lt;br /&gt;WHERE: Nueces County Courthouse, 319th District Court in front of Judge&lt;br /&gt;Greenwell&lt;br /&gt;WHEN: Tues., Jan. 29, 2008, at 10 a.m.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-6172550512099639337?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/6172550512099639337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=6172550512099639337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/6172550512099639337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/6172550512099639337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/straight-from-press-releases.html' title='MAURICIO CELIS BACK IN COURT!STRAIGHT FROM THE PRESS RELEASES!'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-5558176690783614375</id><published>2008-01-28T23:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:45:26.889-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GULFCOAST LEFTIE! WHERE ARE YOU?</title><content type='html'>HEY, I'm talking to you. You used to have some good posts. You were around this summer a little. Where the hell are you? Turned gutless like South Texas Chisme ? Writing about everything under the sun but Nueces county? Come on man, I can read Houston blogs and Valley blogs if that's what I want. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING. I need South Texas Chisme to grow a pair againa and Gulf Coast leftie to come out!!!&lt;br /&gt;Filemon Vela, Bertuzzi, Todd Hunter, Connie Scott, get ready baby! Let him come. Bring it on!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-5558176690783614375?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5558176690783614375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=5558176690783614375' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5558176690783614375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5558176690783614375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/gulfcoast-leftie-where-are-you.html' title='GULFCOAST LEFTIE! WHERE ARE YOU?'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-440494785983089356</id><published>2008-01-28T23:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:42:29.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ALEX? WHERE ARE YOU?</title><content type='html'>WHY IN THE HELL AREN'T YOU GETTING THE FINGER OUT OF YOUR NETHER REGIONS AND HOLDING UP THE FLAG FOR THE DEMOCRATS. YOUR PARTY IS AND HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK. THEY ARE BLASTING YOUR BIGGEST DONOR, FORCED YOUR SENATORIAL CANDIDATE TO RESIGN AND BLAST AWAY AT DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS AND YOU HAVEN'T DONE A DAMN THING AND WE ARE 6 WEEKS AWAY FROM THE PRIMARY. ALEX, ALEX, ALEX. WHAT THE HELL DID WE ELECT YOU FOR? TO SPY FOR THE REPUBLICANS?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-440494785983089356?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/440494785983089356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=440494785983089356' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/440494785983089356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/440494785983089356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/alex-where-are-you.html' title='ALEX? WHERE ARE YOU?'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-1205421838355457769</id><published>2008-01-28T23:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:40:11.123-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JOHN KELLEY EDITOR OF "ME THE PEOPLE"</title><content type='html'>DUDE! I VERIFIED THIS. YOU ARE MEETING WITH ALL THE REPUBLICANS!!! MAN. YOU BLASTED NOYOLA'S, HOMERO AND A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE AND YOU SURE HAD SOLLY AND HIS MACHINE FOOLED. COME ON MAN. CHANGE THE NAME OF THE PAPER ALREADY:  JOHN KELLEY'S "ME THE PEOPLE" HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH. THANK GOD ITS FREE.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-1205421838355457769?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1205421838355457769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=1205421838355457769' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1205421838355457769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1205421838355457769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-kelley-editor-of-me-people.html' title='JOHN KELLEY EDITOR OF &quot;ME THE PEOPLE&quot;'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-9185651645092019202</id><published>2008-01-28T23:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:36:57.041-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JOHN KELLEY EATS WITH REPUBLICANS AT TOWNCLUB!!!HYPOCRITE.COM</title><content type='html'>JUST SAW WHERE HOMERO BLASTED JOHN KELLEY ON AN OLD ARCHIVED DEAL FROM 2006 WITH A NEW COMMENT: HERE'S THE NEW COMMENT: KELLEY "DIE HARD" REPUBLICAN IS LUNCHING AT-GET THIS-THE TOWN CLUB WITH TODD HUNTER EVERY WEEK FOR THE LAST MONTH!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS "WE THE PEOPLE" GUY. HE TALKS ALL THIS BLEEDING HEART DEMOCRAT STUFF, THROWS MANY DEMOCRATS UNDER THE BUS AS SELL OUTS AND HE'S THERE MOOCHING OFF REPUBLICANS AT THE TOWN CLUB!!! UNBELIEVABLE. DON'T GIVE THIS GUY A DIME. HE'S PROBABLY GIVING IT TO TODD HUNTER. SORRY KELLEY! WE HAVE TO OUT YOU. CORPUS CHRISTI IS A SMALL PLACE TO BE A HYPOCRITE.&lt;br /&gt;TSK.TSK.TSK.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-9185651645092019202?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/9185651645092019202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=9185651645092019202' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/9185651645092019202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/9185651645092019202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/old-south-texas-chisme-archives.html' title='JOHN KELLEY EATS WITH REPUBLICANS AT TOWNCLUB!!!HYPOCRITE.COM'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-773203396900382093</id><published>2008-01-28T23:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:33:12.717-08:00</updated><title type='text'>PLEASE VOTE ALEX GARCIA OUT AS DEMOCRATIC CHAIR</title><content type='html'>THIS GUY HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HE IS A PUPPET AND SPY FOR THE REPUBLICANS. TRULY IS. AINT WORTH A DARN. LET'S GET IN LUCY OR ZAMORA. THAT'S MY TWO CENTS.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-773203396900382093?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/773203396900382093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=773203396900382093' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/773203396900382093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/773203396900382093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/please-vote-alex-garcia-out-as.html' title='PLEASE VOTE ALEX GARCIA OUT AS DEMOCRATIC CHAIR'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-8659288754280026886</id><published>2008-01-28T23:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:32:09.077-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DEFENZOR RADIO</title><content type='html'>HOMERO VILLARREAL IS REBORN AND BLASTING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S RADICALS WHO WANT TO USE CELIS TO SCREW ALL OF US. AND UP YOUR --- THOMAS J. HENRY. SELF-SERVING PIECE OF HUMAN FILTH. YOU'RE GETTING YOURS AND PALOMA STEELE HAS TURNED AND  WILL TURN ON YOU AGAIN.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-8659288754280026886?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8659288754280026886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=8659288754280026886' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8659288754280026886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8659288754280026886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/defenzor-radio_28.html' title='DEFENZOR RADIO'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3111906489887634813</id><published>2008-01-28T23:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:28:23.884-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CELIS IN COURT WITH TOM GREENWELL</title><content type='html'>TOM GREENWELL WHO CURIOUSLY RECUSED HIMSELF TWICE YET SIGNS A SCREWED UP WARRANT FOR PEOPLE TO GO INTO CELIS' OFFICE IS UNDER THE GUN. CELIS APPEARS WITH HIS LEGAL SQUAD THIS MORNING AT 10AM. THIS SHOULD BE FUN. WATCH THE FIREWORKS. GREENWELL'S COURT IS THE 319TH.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3111906489887634813?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3111906489887634813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3111906489887634813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3111906489887634813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3111906489887634813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/celis-in-court-with-tom-greenwell.html' title='CELIS IN COURT WITH TOM GREENWELL'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-209829997111305682</id><published>2008-01-28T23:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T23:26:10.637-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WAY TO GO JUAN GARCIA!</title><content type='html'>Saw Juan Garcia on South Texas Crossfire. Looking good my man. Keep up the good work as a solid Democrat in REpublican country where you are helping everyone. Juan is going places. They are trying to slow him down but Todd "Turncoat" Hunter doesn't stand a chance against this guy. He's the Hispanic JFK if given the opportunity. Thumbs up bro!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-209829997111305682?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/209829997111305682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=209829997111305682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/209829997111305682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/209829997111305682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/way-to-go-juan-garcia.html' title='WAY TO GO JUAN GARCIA!'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-7593798723921004650</id><published>2008-01-23T23:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-23T23:08:25.632-08:00</updated><title type='text'>kaelin out making copies of El Defenzor??</title><content type='html'>What the hell is Kaelin the Sheriff of Nueces County doing making copies of El Defenzor late at night at a KINKO's??? Is he running scared because he has an opponent?  Is he trying to go after other people like he did with Celis? Kaelin jumped all over Celis to use it as a REpublican campaign issue and now it is backfiring! How does it feel to have the limelight turned on you KKKaelin?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-7593798723921004650?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7593798723921004650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=7593798723921004650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7593798723921004650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7593798723921004650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/kaelin-out-making-copies-of-el-defenzor.html' title='kaelin out making copies of El Defenzor??'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-518353144693909926</id><published>2008-01-16T21:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T21:05:22.379-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DEFENZOR RADIO</title><content type='html'>OMG!  I JUST HEARD DEFENZOR RADIO SHOW ON 93.5 FM (12:45 TO 1:15: FANTASTIC.  I HEAR CLEAR CHANNEL AND TV ARE NEXT.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-518353144693909926?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/518353144693909926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=518353144693909926' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/518353144693909926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/518353144693909926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/defenzor-radio.html' title='DEFENZOR RADIO'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-8512726159567417412</id><published>2008-01-16T21:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T21:03:42.130-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CELIS ARTICLE HOT OFF THE PRESSES FROM EL DEFENZOR</title><content type='html'>Homero Villarreal has put out another hardhitting article. For those who doubt his influence: Remember he was on Conservative Talk Radio and had Bob Jones lagging ratings go skyrocketing. Gifford screwed it up by letting Homer go. He was the spotlight of the week. Rumor has it Clear Channel wants to pick him up! Rock on Homer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HERE IS THE LINK TO THE CELIS ARTICLE: cut and paste it or click.&lt;br /&gt;http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2008/01/blockbuster-article-hitting-south-texas.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-8512726159567417412?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/8512726159567417412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=8512726159567417412' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8512726159567417412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/8512726159567417412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/celis-article-hot-off-presses-from-el.html' title='CELIS ARTICLE HOT OFF THE PRESSES FROM EL DEFENZOR'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-7745601699802634585</id><published>2008-01-16T20:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T21:00:43.509-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kenedeno and his army join our blog! Welcome and he brings out the truth!</title><content type='html'>REAL SOUTH TEXAS POLITICS"SOUTH TEXAS CHISME AND KENENDENOS"&lt;br /&gt;5 Comments - Show Original Post &lt;br /&gt;Collapse comments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment deleted &lt;br /&gt;This post has been removed by the author.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 11, 2008 3:49 AM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Jaime Kenedeño said... &lt;br /&gt;The Chisme Guys are part of the infiltration and they dont even realize it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are a Republican instrument as is Solomon Grande.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn't be writing it unless I can backed it up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take it or not&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solomon P. Ortiz: Rove Expedience &amp; A Simple Activation Mechanism: A bloated baffoon in a suit who treated his wealth as carefully as the Beverly Hill Billies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working for the man and dont even know it &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The netroots progressive voters are unaware of their buffered affiliation with the Republican GOP calling the shots. Follow the chain of command from the lefty affiliations connected to Solly Jr (various companies and board members in South Texas to the relationship with fort bend county progressives and Houston progressives). From Solly Jr to his Father Congressman Solomon Ortiz Sr and his henchman Lencho Rendon who work directly the Junior Senator. This is a forged relationship due to the strained relationship between Kay Bailey and Solomon Sr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solomon Sr is pro life and votes along republican lines. The progressives are controlled by the republicans and will deny it nonetheless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 11, 2008 3:53 AM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; dannoynted1 said... &lt;br /&gt;Maybe they should lay down and relax and enjoy it....the show that is coming soon to theater near you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would they use what is beneath them to only realize it will be used against them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would Grande claim stxc as an "official" blog on his congressional website?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope he does remove it because it is too late to disavow it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those "in the know" know exactly which way is east.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now if only we knew where the fish were biting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 11, 2008 4:14 AM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; nuts101 said... &lt;br /&gt;I think they know it and don't care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 11, 2008 6:25 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Jaime Kenedeño said... &lt;br /&gt;Nueces Democrats: "These are not Democrat issues. These are not Republican issues." These are Nueces County issues" Somebody's Knockin on the Door."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only way we will be a factor is by interacting &amp; through Natural Discussion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody welcome, the more the merrier. themericanprince, onamission, Homero, Nuts101, Mr Mikal Watts, Mr Filemon Vela, TJ Henry, Mr Attorney General come on guys why dont we air this thing out like Brett Favre? Just another walk in the park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's Too Late To Apologize. Unlike yous guys, We Dont Work for the President&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Lencho and the rest of the Political Crooks and Government Vendors / Contractors, Thank Dora for this COLD BLAST from the past.Somebody better start standing up and helping out. Heaven forbid should we start saying your names and your secrets. I am frickin pissed off at all of you. The day of reckoning or shall we say "wreckoning" is at hand. Speak up or get chewed up and spit out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best way to kick this party off is with some hard hitting; hard hitting on the one's who are not used to getting hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lencho Rendon is the whipping boy he is the first one who gets hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Great State of Texas can prosecute a little person for $45 then surely it should look into the allegations with the bridge to nowhere and the brown bag, back porch window treatments not to forget all that double standard malarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asian Human Trafficking or an Asian Employment Service? It all depends on who it is, how much lettuce they have, and who they got dirt on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we hand Lencho Rendon San Patricio Shores along our port&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 13, 2008 10:33 PM&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-7745601699802634585?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7745601699802634585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=7745601699802634585' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7745601699802634585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7745601699802634585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/kenedeno-and-his-army-join-our-blog.html' title='Kenedeno and his army join our blog! Welcome and he brings out the truth!'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-4528993937860043301</id><published>2008-01-16T20:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T20:50:52.942-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM way to go.</title><content type='html'>Hats off to Homero Villarreal for bringing out the other side of the dirty little secrets in politics that are being used. Celis is only a key to storm the Democratic door and have Republican ultraconservatives and let's face it, white supremacists, steamroll over us and suppress the vote and have us all in a state of fear. Bull!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-4528993937860043301?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4528993937860043301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=4528993937860043301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/4528993937860043301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/4528993937860043301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/eldefenzorblogspotcom-way-to-go.html' title='ELDEFENZOR.BLOGSPOT.COM way to go.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-624100569914633741</id><published>2008-01-14T22:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T22:18:17.303-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DEFENZOR RAMPAGING IN SOUTH TEXAS</title><content type='html'>Ouch. New Defenzor. Its a big one.  Get ready Ultra Right REpublicans.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-624100569914633741?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/624100569914633741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=624100569914633741' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/624100569914633741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/624100569914633741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/defenzor-rampaging-in-south-texas.html' title='DEFENZOR RAMPAGING IN SOUTH TEXAS'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-3547927544036248940</id><published>2008-01-13T22:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T22:57:35.972-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Eldefenzor.blogspot.com</title><content type='html'>This is on fire. Be sure to go to it. New stuff to hit Republicans where they live baby!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-3547927544036248940?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/3547927544036248940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=3547927544036248940' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3547927544036248940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/3547927544036248940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/eldefenzorblogspotcom.html' title='Eldefenzor.blogspot.com'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-7118669033572512092</id><published>2008-01-13T22:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T22:05:09.448-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DEMOCRATS STRIKE BACK! THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG.</title><content type='html'>Republicans better run for cover: The Defenzor's Homero Villarreal, Butch Escobedo, The Fruit King, and others are raging about the unveiling of Certain ultraconservatives game plan to use Celis as a tool to weaken the Democratic party, using unsubstantiated charges, and terrorize and suppress Democratic votes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-7118669033572512092?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7118669033572512092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=7118669033572512092' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7118669033572512092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/7118669033572512092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/democrats-strike-back-cat-is-out-of-bag.html' title='DEMOCRATS STRIKE BACK! THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG.'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-2428865778180072233</id><published>2008-01-11T01:02:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T01:03:12.375-08:00</updated><title type='text'>REPRINT FROM DEFENZOR ON TERRELL</title><content type='html'>http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/towler-files-against-richard-terrell.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-2428865778180072233?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2428865778180072233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=2428865778180072233' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2428865778180072233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/2428865778180072233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/reprint-from-defenzor-on-terrell.html' title='REPRINT FROM DEFENZOR ON TERRELL'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-1956448565516715809</id><published>2008-01-11T01:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T01:02:49.854-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DEFENZOR MAGAZINE!!!</title><content type='html'>http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/towler-files-against-richard-terrell.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-1956448565516715809?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1956448565516715809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=1956448565516715809' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1956448565516715809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/1956448565516715809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/defenzor-magazine.html' title='DEFENZOR MAGAZINE!!!'