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1 – 200 of 848 Newer› Newest»By:AAQuintanilla H.B.ANo.A613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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80R2468 KFF-D 1
By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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80R12948 ABC-D 1
By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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By:AAWentworth,et al.S.B.ANo.A378
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
habitation,vehicle,or place of business or employment;
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
habitation,vehicle,or place of business or employment;
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Goodbye Earn,
We are sad to see you go. Unfortunately the Ochoa-Saenz people at Edinburg News have been such a hateful influence on politics and the people living in the RGV. We are looking forward to your run for mayor. I look forward to shaking your hand one day Mr. Mayor.
Goodbye? Why? Giving up that ez?
Eddie Saenz wants to run for Aaron Pena's district? That's a bunch of bs. Saenz is not even from Edinburg. He's from McAllen. I bet you E-news will stay silent on that since they are big on "home grown" candidates.
E-News se la come!
Is this permanent or are you just taking a hiatus?
You know what I find funny. It seems that the paper of south texas is in kind of a hiatus because they are relocating and "Earn" says goodbye. Could it be that "Earn" is part of the paper of south texas? Seems like the same writing style.
I can't believe you're just up and hitting the road.
We have disagreed more times than I can count, but a healthy debate was always welcome.
Have a nice life.
You know where to find me,
-Denise
Time to pay the piper...
earn, i'm sad and disappointed. i hope you're not gone for long.
just on vacation shell be back
Joe Joe the clown filed a lawsuit against her for slander.
Word is FBI's zeroing in on school districts has people in Edinburg-Elsa-Pharr nervous. Any day now the hammer will fall. The rats are squirming.
You moron, written defamation is LIBEL. Spoken defamation is slander. If Earn would be sued for anything, it would be LIBEL.
However, in the Telecommunications Act, Congress exempted online postings from defamation lawsuits.
Are you talking about E. Saenz?
I heard the same rumor. It seems like these rumors all one day come true.
You bunch of idiots, Earn is on vacation. He hasn't gone anywhere. He'll be back. We all need a little R&R once in a while.
Sorry but Earn got exposed. Earn is Orlando Salnias. Who is he you ask? He works for Aaron Pena Jr. He got exposed.
Your retarded 12:27p.m Orlando S. is not Earn my Vote. Good try though! Keep begging for money for your hack jobs E-news.
I hear New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has contacted Joe Ochoa to be his runningmate. What the hell....unqualified mayors with no foreign policy experience are now running for president. First Guiliani. Now Bloomberg. Next one of them will ask Joe Ochoa or Ricard Garcia or Aaron Pena to be their Vice President or Secretary of State.
Just another sign that civilization is breaking down.
Earn give me the password, I'll keep this going.
Hey! Who are they going to sue? Do you even know who to sue? We all know Joe-Joe and his cronies are a bunch of rats. It's just a matter of time til the FBIs get them, then good riddance and send in the next group of clowns.
Don't worry there are more people sniffing these corrupt politicians tails...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
One question: was Alonzo Cantu at the Town Hall Meeting? I doubt it. But guess whose house Pres. Clinton went to?
Not Aaron Pena's or Veronica Gonzalez'.
Were any of the other local high rollers in the Democratic Party there? Ramon Garcia?
Don't forget that Mando Martinez was there too. Saenz is old news. It was noticed that he wasn't there. The guy is just talk and no action, at least none that we can talk about.
Mikal Watts was there. I think he is the number 1 contributor to the party.
Gonzales always does a good job as does Pena. Your not going to find Saenz or Villalobos at these events they are opportunists looking to TAKE not give. Try the post office.
Note to E-news: Your arguments or points are so weak. Is Eddie Saenz really paying you?
of course eddie is paying david diaz eddie thinks all his money is going to buy his way in haha
David Diaz is Edinburg News, you got it he is on the Saenz payroll. The same person who wont deny that he is Edinburg News has for a long time been taking money from Saenz. This all without proper reporting. Along with the "other" problems Saenz has, Diaz will end up taking him down. Damaged goods going down in a sinking ship of trash.
Nah David is not E-News but Earn is someone in Aaron's office. Why were they cleaning out there computers this past weekend. We already know who Earn is.
Now Aaron your going to pay. And pay big. I wonder if your marriage will last? I guess only time will tell. You will go through something like never before. Just ask your good friend, Richard Garcia. He didn't know how to handle it. And as you can see he lost.
Or why don't you ask Melba Gonzalez. She even said herself that she lost cause of E-News.
The time will come when you will have to answer to E-News. In the mean time get all the money you can from the Republicans. Cause your going to need it. You my friend are next.
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And your point is?
You Saenz people need to get a life. Nobody in this town likes you.
You are full of shit the reps office is not open on weekends.
The State Party are not going to let E-news Saenz even run in the Dem. primary! News from the Chairman's mouth to God's ears. Seems that his major contributions to a certain Congressional republican out of Alaska and his many CHECKS he recieved from the famous Tom Delay TRMPAC have put the nail in his coffin. Looks like Saenz is going to have to run as a Republican if he wants it that bad?
There is very little that the state party can do to keep someone off the ballot. The only thing that can keep Saenz off the ticket is if he voted in the GOP primary in 2006.
Contributing to Republican candidates doesn't disqualify someone from running in the Democratic primary. Remember back in 2002, Tony Sanchez came under considerable critcism for contributing to GOP candidates.
Furthermore, this would lay out a ridiculous double standard and quite possibly a 14th Amendment equal protection violation. Saenz is disqualified from running as a Democrat because he contributed to a GOP PAC, yet Aaron Pena is allowed to run even though he voted for a GOP candidate for speaker. Pena actually openly voted for Tom Craddick.
Just because you fantasize about something happening in your shower while masturbating, does not make it true.
I think what E-News is trying to say is that Aaron Pena is one stupid S.O.B. I would have to agree with them.
You just showed us why people in Edinburg are sick and tired of Saenz and his flunkies. You guys are full of hate. Get over it. Just because you only got 30% of the vote last time is no reason to be filled with so much hate. No one likes you get it in your head.
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
Who ever wrote this hit my feelings on the spot. Dude show up if your going to play it like a democrat.
For the 80th session the vote was 121-27 because there was only one candidate for speaker of the house when Jim Pitts dropped out. All reps from the Valley voted in favor of the speaker.
The 79th only had over 140 people vote for the speaker, again all from the Valley voted for Craddick.
The 78th session 149-1 voted for the republican speaker because he again was the only one running. All from the Valley voted for him.
I agree with the commentors who say this talk by one wanna be candidate is smoke and mirrors. If you want to be Mr. Democrat I want to add that showing up is good but telling the truth is better.
Ok Eddie-News.. You gave money to an Alaskan Republican Candidate
then try to run in the Dem. Party?
You then recieve money from Indicted Tom Delay's Texans for a Republican Majority.
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hey eddie why dont you run for school board in psja you would fit in and take david diaz with you he'll keep you from getting in trouble he's a good liar
and take joe hector ron and richard exmayor son with you
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Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
Eddie Lucio is from Brownsville does that mean he is Santi Klaus?
Where is the FBI boys?
FBI raid Alaskan Legislators
JUNEAU, Alaska - The offices of at least six Alaska legislators, including the son of Sen. Ted Stevens, were raided by federal agents searching for possible ties between the lawmakers and a large oil field services company, officials and aides said.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Jaclyn Lesch said Friday the searches began Thursday and were continuing Friday. FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said a total of 20 search warrants were being executed across Alaska, but would not say where.
A copy of one of the search warrants, obtained by The Associated Press, links the investigation to a new production tax law signed last month by Gov. Frank Murkowski and a draft natural gas pipeline contract Murkowski and the state’s three largest oil companies negotiated.
The warrant called for seizure of documents concerning any payment made to lawmakers by Bill Allen and Richard Smith, executives of oil field services giant VECO Corp. Agents also looked for documents about contracts, agreements or employment of legislators provided by VECO, Allen, Smith and company president Peter Leathard.
Sought-after items named in the search include hats or other garments bearing the phrases “CBC,” “Corrupt Bastards Club” or “Corrupt Bastards Caucus.”
That’s the nickname given to 11 lawmakers after a guest opinion piece published in March listed the contributions those legislators received from VECO Corp. executives, said House Speaker John Harris, R-Valdez. The piece was published in the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Juneau Empire on different dates in March.
“I’ve heard it a few times,” Harris said Friday. “These legislators nicknamed themselves or somebody else did.”
Lesch said no further comment is likely to come from the Justice Department unless charges are filed.