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-5888788341409317301</id><published>2008-01-11T00:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T00:57:18.394-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SOUTH TEXAS CHISME AND KENENDENOS</title><content type='html'>south texas chisme:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.stxc.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RATING: ITS AN Ok blog but IT really tries to hard to put stories and articles that we in the Coastal Bend could give two shits about.  Bring us the good stuff from here. I want to here how the Economic Development Board is screwing us. I want to here about CArlos Valdez as a puppet for the AG. I want to hear about the AG abusing his office to hang Celis for no reason other than he gave money to the Democratic Party and in efforts to weaken all the party's politicians including Abel Herrero, Solly Jr and Juan Garcia. wake up! this is not about Celis. People are walking around blind without a cane in Corpus. It's political season. Come on STXc YOU GUYS ARE GETTING LAZY. THE DEMS ARE UNDER ATTACK AND CELIS IS THE TROJAN HORSE!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KENEDENO!! WE NEED YOU! YOU DA MAN but don't try to sound so intellectual. Tell it like it is brother. Tell it like it is. We don't need to sound like college professors even with high IQ's.  Speak on a level all can understand!! no disrespect.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6124213784728553246-5888788341409317301?l=realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5888788341409317301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6124213784728553246&amp;postID=5888788341409317301' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5888788341409317301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6124213784728553246/posts/default/5888788341409317301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://realsouthtexaspolitics.blogspot.com/2008/01/south-texas-chisme-and-kenendenos.html' title='SOUTH TEXAS CHISME AND KENENDENOS'/><author><name>themericanprince</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17642801016169821124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6124213784728553246.post-1855801868127432429</id><published>2008-01-11T00:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T00:50:15.749-08:00</updated><title type='text'>EL DEFENZOR</title><content type='html'>http://defenzor.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;y Jackie Flores: Homero Villarreal is a man of integrity. Here at the college, some members of the staff were discussing this matter, "Who really sold in the Fernandez's case in South Texas?" Only one name and one business came up. El Defenzor has rapidly become one of the most effective media tools. Not only the brainpower but the culture spirituality is so strong, in Homero Villarreal, that it will melt the toughest spear. One whisper from Homero Villarreal and loyalties will shift.&lt;br /&gt;Re: Uncensored Political Reporting&lt;br /&gt;The mainstream media, in our estimation, has been co-opted. No longer can we hope to get the unfiltered message. Therefore, it is my hope that through these blogs and the Defenzor newspaper we all can share in a free and open internet forum.These sites provide many individuals with their political news and provide another vehicle for people to get uncensored political reports.Homero Villarreal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="quickedit" title="Edit" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;widgetType=Text&amp;amp;widgetId=Text4&amp;amp;action=editWidget" target="configText4"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Updated Website&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/"&gt;DEFENZOR MAGAZINE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="quickedit" title="Edit" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;widgetType=Text&amp;amp;widgetId=Text1&amp;amp;action=editWidget" target="configText1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="quickedit" title="Edit" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;widgetType=Image&amp;amp;widgetId=Image1&amp;amp;action=editWidget" target="configImage1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="quickedit" title="Edit" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;widgetType=Image&amp;amp;widgetId=Image2&amp;amp;action=editWidget" target="configImage2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Team Kenedeno Links&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/"&gt;Google News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/"&gt;NEW WEBSITE DEFENZOR MAGAZINE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://laparra.50megs.com/"&gt;Nueces De La Parra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jaimekenedeno.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jaime Kenedeno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/"&gt;El Defensor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stxc.blogspot.com/"&gt;South Texas Chisme &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://annkenedyfernandezschooloflaw.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ann Kenedy Fernandez School of Law &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://kfatso.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;KFATSO.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://runningw.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;kingranch.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://ericvonwade.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;EricVonWade.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://stxwatchdog.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;South Texas Judicial Watchdog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://kingsvilletx.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;Wild Horse Desert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://saritakenedyeast.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;Sarita Kenedy East&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://spohnshoreline.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;Spohn Foundation Hospitals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://vaticanbank.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;Vatican Bank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://vaticandotcom.blogspot.com/%20"&gt;The Vatican &amp;amp; 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Pos...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/09/stxc-we-all-know-how-you-guys-feel.html"&gt;STXC: We all know how you guys feel about DINOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/09/vicente-did-not-know-what-hit-him-or.html"&gt;Vicente did not know what hit him or maybe he was ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/09/south-texas-chisme-cant-handle-truth.html"&gt;south texas chisme can't handle the truth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/09/progressive-populist-socialists-are.html"&gt;The Progressive Populist Socialists are now trying...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/09/beware-of-communist-populist-uprising.html"&gt;BEWARE OF THE COMMUNIST POPULIST UPRISING. Posted ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/09/first-and-foremost-homero-villarreal.html"&gt;First and Foremost Homero Villarreal is My Friend....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=open&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1154415600000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1199174400000"&gt;► &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html"&gt;August&lt;/a&gt; (1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/08/monday-august-28-2006-homero.html"&gt;Monday, August 28, 2006 Homero Villarreal On tod...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=open&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1151737200000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1199174400000"&gt;► &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html"&gt;July&lt;/a&gt; (1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/07/el-defenzor-took-over-keys.html"&gt;El Defenzor took over KEYS,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=open&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1149145200000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1199174400000"&gt;► &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html"&gt;June&lt;/a&gt; (13)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006/06/yanqui-defined-to-exploit_09.html"&gt;yanqui defined----"to exploit"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=open&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1141200000000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1199174400000"&gt;► &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html"&gt;March&lt;/a&gt; (3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=open&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1138780800000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1199174400000"&gt;► &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html"&gt;February&lt;/a&gt; (5)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=open&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1136102400000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1199174400000"&gt;► &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html"&gt;January&lt;/a&gt; (14)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="quickedit" title="Edit" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=editWidget" target="configBlogArchive1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, January 01, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="2251742066849762059"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuecesdemocrats.blogspot.com/2008/01/robert-zamoraa-man-of-strength.html#links"&gt;Nueces Democrats: Robert Zamora:A Man of Strength &amp;amp; Stability ; Winning Back The Nueces County Democratic Party For All South Texas Democrats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuecesdemocrats.blogspot.com/2008/01/robert-zamoraa-man-of-strength.html"&gt;Nueces Democrats: Robert Zamora:A Man of Strength &amp;amp; Stability ; Winning Back The Nueces County Democratic Party For All South Texas Democrats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R3oieJdRn5I/AAAAAAAAAnM/_JGDcRN5dIA/s1600-h/zamora+nick.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Zamora Announces for Party Chair&lt;br /&gt;Updated:&lt;br /&gt;var wn_last_ed_date = getLEDate("Jan 1, 2008 1:31 AM EST"); document.write(wn_last_ed_date);&lt;br /&gt;Jan 1, 2008 12:31 AM&lt;br /&gt;A local attorney has announced he is running for chairman of the Nueces County Democratic Party.&lt;br /&gt;There has been talk that several people might run. On Monday, attorney Robert Zamora officially announced that he has filed for the position, which is now held by Alex Garcia Jr.&lt;br /&gt;"I have not only experience as a lawyer operating my own business for close to 30 years," Zamora said. "What I would like to do is lend the energy and the experience that I have to the operation of the Democratic Party here in Nueces County.&lt;br /&gt;The race will be decided in the state presidential primary in March.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2008/01/nueces-democrats-robert-zamoraa-man-of.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;3:25 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=2251742066849762059"&gt;2 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2008/01/nueces-democrats-robert-zamoraa-man-of.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=2251742066849762059"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=2251742066849762059"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, December 30, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="6900918519460648680"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/nueces-democrats-we-dont-know-that-joe.html#links"&gt;EL Defenzor.net: Nueces Democrats: We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/nueces-democrats-we-dont-know-that-joe.html"&gt;EL Defenzor.net: Nueces Democrats: We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, December 30, 2007&lt;a name="1536432428646611409"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/joe-benavides.html"&gt;JOE BENAVIDES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe Benavides a Retired Marine and Teacher Fighting for Our ChildrenMany in our community know Joe Benavides as not only a retired Marine and combat veteran, but a nonstop community volunteer. For the past several years Benavides has worked tirelessly helping our elderly by coordinating children (many of them court-ordered) to cut lawns, remove debris and help the elderly by taking away some of the burdens they face.Now Benavides, is helping children by intervening through becoming a teacher. Benavides has done a remarkable job at the Adult Learning Center by helping children obtain their education. He has also worked with many community leaders and business owners such as Pete’s Chicken and More, Flint Hills, Valero, Greenwood Doors and many, many other leaders to provide support in saving our children. The drop out rate has nearly doubled over the last two decades in Texas. Many programs that were previously there to aid our children have been underfunded and the educational system is in crisis. Private citizens like Benavides have risen to the challenge and not only gotten children and parents involved in striving to complete their high school degree, but also to have the potential and financial wherewithal to attend college.Education is Our Freedom is a well-recognized program spearheaded by Judge Joe A. Gonzalez and Joe Benavides. The program has aided over a hundred children who many in our community had given up on obtain not only their high school education but also attend college. The program has been such a success that funding and success rates have doubled each year since it inception. “We must help our children and pay for programs upfront. Whether you or a conservative or a liberal it is important to pay for preventative programs such as Education is Our Freedom in order to create a workforce that not only has education as a goal but that prepares today’s youth for the workforce tomorrow” said Benavides.We at the Defenzor wish to commend Mr. Benavides for the efforts he has made over several years and also his sacrifices for his country. His eldest son has followed in his father’s footsteps and has answered the call to duty and is a two year Marine Corps veteran and is soon to be deployed to Iraq. Joe Benavides is a man that has never stopped sacrificing and never stopped serving our country. In this New Year we extend our warmest wishes to Joe Benavides and the efforts he is making with at-risk teens. IF ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY WISHES TO HELP OUR YOUTH IN THESE PROGRAMS CONTACT JOE BENAVIDES AT 361-633-9308.Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL&lt;a href="http://nuecesdemocrats.blogspot.com/2007/12/we-dont-know-that-joe-benavides-will.html"&gt;Nueces Democrats: We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.caller.com/ccct/content/img/photos/2007/11/22/06_t600.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With this precinct I have not a vote however, the County Commissioners are engaged towards progress for our community as a whole.Dannoynted1:&lt;br /&gt;"Our Large Family attended the "Annual Feast of Sharing" event held at the Bayfront Plaza.Joe Benavides was one of our servers (i believe he was a soft drink server), and Mrs.Banales also was there with her husband.I will not talk about the burnt tamale(only I got) but lets just say the mashed potatoes were the best my man says the rolls were the best.Considering it is election time, I am surprised most politicians were absent. But with the way they rushed you out after you ate, You certainly did not have any time to "network".The candidates that did attend, I apologize for not mentioning you as I was there only a small window of time..."It was so different from the last time I went, which with regret, was not last year.I must say the food was better at the events that cost money."JK:We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent but I do know Joe was working and he volunteered out of his commitment to the community. Joe has over the years volunteered and donated his services diligently. One might argue he is only volunteering his time and services because he wants to "get elected".I dont believe this is the case. I have known Joe for a little over two years and I know his father. In the past, Joe Benavides has run a couple of times for office but, he volunteers regardless of whether he is running or not.Will Joe Benavides continue to volunteer if he wins?We can only know after we vote for him.We do know his incumbent opponent was not volunteering at the Feast of Sharing.We do know Joe Benavides' incumbent opponent was parading around with her hubby in tow. Was she making a statement? The message IMO was she is not worried about her challenger, she does not take him serious and she is not going to change her routine ways for her constituents. We do not know how she represents her constituency but we do know she is not going to change it.All we can do is allow Joe Benavides to tell us how is going to represent his constituents.We can ask him questions and hear his answers.With Joe Benavides' incumbent opponent we dont have to ask her anything because we have her record to refer to.The only thing I remember is that, "She could work harder" if she gave herself a pay raise.I also know she was walking around when she should have been working.As far as the Family name and integrity, we might should ask the ME about the trangressions.Ask her about the real reason she decided to run.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-defenzornet-nueces-democrats-we-dont.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;11:29 PM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=6900918519460648680"&gt;1 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-defenzornet-nueces-democrats-we-dont.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=6900918519460648680"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=6900918519460648680"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, December 28, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="7488977845260268261"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuecesdemocrats.blogspot.com/2007/12/we-dont-know-that-joe-benavides-will.html#links"&gt;Nueces Democrats: We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuecesdemocrats.blogspot.com/2007/12/we-dont-know-that-joe-benavides-will.html"&gt;Nueces Democrats: We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.caller.com/ccct/content/img/photos/2007/11/22/06_t600.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With this precinct I have not a vote however, the County Commissioners are engaged towards progress for our community as a whole.Dannoynted1:&lt;br /&gt;"Our Large Family attended the "Annual Feast of Sharing" event held at the Bayfront Plaza.Joe Benavides was one of our servers (i believe he was a soft drink server), and Mrs.Banales also was there with her husband.I will not talk about the burnt tamale(only I got) but lets just say the mashed potatoes were the best my man says the rolls were the best.Considering it is election time, I am surprised most politicians were absent. But with the way they rushed you out after you ate, You certainly did not have any time to "network".The candidates that did attend, I apologize for not mentioning you as I was there only a small window of time..."It was so different from the last time I went, which with regret, was not last year.I must say the food was better at the events that cost money."JK:We dont know that Joe Benavides will make a better Commissioner than the incumbent but I do know Joe was working and he volunteered out of his commitment to the community. Joe has over the years volunteered and donated his services diligently. One might argue he is only volunteering his time and services because he wants to "get elected".I dont believe this is the case. I have known Joe for a little over two years and I know his father. In the past, Joe Benavides has run a couple of times for office but, he volunteers regardless of whether he is running or not.Will Joe Benavides continue to volunteer if he wins?We can only know after we vote for him.We do know his incumbent opponent was not volunteering at the Feast of Sharing.We do know Joe Benavides' incumbent opponent was parading around with her hubby in tow. Was she making a statement? The message IMO was she is not worried about her challenger, she does not take him serious and she is not going to change her routine ways for her constituents. We do not know how she represents her constituency but we do know she is not going to change it.All we can do is allow Joe Benavides to tell us how is going to represent his constituents.We can ask him questions and hear his answers.With Joe Benavides' incumbent opponent we dont have to ask her anything because we have her record to refer to.The only thing I remember is that, "She could work harder" if she gave herself a pay raise.I also know she was walking around when she should have been working.As far as the Family name and integrity, we might should ask the ME about the trangressions.Ask her about the real reason she decided to run.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/nueces-democrats-we-dont-know-that-joe.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;2:58 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=7488977845260268261"&gt;1 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/nueces-democrats-we-dont-know-that-joe.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=7488977845260268261"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=7488977845260268261"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="4469102636110832089"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://parkdalebank.blogspot.com/2007/12/ray-mc-murrey-is-from-here-he-still.html#links"&gt;Parkdale Bank: Ray Mc Murrey Is From Here, He Still Believes Like It Says In The Intro, "I'll be a straight-shooter &amp;amp; a square-dealer "&amp;amp; He Does "Reme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://parkdalebank.blogspot.com/2007/12/ray-mc-murrey-is-from-here-he-still.html"&gt;Parkdale Bank: Ray Mc Murrey Is From Here, He Still Believes Like It Says In The Intro, "I'll be a straight-shooter &amp;amp; a square-dealer "&amp;amp; He Does "Remember The Alamo"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R3SyK5dRn3I/AAAAAAAAAnA/T-tSsWNJCGM/s1600-h/ray+mcmurrey.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'll be as hardy of mind as I am of body. I'll be a straight-shooter and a square-dealer. My family name will be sacred My word will be as good as any contract. I'll remember the Alamo. I'll stick by my friends. And I'll eat more chicken-fried steak."&lt;br /&gt;"We do not win by replacing a corporate Republican with a corporate Democrat," said Mr. McMurrey, speaking to about a dozen supporters at an East Austin residence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R3SxJZdRn1I/AAAAAAAAAmw/yM_9fu_52LA/s1600-h/corp+dem+rep.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ray told me this before he spoke at his Official Announcement to run against the Corporate Democratic Military Industrial Complex Candidate for Texas US Senator.A very passionate candidate who is anything other than a fake or what some like to call a politician.Ray is not a Politician and this is a very very positive attribute.Dont get me wrong he is very well suited for the Senate and the diplomacy is there but there is a sternness that demands his respect kind of like the respect and command he possesses in the classroom. I think we can all agree, if he can handle our youth in the classroom he will do well for us in Washington.Two more thingsRemember the AlamoandStay tuned for Jan 2 next year.&lt;br /&gt;"We do not win by replacing a corporate Republican with a corporate Democrat," said Mr. McMurrey, speaking to about a dozen supporters at an East Austin residence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R3SxJZdRn2I/AAAAAAAAAm4/qILAvuNVaKQ/s1600-h/corporate+dem.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ray Mc Murrey is from Corpus Christi.He tells us upfront of his progressive leanings and his disappointment in both of the Hegemonic Parties.Hegemony,.... Watch the Movie "Hot Fuzz".&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/parkdale-bank-ray-mc-murrey-is-from.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;1:14 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4469102636110832089"&gt;0 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/parkdale-bank-ray-mc-murrey-is-from.