Company says execs on the up and up
VECO’s executives are top contributors to Alaska politicians. The company staunchly supported the governor’s production tax plan, a version of which the Legislature passed in August after twice rejecting it earlier this year. Lawmakers have also twice failed to pass legislation related to the governor’s pipeline fiscal contract with BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp.
Amy Menard, an Anchorage-based attorney for VECO, said the company received a warrant on Thursday. She said the company would cooperate with agents in providing the broad range of information they want.
“We have no information that would suggest that there have been any improper activities either by VECO Corp., VECO Alaska, or any of the principals involved in those companies,” Menard said.
Among the offices searched was that of Republican Senate President Ben Stevens, whose father is Alaska’s senior senator, who has reported collecting more than $240,000 in consulting fees from VECO since 2000. Ted Stevens’ spokesman Aaron Saunders said Friday he had no comment on the search.
Ben Stevens could not be reached at his Anchorage home on Friday.
Agents left Ben Stevens’ Capitol office Thursday evening with 12 boxes of documents labeled “Evidence” and loaded them into a vehicle.
‘It’s pretty bizarre’
Also searched were offices in both Juneau and Anchorage belonging to state Sen. John Cowdery, the Senate Rules chairman; Republican state Rep. Vic Kohring; Republican state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch; Democratic state Sen. Donald Olson, and Republican state Rep. Pete Kott.
“It’s pretty bizarre,” Cowdery said Friday. “That’s all I know, it’s pretty bizarre. I certainly haven’t done anything wrong.”
He said he didn’t know why he was included in the raid or why agents seized items “unrelated to anything,” including the stubs of his legislative salary checks.
Kohring said he cooperated and was told he was not a target of the investigation. Calls to Weyhrauch and Kott were not immediately returned Friday.
Olson issued a statement saying, “I am certain that I will not be a target of this investigation and that I have broken no laws.” Reached by telephone, he said his attorneys advised him not to comment further.
Four different teams of at least six federal agents each spent hours searching offices on each floor of the Capitol.
Besides VECO and its executives, agents were authorized to seize any documents related to The Petroleum Club, Republican pollster David Dittman or his company, Dittman Research and Communication Corp., pollster Marc Hellenthal or his company, Hellenthal and Associates, Roger Chan, VECO’s chief financial officer, and a flying service that Olson owns, according to the warrant.
Dittman’s wife, Terry Dittman, said Friday the FBI had been to their office and said the company was not the subject of the investigation but they may have evidence related to it.
A person who answered the phone at Chan’s home in Anchorage said he was out of town and could not be reached for comment. Messages were also left for Leathard, Smith and Allen.
Hellenthal said Friday that he had not been contacted by federal agents. He said his firm has conducted polls for VECO and other businesses on governors’ and legislative races.
A receipt, obtained by the AP, of items the FBI seized from Olson’s office lists five things: Olson’s 2006 year planner, Murkowski’s gas pipeline proposal released in May, a manila folder labeled “APOC” for the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Olson’s interim travel file and a binder related to the Alaska Stranded Gas Fiscal contract.
Follow the money. Why or for what is Eddie Saenz giving a Republican Alaskan legislator money and lots of it?
So he can build a bridge to nowhere! Remember his slogan: building bridges/spending money or something like that.
Saenz isn't running for a party officer job. He is running for the nomination to a state office. Different rules govern that.
Second, assuming arguendo, that the rule applies to getting on a primary ballot, Aaron Pena will be disqualifed also. He supported Tom Craddick.
Aaron Pena never gave money to any Republicans. Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN legislator which is grounds for the Chairman to deny him the right to run in OUR party.
Second, your flawed argument that "Pena voted for Craddick." Waahhh! Cry me a river Faggot! All the Valley legislators voted for Craddick! They are alot smarter than your dumb,paid ass. Your strategy is horrible..if you had any brains you would of had Eddie wake up after a long night at BOYS TOWN and make it to the Saturday, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY MEETING! But, since he is to busy getting over a hang over. Your not even worth the minute it took me to write this comment.
TRUE DEMOCRATS SHOW UP TO EVENTS!
E.S. wasn't there. also, alot of big shots were not there as well. that just shows the lack of coordintion of Juan Maldonado. overall it was a low turn out.
Interesting article about Edinburg not finding a new City Manager. It's not for lack of qualified candidates, that's for sure. I saw the applications. Ochoa has his hand so far up the interim's ass that it isn't even funny. When Ochoa mumbles, the interim listens.
The way the quotes are written in this article basically indicate that Edinburg is too busy to find qualified leadership. What a shame! Believe me...Mr. Rodriguez, all due respect, is not a leader.
I'm not from Edinburg, someone fill me on this.
hey 6:58pm: you sound like someone from the inside.....spill the beans.
Heather Elias where are you?
Joe Ochoa doesn't like people questioning his dictatorship thats why there still not a city manager. And you have a problem with him making money by putting the tax burden on the poor and middle class than vote him out. He is selling property folks! Come to Edinburg, buy a house from my friend Hector Casas..I got you a tax break,drink some alcohol from my friend Hector Casas..we got alcohol! Oh yah and if you need GOOD drugs..I sell those too!
Hey you can even sleep with my X- the Devil;)
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Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
FIRST OF ALL IT'S RGVOTE (1 V) you IDIOT!!! And you can register a domain in China if you want, doesn't mean you're from over there. Turn off the computer and go back to picking the fleas of your relatives you DUMB FUCK!!!
Responding to 11:06...
Yes, someone from the inside. Ask what you want and I will try to answer.
Joe Ochoa doesn't like anyone questioning his dictatorship. The interim does what he can to survive. But he doesn't want to be City Manager and he acknowledged that in the newspaper. He only has a little time left before retirement. Think about it...the average career span for a CM is 3 years.
It is well known in City Hall that the interim's girlfriend is also his over-glorified secretary. How is she still allowed to report to him? Just a small insight into what's going on in Shitty...I mean City Hall.
Ochoa and Saenz have really fucked up this city. Has anybody heard when Saenz is being picked up by the FBI? The talk in Pharr is that one of his rats from the Delta area turned on him.
hey 9:54 pm, keep 'em coming....
Just in case anyone forgot, here's E-news, I mean, David "copion" Diaz getting busted and exposed.
P.R. guru admits cribbing E-N copy
Mariano Castillo
Rio Grande Valley Bureau
San Antonio Express News
EDINBURG — The various roles of a South Texas journalist and public relations guru has the San Antonio Express-News and the City of Edinburg looking into evidence he committed plagiarism and other ethical breaches.
In recent years, David Diaz, an independent businessman, has contracted with the city and local politicians to write favorable stories that he distributes through e-mail, some of which have been subsequently published in the Edinburg Daily Review.
After an Edinburg reader alerted the Express-News to a Sept. 21 Daily Review story by Diaz with striking similarities to a 4-day-old story by Guillermo X. Garcia of the Express-News Austin Bureau, the paper examined Diaz's work.
Diaz prepared a statement Friday stating he had properly attributed other sources.
But later, in a phone conversation with Express-News Managing Editor Brett Thacker, he admitted making an error in judgment.
"I made a mistake, for which I apologize," Diaz said. "I'll stop doing that."
In defending himself, Diaz highlighted the prolific, original work he produces.
"I use my legislative skills, my extensive experience in journalism and in the legislature to push for issues that benefit thousands of people here in the Valley, and I've done a lot of that without getting paid for it," he said. "I get hired to promote the people that pay me. That's what I do."
In addition to the Daily Review, Diaz said his stories get picked up by many Valley newspapers, including El Americano News, the Advance News-Journal, Delta Chronicle, Mid-Valley Star, and Valley Town Crier.
Thacker said the Express-News will continue to monitor Diaz's work.
"We have put Mr. Diaz on notice about his misappropriation of material from the Express-News, and will hold him to his word that this practice will stop," Thacker said.
A sample of Diaz's stories distributed by e-mail or published in the Daily Review showed a pattern of sloppy attribution and outright plagiarism of the Express-News and the McAllen Monitor.
In the past, Diaz has been hired to promote state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa and Rep. Roberto Gutierrez, though it was unclear if he still worked for them.
Since August, Diaz has placed his name on at least four articles that included — with minimal attribution — large portions of Express-News stories.
In each, Diaz credited the Express-News with one paragraph, surrounding it with quotation marks, then followed it with hundreds of words lifted verbatim from the same article without further attribution.
The Monitor, the largest daily newspaper in the Rio Grande Valley, is also a source of material for Diaz.