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4469102636110832089"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4469102636110832089"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, December 21, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="8161473371230405581"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html"&gt;“Vela is doing what he needs to do to get his candidates in to win.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html"&gt;FIL VELA: THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS: REPRINTED FROM EL DEFENZOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R2voVHfTvjI/AAAAAAAAAks/4LOhx3ThQxs/s1600-h/ProdigalSon-752023.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, December 16, 2007&lt;a name="228629053827516433"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/prodigal-son.html"&gt;THE PRODIGAL SON&lt;/a&gt;THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS???&lt;br /&gt;FILEMON B. VELA, JR.Backed by a prestigious background in politics and son of the late and great Federal &lt;a href="http://lovespiritualfruit.blogspot.com/2007/12/judge-filemon-b-vela-sr-value-of.html"&gt;Judge Filemon B.Vela, Sr.&lt;/a&gt;, “Fil” Vela has risen to power on his own over the last decade and half. Many consider him a political genius while others, such as members of the Trial Lawyers “Club” in town view him as a dangerous threat to their survival. Now that he is controlling his vast power and law firm which has merged with the former power Lyons and Rhodes of Houston and San Antonio, many of the old guard which are the white and powerful “Yacht Club” trial lawyers have run for cover. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R2vrR3fTvkI/AAAAAAAAAk0/vbMwLbHWrqI/s1600-h/ivy+league.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many believe that this Ivy league trained (Georgetown and U.T. Law) bilingual son of a federal judge although very modest and low-key, is one of the greatest political strategists and true politicos that South Texas has ever seen. His blue eyes and light features coupled with his modest dress and low-key manner lull many into believing that this man of modest appearance is of no serious consequence, but those in the political know realize that “Fil” has connections from Brownsville, Texas to Washington D.C. that run deep for decades and woe to those who challenge him politically.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R2vrz3fTvlI/AAAAAAAAAk8/v1q2nNi7u5M/s1600-h/US_hegemony.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vela’s movement in the shadows and chess-like and political warlike mentality led many to follow him, especially when he was the Democratic leader along with Kingmaker and attorney Rene Rodriguez in the 90’s and early 2000’s in Nueces County. After 2003, some believed that his “leaving” Corpus Christi was a sign of weakness, but now many are learning the hard way since the 2006 cycle that this thought was dead wrong; rather, Vela according to the Southside Defender sources was creating a vast web of contacts on the Democratic and Republican side to form a steel mesh that would ensure that his chosen candidates would achieve victory whether they be Republicans in Corpus Christi or Democrats in San Antonio.Many Democrats in South Texas were bitterly disappointed when his wife Rose Vela ran as a Republican and announced the same in January of 2006 but now others believe that Vela is supporting candidates on both sides of aisle including Democrats in San Antonio, however, over the last year their has been no complaints over her rulings now in a higher court or when she was on the bench for a decade in the 148th District Court as a Democrat. One politico commented, “Vela is doing what he needs to do to get his candidates in to win. Who really cares if a judge is Democrat or Republican if they are going to be fair and middle of the road? Look at Tom Greenwell…he is the only Republican Judge in Nueces County on the district level and has the overwhelming support of the public and of lawyers and what horrible fate has occurred to the voters of South Texas with him being in the last 6 years? Nothing! Is Vela hypocritical? Aren’t Democratic politicos who have their hand out and wear three layers of different candidates t-shirts over each other on election day and display the t-shirt from the candidate that is paying them the most the real hypocrites?”Many have rumored that Vela caused great rifts and crossover in the Democrat party by his landslide victory of his wife Rose Vela in the Court of Appeals races. Most thought that there would be no way that Rose would win so handedly in a several county race including Hidalgo, Nueces and Cameron but she did. Not only did she do that but her victory helped “pull” votes for other candidates such as Sheriff Kaelin (who is a force of nature himself) and County Judge Lloyd Neil. Still others believe that the leadership void that was left by Fil was taken over by the white patrones like “Compadre Watts” who presently has his own troubles after resigning from his “Exploratory Committee” for U.S. Senate. Family reasons were claimed as the reason for the resignation but many firmly believe it was the scandals with Thomas J. Henry as the accuser and Mauricio Celis being the accused over the last several weeks.What is happening in Nueces County and other areas for the paradox of more democrats crossing over while the rest of the nation has Republican fatigue? In a nation that grows tired of the Iraq war and repeated Republican scandals, South Texas seems behind the times by a decade and playing catch up on the Republican side. OR is it more likely that Republicans realize that the values and virtues they extol, of conservatism, family and hands off business are parallel with born citizen Mexican Americans and new immigrants? Definitely when Karl Rove was the key note speaker at the Bay Area Citizens against Lawsuit Abuse (BACALA) event on November 27, 2007 there was a diverse demographic representation of 50% Anglo and 50% Hispanic with a few African Americans and Asians in the crowd. Approximately 2000 people attended. One noted politico made the comment that, “these people in BACALA are steamrolling…the Celis and Watts issues are boiling over…we can’t even get the Caller Times to publish the issues and show the problems some lawyers are causing and political scandals occurring in Corpus and the San Antonio Express News’ John McCormick is educating us about our own backyard through the paper and on the web site &lt;a href="http://www.mysa.com/"&gt;www.mysa.com&lt;/a&gt;”. Many feel the frustration that this politico who wished to remain anonymous has.Even the local politicos and media personalities have had vigorous debates about the phenomena over taquitos and coffee. Many hope that the Democrats can maintain their seats and contend that South Texas has always been a stronghold for Democrats and does not fall in line with many of the ultraconservative agendas that individuals like Karl Rove pushed for over the last several years. Others who decided to vote split ticket or follow the “Velacrats” led by Rose and Fil Vela and turn Republican are of the contention that Fil Vela has made it “easier” for many Hispanics who relate to conservative values to crossover and the continuous tumult in the Democratic party itself leads to the ability for the Republicans to make inroads with Hispanics. One politico stated: “You look at the numbers and South Texas is almost doing a “180” of what the rest of the country is doing…slowly but surely Republicans have been gaining traction in South Texas and it is likely that Texas will stay Republican controlled at least for the near future.”It is uncertain whether or not one man like Filemon B. Vela, Jr. can be seen as the person changing politics in South Texas but it is for certain that he started an avalanche that you cannot reverse. Whether he is seen as a political mastermind or the “Darth Vader” of politics is an opinion that is split among many. Hundreds of Democrats are still loyal to him and showed it in the 2006 election voted for Rose Vela his wife who won handedly. To complicate matters more, many Hispanics no longer identify with the Democratic Party which has proven to be a party of many camps fighting against each other and occasionally but not often uniting together. Democrats are under crisis and many are drawing opponents including an unconfirmed rumor, all three of the State Representatives, Ortiz, Herrero and Garcia. Mr. Herrero may even be facing an independent from Robstown to complicate matters although again such information is unconfirmed. Many democrats who admire Fil only wish that he was not Republican which begs the question: Would many Hispanics crossover and join Fil on the other side?Time will tell if the movement that spread across America will finally trickle down to South Texas and cause many to switch far right in the political spectrum paradoxically as the nation may very well shift center or left. Republican Nueces County Chair Bertuzzi hopes this to be the case due to the recent scandals brought out by trial lawyers and the suspect campaign contributions associated with the scandals which may further cripple and weaken the democratic party which relied on heavy money from individuals such as Mauricio Celis and Mikal Watts who for years were the “Patrones”. Other factors such as the uncovering of possible voter fraud in Robstown by local “politiceras” in 2006 and the other individuals who many feel have “their hand out” in the Democratic party to create and entrepreneurship out of politics may have turned many average Democrats off. It is rumored that the Republicans desire to have a candidate against every seated Democratic official in South Texas. These factors combined may further cripple the already fragile Democratic controlled Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Valley.Perhaps the bleeding of Red (Republican) and Blue (Democrats) colors into one may be beneficial to all of us. Many believe that you cannot sustain Democratic controlled counties in South Texas with the latest series of scandals involving lawyers and Karl Rove reading the now infamous letter by Mikal Watts stating that he has great influence over judges in South Texas to the applause of many at the BACALA event. Many believe you cannot sustain an attack from within and from without. A group is truly only conquered when they themselves turn from their beliefs from within which may be happening here with the Democratic party. Only a strong and unified front may save the control in South Texas by the Democratic party from the party of Lincoln. But can the Democrats truly be saved if young and powerful men like Vela are blazing a path that is uncertain as to whether their choice is Republican or Democratic one?MORE TO COME IN OUR NEXT ISSUE AS THE POLITICAL SEASON IN SOUTH TEXAS HEATS UP.HOMERO VILLARREAL&lt;br /&gt;Posted by HOMERO VILLARREAL at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;5:04 PM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2883037529350619792&amp;amp;postID=4197675812634952814"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="comments"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 comments:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="c4657619472521632657"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12787459880135027366" rel="nofollow"&gt;Jaime Kenedeño&lt;/a&gt; said...&lt;br /&gt;Hey Homer, Nice to see your work back on the web. Whenever you need anything, we are here. Well anything we can provide. Now to the business at hand.Why is the Velacrat here in our City?&lt;a href="http://choreographichegemony.blogspot.com/2007/12/texas-monthly-web-press-fil-junior-john.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Fil Junior only seeks a Federal Bench for Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bayareacitizensagainstlawsuitabuse.blogspot.com/2007/12/abel-hererro-has-proven-himself-and-his.html#links" rel="nofollow"&gt;Velacrat is making friends with the Federal Entrapment gang and sycophants up to the ones he believes will elevate his Rose to a Federal Judicial Bench.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="comment permalink" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html#c4657619472521632657"&gt;December 20, 2007 11:16 PM &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Delete Comment" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=2883037529350619792&amp;amp;postID=4657619472521632657"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="c4795326984308789791"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12787459880135027366" rel="nofollow"&gt;Jaime Kenedeño&lt;/a&gt; said...&lt;br /&gt;I am going to digest the rest of the articles and will respond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="comment permalink" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html#c4795326984308789791"&gt;December 20, 2007 11:18 PM &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Delete Comment" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=2883037529350619792&amp;amp;postID=4795326984308789791"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="c5216891859272983476"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15795373675527175441" rel="nofollow"&gt;HOMERO VILLARREAL&lt;/a&gt; said...&lt;br /&gt;provide defenzor.net&lt;br /&gt;Article Links&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=close&amp;amp;toggle=YEARLY-1167638400000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1196496000000"&gt;▼ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=12"&gt;2007&lt;/a&gt; (12)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="toggle" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&amp;amp;widgetId=BlogArchive1&amp;amp;action=toggle&amp;amp;dir=close&amp;amp;toggle=MONTHLY-1196496000000&amp;amp;toggleopen=MONTHLY-1196496000000"&gt;▼ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="post-count-link" href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html"&gt;December&lt;/a&gt; (12)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/fil-vela-prodigal-son-returns-reprinted.html"&gt;FIL VELA: THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS: REPRINTED FROM...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/joe-benavides-against-peggy-banales.html"&gt;JOE BENAVIDES AGAINST PEGGY BANALES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-republicans-think-about.html"&gt;WHAT THE REPUBLICANS THINK ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND H...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/promises-promises-promises.html"&gt;PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/defenzor-welcomes-american-prince.html"&gt;DEFENZOR WELCOMES THE AMERICAN PRINCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/celis-mounting-his-defense-to-civil-and.html"&gt;CELIS MOUNTING HIS DEFENSE TO CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://eldefenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/car-accident-man-dies-minutes-after.html"&gt;car accident. 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Below, the most recent material submitted to be included in the public comments for public viewing. On a positive note, we take it as a compliment.&lt;a href="http://ccwatchdog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Corpus Christi Watchdog Authority: Guy Watts filed for divorce on last Friday 12/07/2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/corpus-christi-watchdog-authority-guy.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;12:19 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4082410035641723769"&gt;4 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/corpus-christi-watchdog-authority-guy.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4082410035641723769"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4082410035641723769"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, December 09, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="8296444460378099235"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bayareacitizensagainstlawsuitabuse.blogspot.com/2007/12/abel-hererro-has-proven-himself-and-his.html#links"&gt;B.A.C.A.L.A.: Velacrat is making friends with the Federal Entrapment gang and sycophants up to the ones he believes will elevate his Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bayareacitizensagainstlawsuitabuse.blogspot.com/2007/12/abel-hererro-has-proven-himself-and-his.html"&gt;B.A.C.A.L.A.: Abel Herrero has proven himself and his record is there for all to see; he is a fine representative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R1vMG4uu2pI/AAAAAAAAAis/yDPbvqDQ_qE/s1600-h/herrero+speaking+in+craddick+coupe.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Abel Herrero has proven himself and his record is there for all to see. I am proud of Abel, he is a fine representative.There is a natural law I always like to follow, "If it isnt broke , then it don't need fixin".On the other hand,&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R1vTg4uu2sI/AAAAAAAAAjE/fEG87QWm3GI/s1600-h/rose+pink.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bc77sdkuuEI/RvDEUCyHiMI/AAAAAAAAAOA/sb6P4KG8rYg/s1600/rhodes%2Bvela.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Velacrat is making friends with the Federal Entrapment gang and sycophants up to the ones he believes will elevate his Rose to a Federal Judicial Bench.&lt;a href="http://googleurself.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-fil-vela-going-into-fraud-abuse.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Is Fil Vela going into the fraud abuse prosecution racket &amp;amp; the manufacturing of fraud abuse prosecutions? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R1vSCouu2rI/AAAAAAAAAi8/9-xy-GdvQBs/s1600-h/14_ground_snare_335.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleurself.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-fil-vela-going-into-fraud-abuse.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Inroads (for GOP) into South Texas?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R1vQpouu2qI/AAAAAAAAAi0/oxoxhaJUaF0/s1600-h/king+rangers.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://dannoynted1-thinktank.blogspot.com/2006/08/hurt-injured-need-lawyer-too-bad.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Hurt? Injured? Need a Lawyer? Too Bad!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R1vUTouu2tI/AAAAAAAAAjM/O3pyrcI7pTs/s1600-h/explorer+crashed.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stopcornyn.com/2007/08/20/cornyns-broken-promise-on-chip/" rel="nofollow"&gt;TLR??&lt;/a&gt; ..................................three little bitty letters; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wHuknpJGtBM/R1vKJ4uu2oI/AAAAAAAAAik/0gJVnKE7irg/s1600-h/TLR+collage.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nah, I wouldnt worry bout em.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/bacala-velacrat-is-making-friends-with.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;3:56 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=8296444460378099235"&gt;1 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/12/bacala-velacrat-is-making-friends-with.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=8296444460378099235"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=8296444460378099235"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, November 15, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="4121003113548482537"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stxwatchdog.blogspot.com/2007/11/bill-for-creation-of-robstown-nueces.html#links"&gt;South Texas Judicial Watch Dog Authority: A Bill for the Creation of a Robstown Nueces County Constitutional Judge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Dick Cheney can shoot who he pleases and whenever he chooses to; after all was not Bo Hubert (John John's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguinity"&gt;Consanguinity&lt;/a&gt;) one of the ones who covered the incident up for the inebriated Dick ?&lt;a href="http://stxwatchdog.blogspot.com/2007/11/bill-for-creation-of-robstown-nueces.html"&gt;South Texas Judicial Watch Dog Authority: I submit the legislation to be illegal, unconstitutional and in violation of election codes, government codes and a circumvention of trickery to spite the failed legislation that attempted (and failed) to create a new Judicial district in Kleberg &amp;amp; Kenedy Counties.&lt;/a&gt;Sen Bill 1951 of the 80th Leg: 1 District Court with 2 District Attorneys no where else but the 105 Posted on November 14, 2007 at 11:52:34 PM by Jaime KenedenoIsn't that like having 2 Attorney Generals for the same state.Can a County elect 2 County AttorneysCan a County have 2 County Attorneys for the same county.ADA's &amp;amp; ACA's are not elected nor are they appointed to serve by the Governor.I submit the legislation to be illegal, unconstitutional and in violation of election codes, government codes and a circumvention of trickery to spite the failed legislation that attempted to create a new district in Kleberg &amp;amp; Kenedy Counties.The legislation that created the New District Attorney Position in Kleberg &amp;amp; Kenedy County must be challenged.There is only one district.There can only exist 1 District Attorney per District."Anything else, would be uncivilized"&lt;a href="http://423judicialdistrict.blogspot.com/"&gt;Senate Bill 1951 of the 80th Legislature&lt;/a&gt;Political Bigomy After All Karl Rove is From UtahPosted on November 15, 2007 at 00:41:33 AM by Jaime KenedenoIs it not illegal for two to be espoused to one?Think we can legislate another Congressional Rep for the 27th Cong Dist to help Solomon with the "backlog" of legislation in the applicable counties.The precedent has been created get busy and start exploiting it.A Robstown Nueces County Constitutional Judge?Create a County Constitutional Judge's office for both Robstown &amp;amp; Calallen/Annavile, and get Gov. Rick Perry to give the nod to Patti or Randolph Boothe or Sam Keech as first County Constitutional Judge of Robstown &amp;amp; Calallen/Annaville.Political Bigomy After All Karl Rove is From UtahPosted on November 15, 2007 at 00:41:33 AM by Jaime KenedenoIs it not illegal for two to be espoused to one?Think we can legislate another Congressional Rep for the 27th Cong Dist to help Solomon with the "backlog" of legislation in the applicable counties.The precedent has been created get busy and start exploiting it.A Robstown Nueces County Constitutional Judge?Create a County Constitutional Judge's office for both Robstown &amp;amp; Calallen/Annavile, and get Gov. Rick Perry to give the nod to Patti or Randolph Boothe or Sam Keech as first County Constitutional Judge of Robstown &amp;amp; Calallen/Annaville.&lt;br /&gt;Potential Juror 26........Posted on November 15, 2007 at 00:59:29 AM by d1was told "Just trying to stay out of trouble"....LIAR...because If you were "you lied"!Go back to Iraq where they need your kind of prosecution......I forgot your Farsi/Arabic sucks."Your Honor, I'm gonna have to spend the rest of the summer in the library"More like the rest of your life......Your hate is well documented as you can READ English, do you understand/comprehend English?TLR/Totally Live Recognition........Now, Dick Cheney can shoot who he pleases and whenever he choices to.With you in his pocket....no need to utilize Jaime Powell.WATT is the Number of the Judicial District for this so called District AttorneyPosted on November 15, 2007 at 01:21:39 AM by Jaime KenedenoSec. 43.182. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR KLEBERG AND KENEDYCOUNTIES. (a) The voters of Kleberg and Kenedy Counties elect adistrict attorney. The district attorney has the same powers andduties as other district attorneys and serves the district courtsof Kleberg and Kenedy Counties.(b) The district attorney shall attend each term and sessionof the district courts of Kleberg and Kenedy Counties and shallrepresent the state in criminal cases pending in those courts. Thedistrict attorney has control of any case heard on petition of writof habeas corpus before any district or inferior court in thedistrict.(c) The commissioners courts of the counties comprising thedistrict may supplement the state salary of the district attorney.The amount of the supplement may not exceed $12,000 a year. Thesupplemental salary must be paid proportionately by thecommissioners court of each county according to the population ofthe county. The supplemental salary may be paid from the officers'salary fund of a county. If that fund is inadequate, thecommissioners court may transfer the necessary funds from thegeneral fund of the county.The Legislation Failed but if you notice the language is the samePosted on November 15, 2007 at 01:26:39 AM by Jaime KenedenoSec.i24.567.ii423RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT (KENEDY AND KLEBERG COUNTIES). (a) The 423rd Judicial District is composed of Kenedy and Kleberg Counties.