Monitor reporter Brittney Booth, who covers Edinburg, said she has regularly seen portions of her work reprinted in Diaz's articles with no attribution whatsoever.
Booth said she complained to Edinburg city officials, weeks before Diaz's contract with the city was up for renewal last month.
Diaz's contract was renewed, but was amended with a clause requiring him to ensure all his stories "have proper attribution on all information obtained from sources other than through (Diaz's) own investigation."
The contract also requires him to submit all of his press releases and articles to the city for its review.
who is Heather Elias?
David Diaz has a trash story againt Gail Fagan at the Edinburg News blog. Hmm, still pissed at them for the plagerism story? Hey David we here at the paper still have our eyes on you. Cut out the shit!
Who is this Diaz guy and why does he go after so many people?
Sylvia The Whore Handy is going down.
david diaz used to work with that wimpy daily mistake newspaper where he never made any money now he works for eddie and joe and is making big bucks to lie and slander people but god will catch up with him
Millions of people read my words and belive what I write.. To Joe and Eddie I am GOD.
"BELIVE"? MAYBE YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SPELL BEFORE YOU GO TALKING SHIT!
Don't these officials have to report money payments to Diaz or is this under the table? If they are paying him in a legal way, how is it that the officials get away with this. It looks real dirty. Is Fagan or the Monitor likely to sue him?
Yes, I know for a fact that the Fagans are going after Diaz. They have an attorney working on it. It's funny how these things work. It's not a secret that Diaz had assumed that about the Fagans before since he was telling the whole world. But now, the idiot puts it in writing in his E-news blog where he has basically done himself in. Get ready to pay up Diaz, big time.
what did E-News do that was so wrong? They mention fagan working at utpa. They mention fagan working at the monitor. That's all true. So what is the problem. The story that E-News has is from the SA Express. So why are the fagan's all pissed off? Maybe they didn't want the public to know that she works at UTPA. Everything that was said on E-News is all true! So sue for what? You all are dumb fucks. Right Aaron Pena !
The E-News story entirely plagerized the San Antonio Express story by someone with an axe to grind. That axe man is known in Edinburg even though he hides behind his anonymous blog. There is the problem!!!!!
There is a saying that a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn. And although it's David Diaz who is writing the story on the ENews, the Fagan story has some merit.
Professional journalists are supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety. The fact that Fagan edits the Monitor (i.e. makes the calls on what stories are reported and make it in and are placed where) and his wife works in the PR Department (i.e. the spin zone) of UTPA, leads to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Monitor misses a big story like that.
Secondly, there was nothing defamatory about that story in the ENews. The Fagans have no action in libel. In order for the Fagans to be able to recover they have to prove that the material was false and that it harmed their reputations. Although the article maybe harm their professional reputation, the inference isn't false. There is an appearance of a conflict of interest.
The ridiculousness of some on this board is reaching new levels. The Monitor is a lousy newspaper. Compare it to the other major Texas dailies--the San Antonio Express-News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, The Laredo Times or the Corpus Christi Caller Times. The Monitor is substandard, badly edited and dilitory and negligent in its reporting. The newspaper is crappy.
It's an embarassment to our community. We have all this corruption in our public institutions, yet you never see the Monitor conduct investigative reporting.
Fagan deserved to be called on this failure to properly cover the area that his newspaper is entrusted to cover.
Just because David Diaz reported it, doesn't mean it's bad. Even a blind pig finds an acorn. Give the devil his due when he is right.
And BTW, I know some of you morons will accuse me of being someone at the ENews. I am not.
For the record, 6:18pm is David Diaz. Ask him, he won't deny it.
Amen to that Give them hell E-news your doing a great job!
"Even a blind pig finds an acorn." So David Diaz is taking credit for exposing the UTPA issue huh? What an idiot, the Monitor was already covering it. Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on. It's not like the Monitor ignored the issue altogether or waited months before they printed this issue. They printed the very next day. That wasn't 'cuz of David Diaz. That was due to research and accurate reporting something David Diaz does not know about.
yeah keep thinking that
Responding to 12:28....
Tell me what you want to know and I will tell you what I know.
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
"Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on."
You know absolutely nothing about the newspaper business. The idea of news is its immediacy. If you bury a story on a backpage two days after the story occurs, you minimize its importance.
The president of Texas Southern University was indicted and convicted for the same thing. The interlocking nature of UTPA and The Monitor leads to a lot of suspicion.
"That was due to research and accurate reporting"
This isn't a rocket science story. This is a matter of reading through the report and the accompanying press releases. Any sophomore in a J 312 class at UT-Austin would have pounded out that story in an afternoon.
The article in the Monitor wasn't very long. It wasn't a "researched" article. If the San Antonio Express-News with a San Antonio-based reporter could get the article out in the same news cycle, the Monitor could. I seem to remember the Daily Texan (the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin) had the article out on the same newsday. Unless your implication is that Monitor reporters need more time to do the same story as a bunch of student reporters at the Daily Texan or that Monitor reporters (why by most estimates are younger and hungrier to move up to big town newspapers) are not as good as Express-News reporters, you have to admit that the Monitor was sloppy and lazy in reporting the story.
And once again, the usual ad-homineum attack on me is going to surface. I am going to be accused of either being David Diaz or Eddie Saenz or anyone from their camp.
I am not. I find David Diaz' writing wordy and boring. He fills his "stories" with unncessary detail (for example once he referred to the multi-level parking garage that the county is considering building near the Courthouse as "the Edinburg-based structure" as if garage would be built anywhere but in Edinburg.)
I graduated of the University of Texas Journalism Department in the early 80s. I studied under some of the best jouranlism professors in the country like Griff Singer, Mike Quinn, Warren Burkett and Red Gibson. I worked at the Daily Texan and several other mid-sized Texas dailies. The Monitor does not reflect any of the journalistic values i was taught. The Monitor is a PR rag at best, a glorified supermarket shopper at worst. You guys wouldn't know who I am because I don't work in Edinburg and I teach in a neighboring school district.
uhhhhh, yeah, whatever, anyway, we all know that's you David Diaz. Who else would vouch for you in that way at 1:43am?
Does anyone really want to know who is Edinburg News. It is Aaron Pena's UNCLE, the x-mayor of Ednburg. Isn't that a kick in the pants. Anyone notice how the Richard Alamia family is no longer being talked about on this site. Earn my Vote is run by Aaron and his staff. The Alamia family is stabbing Aaron, their newphew, on Edinburg News. and Aaron cant let anyone know that. If you look at Edinburg News, there is alot of storeys about Aaron's FAMILY secrets. Who else would know that.The Penas and the Alamias are the ones who are tering our city apart. Aaron you should fix your family affairs. Give your UNCLE what he wants. you know what that is.
Are we off trying to destroy the Fagans? Ochoa/Saenz and Diaz need to get a life.
You no nothing of the relationship that the Penas and the Alamias have. They two families just got back from a family reunion and are working together on his re-election camp. Get your facts straight E-news. I am an Alamia!
Be proud of your family. Don't let these hate driven do-nothings distract you. Your relative is doing a great job. You see when their side has nothing to offer all they can do is to create hate.
The reason E-News knows so much about Aaron Pena is because of Saul. He was in Aaron's camp now is in Eddie's
Thats nice. Paris Hilton has the best media manipulators money can buy. Unfortunately Hilton and Saenz, like pigs with lipstick, are big stinkers. Oink! Oink!
Saul is a good man..he might take Eddie's money, but his heart and his vote will be with Pena.
come if you cant even spell how can we believe you cant even spell stories and tearing must be one of eddies buddies or david diaz na got to be eddies bud by the way cant wait to see eddie run remember 30% ha ha lol
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So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Oh yes, there is substantial truth to it. Everyone knows about it, but nobody says anything. Even the city council knows...
Boy, everyone got quiet around here.
fred palacios rules!. live with it, dont be jealous.
So what's up with our Senator Chucho Hinojosa? It looks like this is only the tip of the iceberg. The following was reported in the Houston Chronicle...
Fees paid to probate lawyers unreported
Hidalgo County was among 6 counties that did not follow law on disclosure, investigation finds
By LISE OLSEN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
More than a dozen years after the Texas Supreme Court demanded the disclosure of fees ordered paid by probate judges to court-appointed attorneys, the corruption-fighting measure has been ignored by some of the state's biggest counties, a Houston Chronicle investigation has found.
The law requires that court clerks report every fee of $500 or more awarded by a judge.
At least $1.8 million in probate court-ordered payments went unreported from 2003 to 2005 or were awarded to people who were not identified by name, based on the Chronicle's review.
After several court corruption scandals, the Texas Supreme Court enacted the rule in 1994 to fight cronyism and favoritism. The court ordered county clerks to file monthly reports to spotlight and limit a judge's power to order excessive fees to lawyer friends.
Large counties on list
But the Chronicle found that clerks in six of the state's most populated counties — Travis, Denton, Bexar, El Paso, Hidalgo and Galveston — had failed to fully follow the rule in recent years, based on reports filed with the Office of Court Administration.
Texas probate judges have sweeping power to take money out of private savings to pay attorneys in cases involving wills, guardianships, trusts and related matters.
Though the public picks up the tab for the poorest, most payments come from savings and inheritances.
More than 2,700 payments, totaling more than $8 million, were ordered paid to court appointees by probate judges in 2005 alone, according to the Chronicle's analysis.
The reports of fees are supposed to be displayed in county courthouses, as well as filed with the Office of Court Administration in Austin. They should include names of judges who approved fees, appointees, case information and amounts.
Clerk Toni Garcia of Hidalgo County said workers knew nothing about the reporting requirement until the Chronicle called. She and the probate judge in Hidalgo both said few appointees got more than $500 in fees each year.
One fee that should have been reported, however, was a court order for $100,000 to be paid to State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen. Hinojosa represented a child who lost a family member in an auto accident, according to court records. The judge had earlier ordered that the legislator receive $45,000 for the same case, documents show.
Hinojosa said he never received the $100,000, though he did receive the $45,000, but he did not know the clerk failed to report any fees.
Did we forget the Roadrunners were dying on the vine and not paying their bills. they were no longer the only kid on the block ie the dodge arena etc. the new ball team is still around and the new ball club pays to construct their own stadiums. You want to talk failed projects, talk about Ochoa building that stadium at city expense and giving it to the to the bankrupt Roadrunners for a song. The taxpayers will be paying for that failed project for 20 years.
Failed projects? Lets talk,
(1) Ochoa's 21Million$$failed Water Park
(2) Ochoa's Mega Million$$ Golf Course so his buddy could develop the land around it when we already had two golf courses in the city. It's not just the decades of debt to the taxpayers either. It operates in the RED every year adding insult to injury! But Mr Ochoa just had a House built there with his buddy so lets look the other way.
There's plenty more and it's not forgotten...
Drive to the golf course...it is full of people everyday...yes it costs money..but it seems this one is working
I don't see how... If you ask anyone who knows anything about golf, Los Lagos is a major waste. It's by far one of the worst maintained courses in the valley. It's sad the condition the course is in, but then again, it was never about the course, it's about making money for Hector Casas failing Shea Construction. Let's talk about the new entrance built for the course... They used taxpayer dollars to build a nice new entrance to the course and since Hector Casas didn't like it, they tore it down and used even more taxpayer money to build another one.
enews quote calling all candidates if you candidates are smart dont reply to this if not part of enews click they will bash you and make up lies about so dont fall in their traps they are a bunch of rats
oh enews will have a field day with this calling all candidates to send info on themselfs only the enews click need apply to this
candidates please dont fall for this if the enews click doesnt like you they will slander lie cheat blackmail because they get paid for it its all about money they are a bunch of rats
Who the hell is E news?
BOREDOM since Diaz took over.
Rips off the idiots who pay him, and rips off the people who's originality he steals.
Plaigerism in it's purest form.
Say Enews you say Joe "grandpa munster" Ochoa hasn't done anything since he's been back because he's in the minority. Hell he hasn't even floated an idea for something new. All he does is bitch and complain everytime the majority tries to follow through with Richard Garcia's projects or do something new and positive because it wasn't his idea. The only new idea he's tried to field through his so called Mayor's advisory crew picked by him is to give his buddy Casas' new home buyers a break from having to pay taxes like the rest of us.
In his one term Garcia brought us what Joe couldn't do in five:
A new City Hall
A new Library
A new police station
A new fire substation
A new water plant
A new shopping Mall
New Regional co-operation (which is gone again!)
Amazing Economic development as EEDC chair
All while leading the charge in Austin and Washington as chair for the border Mayors of TBIC.
You can fool some of the people some of the time......
Those days are over, We've learned how read and think.
Now YOU think about your ridiculous statements.
Richard Garcia did nothing while he was mayor. E-News is right! Why do you think he lost? And he will lose again and again and again. E-News exposed these Palacios and how they do business. Give them hell E-News
E-news says the following:
"Now don't tell me Joe Ochoa hasn't done anything, he's in the minority."
I don't mean to respond to those idiots at E-news but I know Joe Ochoa reads this so here is the crystal clear truth.
If Joe Ochoa really wanted to do something, all he has to do is propose it. Up to now, nothing has been proposed. All energies are focused on tearing down any project that Richard Garcia started. To Joe Ochoa, it's all about what's wrong with the City and not how can we improve the City. As an Edinburg resident the last 44 years, we should demand better leadership than that. A leader works with what is there and builds consensus. Not all this power grabbing positioning crap that doesn't do anyone any good. It's been over a year that Joe Ochoa has come back to office, I think the man has had more than enough time to make something happen. True leadership would have allowed for Joe Ochoa to reach consenus with the others to make things happen. That hasn't happened and it will not happen.
That's right. What happened to all those campaign promises that Joe Ochoa made????? Let's see, why don't we recap:
1. Finish police station - It's been a year and not done yet.
2. Fix canton/sugar road sewer issue - Problem still there.
3. Bring the city back to its people - Uhhhh, whatever that meant but you can ask anyone about the city and no one is aware.
So what has Joe Ochoa done? For all you blind supporters, what has Joe Ochoa done? Are we much better off now than we were before? I don't think so. We're all still having the same issues: living paycheck to paycheck, bad streets, not enough water pressure.....i could go on and on and on but I think I've made my point.
why is enews so chicken to let the people of edinburg know who they are because cowards hide behind there thoughts real men dont lol
Because they don't want anyone to call them out on their lies. It's like what they are saying about Carmen Gonzalez. What has she done for the teachers, well, if they did their research, they would find out that before she was on the board, Edinburg was the lowest paying school district. The teachers hadn't had a raise in years. Since she has been on the board, teachers have had a raise every year for the last 3 years to make up for what the previous board never did. And talking about school bonds, maybe they should ask Greg and Jaime about them. They have had 2 failed bonds because everyone knows what rats those two are.
Looks like the Monitor picked up on the Alaskan legislator indicted by the FBI. It was just the other day that E-news' candidate Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a certain Alaskan legislator.???? Why would Eddie Saenz give money to a REPUBLICAN Alaskan legislator?
Federal jury convicts former Alaska lawmaker in bribery trial
By DAN JOLING The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
“I’m devastated,” former state Rep. Tom Anderson said after the federal jury announced its verdict.
Anderson, 39, was accused of conspiring to take money he thought was coming from a private prison firm, Cornell Industries, Inc.
The money was supplied by the FBI through an informant working for Cornell who secretly recorded his conversations with Anderson and a co-conspirator, former municipal lobbyist Bill Bobrick.
Anderson was one of four current or former Alaska state lawmakers facing federal bribery indictments. The other three face trial this fall for charges related Anchoragebased oil field services company VECO Corp.
“I think the prosecution has criminalized being a legislator over the last year,” Anderson said. “I think I fell victim to that.”
Anderson’s family, including his wife, state Sen. Lesil McGuire, were not present for the verdict.
Anderson said they couldn’t get to the downtown Anchorage courthouse in time after it was announced the jury had reached a verdict.
Judge John Sedwick ordered Anderson to surrender his passport and scheduled sentencing for Oct. 2.
Anderson was arrested Dec. 7 and charged with seven felonies, including conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and interfering with commerce, a charge connected to a demand for payments. He faces a maximum penalty of 115 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine.
Department of Justice officials in Washington, D.C., said Anderson was held accountable for his crimes.
Anderson “corrupted his elected office when he took official actions in exchange for bribery payments,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher. “His illegal conduct impaired the integrity of the oath he took to represent citizens of the state of Alaska.”
Bobrick in May pleaded guilty to bribing Anderson. He agreed to testify against Anderson in exchange for a “downward sentencing motion” from prosecutors, he said.
Bobrick said two FBI agents called him in late September and said they wanted to play some tapes for him. They were standing on his front porch when they called.
The agents played tapes secretly recorded in 2004 by Frank Prewitt, a former corrections department commissioner who was a $150,000-per-year consultant for Cornell and an FBI informant.