(b)iiThe 423rd District Court shall give preference to criminal cases.(c)iiIn addition to other jurisdiction provided by law, the 423rd District Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the county courts in Kenedy and Kleberg Counties and the statutory county court in Kleberg County over all matters of civil and criminal3832 79th Legislature — Regular Session 79th Dayjurisdiction, original and appellate, in cases over which a county court has jurisdiction under the constitution and laws of this state. Matters and proceedings in the concurrent jurisdiction of the 423rd District Court and the county court or county court at law may be filed in either court and all cases of concurrent jurisdiction may be transferred between the 423rd District Court, the county court, and the county court at law. However, a case may not be transferred from one court to another without the consent of the judge of the court to which it is transferred, and a case may not be transferred unless it is within the jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred.(b)iiSection 24.207, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:Sec.i24.207.ii105TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ([KENEDY, KLEBERG, AND] NUECES COUNTY [COUNTIES]). (a) The 105th Judicial District is composed of [Kenedy, Kleberg, and] Nueces County [counties]. The court shall give preference to criminal cases.(b)iiThe terms of the 105th District Court begin[:[(1)iiin Kenedy County on the first Mondays in June and December;[(2)iiin Kleberg County on the first Mondays in April and October; and[(3)iiin Nueces County] on the first Mondays in February and August.(c)iiThe judge, with the approval of the commissioners court, may appoint an official interpreter of the court [in Nueces County] who serves at the will of the judge. The official interpreter shall take both the constitutional oath of office and an oath that he will faithfully interpret all testimony in the district court as official interpreter. The oath is sufficient for his service as official interpreter in all cases in the court [in Nueces County] during the interpreter's term of office. The judge may also assign the official interpreter to assist the court's probation officer in the discharge of the probation officer's duties.(c)iiThe heading to Section 43.148, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:Sec.i43.148.iiKENEDY, KLEBERG, AND NUECES COUNTIES [105TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT].(d)iiSubsections (a) and (c), Section 43.148, Government Code, are amended to read as follows:(a)iiThe voters of Kenedy, Kleberg, and Nueces counties [the 105th Judicial District] elect a district attorney. The district attorney has the same powers and duties as other district attorneys and serves all the district, county, and justice courts of Nueces County and the district courts of Kleberg and Kenedy counties.(c)iiThe commissioners courts of Kenedy, Kleberg, and Nueces [the] counties [comprising the district] may supplement the state salary of the district attorney. The amount of the supplement may not exceed $12,000 a year. The supplemental salary must be paid proportionately by the commissioners court of each county according to the population of the county. The supplemental salary may be paid from the officers' salary fund of a county. If that fund is inadequate, the commissioners court may transfer the necessary funds from the general fund of the county.(e)iiThe local administrative district judge shall transfer all cases from Kenedy and Kleberg Counties that are pending in the 105th District Court on September 1, 2005, to the 423rd District Court.Thursday, May 26, 2005 SENATE JOURNAL 3833(f)iiWhen a case is transferred as provided by Subsection (e) of this section, all processes, writs, bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the 105th District Court are returnable to the 423rd District Court as if originally issued by that court. The obligees on all bonds and recognizances taken in and for the 105th District Court and all witnesses summoned to appear in the 105th District Court are required to appear before the 423rd District Court as if originally required to appear before that court.(g)iiThe 423rd Judicial District is created September 1, 2005.SECTIONi7.ii(a)iiEffective January 1, 2007, Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 24.569 to read as follows:&lt;a href="http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/sjrnl/79r/html/sj05-26-f.htm"&gt;Failed Creation of the 423rd District&lt;/a&gt;Why did they try to create the 423rd Judcial District?Posted on November 15, 2007 at 01:36:58 AM by Jaime KenedenoSounds like how Hitler thoughtDid they think they needed a new Judicial District to create the new District Attorney position?We have here in this situation a District Attorney without a Judicial District.Tell me I am wrong and back it up, any takers?&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" title="permanent link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/11/south-texas-judicial-watch-dog.html" rel="bookmark"&gt;12:17 AM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4121003113548482537"&gt;0 comments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="comment-link" href="http://defenzor.blogspot.com/2007/11/south-texas-judicial-watch-dog.html#links"&gt;Links to this post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4121003113548482537"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=20766095&amp;amp;postID=4121003113548482537"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, October 28, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="5471858909607151573"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/edu/hedcew5-103.000/hedcew5-103.htm"&gt;H.R. 3189, PARENTAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H.R. 3189, PARENTAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACTHEARINGBEFORE THESUBCOMMITTEE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD,YOUTH AND FAMILIESOF THECOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION ANDTHE WORKFORCEHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESSSECOND SESSIONHEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 7, 1998Serial No. 105-103Printed for the use of the Committee on Educationand the WorkforceTABLE OF CONTENTSSTATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN KUCINICH FROM THE STATE OF OHIO *STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN ROEMER FROM THE STATE OF INDIANA *STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN MARTINEZ FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA *STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN TIAHRT FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS *STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN LARGENT FROM THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA *STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN GREEN FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS *STATEMENT OF JOHN REINHARD, PARENT *STATEMENT OF CINDY DELULLO, PARENT *STATEMENT OF LARRY DAVIS, MATHEMATICS TEACHER, ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS *STATEMENT OF DANIEL DOMENECH, SUPERINTENDENT, FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS *STATEMENT OF JIM MEANS, PRINCIPAL, WEST HIGH SCHOOL, WICHITA, KANSAS *STATEMENT OF JEFFREY K. TAYLOR, ACTING DIRECTOR FOR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, CHRISTIAN COALITION *APPENDIX A -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN MARTINEZ FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA *APPENDIX B -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN TIAHRT FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS *APPENDIX C -- VALUES APPRAISAL TEST *APPENDIX D -- SEXUALITY SEMINAR TEST [PLEASE NOTE THIS MATERIAL MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN] *APPENDIX E -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF JOHN REINHARD, PARENT *APPENDIX F -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CINDY DELULLO, PARENT *H.R. 3189, PARENTAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACTMay 7, 1998House of RepresentativesSubcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and FamiliesCommittee on Education and the WorkforceWashington, DCThe Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:00 A.M., in Room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building, Representative Frank Riggs [Chairman of the Subcommittee] presiding.Present: Representatives Riggs, Souder, Martinez, Payne, Roemer, Scott, and Kucinich.Staff Present: Sally Lovejoy, Senior Education Policy Advisor; Kent Talbert, Professional Staff Member; Rich Stombres, Legislative Assistant; June L. Harris, Minority Education Coordinator; Alex Nock, Minority Legislative Associate; and Roxana Folescu, Minority Staff Assistant.Chairman Riggs. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I would like to call to order this hearing of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families on House Resolution 3189, the Parental Freedom of Information Act, offered in this session of Congress by our good friend and colleague, Congressman Tiahrt of Kansas.It is a pleasure to welcome each of you here today, and I want to tell all of our witnesses at the very commencement of our hearing that I very much look forward to your testimony. My name is Frank Riggs. I represent the First District of California and I chair the Subcommittee.More than ever before, policymakers need to rally behind parents and families. Why do I say this? Well, obviously when families are strong and healthy, our country is healthy. Families, after all, are the basic unit of society around which cultures are organized. And parents, as the leaders of families, play the number one role in determining the strength and the health of the family.I might add that the idea of stronger families in communities is a common theme and a common, if you will, cause that unites Congressional Republicans as we work to lower taxes, to build a smaller but more effective Federal Government and stronger families and communities. Too often the Federal Government has not been family-friendly in the policies that the executive branch of government has set and in the laws enacted by the Congress, the legislative branch of the Federal Government. Too often Federal laws have not recognized and respected the primary role of parents in the education of their children.In some instances, as I think we may hear today, schools have been outright hostile to parents. If anything, education in our country should respect and acknowledge the key role of parents in the upbringing of their children. Everyone knows that when parents are actively engaged in the education of their children and remain engaged, the children do better.In fact, I want to note for the record that in the experimental or pilot choice programs that we are finding now in the Milwaukee and Cleveland public schools, the early data suggests that there is a correlation between parental involvement, a greater parental satisfaction with the education that the children of those parents are receiving, and, we believe and this is where the data is most encouraging a corresponding increase in student achievement and pupil performance.Yet in some instances parents face roadblocks put in their way by local school and State education authorities. Unfortunately, parents are sometimes treated like outsiders. The bill before us today by Congressman Tiahrt takes the opposite approach. Rather than shutting parents out of the educational process, it seeks to bring them in. It seeks to include, rather than exclude.We have an obligation to do all we can to promote policies which actively engage parents, which welcome parents as full partners into the classroom, which fully disclose what is being taught in the curriculum at that particular school and in that particular school district, and would seek parental consent on major life issues involving their children.At this time I want to again thank our witnesses for their participation in our hearing. On the first panel, which has already been seated, we will hear from three colleagues: Congressman Tiahrt, who is, as I mentioned at the outset of the hearing, is the sponsor of the legislation before the committee today; Representative Steve Largent of Oklahoma, one of the key leaders on family and Parental Freedom of Information Act issues in the Congress; and Representative Gene Green, a former Member of this committee.On the second panel we will hear from two parents, Dr. John Reinhard and Cindy Delullo I hope I am pronouncing it right; one school superintendent, Dr. Daniel Domenech; a principal, Mr. Jim Means; a teacher, Mr. Larry Davis; and Mr. Jeff Taylor of the Christian Coalition.So with that I will conclude my opening statement. The Ranking Member of the Subcommittee, Congressman Matthew Martinez, has not yet arrived. When he does, time permitting, we will recognize him for an opening statement.At this time I would yield to either one of my colleagues or both of my colleagues if they care to make an opening statement. Mr. Kucinich?STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN KUCINICH FROM THE STATE OF OHIOMr. Kucinich. I want to thank the Chair for calling this hearing. I think you are raising some issues that certainly need to be discussed. I certainly favor parents being more involved in the schools. Whether or not that needs to be codified is an issue of debate here.I will be unfortunately having to go to welcome a group of students who are coming in from Ohio to our Nation's Capitol. But there is one bit of advice I would like to offer, quite friendly advice, I might say, to some of the panelists. Having read the testimony of some of the witnesses not Members, I might add who are prepared to testify, I note in some of the testimony what I would consider remarks that would tend to impugn the position on this issue of Members of Congress. And I would caution witnesses about coming before a congressional committee and doing that, just a little bit of friendly advice.So thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I look forward to your meeting today.Chairman Riggs. Thank you, Mr. Kucinich. Mr. Roemer.STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN ROEMER FROM THE STATE OF INDIANAMr. Roemer. Mr. Chairman, I don't have a formal opening statement but I do want to make two comments. One, I want to welcome my colleagues, Mr. Largent and Mr. Tiahrt from the Science Committee, where they previously served and oftentimes took some controversial positions, especially my good friend from Oklahoma who has fought with me on a couple of different issues. I welcome them and welcome their testimony.I also want to welcome my good friend from Texas, who is a previous Member of this Education Committee, where he made a host of substantive contributions to improving access for children across the country to higher education in particular.I am one who believes very, very forcefully in parental involvement in our schools. We have got a lot of problems in our schools, and there is no single one solution that is going to solve those problems, but parental involvement seems to me to be one of the keys. Parental involvement in my life was one of the keys, when my mom and dad became more involved, when there was cooperation between the school and my family home.I look forward to the testimony today, and I look forward to learning ideas from Democrats and Republicans as to how we get more parental involvement in this country. I thank the Chairman.Chairman Riggs. Thank you, Mr. Roemer. And the Ranking Member, Mr. Martinez.STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN MARTINEZ FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIAMr. Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.I have a statement but I am going to submit it to the record so we can get to the witnesses. I just want to say, you know, in all of my years of my children going to school and when I went to school, I can remember organization after organization always encouraging parents to get involved in what is happening in the school.You know, school is really not successful unless the parents get involved. The more deeply parents get involved, the more successful the school, as evidenced by those schools in more affluent districts where the parents are actually strong supporters of the school and form booster clubs and support in every way they can all the activities and extracurricular activities.I never really heard, even in my area where there are some schools that are in the neighborhoods with a lower socioeconomic background of people living there, that they would ever deny a parent any access to any information. The school board, as a matter of fact, all the school boards are locally elected, and those school boards, those elected officials and I am sure my Chairman, Mr. Riggs, can agree with me because he was a school board member are always attentive to the constituents and their requests. If one of those people came to them requesting information about the school and the curriculum in school and all the other activities that the school is undertaking, those school board members would certainly make sure that that school board, that that school or that school administration made sure that the parents had that information.I don't know I don't think any of us are against parental involvement or against parents knowing what is happening in the schools. I am not sure exactly what we are trying to accomplish here. If you want to set up a court system or provide employment opportunities for attorneys, that is great. But I think we ought to be very careful as we move forward in over-regulating or, like they said last night on the Floor so many times, micromanaging local school boards. I think we have to be careful of that.So I will submit my statement for the record, and I look forward to hearing from the witnesses, especially our colleagues. Whenever our colleagues appear before us, we can be sure that it is going to be insightful and informed information. Thank you.SEE APPENDIX A -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN MARTINEZ FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIAChairman Riggs. Thank you, Congressman Martinez.On February 11th of this year, Congressman Tiahrt of Kansas introduced House Resolution 3198, which is similar to bills that he has introduced in the past on parental rights. There are currently 60 cosponsors of that legislation, and perhaps more since this particular bulletin was published. Members of the committee who are cosponsors of this legislation are Congressmen Souder, Talent, McIntosh, Peterson, Graham, Hilleary, Norwood, and Hoekstra.Congressman Tiahrt, we are pleased that you could be with us this morning. Please proceed with your testimony.STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN TIAHRT FROM THE STATE OF KANSASMr. Tiahrt. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to take this opportunity to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I will submit formal testimony for the record and somewhat summarize my remarks.Chairman Riggs. I would just interject to say, the entire written testimony of all of our witnesses will appear in the record, so feel free to abbreviate or make other remarks.Mr. Tiahrt. I also want to thank the members of the committee for this hearing. I think this is a very important piece of legislation, and I appreciate the opportunity to talk about how we can bring parents and teachers together with a goal of strengthening goals and improving the education of children.I have been actively involved in education for some time. I am a graduate of public schools. My children attend public schools. My wife taught in public schools. I have served as a Member of the Education Committee in the Kansas State Senate. I have also taught at the college level, where nearly all of my students were products of public schools.From my observations, which include teaching, parent-teacher meetings, speaking with teachers, administrators, parents, it is quite obvious that students do best and schools do best when parents are actively involved in their child's education. For some reason, when parents care about the quality of their child's education, the child cares more about being educated.So what my legislation does is encourage parents to be more involved in their child's education by removing barriers that currently exist, barriers that prevent parents from being involved.This bill, H.R. 3189, is the Parental Freedom of Information Act. As I said, its basic purpose is to get parents involved in education. It does that by clarifying FERPA or the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.Let me go back to 1974 when Senator Buckley brought to the Floor the amendment called FERPA. He brought it there with the intention of bringing parents into the education process by opening up school educational materials. I believe this was good policy, Congress believed it was good policy, and it became the law of the land.However, in some places the law is vague; particularly when explaining educational records, where the law lists records, files, documents and other materials which contain information directly related to a student. From the record of the Floor debate, it is clear that Senator Buckley's legislation intended to include curriculum and testing material.But now across America there remains some conclusion about what parents can see in order to help their children. There is been a considerable amount of court action and many frustrated parents, teachers and school systems that have struggled to determine what the law means. The mix of State and Federal law has contributed to this frustration. Our office has been contacted by dozens of people who have, and we have a long list of court cases, all trying to find a little clarification to a very good concept.My goal is simple. I want to clarify existing law and bring parents into the education process of their children. This bill achieves that goal in three ways.First, it provides access by defining instructional material and specifically listing textbooks, audiovisual material, manuals, journals, films, tapes and other materials supplemental to the education curriculum of a child.Second, the bill defines testing material, again, providing access to tests without answering, of course without the answers, of course, or excluding and it does exclude standardized tests.Third, it involves parents when the school requires a medical, psychological or a psychiatric exam at the school.This is not a complicated bill. It is a simple clarification of existing Federal law with the intention of bringing parents into the education process of their child.Some who are opposed to this bill would say there is no need for this legislation. However, there has been a string of State and Federal court cases looking for a clarification of existing law. My office has been contacted by dozens of people, as I said earlier. There is a need for simple definitions and this bill accomplishes that.Others have said this would create an administrative burden. Later you will hear from Principal Jim Means, who represents the Wichita School System, the largest school system in the State of Kansas. He will tell you that having clear definitions and bringing parents into the education process actually reduces the administrative burden on schools.One may argue that this bill would create court action in Federal court over textbooks, over suing to change curriculum. This bill only provides access. Parents, fully exercising this law, could see a textbook or could see curriculum, but in no way could they sue to change educational material. This bill simply opens up to the parents the information and it provides that access, which is a good concept.Some say we shouldn't consider this because it is a State issue. The fact is that Federal law does exist and it does need clarification.Originally teachers were concerned that they could not act in the best interests of a child because of this legislation. But it does not prohibit teachers from providing emergency care or acting if a child is at risk. Anytime a child voluntarily asks for help, there is nothing in this bill that would prohibit that.Again, the goal of this legislation is to bring parents and schools together to improve education. Teachers and administrators and parents all agree, as do members of this panel, that when parents are involved in their child's education, the schools are stronger and the children are better educated. This bill works toward that goal by removing these obstacles that stand in the way and improving education and strengthening schools.In closing, I want to thank Chairman Riggs for calling this hearing and for the support of this legislation, and I urge the committee to act on this legislation this session. I would welcome your questions.SEE APPENDIX B -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN TIAHRT FROM THE STATE OF KANSASChairman Riggs. Thank you, Representative Tiahrt.We turn to our next witness, another colleague, Congressman Steve Largent, who has been actively involved, as I mentioned earlier, in family and parental rights issues over the past few years, actually since coming to Congress. During the 104th Congress, the last Congress, he introduced House Resolution 1946, which prohibited Federal, State and local governments from interfering with or usurping the rights of the parents to direct the upbringing of the children. That bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee.Steve, we are happy to have you here this morning. Please proceed with your testimony.STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN LARGENT FROM THE STATE OF OKLAHOMAMr. Largent. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would just summarize my remarks.I had a conversation here this morning. I appreciate all the opening statements by the members that are present because it will shorten my remarks. As all of us understand, it is not an earth-shattering revelation to understand that when parents are involved in their children's education, children get a better education and parents are more satisfied. I mean, that has been revealed in surveys for a long, long time. We are all very aware of that.Education, frankly, is not a partisan issue. We all want good education for our children. I understand that and I come in that spirit this morning. I would say that I think that the issues that this particular bill addresses probably in most schools are not an issue, because I am aware of many public schools that I represent that do everything that they can to include parents in the decisions that they make and in the curriculum that they offer and the testing that they do. But that is not true in all cases.I would say that the question that you really have to ask yourself when you are considering this bill, in fact that I was thinking before even coming to testify this morning, is why would a school not want parents to have access to testing materials and curriculum? Why would schools not want parents to be involved and informed in their kid's education? I don't understand why a school would not want that. But in fact some schools have gone across the line, and that is what makes this legislation necessary.I think the thing that we need to underscore, and oftentimes in these discussions, is that parents are not the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy, but parents are not. Too often I see battle lines drawn between parents and school boards and parents and school administrators, and that shouldn't be. We are all working for the same thing, and that is to get a quality education and a safe environment for our kids when they are receiving their education.So Todd and I are kind of working as a team. As he kind of laid out the purpose of the bill, let me give you a couple of examples of what we are talking about when parents do not have access or are not informed, the types of experimental testing and experimental things that are taking place in the education process.The first one and I didn't make copies of the first one because I can read some of the more invasive questions that were asked again, this was in Pennsylvania, this was without parental notification or consent. This is a test that was given at Mount Lebanon High in Pennsylvania in late October of '95. It asks 26 different questions. I just highlighted some of the more egregious ones.Question Number 6 was, do you actively practice your religion? How does it affect your daily life and community? How much money does each family member earn each month? What are your monthly household expenses? What is each family member's most valued possession? What other possessions would you like to acquire? What types of sacred objects are around the house? Alcohol, tobacco and firearms, are they available and what members, what family members use them? What is a typical breakfast, lunch and dinner? Are you satisfied with your food?These are questions that I think are very inappropriate. At the very least, even if you don't think that these are inappropriate questions, I think that there is a question that exists as to whether these types of questions should be asked of our kids and that parents should at least have the ability to see this type of testing done on our kids before it is conducted, not afterwards, as this one occurred.The next test, this is actually one that was an 8th grade science test about sexuality from a school in Oklahoma. And, Mr. Chairman, I would just like to pass out this test to members on the committee because I quite honestly, what I would like to do is just refer to the different questions and allow you to read them for yourself, because I am embarrassed to read them in front of this committee and for the record. But I would like to distribute them.I will just refer to the numbers and let you guys get I highlighted some of them on my copy, and when you get that, if you would I just highlighted two, but there are many, many others that and again, this may be an extreme example, but it is not a total anomaly of what is taking place in schools across the country.But if you would take a look at this test, and it is about three pages, it has a total of 84 questions that deal with everything from homosexuality to petting. But just on the first page, and you will keep a copy and read it later, I guess, don't show it to your children, but look at Question Number 6 and Question Number 12, but I don't want to repeat them in public.I don't know about you, but I have a 6th grade son, a 7th grade son, an 11th grade daughter, and a son who is a freshman in college. There are a lot of things that should be confined to the conversation between a father and a son or a mother and her daughter, that are on this test, that I think are highly flammable and inappropriate to say the least at any age, much less 8th grade.So again, these are just a couple of the examples. There are others. But this is the type of thing that angers parents, and we get calls from them all the time about different issues like this, and why I am in support of the Parental Freedom of Information Act.Now, I yield back my time, Mr. Chairman.Chairman Riggs. Thank you, Congressman Largent.Congressman Green? Gene Green, as I mentioned, is a former Member of this committee. We are pleased that he could be here today.Gene, please proceed with your testimony.STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN GREEN FROM THE STATE OF TEXASMr. Green. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.I will tell you if I had an 8th grade student, I would be upset about this test also. In fact, if I was the Member of Congress, if that was in my district, Miami, Oklahoma, I would talk with my school board member and my superintendent.I appreciate the chance to be here today, and I join my colleagues here. One, I am not going to sit here and testify or speak against parental involvement, because I think all of us know if you have children, you want to be more involved, and you want to have as many opportunities as you can to be involved with your children in public school.The concern I have about the bill is, it is really a solution in search of a problem on a Federal level, because I know I served I bring not only experience, I served two terms on this committee, but as a State senator, and I served seven years on the Education Committee and in the Senate before that as a State representative, working on education policy. I know in Texas we have current law that was passed, in fact, it was amended in the '95 session of the legislature, but it provides for a lot of things that this bill would do on a local level.I commend the efforts to encourage parental involvement in our children's education. I have two children that are now in public institutions in Texas in college, but they both attended and graduated from public schools in Houston, and my wife is a high school algebra teacher. I notice later on your panel I believe a Larry Davis will be testifying, and he is a math teacher from Waco, Texas.As a Member of the legislature, I supported parental access to curriculum and testing materials. However, some provisions of this bill, I think, go beyond and may border on even dangerous; one, because it codifies in Federal law what is being addressed by State law already, and it provides for Federal remedy.Now I feel kind of awkward as an attorney sitting here and saying I don't know if I want somebody to have the opportunity to go to Federal court, because I think oftentimes that is a system our forefathers set up for us, and to expand an ability to go to court is really what an attorney is all about, I guess, so I feel a little uncomfortable doing that.But I also don't know if Federal court is where these cases ought to be, since most of the Federal funding for public schools in my district borders on 10 percent, on the average of 6 or 7 percent State nationwide. So I don't know if that is really where we want our school districts to be, when there is a remedy already at State court.Under this bill, parents are given the right to sue the local school district and the state education agency if they are denied access to any instructional or testing materials. In addition, parents could receive the right to recover attorneys' fees during the litigation.Most States give parents specific rights. Why are we infringing on these State laws or local laws or procedure? I think it is unnecessary. Like I say, I have a copy of the Texas statute, again, that was amended in 1995, parental rights and responsibilities. It has, again, been in State law for many years, and again, just like we do, changed every year, and the legislature in Texas updated it in 1995.In my State, as in most States, parents are entitled to review all teaching material, textbooks and teacher aids used in the classroom of the parent's child. In addition, a parent is entitled to review each test administered to the child after the test that is administered.If access is denied, parents can appeal first to the local superintendent, then to the school board, and eventually to our State Education Commissioner. If it doesn't stop there that State Education Commissioner may deny it they can go to the State school board, and ultimately to the district court. Not unlike the procedure we have, an administrative remedy, and ultimately to the Federal court system if someone is aggrieved on the Federal level.Parents and teachers and administrators and State officials carefully considered these State procedures, and we shouldn't just discard them very easily. Because I have parents in my district who have and even teaching personnel, that is also the process for their appeal and they take that appeal very seriously.We need to encourage additional parental participation, and I think local law does that. My wife, again, is a 21-year algebra teacher in high school. In her district the last few years, required by State law, it requires teachers to visit with the tardy students' parents on a daily basis, and they have a revolving system of every day, every hour, there are two teachers who have during their conference period to visit with parents.So we see that. Those parents are required to bring, come up to school with their children if they have so many tardies. You see that already, and I see my wife visiting now with lots of parents who want to, so State law already has the opportunity to do that. In fact, my concern about this bill is we are spending time on this committee on it, and there are so many other things that we could do.I would hope that we could help our local school districts with smaller class sizes, additional teachers, the 100,000 teachers that the President talked about. But before I end, and I know I am going to get a red light in a minute, let me talk a little bit about and brag about Texas, because in 1984 Texas passed a reform, education reform bill, and every session since this then has had to deal with it.But we have a recent report by the Rand Corporation in January that shows that Texas students are being better educated than students in other States. Credit for this success goes primarily to smaller elementary classes, pre-kindergarten programs and higher standards. We have, under 1984 law we have a limit of 22 to 1 from kindergarten to the fourth grade, which is the best education reform.That is why I would hope this Congress would realize the benefits of what States have done, and say let's help States like Texas or other States who may not be able to afford it to lower that pupil-teacher ratio so we can really provide for quality education. The Federal Government cannot be providing prescriptive things. We can provide assistance to the local districts and to the States, who are on the front line, whereas we are not.Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I look forward to the questions.Chairman Riggs. Thank you, Congressman Green, and thank you again to all three of our colleagues for taking time out of their busy schedules to be with us this morning.Let me see if I can clarify the concern about unwanted Federal intrusion and/or unnecessary litigation that might ensue from the enactment of Congressman Tiahrt's legislation. I want to be clear, committee staff just handed me a copy of the bill, and as I interpret it, Congressman Tiahrt's legislation provides for funds being withheld under any applicable program; and "applicable program" is, with reference back to the General Education Provisions Act, is defined as any program for which the Secretary of Education or the Department of Education has administrative responsibility as provided by law or by delegation of authority pursuant to law.So, Congressman Tiahrt, is that a correct interpretation of your legislation, that it that it only applies to those local education agencies or those school districts that receive Federal funding, and it is designed to protect the rights of parents whose children are educated at schools that receive Federal taxpayer funding for education programs or categorical aid?Mr. Tiahrt. I think you are on track. There is nothing in here that would override State law. There is confusion with the Federal law, and that is all that this really addresses. It does apply to where Federal funds are involved, and it just says if parents request material, the school system has 30 days to provide it. If they don't, they could go to court to seek access to that material, and the full scope of penalties would be that they would get lawyer fees and the school system could potentially have funds withheld, Federal funds withheld during that time until they provide the material.Chairman Riggs. Let me ask you and Congressman Largent, why do you feel it is necessary to give parents a cause of action, in other words, civil recourse? I am assuming that would be in Federal courts. Why isn't it simply withholding funding?Mr. Tiahrt. We could have that provision in FERPA, and I believe it is in FERPA. There has been no instance in the last since it has come into existence where funding has been withheld. Yet the problem exists out there. There is still the confusion, both in the school systems and with parents as well as in the State and Federal courts, and this clarification allows parents to act, gives them recourse to act rather than just wait on somebody in the Department of Education to act, which has never occurred.So this is something, it is an enforcement relief mechanism for parents that they don't have today, and I think it is very necessary.Mr. Largent. Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding that what this bill really does is just kind of fine tune and bring into focus the original intention of FERPA. Again, the bill is meant to be a preventive measure. The idea is to sensitize the schools to parents in the first place, those that aren't, so that before they administer a test or psychological testing or anything else that is borderline, that they will first at least notify the parents. So the bill is meant to be a preventive measure, not a punitive one.Chairman Riggs. But you don't have concerns, Congressman Largent, about clogging Federal courts as a result of giving parents the legal recourse to file a civil action?Mr. Largent. Again, the issue is clarification. I think the clearer that the law is, which is what this bill does, then the less that you will have less litigation as a result of that.Mr. Tiahrt. If I can add, there will be fewer court cases because we have some clear definitions here. They are very specific, and I think that is one of the goals, is to eliminate that. I think in later testimony you will hear that, as when Representative Green said that where these things exist that you have a better system, you have less of administrative burden. I think it will also lessen the burden that is currently in the court system.Chairman Riggs. Todd, you know if we move forward with this legislation, we will hear concerns from colleagues who believe that perhaps this is too intrusive or it would bring, as I said earlier, unwanted Federal involvement, further Federal involvement in local education matters, and it might conflict with the long-standing American tradition, the doctrine, if you will, of local control and local decision-making.You acknowledged that concern in your testimony, but can you elaborate on your argument, your rebuttal to that concern?Mr. Tiahrt. Well, I think, you know, we currently do have Federal law. There is some involvement with the Federal Government in local schools. This would lessen the involvement, in the fact that it makes clear definitions so parents know what existing rules are. It does not impede States from trying to accomplish the same purpose of bringing parents and schools together for better education of their children.So I think what this law does is it doesn't increase Federal involvement. It would actually, long-term, reduce it by allowing clear guidelines for school systems to operate by, and as I said in subsequent testimony, I believe you are going to hear that school systems run smoother when you have clear definitions and when you bring parents in. I think that is an admirable goal, and I think we will see the quality of education increase when this legislation becomes law.Chairman Riggs. But assume for a fact this is the point that I think Congressman Martinez alluded to assume for a moment that both you and Congressman Largent, that I am a locally elected school board member in your district, I am one of your constituents, and I come to you or I find out about the legislation and I say, "I understand and support the intent and purpose behind the legislation, but you should leave it to us to safeguard the rights and the interests of parents. We are locally elected."Again, as I said earlier, that is very much in keeping with the long-standing American tradition of decentralized public education where that local school district is fairly, should be anyway, fairly autonomous, and that locally elected policy decision-maker, a school board member, is accountable to the voters of that school district and to the parents, the consumers of education in that school district.Assume I am your constituent, that local school board member. Assume that I am a conservative Republican locally elected school board member. How are you going to respond to them when they tell you that, again, they understand the concept behind the legislation, they support it conceptually, but they still think it will create too many problems at the local level, and again it might usurp or might conflict with the autonomy and the authority of local school boards?Mr. Largent. Well, I would just say, you know, the premise of your question is that the Federal Government is not in the classroom already. The fact is, it is. If you compare the Federal Government in the classroom to the 800 pound gorilla, what this legislation is doing is saying that we just want to make sure that the parent gets to stay in the classroom too, and has access to the textbooks, the curriculum, the testing, and is involved in a proactive manner, rather than a reactive manner.So this bill doesn't take the Federal Government further down the road than it already is. It is just clarifying where the road is and that it needs to stay on the road.Mr. Tiahrt. I would say that by having parents allowed access to the material that is currently there actually reduces Federal involvement, actually reduces administrative burden. It actually brings parents into the process. So it doesn't impose any additional Federal time or money in here. All it simply says is we will provide access for educational material, we will let parents get involved in the process, we will remove those barriers.I think we will have less of a problem, less of Federal involvement in the classroom and more local control. Parents will be more involved. They will be talking with their school boards. And I think it will improve the quality of education.Chairman Riggs. I understand that, and I thought those were very good responses. You keep emphasizing access, but the other feature of your bill is consent. Correct?Mr. Tiahrt. Yes.Chairman Riggs. I think therein will probably lie the route we are trying to do with reforming Federal bilingual education programs, to require that local school district to first seek the consent and the written permission of the parent before the child can be placed in a native language program, a non-English program.We have heard some concerns about that creating administrative burden on the local district and the difficulty of and I am not too sympathetic to this but we have heard the concerns about the difficulty of districts communicating with parents and the mechanics of how they actually do that. Do they send a note home with the child? Do they send a certified letter to the home? Do they make repeated phone calls?So it is the consent aspect that I think is problematical in terms of the actual implementation and administration of your bill, and I want to give you a chance to respond.Mr. Tiahrt. Some of the administration portions of getting consent, the mechanics, once the system is developed, I think it runs smoothly. But I think you are hard-pressed to argue when you get parents involved that it is not better for the education process. We want to get parents involved.This bill is rather limited in parental consent. It just says if you are going to require something from a student, when it is related to medical exams or psychological exams or psychiatric exams, that you just get prior written informed consent. It is not for everything in the curriculum. It is limited to examinations that are medical, psychological or psychiatric, so it is somewhat limited.And it does require that if you are going to go into some questions that would impose on people's privacy, that you get their consent, and I think that is fair. I think we all abide by the concept that this society gives us some privacy and that we should protect that privacy.So it is somewhat limited in parental consent because it only acts on those areas where we have had particular problems. Once the mechanism is in place, you know, it works smoothly pretty much. My children are in the Fairfax school district now, and we have consent forms for field trips and for specific activities, and the mechanism is in place and it works rather smoothly.Chairman Riggs. Do you know if those consent forms are mandated by Virginia State law?Mr. Tiahrt. I do not know the mandate, whether it is the Fairfax County Schools that require it or whether it is Virginia State law, but I know they come home in the mail. We get one notice and two notices, sometimes a phone call if there is no response, but we have yet to get a phone call. You know, it always seems to work well with us.Chairman Riggs. Thank you. Congressman Martinez.Mr. Green. Mr. Chairman, may I respond? Let me quote Texas law on consent required for certain activities. That is why I say this bill is a solution in search of a problem. In the Texas education code, an employee of a school district must obtain the written consent of a child's parent before the employee may conduct psychological examination, test, or treatment under the examination tests, make or authorize the use of videotaping and employ a school district for the purposes of safety, including the maintenance of the school or maintenance of discipline and order.So we already have current State law in Texas on that, and the last thing we need is a Department of Education coming in and saying, well, we are going to overlay because maybe your procedure, and again quoting the bill, in section 2, any education agent that has a policy of denying or effectively prevents now, again, "effectively prevents," I have a pretty good idea of what it may do. But I would worry somebody in Washington, whether it be this administration or some future one, would say the procedure we have in Texas, the administrative procedure we have "effectively prevents" a parent from doing that. Again I think you are giving more power to the Department of Education than I think my colleagues may want to do.Chairman Riggs. Well, if I just might respond for a moment, I won't quarrel obviously with your interpretation of Texas State law. It sounds to me like it is pretty much on the money.Congressman Tiahrt's bill, though, or the Tiahrt-Largent legislation goes one step further, and it basically would expand upon Texas State law in those school districts in Texas that receive Federal funding, Federal taxpayer funding for Federal education programs or what I called earlier "applicable programs," to quote actually from the legislation.I don't see it as conflicting with Texas State law. I see it, as Congressmen Tiahrt and Largent have testified today, strengthening Texas State law. Congressman Martinez.Mr. Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.Let me begin by saying that I am as adamant as you are about wanting the parents to know what is going on with the children in the school. I had five children and they all went through the public school system, as yours did. There were times when I had conflicts with the school in the way they were doing things, and I was able to, through my local school board, to rectify those things.I know that a lot of times it is simply that you say the law is vague, and it is vague. Even more than just being vague, the fact is that so many of our citizens aren't aware of the laws that are on the books and what steps to take to remedy any problem they have in their own community.But before I get into any of that, I want to talk to Steve for a minute. I have a grandchild, I have 14 grandchildren, in fact, but I have one particular grandchild who was a fantastic football fan when he was about 5 years old. When he was 5 years old, my son used to take him to all the Rams games, and the Rams were his favorite team. His second favorite team was Seattle Seahawks. But the amazing thing about it is he knew every player on the Rams team and their number, and every player on the Seattle Seahawks and their number.Now my grandson is 15 years old and starting his first year in high school, and he is on the freshman team there playing football himself. So I would like to make a request of you. If you have an autographed picture laying around that you can give me to autograph to Mark, that is his name, Mark, I would appreciate it, and one to Jonathan, his brother, who is an avid fan as he is.Anyway, I think that you know when you look at this bill, it is pretty hard for anybody to say they would be completely against it, except that you are putting into Federal law the ability for people to go to court, to a Federal court, and that is one of the problems. The other problem is that in this bill, we did we had CRS do a survey or search for court cases involving this particular issue, and they didn't come up with any.So, Steve, you mentioned two cases of tests that were given, one in Pennsylvania and one in Oklahoma. I have got to agree with you, I think any parent would be offended by somebody giving that test. I would just like to ask the question, was that a sex education class? It says science on the top, but was it a sex education class?Mr. Largent. I think it was a science class that had a section on sexual education, yes.Mr. Martinez. So it was in conjunction with that portion of the class that dealt with sex education. I still would like to know, and it seems like the bill is getting at trying to get at one problem is that you can't really I don't put a handle on it how to grab hold of it because you are talking about actions that a school may take or a test that a school may give or a curriculum that a school might provide, and you find out about it afterwards. So the harm has already been done, if it is a bad situation.Your bill does nothing about doing that, except unless the parent themselves want to become very astute about what is happening in their schools and I think they should be and ask for what is the curriculum going to be like afterwards, and I doubt very many parents would do that.I agree with you maybe this thing wouldn't create a lot of litigation, because the fact is that right now as we search for a CRS search for court cases of this type, we couldn't find any. In the two actions that you cited, were any court cases involved in that?Mr. Largent. Not to my knowledge.Mr. Martinez. See --Mr. Tiahrt. We will be able to provide you, my office will provide you a list of the court cases I am referring in my testimony.Mr. Martinez. Would you please? You may be able to provide information that CRS wasn't able to. I know they looked through Lexis-Nexis and all of those computer programs, it is garbage in and garbage out. And they may not have all of the information we need.But I think what we really need is, one, to clarify the vagueness of the law as it is written now, not to add a whole complete law, while maybe you would have to pass a bill to correct that, amend that. You know, if it just dealt with clarifying the vagueness of the law as it exists now, and there is one section there referring to the things that should be available to the parent, I would agree with that.But the fact is I would not want to where there is local court action, as in the case of Texas, there is remedy available to the parent who has been denied that access, is there not, Mr. Green? Mr. Green?Mr. Green. I am sorry.Mr. Martinez. Is there not in Texas and according to the Texas law a remedy for parents who have been denied access to that information?Mr. Green. There is remedy in the statute. Again, it is also for discipline procedure for personnel. But if I am denied something as a parent, I obviously go to the superintendent well you typically start with your school , your principal, and then you go to the superintendent, your school board. Then you go to the State Education Commissioner or the State-elected school board in Texas, and ultimately you can go to the district court, because you have to exhaust your administrative remedies. Again, just like we do on, you know, worker's comp cases and other things before you go to court.Mr. Martinez. I would rather see something like that in law that would require a procedure by which parents can and then again we have to make parents aware. You would be surprised how many laws we pass here, like the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights, every day I tell people in my district who complain about the IRS, do you know there is a Taxpayers' Bill of Rights?We pass laws and don't disseminate information, and that is one of the problems that I have had since being here and seeing there are laws on the books if people would enforce them. We don't need more laws, there are so many damn laws now, but the fact is we need to enforce those laws that exist, and we need to clear up the vagueness of those laws if there is vagueness in those laws.But to create another whole law which then shifts the ability from locals because I come from local government and I have always been a defender of local control. Our school boards are more responsible for our children, and sometimes I know the ebb and flow of the child depends on the quality and caliber of the people elected to the school board, and that is not always the greatest and there is nothing we can do about that, because that is the system of laws that we have.But I think that we ought to be looking at working with locals and allowing them to set procedures or maybe requiring them even to set procedures, because in this law here, it only affects those that will take Federal dollars, and the Federal dollars is 6 percent. I would hate to see some school district that really needs that 6 percent, because most of them do, being unwilling to take it because it would come under the purview of this new law.Thank you both for that.Mr. Green. Mr. Martinez, if I can respond, I know the witness in a few minutes from the Association of Texas Professional Educators supports, like a lot of us, the general idea of the bill but suggests that instead of the procedure H.R. 3189 sets up, to really do a model policy, which I think most States already probably comply with. That would say this is something that you need to accomplish for parental involvement, instead of the way that H.R. 3189 is currently. He will be on the next panel, I believe.Mr. Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.Mr. Tiahrt. If I can comment, I just want to say that I appreciate your advocating Texas law. I think they are a good model in trying to bring parents into the process. But this clarification still needs to occur on a Federal law. Texas law cannot do that, it hasn't done that, and the need still exists.So I think it is important that we do pass this legislation so we can clarify existing Federal law. Again, we would be glad to provide the court cases that have been part of the basis of starting this process.Mr. Martinez. Just let me respond this way. Well, I would hope that you would be amenable to some amendment to the law to make it in such a way that we could be bipartisan about it and actually do it on a bipartisan basis, because I think both sides of the aisle are tremendously concerned about parents' involvement in their child's education.Mr. Souder. I think it is safe to say we are at the beginning of a process, not at the end of a process, but this lays out what we would support as a supporter of this bill.I wanted to clarify with Mr. Tiahrt and Mr. Largent, there is an implication that as conservatives somehow we don't believe this should be in the Federal purview, that this is a State issue. I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions.As conservatives we believe in the constitutional, national, Federal Bill of Rights. Is that not correct?Mr. Tiahrt. I think that is safe to assume.Mr. Souder. We believe that religious freedom is a Federal issue, is that not correct?Mr. Tiahrt. Correct.Mr. Souder. We believe that civil rights are a Federal issue. Do both of you support the right to life being a Federal issue?In other words, there is nothing inherently that says that basic rights aren't Federal issues. We believe that education should be run at the local level, but it doesn't mean that we don't believe that basic rights aren't a Federal issue.Also, one other thing. In this country, in fact, while States may do a good job of protecting civil rights in some cases, we have had a national precedence that we decided that basic human rights and civil rights are a Federal issue; and we weren't going to trust certain basic human rights and civil rights at the State level. We fought a Civil War over that question. We have had repeated battles in Federal legislation.There are three bills, including the Students Right to Know, FERPA, which we have already referred to, and one other, the Protection of Pupils Rights Act, that I actually worked an amendment through a few years ago on the education bill when I had a survey to my eighth grade son asking if they had anal sex and oral sex in the classroom distributed at the school. I was offended as a parent.While that wasn't a direct Department of Education, the first moving vehicle was an education bill where I attached an amendment.Furthermore, in this committee, in the Student Right to Know Act, we had the same people coming forth arguing this was Federal legislation, that we shouldn't have to release university data on rapes on the campuses because it is not a Federal issue, students don't have a right to know, trust the States, trust the universities, it might discourage different people.We had a debate in this committee whether these were Federal or local issues, and Congress voted that certain basic civil rights are there.Is not one of the points of this you have addressed the litigation question already at length, but, in fact, if your bill becomes law, is it not true that it is likely to have a chilling effect on the type of surveys that we saw earlier?Mr. Tiahrt. It would be my opinion that it would have a chilling effect. Once this openness exists, there will be no closed doors. Parents will have access to information that they need to help with their children's education.That would stop a lot of these people who have put out tests like that you referred to for your son and that Representative Largent has handed out which occurred in Miami, Oklahoma. Those things would stop because they do not withstand the scrutiny of the public eye. When parents have the ability to see that, I think it will stop a lot of the problems that we have today.Mr. Largent. The intent is that this legislation is really refining or bringing into focus more clearly the FERPA law which is already on the books. It would be more of a preventive nature than punitive.So that not only, as Mr. Martinez said, parents need an education as far as the laws and the rights that they have that are available to them and the recourse that is available to them, but educators also need an education in terms of sensitizing them more so to parents' prerogative and direction and sensitivity to psychological testing, sex education and those types of issues.Mr. Souder. And part of this type of approach, in the case of the survey that was passed out by a school magazine at the school where my son was, the fact is that it was very embarrassing to my kids. In fact, the school board convened; and they changed the policies of how they were going to do it, which is what Mr. Green referred to as a process. But, I as a parent, had we had this type of law, it is unlikely that the school would have gotten into the first place, put my children in the awkward position of having to, in effect, go squeal because the parents didn't know and the parents having to go fight.Mr. Green. We have a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which is Federal. We have laws which protect workers in the workplace that are Federal. We have drug and alcohol laws that are Federal. Why wouldn't this be a Federal question as well? It is a basic right of parents with their children.No doubt. I would hope, Mr. Souder, if my children were in the eighth grade in Miami, Oklahoma, it wouldn't take an act of Congress to get this test out of the school.Mr. Souder. The question is, could an act of Congress prevent the test from being there in the first place?Mr. Green. I don't think that this bill will do that. It says, you have access to those tests. In Texas, we already have access to that information.Parents oftentimes do not know it until after the fact, just like my colleague said. We have the ability right now if a parent had access to this test in the State of Texas right now, you better believe they would go to their school board member or their superintendent or principal; and that test without even passing this law, that test would be taken out of the school.This bill does not require it doesn't require the parent to know the test before it is administered. It only requires the parent the access to it.If a parent doesn't go to the school maybe their children didn't bring a copy of the test home whether this bill is passed won't help at all.What we have to do is encourage parents. We already do that on I say "we" because I have school board members who are friends and neighbors, and they do that right now. But they get frustrated because they don't have parental involvement, which is required by State law for school districts to involve parents now.Mr. Souder. But you are not requiring that school boards that are paralyzed by the fear of lawsuits aren't going to be more cautious if they know that there is a lawsuit potential?Mr. Green. My first concern in my opening remarks, you are right, school districts are paralyzed by the fear of going to Federal court.I don't think that this bill again, we have State action already. You can go to State court. I think that may be the best venue instead of providing another way that school boards could be taken to Federal courts. Let's let State courts take care of it. I would hope that we wouldn't have to have a Federal law to get this test out of a school in Oklahoma or Texas or wherever.Mr. Souder. I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey, Mr. Payne.Mr. Payne. Thank you, very much.I certainly agree with the panel that there needs to be more parental involvement, and I am sort of shocked that a test of this nature would be given. It would not be given in the school district where I taught in Norton, New Jersey, for a number of years. I am kind of shocked that it was given wherever it was. Perhaps they need to have a stronger school board.I am a little confused not so much about the legislation, because I haven't had an opportunity to thoroughly read it, but I am confused about the philosophy. Because, on the one hand, since the new majority came in, I have been hearing about Federal intrusion, States' rights, welfare, for example, better run by the States and counties. Everything has been back to the local people. The local folks know the problem better.And I am a little shocked really. Of course, I support the role of the Federal Government. I think the bigger the better. Maybe that is why we are in the minority right now. We wandered for 40 years, and so I can't expect you guys to have your act together in 4, and that is why I am so confused about this business, and I respect both of you guys.I will take a picture, also. I have a grandson, too.Mr. Largent. We will be glad to give you a picture.Mr. Payne. Just the contradictions. A hundred thousand policemen on the street; great, everybody supports it. A hundred thousand new teachers for the school districts; opposed to it, totally incongruent. It just doesn't make sense.That is why I am confused at and I did hear a new term about I guess it is refining. I guess when you feel that the Federal Government should come in like this, it is refining the law; but when you want the Federal Government out, it is local control.I think, as a matter of fact, I have seen probably the most concerted effort on any political level by people who believe in the Christian Coalition's philosophy. And I think there are a number of good points. I am a very strong Baptist; and black Baptists are very, very conservative. And so I have seen school boards all over the country in a concerted effort being taken over by efforts of the right, and I think they are probably the most significant change in any political level. I don't know whether that is good or bad, but it appears that people on a local level are exerting their influence. And so, as I indicated, I am truly confused as to the strong support of all of my conservative colleagues on this question of Federal intrusion.As a matter of fact, in New Jersey we have the only State constitution in the country that guarantees a thorough and efficient education. It is more progressive than any State.Now, the Federal courts I mean the State courts have recently said that the State is not providing a thorough and efficient education and have told the State legislature that they must come up with several hundred million dollars for the poor 30 districts in the State. Because when our State constitution was written it guaranteed a thorough and efficient education, and so there was the Bonner decision where a person sued the State because they didn't get a thorough and efficient education.So I think we don't go from the particular to the universal to pass out this obnoxious test that someone did in some little town I don't even know. I thought Miami was in Florida. But Miami, Oklahoma, that is like going from the particular to the universal.Because you have a silly, simple obnoxious test somewhere that you pass a Federal law that covers 270 million people, to me, you know, like I said, I am more confused about the concept of the Federal Education Department more or less, which most conservatives feel should be abolished in the first place, not having more power.I don't have any specific questions, but I agree that there should be more parental involvement. I wish we could legislate it, but we can't. We have to work at a local level and push people into being more concerned about their children. We are even starting to attempt to come up with some new concepts in my local school district as to how that can be done.Like I said, I applaud you for your interest. I just think that we are sort of, in my opinion, going in the wrong direction as relates to this issue.Thank you, Mr. Chairman.Mr. Tiahrt. If I could comment. I agree that we agree on a common goal of trying to get parents involved. And you are right. You can't legislate that. All we can do is remove those barriers that prevent that from occurring.As to States' rights issue, as a conservative I believe in States' rights and have worked for those issues, but there are some basic rights which are Federal issues civil rights, for example.I think the Supreme Court decision has indicated that parents do have some basic rights in seeing that their children have a good quality education, and all this does is clarify existing Federal law. We are not writing a new statute. We are trying to bring parents into this process.We can't prevent a test like this passed out here from Miami, Oklahoma, but by having parents involved we can bring an openness to education that is healthy. Bring an openness that will help remove these barriers so that this openness will prevent tests like this from ever being circulated again. It removes the barriers that prevent parents from actively contributing into these areas; and once those barriers are removed, I think we will see a higher quality of education. I think we will see tests like this being prevented before they even occur.Mr. Souder [Presiding.] I ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a values test that I was given by a parent from Casa Robla High School in the San Juan Unified School District in California, which turned out to be very similar to the survey distributed in Pennsylvania, showing it was moving nationally.SEE APPENDIX C -- VALUES APPRAISAL TESTMr. Souder. I also ask that the survey from Miami, Oklahoma, be placed in the record and somehow we put a warning, but I think it is impossible for people who read this record for historical purposes to understand what we are debating without having that in the record.Any objection? If not so ordered.SEE APPENDIX D -- SEXUALITY SEMINAR TEST [PLEASE NOTE THIS MATERIAL MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN]Mr. Souder. Mr. Scott, the gentleman from Virginia.Mr. Scott. Thank you. I was delayed at another hearing, and I would like to thank the witnesses for testifying. I will just yield back the balance of my time so we can get on with the panel. I appreciate the members coming.Mr. Souder. Thank you, Mr. Scott. You have been a leader in many of the juvenile issues.With that, the first panel is adjourned. And will the second panel come forward?The second panel includes John Reinhard, who is a parent of three children and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His interest in school matters arose from concerns regarding the parental rights in the schools. He serves as Chairman of the school's governance committee at Phillips Knoll School in Chapel Hill and presently serves as a board member of the governing body that oversees two charter schools in Chapel Hill and in Orange County, North Carolina.Mrs. Cindy DeLullo is a parent from Charles Town, West Virginia. She is a full-time homemaker and mother of four. She has been actively involved in her children's education for 12 years. She has been a strong advocate for a greater role of parents in the schools and generally having a greater role in the education of their children.Mr. Larry Davis is a mathematics teacher from Waco, Texas. He is president of the Association of Texas Professional Educators. Mr. Davis has taught in the public school system at the secondary level for 18 years and is the parent of two children, both of whom attended public schools.Mr. Jim Means hails from Wichita, Kansas. Currently, he is the principal of Wichita High School West. His school is part of the Wichita Public School District which is the largest public school district in the four-State region of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. He has been involved in public education in Kansas for 16 years.Mr. Jeff Taylor is Acting Director for Governmental Affairs for the Christian Coalition.Mr. Daniel Domenech is superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools and president-elect of the American Association of School Administrators. My children used to attend the Fairfax public schools but left before you came in when I went back and ran for Congress.Mr. Souder. Dr. Reinhard will go first. If you haven't been able to see, you have 5 minutes for your testimony; and the yellow light will come on with a minute to go.STATEMENT OF JOHN REINHARD, PARENTMr. Reinhard. I thank you very much for the opportunity to speak before this committee on what I consider to be a very important issue.I am the parent of three students in the Chapel Hill City School District. My oldest child has since chosen to leave the school district and obtain a GED instead. He did so in opposition to a program of mandatory community service which, while it had no avowed educational merit, was nonetheless imposed upon us by our elected school board.When we opposed this in court, we were told that schools did not have to justify any of their actions because, quote, parents have no fundamental rights in the direction of their children's education, end quote. And it is for that reason that I strongly support this legislation and only wish it could go further and render as fundamental the right of a parent to direct the education of their child.As I said, I am in support of this legislation; and I am glad to see that Representative Ballenger will probably support it; and I would certainly invite my representative, David Price from the Fourth District, to represent it as well.I am saddened that the very process of education has been politicized by partisan groups such as the National Education Association that have come into the local level and virtually dictate, certainly in Chapel Hill, who is elected to school boards.It is a process through which the very process of democracy can be corrupted. The very fact that this bill should have to come up is a sad reflection of the state of our republic in 1998. I can't imagine why anyone would object to parents wanting to know what their children are taught.And in response to an earlier remark by Representative Martinez requesting whether this has been in court, I would ask how many times the Federal Freedom of Information Act has been invoked so that parents can get this information.I believe that parents have a responsibility if not a moral obligation to question the content of a school's curricula; and I don't want to sound inflammatory, but I will cite two examples from our school system in Chapel Hill.The first arose from the school's "multicultural education action plan for the promotion of respect for diversity." It is a mouthful.A required English course would involve work by gay and lesbian authors, and understand this was not an opt out. The reading list provided by the instructor may not have been adequately reviewed. When concerned parents objected, we tried to read some of the works on the reading list at a school board meeting, and we were told we couldn't because it was indecent. If it was indecent at a school board meeting, how could it have been decent for our children?The reading list really was just unbelievable. Some of the vulgar material would never have withstood peer review from the community. You just don't get into sadomasochism and acts of homosexuality in your children's education. If nothing else, this bill would make it harder to slip objectionable material into our children's curriculum.My second illustration was an article my son had removed from the media center of the high school. The articles about marijuana use were unusual in the manner that it was depicted. "Illicit weed generates cash for university grad." Quotations such as, "I've had a very good year. I dress nicely now. I go on trips anywhere in the world," are little more than an advertisement for the cultivation and use of a controlled substance.Still, one may question why is it necessary to legislate common sense. In response, Voltaire noted that "common sense is not altogether common." Indeed, common sense is a most uncommon commodity in many of our schools. The deviation from common sense is a mission creep that our schools have embraced. Rather than teaching numeracy, literacy, history and geography, our schools have been laboratories for testing education theories. Our children are the unwitting subjects. Moreover, the experiments are not properly designed or justified.I am a biological scientist. I am charged with the responsibility of conducting interpretable experiments. We use laboratory animals and are beholden to a number of Federal and State regulations that limit the scope of our investigation.In sharp contrast, our education experiments which are not based on sound hypotheses, they involve our children without our consent. We do not know whether they are going to provide a definitive answer or even if they are harmful.If we were to test medicine with unproven safety and efficacy in patients without their consent, we would be guilty of malpractice. What we witness today is tantamount to malpractice in education, and our children have less protection from unsound experimentation than do laboratory rats.The answer is to empower parents to become involved in their children's education. It sounds simple, but it is not. H.R. 3189 will provide a financial incentive for schools to cooperate with parents.I recognize that there is much this proposed legislation will not accomplish. However, it is a small step for parents that will indeed be a large step for the future of our society.Thank you.Mr. Souder. Thank you.SEE APPENDIX E -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF JOHN REINHARD, PARENTMr. Souder. Mrs. DeLullo.STATEMENT OF CINDY DELULLO, PARENTMrs. DeLullo. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. I want to thank you for allowing me this opportunity to appear before the Subcommittee today.I am Cindy DeLullo; and I am a resident of Jefferson County, which is a small, rural community located in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, only about 70 miles west of the Washington metropolitan area.I am a full-time homemaker and mother of four school-aged children. I have been actively involved in my children's education for more than 12 years. My husband and I chose early in our marriage that the children would not grow up in a household with both parents working full time. This necessitated many sacrifices financially for our family, but we have never regretted our decision. Although we live a modest life-style, we feel it is more important to ensure that our children have a sound family support system than to have meaningless material things.For this reason, I have always made every effort to ensure that my children obtain a proper education. Over the years I have come to realize, however, that good intentions from parents are not often viewed by educators in a welcomed fashion.What I have discovered through my experiences is that this endeavor of parenting is being restricted by educational bureaucracies that would rather preserve their own position than adhere to the laws protecting constitutional and civil liberties of students and families upon which FERPA is based.It is my belief that the responsibility for a child's education, physical, social and emotional well-being rests primarily with the parents. When these parental protections are ripped from us like threads in a seam, it will not only be detrimental to our children but it will set the stage to further unravel the basic framing of our Constitution.I am pleased to know that the Congress is taking another look at the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act in light of parental concerns nationwide.I, too, am one of these concerned parents. I have encountered numerous situations with the public school system in my district where public school officials have either ignored or purposely violate children and parents' rights. One most recent incident, in fact, occurred just last week in Jefferson County, West Virginia, where the public school system attempted to subject students to a research study by a private physician.I was shocked to have received in the mail a notification from my daughter's school only informing parents of the study but not requiring written parental permission for the student's participation. What was clearly evident in the notice was that the school officials and the physician would assume that the child would be participating unless the parent notified them otherwise, this is what we call "permission by omission," a tactic that is frequently used with regards to research studies, medical evaluations, screenings and immunizations.Another situation involved an incident which originally occurred about a year ago when the superintendent disclosed private information about my child during an open public school board meeting a meeting at which I was not in attendance. I accidentally discovered this disclosure some time later when I was reading a copy of the board's published minutes from that meeting.In light of the fact that this was the second incident where the school board had discussed my child's confidential information at an open public school board meeting, I filed another complaint on May 16, 1997, with the U.S. Department of Education. To my surprise, I received a postcard dated June 9, 1997, stating the following: "Due to the large amount of correspondence this office receives, we currently have a backlog. However, your letter is important to us and we are actively working to provide you a detailed response as soon as possible."I immediately contacted my U.S. Senator from my State, expressing my dissatisfaction with the bureaucracy, delays and obvious potential violations of regulatory time lines for responses.After approximately 10 months I finally received a response from the Family Policy Compliance Office. Through this entire tedious process we have yet to receive any relief from the local district or from the U.S. Department of Education who is mandated to oversee and enforce compliance.Mr. Chairman, we could probably sit here all day for hours on end and discuss infractions of FERPA regulations that occur just in our district alone. It seems fruitless for parents to take an active role in their child's education not only to protect them but to further promote good education.It appears to me that the bottom line is accountability, and there is no enforcement mechanisms in place for the Family Policy Compliance Office to take swift and immediate action to penalize such violation.Mr. Chairman, you and I both know that the Secretary of Education is not going to take away Federal funds from Jefferson public schools just because they continually violate my child's rights or someone else's rights. The public school officials know there is no penalty personally or professionally. Thank you very much.Mr. Souder. Thank you.SEE APPENDIX F -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CINDY DELULLO, PARENTMr. Souder. Mr. Davis.STATEMENT OF LARRY DAVIS, MATHEMATICS TEACHER, ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORSMr. Davis. I am a high school teacher. I spend a lot of time with parents on a daily basis talking about some of the issues that are brought forth in this.I also have a full-time job as president of ATPE. With 88,000 members in the State of Texas, it is the largest non-union, independent State professional educators' association.So, in both instances, I spend a lot of time with parents and dealing with parents. Most of the educators that I deal with are also parents.We basically endorse this bill. We believe in strong support for parental access sought by the bill. However, we have a little bit of problem with some of the ways it is being proposed. We would like to propose a model initiative policy versus what is currently in it. We want to add to it, not change it.What this would do is, the State Commissioner of Education would have 1 year to adopt or design and adopt a policy which would use a percent of the Federal money being used for this. And this will be submitted to the local boards, and the local boards would have 1 year to consider the State policy or, if they don't do it that way, they can also come up with an alternative method. Some school boards have these already in place, and Texas has had this in line since 1995.Representative Green hinted that there was a problem in relation to this. If a State already had it in effect, what would they do? We are proposing a waiver system. The State commissioners could submit a waiver to the Department of Education. The policy is already in effect. Also, if the policy was being developed in the State, you would not have to directly follow the Federal guidelines because you would already have one in line at the State level.One other concern we have is, if it is done at a local level, collective bargaining is not involved. We do not want it to be an issue on a local level in connection with collective bargaining.The other thing involved in this is basically parental involvement. If we are doing the model on the State level, we need parental involvement on the State level. We need to notify the parents what is happening and have them come and talk and give advice. At the State level, we need to do the same thing and have parents directly involved.This particular model would bring forth the concept that there is parental involvement. That is what you are trying to get at right here, parental involvement in the situation.If a local alternative method is developed, then the local alternative method must include the issues that are currently in H.R. 3189; and the local school boards have to consider something that is being brought forward by the public also.I noticed in the bill that you are excluding standardized tests. In the State of Texas, we do not exclude standardized tests. We have a Texas assessment of academic skills, and the test is allowed to be shown after the test is given.I do have a problem, though, with going into a prior year. That presents a problem with educators. They have to go back and dig out a test that is given in the prior year.As far as legal recourse, I am concerned about Federal versus State courts. I agree with Representative Green in the sense that we need to follow the chain of command of the school district. You go to the principal, the superintendent and up the chain of command to the school board and then to the State and then to the Federal court.In summation, ATPE supports parental excess measures contained in this bill. We are supporting the bill. However, we would like to see the model policy initiative put into effect allowing parental involvement.In forming that particular issue, the State has 1 year, the local has 1 year, and at the end of 2 years you would have something in effect across the United States.ATPE offers their assistance in passing an amended version of H.R. 3189. We offer our help in this sense to develop the model such as we are talking about. We also express our appreciation to Congressman Tiahrt for bringing this before this committee and for the hearing.SEE APPENDIX G -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF LARRY DAVIS, MATHEMATICS TEACHER, ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORSMr. Souder. I am going to recess the hearing while we vote.I want to say that your testimony was very helpful, Mr. Davis. As we work through this bill we will see what we can accommodate, but those are the types of specific objections and recommendations which are very helpful.The committee stands in recess.[Recess.]Mr. Souder. I want to apologize for being a couple minutes late. I had a school group that had been waiting out on the steps. Dr. Domenech, I understand that you have some time problems; and we will move to you.STATEMENT OF DANIEL DOMENECH, SUPERINTENDENT, FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORSMr. Domenech. Thank you.Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee. My name is Daniel Domenech, and I present my views today as Superintendent of Schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, and as President of the American Association of School Administrators, which is the professional association of more than 15,000 local superintendents and school executives.From my vantage point and from that of my colleagues, Mr. Chairman, this bill, despite its sympathetic title, is unnecessary and unhelpful. It is a solution in search of a problem.Public education is a responsibility of State and local governments, and the U.S. government should not involve itself in this routine aspect of running a local school division.As a matter of fact, when I first came into the meeting and I was listening to some of the conversations, it kind of reminded me of one of our local board of education meetings; and I was wondering why the U.S. Congress would be involved in such a discussion.Access by parents to instructional materials and to information about assessment of their children is well understood to be not only a right of parents but a benefit to school personnel. We want parent involvement in the schools. We do include our parents in the selection of materials. We provide opportunities for viewing the materials. We teach them about the purposes and methods of assessment, and we help them analyze their own children's test performance.Let's use my school system as an example. Fairfax County public schools has policies and procedures which any citizen, parent or not, may access and challenge any instructional materials used by students, whether basal, supplemental library, print or non-print. A number of materials are routinely made available by the school system, even when there has been no specific request for them.For example, copies of textbooks under consideration for adoption are located in several places, public libraries, district offices for perusal by the public. The school division has run instructional videos over our educational television channel to facilitate parental review and get input from our parents and the community prior to adoption by our board of education.PTA and parent meetings are held for the purpose of explaining system-wide and standardized tests. Most test papers are graded, returned and sent home sometimes for parent signature, particularly if the grade is not that good.Individual parent-teacher conferences are held for review of any individual child's performance on a test. Fairfax County public schools provide numerous opportunities for appeals of instructional materials, culminating in the final decision of the school board. At that point, the Code of Virginia takes over, providing that any parent of a pupil attending the public schools in a school division who is aggrieved by an action of the school board and not satisfied with that school board's decision may petition the circuit court having jurisdiction.My point is that school divisions and States are providing the access envisioned by this proposal. Parents don't need relief from the Federal Government. Moreover, I am troubled by the quick resort to court served up by this bill. We already live in a highly litigious society. We do not need to force the threat of litigation into the parent-school relationship yet again.Under this bill, if a parent thinks the school has violated his right by not doing everything he has asked within 30 days, you are in court with equitable or declaratory relief, reasonably incurred litigation costs and attorney's fees in sight.States and school divisions have met the spirit of this bill through State statutes and regulations and local board of education policies. The Federal hammer is not needed.Passage of this legislation could increase tension between parents and teachers, instead of fostering the collaborative relationships essential for student learning. Using it as another method of enforcement could add considerably to a school division's administrative costs. Wouldn't we all prefer to spend our education dollars in the classroom rather than the courtroom?Thank you very much for your invitation to testify.Chairman Riggs. [Presiding.] I must apologize to you and the other witnesses. I was called over to the floor where we were debating the bill that we just voted on. It was a motion to go to conference with the Senate on a comprehensive or omnibus education reform bill, and so I had to be there.I apologize to you and the other witnesses, but I do hope that we have an opportunity for discussion after our other witnesses have testified, and I want to wish you well in your new position.I guess I should say for the record that my wife and I are the parents of one child in Fairfax County public schools. So we will be watching you closely, and we will insist on our right to know. We appreciate very much your testimony.SEE APPENDIX H -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF DANIEL DOMENECH, SUPERINTENDENT, FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORSChairman Riggs. I recognize, Mr. Means. Thank you for being with us this morning.STATEMENT OF JIM MEANS, PRINCIPAL, WEST HIGH SCHOOL, WICHITA, KANSASMr. Means. Thank you for having me here, and let me say what a privilege it has been to come from Wichita and share some information about my district. What an eye-opening and learning experience the last 18 hours have been, seeing our government in action.The Wichita public schools is the largest public school district in the State of Kansas and, as was mentioned in the introduction, in the four-State region of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, with a full-time and part-time staff of over 5,400 employees, a faculty of more than 3,300 teachers, more than 200 administrators and over 1,800 support staff.Wichita public schools serves more than 47,800 students in grades K-12, which consists of 58 elementary schools, 16 middle schools and 12 high schools. I have been an employee of the Wichita public schools for 16 years and the school administrator for 10.The Wichita public schools has, as a part of its board policy, a policy which specifically addresses the opportunity for parents or lawful custodians to inspect instructional materials, including the teachers' manuals, films, tapes or other supplementary material which is used in connection with the pupil's education program. That is 1849, Pupil Rights and Parental Involvement.Need for this policy became apparent as the district programs approached sensitive material such as sex education and AIDS education and an advisement program which included goal setting and decision making. Also, some parents had voiced concern about surveys given in the school setting which inquired about issues which those parents felt were private family matters or were not relevant to the education programs of the school.The administrative implementation of this policy directed that the responsible party obtain written consent from the lawful custodian prior to student participation which requests personal information relative to political affiliations, sexual attitudes, confidential relationships, income or self-incriminating behavior. Also, each school was given responsibility for giving notice of this policy to the parent or lawful custodian.Much time and effort is dedicated to including these processes within the enrollment process, written notification to the parent or lawful custodian of district policies which pertain to possessions of weapons, controlled substances, access to the Internet, and expectations for attendance and student behavior. In this way, the schools can address concerns before problems arise which would require more administrative time than the planning that was required to go into this program.Opportunities are scheduled and provided for parents to preview materials used in sex and AIDS education curriculum prior to that instruction taking place, and opportunities are also provided for parents or lawful custodians to request that students opt out of these programs.We eventually went from an opt-in approach. Some students lose field trip forms and written consents, and we felt if we went to an opt in, where the student would be considered part of the program until the school had received written confirmation that the parents supported that program, might be a better way in making sure that contact with those parents were successfully completed.It is my opinion that, though these efforts are time intensive, they do provide the school, students or lawful custodians a certain sense of the security that these issues are understood by all parties involved. Concerns for parents or lawful custodians do still occur from time to time, but this school district policy puts in place an avenue for parents to seek and obtain the