The company is based in Houston, Texas, and operated halfway houses in Alaska. Cornell also hoped to build a private prison and a juvenile psychiatric treatment center in Alaska.
Anderson was accused of accepting nearly $26,000 he thought was coming from Cornell but really was provided through Prewitt by the FBI.
The defense argued that Anderson was a Cornell supporter and backed its positions without being on the take and that Prewitt wore a wire to bag a legislator and deflect investigators away from his legal problems.
It's only a matter of time before they get to Saenz.
Saenz won't be the only one. Ever hear a trapped Rat Squeel?
Watch as Jaime and Greg squeal like pigs
Come on "Eddie Steal money from the poor and give to the rich Saenz" why don't you respond? E-News? WHY or for WHAT would a MCALLEN resident give thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN ALASKAN LEGISLATOR?
Come on Eddie RUN! the Feds are dying for you to do it. Joe has already re-exposed himself.
at least aron is getting money and will win eddies using most of his money to lose remember 30% lol
Eddie Saenz is not running, he's not stupid. Who would be stupid enough to spend another million dollars to come up with 30% of the vote? Aron has done a damn good job and has put this city in a kick ass position. Why would Saenz fuck that up? Nah the problem here is the shit for brains fuck heads like Diaz, Janet Ron Jackson, Garza, little dick Alamia and all the other dead end losers in Edinburg waiting for crumbs to fall off of Saenz' table. Their just pumping Saenz to send money their way. Its a bottomless pit but throw away your money if you want to. This town remembers you bro.
Aron the republican? is that supposed to offset "EDDIE THE CROOK".
Hey Ruben quit defending your friend Aaron Pena. He is a Republican except that you dumb mother fucker
There is a big difference from recieving money from Republicans to fight for Democratic principles. And being a fake ass Democrat like Eddie Saenz and giving thousands of dollars to Alaskan Republican legislators. Oh and did I mention Eddie Steals money from poor people in Pharr and Edinburg. Thank God we kicked him out of our City.
Eddie Saenz/E-news? Why don't you answer the question PEOPLE are talking about? Why would a Valley resident give THOUSANDS of dollars to an ALASKAN REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR? Was it Bribe money?
They got rid of eddie because he was a leach. He was an absolute zero before ochoa started feeding him major taxpayer bucks in edinburg for being simply a middle man in hiring engineers that could really do the work so he could get his "cut". Now it's happening in Pharr.The very people who were against him in pharr ended up hiring him. It's not just the school district they're looking at guy's!
Omar Guerrero, Sylvia Handy, and Eddie Saenz bringing confidence and trust to Hidalgo County.
Vote for me and all of your wildest dreams will come true!
Enews is against school teacher pay raises? Enews is eddie and his crooked cronies and he want's us to send him to Austin? They call Carmen a criminal because she was involved in a family spat? Check out the family values of the people accused of being enews! Joe leaves his wife for a cutie in Monterrey, Richie A fathers children out of wedlock and leaves them supportless! the list is long folks but the point is that these are the kind of folks wanting to tell you what's good for our children???????? give us a break!!!
Carmen will lose. Aaron Pena is broke. Give them hell E-News.
Just heard that Aaron Pena will change his endorsement from Rick to Watts. That's not a good idea. Aaron you will lose your support from your democratic friends in the house. You got your self into problems again blunder boy.
Enews must think we're stupid. They try to put down Aaron because besides being a powerful democrat he is in good with the republicans???? Sounds like a winner to me!!! What U got boys?
Aron will kick the shit out of any piece of shit loser they can dig up. Word on the street is that they can't find anybody. Since Diaz is the only one left to throw shit around why doesn't he run. Nah, damaged goods. Plagerism and all that corruption bullshit. How about Saenz, nah, FBI and all that corruption bullshit. What about tricky dick, nah too small a pecker. Well at least he doesn't have the corruption bullshit to worry about. Yeah I'm for tricky dick. Hey little pecker, since you loser fuckers can't find anybody, grow some balls and step up, you got one vote. No not mom or dad but I'll vote for you. Maybe this time you can break the 30% Saenz got against Pena. Shit a convicted felon, Gonzalez got more votes than Saenz did with a million bucks. Vote for tricky dick!!!! He's our man if Saenz can't do it the little dick can!!!!!
Eddie Saenz is running. He also got $100,000 from the democrats up north. This is going to be good. The dems have a chance to get back the house and a dem speaker. That's why you will see some big dogs come down and endorse Saenz. Aaron is Craddick's puppet.
Hey Ruben you dumb fuck. Are you Aaron's campaign manager? lol
Bullshit! If he got a $100,000. then he broke the law because he has not filed with the Sec. of State. Total bullshit!!! Tell the asshole to announce, then I'll believe you. All we hear is lies like the one you just told. Shit I'll spot you 10 million dollars and Saenz still won't win. The FBI is going to pick him and the rest of his rats up. Shit it must really hurt to have lost by 70% that it still hurts 4 years later.
Is that you little dick? I'll vote for you too. Since the town mayor is a loser we might as well have a second loser running for office.
Big dogs like the state party chair and the local democratic chair who both endorsed our rep. Or do you mean corrupt sons of bitches like Saenz campaign manager, Aaron Gonzalez who will be sitting in federal prison for corruption. Will it be Eddie Gonzalez another big time loser like you little dick?
Eddie Saenz is a Republican. Do you even know if the Democratic Chair will allow him to run since he gave big money to Alaskan Republicans to corruption projects to who knows where?
I vote that we let Saenz run so that he can really get the shit kicked out of him. Let's break 80% this time. The guy steals from the taxpayers to line his pockets.
I'm sorry can someone please tell me who little dick is?
Little Dick is the son of one of Edinburg's former mayors. He is just one of the many losers that Saenz surrounds himself with. Although I've heard talk about the FBI and Saenz I have not heard that "little dick" is involved. He works behind the scenes in political campaigns not doing very much but sure acts like he does. He and Saenz were big supporters of the former county clerk Omar Guerrero.
Is JD a republican? According to E-News anyone supporting Watts is a republican. JD Salinas is supporting Watts. Isn't Eddie Saenz supporting Watts? Billy Leo is supporting Watts. Would someone ask Diaz if Leo or Salinas are republicans. We all know what party Saenz is connected with.
Aaron can you please talk about the son you lost? You killed him. You dumb son of a bitch. Monica didnt want your son in the house cause of all the drugs he was on. So you got him an apartment and looked what happened.
You killed your son. You are a murder. You would not let your son stay in the house cause of your wife.
You deserve nothing. You killed my son. I will tell all. People deserve to know the truth. You killed my son. you killed my son. you killed my son. I'm going to make sure everyone knows the truth.
You killed my son.
Wow, the level of maturity coming from Saenz and his supporters is just below that of a five year old. Anybody willing to stoop to these levels needs help. They should be ashamed of themselves.
And now you know why he only got 30% of the vote.
Wow. Joe and eddie are godawful ugly but the ugly face of Greed they have displayed here is incomparably scary ugly. Makes their ugly faces pale in comparisom.
no aron did not kill his son you did because of your family's background and the life you lived he followed your path not arons so because we all know about your life so go back to church and ask for gods help because you need it
Let's not allow Saenz or his people to drag us down into the gutter. We are better than that.
They are from the gutter. We are not.
How can people be so desperate? That's horrible.
These people at E-News are sick. Who would say such things. Does anybody know who they are?
yeah they are shaine mata, orlando salinas
E-news is a paid site to defame and destroy candidates. They are paid with blood and sweat money off the backs of the poor. E-news is Eddie Saenz, Joe Ochoa, Robert Pena and the Devil that leads the way.
It is embarrassing that Edinburg harbors such trash. It is even more embarrassing that some people actually vote for them. We are not only the laughing stock of respectability but are beginning to be shunned like lepers by the leadership of surrounding communities. what went wrong? We were finally moving into the mainstream and one election gone awry set us back ten years!
It's probably Aaron saying all this shit. He wants all of us to feel bad for him. Trying to get the sympathy vote. E-News doesn't say anything about you on there site.
Seems that some people on here don't like the truth.
Aaron voting for Craddick! Truth
Carmen getting arrested! Truth
So what's the problem? You should have thought about your district, first. Not your personal gain. I live in the delta area. And you have done nothing for us.
Give them hell E-News. Your doing a great job. We want more! We want more!
I can't believe what I am reading on this site. I am new to the area and the idea that a political faction would bring up a deceased member of another candidates' faction is beyond me. I will pray for person or persons believing that they are going to win on that message. God bless the polititians that get into office to help the poor and less fortunate.
(6:34) I am sure your retired teachers will enjoy the extra pay compliments of our rep. If your an active teacher, the last two pay raises the rep. fought for will be nice. If your child is sick then the CHIP bill passed by the rep will give him health care. If your child gets out in the top 10% of his class then he still will have access to our top universities. If he goes to Pan Am, then the rep. got him a new fine arts auditorium, a health and wellness facility and funded the regional health center to look for cures for diabetes and other illnesses. He saw funding increase to our local universities. Look around there are many more items I and you could point to if you looked. It sounds like the hate we sometimes see here is blinding you from the good that is all around you. One last question, why did you not ask what Hinojosa or Lucio did for your town? I am afraid that you are either driven by hate like the other sad commentors or you are ignorant. Why dont you tell us.
i agree with holy spirit the language has got to go. looks like some one want it to look like arons people are using that language but it not. I will tell you this much we live in a free country we shouldnt be afraid to vote republican or democrat as long as the person is the best person for that position thank you and for god sake stop the language
Hey Earn, where are you? We need you....there's so many shennanigans going on out there at the City and School District.
I dont know about you enews. I dont have anything bad to say about Bobby. But some of his donations come from people you talk bad about. I think you are really losing it. Or you are just picking on aron, boy you really need some mental help.
oh like eddies money is supposed to scare us im shaking already ooooooooooooooooooooooo
hey what's up with that idiot gus garcia, se cree bien chingon asking all these questions at the commission meeting. gus thinks he knows what he's talking about pero no trae nada, people can see right through him, it's all air.
Ok seriously Earn, I know you are all about letting go of the reins while people post left and right here. But that comment about Aaron's son is way overboard and really should be removed. I know things can get dirty around here, and things have been said that shouldn't have been said, but this is by far the worst I have seen to date.
I agree with 1:27pm comment it just takes a real heartless person to come up with that perhaps someone that feels guilty about there own life just remember god is watching you,you will pay one day but yes that is down right out of line
enews doesnt say anything because his father gave 2500.00 watch out bobby if enews get enough money he will talk bad about you to by the way good luck bobby im backing you
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
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(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
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(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
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Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
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(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
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By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
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(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
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(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
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(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
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(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
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(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
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(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
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(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
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without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
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(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
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(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
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By:AAWentworth,et al.S.B.ANo.A378
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
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(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
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8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Goodbye Earn,
We are sad to see you go. Unfortunately the Ochoa-Saenz people at Edinburg News have been such a hateful influence on politics and the people living in the RGV. We are looking forward to your run for mayor. I look forward to shaking your hand one day Mr. Mayor.
5:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Goodbye? Why? Giving up that ez?
8:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz wants to run for Aaron Pena's district? That's a bunch of bs. Saenz is not even from Edinburg. He's from McAllen. I bet you E-news will stay silent on that since they are big on "home grown" candidates.
9:16 PM
Anonymous said...
E-News se la come!
10:33 AM
Anonymous said...
Is this permanent or are you just taking a hiatus?
11:05 AM
Anonymous said...
You know what I find funny. It seems that the paper of south texas is in kind of a hiatus because they are relocating and "Earn" says goodbye. Could it be that "Earn" is part of the paper of south texas? Seems like the same writing style.
1:49 PM
Anonymous said...
I can't believe you're just up and hitting the road.
We have disagreed more times than I can count, but a healthy debate was always welcome.
Have a nice life.
You know where to find me,
-Denise
11:38 AM
Anonymous said...
Time to pay the piper...
1:04 PM
Anonymous said...
earn, i'm sad and disappointed. i hope you're not gone for long.
2:30 PM
Anonymous said...
just on vacation shell be back
9:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Joe Joe the clown filed a lawsuit against her for slander.
9:03 AM
Anonymous said...
Word is FBI's zeroing in on school districts has people in Edinburg-Elsa-Pharr nervous. Any day now the hammer will fall. The rats are squirming.
10:31 AM
Anonymous said...
You moron, written defamation is LIBEL. Spoken defamation is slander. If Earn would be sued for anything, it would be LIBEL.
However, in the Telecommunications Act, Congress exempted online postings from defamation lawsuits.
3:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Are you talking about E. Saenz?
10:17 PM
Anonymous said...
I heard the same rumor. It seems like these rumors all one day come true.
11:30 PM
Anonymous said...
You bunch of idiots, Earn is on vacation. He hasn't gone anywhere. He'll be back. We all need a little R&R once in a while.
5:27 AM
Anonymous said...
Sorry but Earn got exposed. Earn is Orlando Salnias. Who is he you ask? He works for Aaron Pena Jr. He got exposed.
12:27 PM
Anonymous said...
Your retarded 12:27p.m Orlando S. is not Earn my Vote. Good try though! Keep begging for money for your hack jobs E-news.
1:37 PM
Anonymous said...
I hear New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has contacted Joe Ochoa to be his runningmate. What the hell....unqualified mayors with no foreign policy experience are now running for president. First Guiliani. Now Bloomberg. Next one of them will ask Joe Ochoa or Ricard Garcia or Aaron Pena to be their Vice President or Secretary of State.
Just another sign that civilization is breaking down.
5:22 PM
Anonymous said...
Earn give me the password, I'll keep this going.
Hey! Who are they going to sue? Do you even know who to sue? We all know Joe-Joe and his cronies are a bunch of rats. It's just a matter of time til the FBIs get them, then good riddance and send in the next group of clowns.
Don't worry there are more people sniffing these corrupt politicians tails...
7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
2:15 PM
Anonymous said...
One question: was Alonzo Cantu at the Town Hall Meeting? I doubt it. But guess whose house Pres. Clinton went to?
Not Aaron Pena's or Veronica Gonzalez'.
Were any of the other local high rollers in the Democratic Party there? Ramon Garcia?
2:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't forget that Mando Martinez was there too. Saenz is old news. It was noticed that he wasn't there. The guy is just talk and no action, at least none that we can talk about.
3:03 PM
Anonymous said...
Mikal Watts was there. I think he is the number 1 contributor to the party.
3:05 PM
Anonymous said...
Gonzales always does a good job as does Pena. Your not going to find Saenz or Villalobos at these events they are opportunists looking to TAKE not give. Try the post office.
3:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Note to E-news: Your arguments or points are so weak. Is Eddie Saenz really paying you?
3:26 PM
Anonymous said...
of course eddie is paying david diaz eddie thinks all his money is going to buy his way in haha
6:21 PM
Anonymous said...
David Diaz is Edinburg News, you got it he is on the Saenz payroll. The same person who wont deny that he is Edinburg News has for a long time been taking money from Saenz. This all without proper reporting. Along with the "other" problems Saenz has, Diaz will end up taking him down. Damaged goods going down in a sinking ship of trash.
6:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Nah David is not E-News but Earn is someone in Aaron's office. Why were they cleaning out there computers this past weekend. We already know who Earn is.
Now Aaron your going to pay. And pay big. I wonder if your marriage will last? I guess only time will tell. You will go through something like never before. Just ask your good friend, Richard Garcia. He didn't know how to handle it. And as you can see he lost.
Or why don't you ask Melba Gonzalez. She even said herself that she lost cause of E-News.
The time will come when you will have to answer to E-News. In the mean time get all the money you can from the Republicans. Cause your going to need it. You my friend are next.
7:26 PM
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7:41 PM
Anonymous said...
And your point is?
9:06 PM
Anonymous said...
You Saenz people need to get a life. Nobody in this town likes you.
9:17 PM
Anonymous said...
You are full of shit the reps office is not open on weekends.
9:27 PM
Anonymous said...
The State Party are not going to let E-news Saenz even run in the Dem. primary! News from the Chairman's mouth to God's ears. Seems that his major contributions to a certain Congressional republican out of Alaska and his many CHECKS he recieved from the famous Tom Delay TRMPAC have put the nail in his coffin. Looks like Saenz is going to have to run as a Republican if he wants it that bad?
12:31 AM
Anonymous said...
There is very little that the state party can do to keep someone off the ballot. The only thing that can keep Saenz off the ticket is if he voted in the GOP primary in 2006.
Contributing to Republican candidates doesn't disqualify someone from running in the Democratic primary. Remember back in 2002, Tony Sanchez came under considerable critcism for contributing to GOP candidates.
Furthermore, this would lay out a ridiculous double standard and quite possibly a 14th Amendment equal protection violation. Saenz is disqualified from running as a Democrat because he contributed to a GOP PAC, yet Aaron Pena is allowed to run even though he voted for a GOP candidate for speaker. Pena actually openly voted for Tom Craddick.