information they desire, and the school to document that parent notification is taking place.Chairman Riggs. Thank you, Mr. Means. Maybe I should say Principal Means.SEE APPENDIX I -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF JIM MEANS, PRINCIPAL, WEST HIGH SCHOOL, WICHITA, KANSASChairman Riggs. Now we go to Jeff Taylor, who is here from the Christian Coalition.STATEMENT OF JEFFREY K. TAYLOR, ACTING DIRECTOR FOR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, CHRISTIAN COALITIONMr. Taylor. Chairman Riggs and Members of the Subcommittee, it is a pleasure to appear before you today regarding H.R. 3189, the Parental Freedom of Information Act. As Acting Director of Government Relations for the Christian Coalition, I am pleased to offer our support for this important legislation.The Christian Coalition has consistently argued for legislation that supports the autonomy and primacy of the family, and specifically the rights of parents to provide for the material, social, educational and spiritual needs of their own children.This commitment is demonstrated in our support for a broad range of legislation, whether it is State laws that support the right of a parent to be notified and give consent to a minor child seeking an abortion or the elimination of the marriage tax penalty that has existed for far too long in the Federal Tax Code.The Parental Freedom of Information Act will serve to clarify the rights of the parents under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. While FERPA provides for some parental access rights, there has been some confusion regarding the meaning of the term "educational records." Even though the original floor debate on FERPA made clear that this term was to include items such as curriculum and testing materials, the application of this intent has been far from consistent. The Parental FOIA Act will provide the needed clarification by requiring educational institutions to provide parents reasonable access to instructional or testing materials.Another weakness of FERPA was its failure to provide a private right of action for those parents seeking access. Instead, FERPA leaves enforcement in the hands of the omnipotent Secretary of Education to determine if an institution is ineligible for educational funding due to FERPA violations. This is corrected under the Parental FOIA bill by allowing the parent to bring an action in court to enforce compliance.Members of the committee, this is common-sense legislation. Parents should not be forced to go into court, as they have in some instances, in order to exercise their right for information on the education affecting their children. Parents have a right to examine the content of the curriculum their child is expected to master and also, with certain exceptions, the contents of testing materials used with their child.Another key aspect of this legislation is its support for the principle that any medical, psychological or other related evaluations of children at school should not be conducted without the express consent of the parents.I would like to describe just one example of the need for this legislation. In the spring of 1994, Maureen O'Connell, a mother and member of the local school committee in Falmouth, Massachusetts, asked to see the standardized test on her son's fourth grade class that he had just taken. She assumed that Falmouth officials would be glad to make the test available. She was wrong.Mrs. O'Connell was informed that these State assessment tests were confidential. As she delved more deeply into this mystery, she discovered that, while the U.S. Department of Education claimed that the Massachusetts scores would not be calculated individually, every answer sheet was bar-coded. It also struck her as odd that there were more than a dozen versions of the tests for each grade.Mrs. O'Connell also made the disturbing discovery that personal questions were included in these State assessments, questions such as how frequently these fourth graders talked about school at home and how well their parents spoke the English language. She became suspicious about what other personal questions were asked and why the State did not want her to find out about them.In 1996, when the assessment period began, she was again refused permission to see the 1994 series but was granted the limited viewing of the multiple choice section only for fourth, eighth and tenth grade tests. However, she was not shown the essay questions; and she was forbidden from taking notes.She sought complete copies of the 1994 tests under the Massachusetts Freedom of the Information statute. This was a broad statute defining public records as all materials or data, made or received by any officer or employee of any agency of the State. Test questions were exempted only if they were part of a licensing examination, such as for medical boards or the bar exam.Mrs. O'Connell had requested a ruling from the Secretary of State who oversaw the State's records as to whether the 1994 State assessments were public documents subject to the Freedom of Information statute. Given the broad definition of the public records, a ruling in her favor could have been made over the secretary's coffee break. Instead, it took 3 months.Meanwhile, to keep Mrs. O'Connell from gaining access to the tests, the State Education Commissioner quietly arranged to have the Freedom of Information law altered by burying a new loophole in a major budget bill. The loophole barred the public from access to any State test, examination or assessment instrument. And, in a demonstration of out-of-control bureaucrats, the department then argued that Mrs. O'Connell's request to see the tests should be retroactively disqualified.The only bright light in this whole story is that the Secretary of State did the right thing by ruling that the 1994 assessments were indeed public documents and ordered the Education Department to turn them over to Mrs. O'Connell within 10 days or face enforcement by the attorney general.That was in August of 1996, but when this story was reported in the Boston Globe in December, Mrs. O'Connell still had not received the documents. This story begs the question, what was in the 2-year-old tests that Massachusetts was so desperately committed to hiding from Mrs. O'Connell and parents like her?We are not sure if this test was Federally funded. If this particular test had a funding component through Federal funds, I think there is at least a question that is raised whether this example would be corrected by the Parental FOIA bill.It is this example along with the other personal examples that you have heard from the parents and teachers here today that demonstrate the real need for this clarifying legislation. If school administrators and teachers are sincere about their desire that parents become more involved in the education of their children and I do believe that most administrators and teachers are then they will support the right of access for parents that this bill guarantees.And if Congress is sincere about its commitment to the families of this Nation and their belief that parents have the best interests of their children in mind, then you will send this to the full committee and then onto the House floor for a vote.Thank you for your attention and interest in this legislation.Chairman Riggs. Thank you, Mr. Taylor, and all of the witnesses on this panel. Again my apologies for having to step out.SEE APPENDIX J -- WRITTEN STATEMENT OF JEFFREY K. TAYLOR, ACTING DIRECTOR FOR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, CHRISTIAN COALITIONChairman Riggs. Let me ask, for any member of this panel who would like to respond, your opinion on how this legislation might affect the movement to adopt some form of standardized testing as part of a larger system of competency-based advancement.Let me state that I am very much opposed to the Federal Government trying to construct any kind of national test for all of the reasons that we have debated in this particular Congress; and, furthermore, I do support the ban on national testing, strongly support it. And the legislation that I just referred to a moment ago, the legislation that the Senate is sending over to the House contains a ban proposed by Senator Ashcroft of Missouri on national testing in reading and math; and that is very similar to the bill authored by the Chairman of the full committee, Chairman Goodling, House Resolution 2846.That all said, I do recognize that many States, in fact some of your home States, are adopting standardized testing. I am well aware, obviously, of the effort to adopt standardized testing or a system of standards in tests in the Commonwealth of Virginia.For anybody who would like to respond, do you have an opinion as a matter of fact, maybe I will start with Dr. Domenech how this legislation could affect that movement under way in most of the States and in many local school districts around the country?Mr. Domenech. Well, Mr. Chairman, I believe the impact certainly would be problematic, to say the least.There is, of course, a policy involving most States and I recently arrived from the State of New York where these kinds of State testing have been commonplace for many years, and, as a matter of fact, the tests that have been administered in the past that are no longer under the security provisions are made available to parents and students and anyone who wants them. But the development of norm-reference, standardized tests is a very rigorous and difficult process; and the security of those tests needs to be preserved as long as the tests are being administered. So to allow this information to be made public at the request of a parent obviously would be a serious issue.Now, my understanding, though, based on the language of H.R. 3189 now, is that your definition of test materials would exclude standardized tests; is that correct?Chairman Riggs. That is correct.Mr. Domenech. So I think the language and the definition as it currently exists certainly would not come into play in the example that Mr. Taylor was mentioning before, the tests administered by Massachusetts or any other State, for that matter.But the basis is not to deny parents access to these materials but rather the rigor that is involved in maintaining the security and the validity of those tests if they are to be re-administered.Chairman Riggs. Mr. Davis, you have a unique perspective on this particular legislation because you are both a classroom teacher and the parent of two children?Mr. Davis. Yes. For standardized tests, Texas has an academic skills test, and the way we are allowing the parents to see the tests is we have six tests that we rotate.We also have pilot problems on each test that the parents do not get to see so that we are putting pilot test problems in at the same time, and we have six or eight, so that gives us some database for new tests.I do have a problem if we go back to prior tests because that way we would be allowing the student to see two tests. That would be creating a problem for us since we only have six tests to rotate.Chairman Riggs. Mrs. DeLullo and Mr. Reinhard, thank you for being here.Do you think that Congressman Tiahrt's legislation gets at the concerns of so many parents who have decided to home school their children? Because we hear those concerns and sometimes vehement objections to the kind of, if you will, values and instruction being imparted in many of our public schools. And if you think that the legislation gets at the concerns of home schoolers, what effect do you think it ultimately would have on the home school movement?Mrs. Delullo. Besides FERPA, parents take their children out for other reasons. I don't think it is just because they cannot review the content of the curriculum.I do believe that FERPA needs to be reinforced; but, once again, it is a policy. And unless it is practiced, a policy is moot unless there is effective action with it to make sure that it can and will be implemented.I think in our district alone or in the State of West Virginia we are sort of behind at the State level for policies and legitimate enforcement. We don't have a thorough enforcement mechanism in place adequately at the State level or the county level to go back and seek some assistance.I will give you one example. I met with the physician who last week wanted to do research without parental permission, and she was told not to contact me. And she called me. She said, they are not giving me any information, but I need to talk to someone. We did meet and she was kind of shocked that she was able to do it, too, but nobody said anything.I think in research, medical, immunizations and things of that nature, there needs to be a trust mechanism. I am not saying that educators are bad, and I don't mean to imply that. A lot of times it is because no one follows through on it, and I think we need enforcement at the State levels and have the States enforce at the county level.But we don't have that enforcement mechanism even within the FERPA department at the U.S. Department of Education. They are too busy to take a look at each parent complaint.Chairman Riggs. Mr. Reinhard, do you have an opinion how this legislation would affect the home schooling movement and would it address the concerns of parents who home school?Mr. Reinhard. If I could just comment briefly, I know many people who home school and these are among the most committed parent volunteers. It is an enormous burden that they undertake, and they undertake it because they feel that they have been betrayed by the public schools that no longer seek to teach literary and numeracy. And by opening to public scrutiny that which is their curriculum and testing mechanisms, I think if they are genuine it will bring the home schoolers back. But if they insist on further deviating from what we consider to be education, it will, of course, drive them further and further away from the public system.Chairman Riggs. Mr. Taylor?Mr. Taylor. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Home schoolers are some of the most dedicated activists in this country, and they can light up the phones as quickly as anyone can. Anything that would tend to balance out the scales in terms of information provided to parents as opposed to information that is readily available to educators or to administrators would assist them in their efforts to weigh the balance, whether they remain in home schooling, which we fully support, or if they decide to come back and give public schools another chance.Chairman Riggs. One other question and that is the question of how the bill would work and whether it should be construed as an opt in or opt out.I may have misunderstood, Mr. Means, but I thought I understood you to say that your school and your district had gone to an opt out, and the way I interpret Congressman Tiahrt's legislation is it is an opt in.Mr. Means. We started with an opt-out program, and because of the flow of paper with students taking it home and maybe not returning it, because the opt out said no, everyone is included until I get a note from the parents saying no, I don't want my child to participate.If they don't come back, obviously discussion probably didn't even occur at home. If you have the opt in, where the only way the student can participate is the school receiving written consent, then you are erring on the side of caution possibly.Chairman Riggs. That is the current policy at your school in your district?Mr. Means. As it pertains to sex and AIDS education programs. That was really one of the most passionate areas that has been an emphasis behind this movement.Chairman Riggs. Mr. Davis, what is the current policy and law in the State of Texas? And, Dr. Domenech, what is the current policy and practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Fairfax public schools with regard to these very sensitive materials? Is it opt out or opt in?Mr. Domenech. In terms of our curriculum in terms of family education as we refer to it, it is an opt out. Students will be included unless the parents send a note to the school saying that they do not want their child to participate in class or reviewing of films. With access to materials, that is open to everyone. It is not opt out. Everyone is entitled to it.Chairman Riggs. And that material would be available at the site level?Mr. Domenech. At the building level, at the district office, and we even make it available in our local libraries.Chairman Riggs. Mr. Davis, how about Texas?Mr. Davis. The same way. Basically the same concept. Each district has the option to go either direction.Chairman Riggs. Very good.Mr. Payne. Thank you very much.I just continually have a question about the usurping of Federal guidelines on local school districts, and the right of legal action which this legislation bestows on parents is, I think, already unprecedented in the General Education Provisions Act.I just have some concern that this provision could be abused and could literally halt the ability of a school district to function. I just wonder how do you see the local school districts none of you feel this usurps Federal jurisdiction over local school districts? You just don't think it is another layer of Federal Government on the local districts?I just wonder how you interpret when we, as asked the other panel, when we interpret the fact that most of the philosophy is that local is best, we should not have the Federal Government intrude. Then, once again, I get confused with the support of a bill that does have the Federal Government supercede the local school board.I just wonder, since you are not the Congress people who testified before, maybe we can hear from the local people, how do you see this as intrusive or not intrusive, or the difference of this as opposed to other Goals 2000, other things that you say are imposed on you as local school people?Mr. Taylor. If I can just respond, I will say that we have got Federal intrusion already, Mr. Payne, with a number of Federal education programs. So this is only provides a very small tool to each and every parent that wants to be able to have access, reasonable access. As to that Federal intrusion, frankly, no matter what kind of a program it would be, but Federal funds that are being used, you know, in the local school district. I see this as this balances it out, so I don't see that this is inconsistent with local control.Mr. Domenech. Well, Mr. Payne, that is exactly the basis of our testimony, to agree with the statement that you just made, that in essence we do see this as Federal intrusion, unnecessary, that this is primarily the province of the local board of education and certainly the State level but it should not require Federal intervention.Mr. Davis. Evidently the reason this legislation is being considered, there are some States out there that are not doing what they should be doing in relation to parental involvement. So Texas is already doing this, but we see that we rather see this as a guideline versus a mandate. But we would still like to see this coming about, because we need some equalization in the United States in relation to parental rights and parental involvement.Mr. Means. I will just maybe echo a little a little of this sentiment, this policy. In some ways the policies of my district are more stringent even than this, and so it would not effect any intrusion. But I am aware that other districts are not at that point yet, and perhaps this legislation could get them to that point more quickly without some of the mistakes and stress that some of these people shared today.Ms. Delullo. I think the issue that needs to be clarified here, and it was clarified with the drug-free schools issue of money going to textbooks when the Federal Government supplies money for curriculum. I think the issue here is not intrusion. I think the issue is constitutional. I don't think you need any FERPA law to go and receive your constitutional rights in Federal court.I think what would be intrusive is if the Federal Government would control the content of the curriculum. They are not controlling this bill is not controlling the content. So it is just controlling access to we the people which is I feel is important and as a constitutional issue it would stand. Thank you.Mr. Reinhard. Yes, I further echo that the ultimate decentralization is not to school boards but to parents. This is parental empowerment. Further, the family, the FERPA law that has just been discussed, if we truly believe that that is Federal intrusion, then maybe we should abandon that law as well. But if we believe in FERPA, maybe we should believe in enforcing it and closing the loopholes that have allowed some of these egregious mistakes to slip through.Mr. Payne. Now, I agree that there are certain mistakes. I still can't fathom how a Federal Government can do a better job than the local school boards. I certainly think parents need to be more involved. I think that the example of some of these tests that have been shown are outrageous, almost shocking, and I certainly agree with the previous panel that that sort of thing, I don't understand how it could slip through a school district.But I guess I just have and it is not the people on this panel, it is more with the political leadership of the new majority, and maybe Mr. Taylor could respond, since he is probably the only person that is really involved in public policy and you all are just regular citizens.The right to sue, for example, we have got legislation out that wants to restrict people's right to sue. You have got legislation that would say, you know, the loser pays; if you sue, you have to pay if you lose, so be careful about suing. And the right that you represent said we should reduce suing, we should the lawyers are just making money here.This legislation, one of the main components is, in Federal court at that, that the parents should be encouraged to sue. So once again, suing on one hand is wrong or abused. It seems that when policies fit what you want to do, it is less philosophical, I think, than public policy, even.For example, I cannot understand why everyone shouldn't be outraged you know, these tests are bad and they may harm people psychologically, but what is happening in our country the last several months with 11-year-olds and 13-year-olds taking automatic weapons to the school and killing their schoolmates, shooting their teachers, yet? And still, and that is what I am talking to you about as a policymaker, I have not heard any outcry about banning of assault weapons from your Christian Coalition supporters.As a matter of fact, you support the right for these children or people to bear arms. So I get kind of confused on issues of life and death, such as gun control, where it is going to eventually. What is wrong with banning weapons, trying to get them out of the hands of people? There are 200 million guns in this country.Since you are a policymaker, that is the only reason I am asking you the question. The other people, as I mentioned before, they are citizens and not involved in making policy, but you are. I just wonder how you could respond to that. I know it is a little bit it is a problem in schools, and that is the reason that I am raising it.Mr. Taylor. Mr. Payne, obviously, every member of the Christian Coalition is very upset with the tragedy in Arkansas, Jonesboro, Arkansas and other we have had some copycats, at least one copycat that I am aware of since that incident. I think it does point to partly the breakdown of families, and there is a whole host of reasons that could be explored with that.We have never taken as far as I know, I am relatively new at the Christian Coalition, as far as I know we haven't really taken a position on guns control. We certainly would not be for children carrying weapons in schools. I think that is I don't think I have to check with Randy Tate to find out whether we would oppose that or not. I think I can step out there and say that with relative confidence.But just to get back, you know, a little bit to the point of this bill, and also just to clarify a little bit of my testimony, in terms of my example, in terms of the assessment that was used in Massachusetts, I think what I was the reason I was using this particular example is because of the personal questions that were attached to that were a part of this assessment.I fully am aware that this bill does except standardized tests from its requirement, but at least maybe and maybe this would require a clarification under the Tiahrt bill that questions of a personal nature maybe should be there should still be direct parental consent on a standardized test, so that if students are getting questions about parental behaviors at home or family lifestyles or those kinds of questions, I think that is going beyond the bounds of what an assessment a standardized assessment should be asking without parental consent.So that was the point th