Just because you fantasize about something happening in your shower while masturbating, does not make it true.
2:43 AM
Anonymous said...
I think what E-News is trying to say is that Aaron Pena is one stupid S.O.B. I would have to agree with them.
6:35 AM
Anonymous said...
You just showed us why people in Edinburg are sick and tired of Saenz and his flunkies. You guys are full of hate. Get over it. Just because you only got 30% of the vote last time is no reason to be filled with so much hate. No one likes you get it in your head.
7:04 AM
Anonymous said...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
Who ever wrote this hit my feelings on the spot. Dude show up if your going to play it like a democrat.
7:37 AM
Anonymous said...
For the 80th session the vote was 121-27 because there was only one candidate for speaker of the house when Jim Pitts dropped out. All reps from the Valley voted in favor of the speaker.
The 79th only had over 140 people vote for the speaker, again all from the Valley voted for Craddick.
The 78th session 149-1 voted for the republican speaker because he again was the only one running. All from the Valley voted for him.
I agree with the commentors who say this talk by one wanna be candidate is smoke and mirrors. If you want to be Mr. Democrat I want to add that showing up is good but telling the truth is better.
8:17 AM
Anonymous said...
Ok Eddie-News.. You gave money to an Alaskan Republican Candidate
then try to run in the Dem. Party?
You then recieve money from Indicted Tom Delay's Texans for a Republican Majority.
1. A Party Officer shall be removed from office if during the current term of office such officer
publicly supports or endorses an opposing party or ,nominee of an opposing party, a person
seeking the nomination of an opposing party, or a non-Democratic candidate seeking an office
in an election in which candidates may file by party affiliation and a Democrat is seeking the
office in question.
2. The terms “publicly supports” and “endorses” shall include, but not be limited to, serving on
a campaign committee; giving financial support, including contributing money!!
5:54 PM
Anonymous said...
hey eddie why dont you run for school board in psja you would fit in and take david diaz with you he'll keep you from getting in trouble he's a good liar
7:54 PM
Anonymous said...
and take joe hector ron and richard exmayor son with you
7:55 PM
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Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
8:25 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Lucio is from Brownsville does that mean he is Santi Klaus?
Where is the FBI boys?
9:11 PM
Anonymous said...
FBI raid Alaskan Legislators
JUNEAU, Alaska - The offices of at least six Alaska legislators, including the son of Sen. Ted Stevens, were raided by federal agents searching for possible ties between the lawmakers and a large oil field services company, officials and aides said.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Jaclyn Lesch said Friday the searches began Thursday and were continuing Friday. FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said a total of 20 search warrants were being executed across Alaska, but would not say where.
A copy of one of the search warrants, obtained by The Associated Press, links the investigation to a new production tax law signed last month by Gov. Frank Murkowski and a draft natural gas pipeline contract Murkowski and the state’s three largest oil companies negotiated.
The warrant called for seizure of documents concerning any payment made to lawmakers by Bill Allen and Richard Smith, executives of oil field services giant VECO Corp. Agents also looked for documents about contracts, agreements or employment of legislators provided by VECO, Allen, Smith and company president Peter Leathard.
Sought-after items named in the search include hats or other garments bearing the phrases “CBC,” “Corrupt Bastards Club” or “Corrupt Bastards Caucus.”
That’s the nickname given to 11 lawmakers after a guest opinion piece published in March listed the contributions those legislators received from VECO Corp. executives, said House Speaker John Harris, R-Valdez. The piece was published in the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Juneau Empire on different dates in March.
“I’ve heard it a few times,” Harris said Friday. “These legislators nicknamed themselves or somebody else did.”
Lesch said no further comment is likely to come from the Justice Department unless charges are filed.
Company says execs on the up and up
VECO’s executives are top contributors to Alaska politicians. The company staunchly supported the governor’s production tax plan, a version of which the Legislature passed in August after twice rejecting it earlier this year. Lawmakers have also twice failed to pass legislation related to the governor’s pipeline fiscal contract with BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp.
Amy Menard, an Anchorage-based attorney for VECO, said the company received a warrant on Thursday. She said the company would cooperate with agents in providing the broad range of information they want.
“We have no information that would suggest that there have been any improper activities either by VECO Corp., VECO Alaska, or any of the principals involved in those companies,” Menard said.
Among the offices searched was that of Republican Senate President Ben Stevens, whose father is Alaska’s senior senator, who has reported collecting more than $240,000 in consulting fees from VECO since 2000. Ted Stevens’ spokesman Aaron Saunders said Friday he had no comment on the search.
Ben Stevens could not be reached at his Anchorage home on Friday.
Agents left Ben Stevens’ Capitol office Thursday evening with 12 boxes of documents labeled “Evidence” and loaded them into a vehicle.
‘It’s pretty bizarre’
Also searched were offices in both Juneau and Anchorage belonging to state Sen. John Cowdery, the Senate Rules chairman; Republican state Rep. Vic Kohring; Republican state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch; Democratic state Sen. Donald Olson, and Republican state Rep. Pete Kott.
“It’s pretty bizarre,” Cowdery said Friday. “That’s all I know, it’s pretty bizarre. I certainly haven’t done anything wrong.”
He said he didn’t know why he was included in the raid or why agents seized items “unrelated to anything,” including the stubs of his legislative salary checks.
Kohring said he cooperated and was told he was not a target of the investigation. Calls to Weyhrauch and Kott were not immediately returned Friday.
Olson issued a statement saying, “I am certain that I will not be a target of this investigation and that I have broken no laws.” Reached by telephone, he said his attorneys advised him not to comment further.
Four different teams of at least six federal agents each spent hours searching offices on each floor of the Capitol.
Besides VECO and its executives, agents were authorized to seize any documents related to The Petroleum Club, Republican pollster David Dittman or his company, Dittman Research and Communication Corp., pollster Marc Hellenthal or his company, Hellenthal and Associates, Roger Chan, VECO’s chief financial officer, and a flying service that Olson owns, according to the warrant.
Dittman’s wife, Terry Dittman, said Friday the FBI had been to their office and said the company was not the subject of the investigation but they may have evidence related to it.
A person who answered the phone at Chan’s home in Anchorage said he was out of town and could not be reached for comment. Messages were also left for Leathard, Smith and Allen.
Hellenthal said Friday that he had not been contacted by federal agents. He said his firm has conducted polls for VECO and other businesses on governors’ and legislative races.
A receipt, obtained by the AP, of items the FBI seized from Olson’s office lists five things: Olson’s 2006 year planner, Murkowski’s gas pipeline proposal released in May, a manila folder labeled “APOC” for the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Olson’s interim travel file and a binder related to the Alaska Stranded Gas Fiscal contract.
10:41 PM
Anonymous said...
Follow the money. Why or for what is Eddie Saenz giving a Republican Alaskan legislator money and lots of it?
10:45 PM
Anonymous said...
So he can build a bridge to nowhere! Remember his slogan: building bridges/spending money or something like that.
10:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Saenz isn't running for a party officer job. He is running for the nomination to a state office. Different rules govern that.
Second, assuming arguendo, that the rule applies to getting on a primary ballot, Aaron Pena will be disqualifed also. He supported Tom Craddick.
11:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Aaron Pena never gave money to any Republicans. Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN legislator which is grounds for the Chairman to deny him the right to run in OUR party.
Second, your flawed argument that "Pena voted for Craddick." Waahhh! Cry me a river Faggot! All the Valley legislators voted for Craddick! They are alot smarter than your dumb,paid ass. Your strategy is horrible..if you had any brains you would of had Eddie wake up after a long night at BOYS TOWN and make it to the Saturday, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY MEETING! But, since he is to busy getting over a hang over. Your not even worth the minute it took me to write this comment.
TRUE DEMOCRATS SHOW UP TO EVENTS!
11:32 PM
Anonymous said...
E.S. wasn't there. also, alot of big shots were not there as well. that just shows the lack of coordintion of Juan Maldonado. overall it was a low turn out.
3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Interesting article about Edinburg not finding a new City Manager. It's not for lack of qualified candidates, that's for sure. I saw the applications. Ochoa has his hand so far up the interim's ass that it isn't even funny. When Ochoa mumbles, the interim listens.
6:58 PM
Anonymous said...
The way the quotes are written in this article basically indicate that Edinburg is too busy to find qualified leadership. What a shame! Believe me...Mr. Rodriguez, all due respect, is not a leader.
7:02 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm not from Edinburg, someone fill me on this.
10:25 PM
Anonymous said...
hey 6:58pm: you sound like someone from the inside.....spill the beans.
11:06 PM
Anonymous said...
Heather Elias where are you?
2:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Joe Ochoa doesn't like people questioning his dictatorship thats why there still not a city manager. And you have a problem with him making money by putting the tax burden on the poor and middle class than vote him out. He is selling property folks! Come to Edinburg, buy a house from my friend Hector Casas..I got you a tax break,drink some alcohol from my friend Hector Casas..we got alcohol! Oh yah and if you need GOOD drugs..I sell those too!
Hey you can even sleep with my X- the Devil;)
3:02 PM
Anonymous said...
Whoever wrote this:
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Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
FIRST OF ALL IT'S RGVOTE (1 V) you IDIOT!!! And you can register a domain in China if you want, doesn't mean you're from over there. Turn off the computer and go back to picking the fleas of your relatives you DUMB FUCK!!!
4:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Responding to 11:06...
Yes, someone from the inside. Ask what you want and I will try to answer.
Joe Ochoa doesn't like anyone questioning his dictatorship. The interim does what he can to survive. But he doesn't want to be City Manager and he acknowledged that in the newspaper. He only has a little time left before retirement. Think about it...the average career span for a CM is 3 years.
It is well known in City Hall that the interim's girlfriend is also his over-glorified secretary. How is she still allowed to report to him? Just a small insight into what's going on in Shitty...I mean City Hall.
9:54 PM
Anonymous said...
Ochoa and Saenz have really fucked up this city. Has anybody heard when Saenz is being picked up by the FBI? The talk in Pharr is that one of his rats from the Delta area turned on him.
12:23 AM
Anonymous said...
hey 9:54 pm, keep 'em coming....
12:28 AM
Anonymous said...
Just in case anyone forgot, here's E-news, I mean, David "copion" Diaz getting busted and exposed.
P.R. guru admits cribbing E-N copy
Mariano Castillo
Rio Grande Valley Bureau
San Antonio Express News
EDINBURG — The various roles of a South Texas journalist and public relations guru has the San Antonio Express-News and the City of Edinburg looking into evidence he committed plagiarism and other ethical breaches.
In recent years, David Diaz, an independent businessman, has contracted with the city and local politicians to write favorable stories that he distributes through e-mail, some of which have been subsequently published in the Edinburg Daily Review.
After an Edinburg reader alerted the Express-News to a Sept. 21 Daily Review story by Diaz with striking similarities to a 4-day-old story by Guillermo X. Garcia of the Express-News Austin Bureau, the paper examined Diaz's work.
Diaz prepared a statement Friday stating he had properly attributed other sources.
But later, in a phone conversation with Express-News Managing Editor Brett Thacker, he admitted making an error in judgment.
"I made a mistake, for which I apologize," Diaz said. "I'll stop doing that."
In defending himself, Diaz highlighted the prolific, original work he produces.
"I use my legislative skills, my extensive experience in journalism and in the legislature to push for issues that benefit thousands of people here in the Valley, and I've done a lot of that without getting paid for it," he said. "I get hired to promote the people that pay me. That's what I do."
In addition to the Daily Review, Diaz said his stories get picked up by many Valley newspapers, including El Americano News, the Advance News-Journal, Delta Chronicle, Mid-Valley Star, and Valley Town Crier.
Thacker said the Express-News will continue to monitor Diaz's work.
"We have put Mr. Diaz on notice about his misappropriation of material from the Express-News, and will hold him to his word that this practice will stop," Thacker said.
A sample of Diaz's stories distributed by e-mail or published in the Daily Review showed a pattern of sloppy attribution and outright plagiarism of the Express-News and the McAllen Monitor.
In the past, Diaz has been hired to promote state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa and Rep. Roberto Gutierrez, though it was unclear if he still worked for them.
Since August, Diaz has placed his name on at least four articles that included — with minimal attribution — large portions of Express-News stories.
In each, Diaz credited the Express-News with one paragraph, surrounding it with quotation marks, then followed it with hundreds of words lifted verbatim from the same article without further attribution.
The Monitor, the largest daily newspaper in the Rio Grande Valley, is also a source of material for Diaz.
Monitor reporter Brittney Booth, who covers Edinburg, said she has regularly seen portions of her work reprinted in Diaz's articles with no attribution whatsoever.
Booth said she complained to Edinburg city officials, weeks before Diaz's contract with the city was up for renewal last month.
Diaz's contract was renewed, but was amended with a clause requiring him to ensure all his stories "have proper attribution on all information obtained from sources other than through (Diaz's) own investigation."
The contract also requires him to submit all of his press releases and articles to the city for its review.
12:33 AM
Anonymous said...
who is Heather Elias?
11:01 AM
Anonymous said...
David Diaz has a trash story againt Gail Fagan at the Edinburg News blog. Hmm, still pissed at them for the plagerism story? Hey David we here at the paper still have our eyes on you. Cut out the shit!
8:07 PM
Anonymous said...
Who is this Diaz guy and why does he go after so many people?
8:25 AM
Anonymous said...
Sylvia The Whore Handy is going down.
12:20 PM
Anonymous said...
david diaz used to work with that wimpy daily mistake newspaper where he never made any money now he works for eddie and joe and is making big bucks to lie and slander people but god will catch up with him
2:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Millions of people read my words and belive what I write.. To Joe and Eddie I am GOD.
2:49 PM
Anonymous said...
"BELIVE"? MAYBE YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SPELL BEFORE YOU GO TALKING SHIT!
2:51 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't these officials have to report money payments to Diaz or is this under the table? If they are paying him in a legal way, how is it that the officials get away with this. It looks real dirty. Is Fagan or the Monitor likely to sue him?
3:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Yes, I know for a fact that the Fagans are going after Diaz. They have an attorney working on it. It's funny how these things work. It's not a secret that Diaz had assumed that about the Fagans before since he was telling the whole world. But now, the idiot puts it in writing in his E-news blog where he has basically done himself in. Get ready to pay up Diaz, big time.
4:36 PM
Anonymous said...
what did E-News do that was so wrong? They mention fagan working at utpa. They mention fagan working at the monitor. That's all true. So what is the problem. The story that E-News has is from the SA Express. So why are the fagan's all pissed off? Maybe they didn't want the public to know that she works at UTPA. Everything that was said on E-News is all true! So sue for what? You all are dumb fucks. Right Aaron Pena !
5:13 PM
Anonymous said...
The E-News story entirely plagerized the San Antonio Express story by someone with an axe to grind. That axe man is known in Edinburg even though he hides behind his anonymous blog. There is the problem!!!!!
5:46 PM
Anonymous said...
There is a saying that a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn. And although it's David Diaz who is writing the story on the ENews, the Fagan story has some merit.
Professional journalists are supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety. The fact that Fagan edits the Monitor (i.e. makes the calls on what stories are reported and make it in and are placed where) and his wife works in the PR Department (i.e. the spin zone) of UTPA, leads to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Monitor misses a big story like that.
Secondly, there was nothing defamatory about that story in the ENews. The Fagans have no action in libel. In order for the Fagans to be able to recover they have to prove that the material was false and that it harmed their reputations. Although the article maybe harm their professional reputation, the inference isn't false. There is an appearance of a conflict of interest.
The ridiculousness of some on this board is reaching new levels. The Monitor is a lousy newspaper. Compare it to the other major Texas dailies--the San Antonio Express-News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, The Laredo Times or the Corpus Christi Caller Times. The Monitor is substandard, badly edited and dilitory and negligent in its reporting. The newspaper is crappy.
It's an embarassment to our community. We have all this corruption in our public institutions, yet you never see the Monitor conduct investigative reporting.
Fagan deserved to be called on this failure to properly cover the area that his newspaper is entrusted to cover.
Just because David Diaz reported it, doesn't mean it's bad. Even a blind pig finds an acorn. Give the devil his due when he is right.
And BTW, I know some of you morons will accuse me of being someone at the ENews. I am not.
6:18 PM
Anonymous said...
For the record, 6:18pm is David Diaz. Ask him, he won't deny it.
6:38 PM
Anonymous said...
Amen to that Give them hell E-news your doing a great job!
6:40 PM
Anonymous said...
"Even a blind pig finds an acorn." So David Diaz is taking credit for exposing the UTPA issue huh? What an idiot, the Monitor was already covering it. Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on. It's not like the Monitor ignored the issue altogether or waited months before they printed this issue. They printed the very next day. That wasn't 'cuz of David Diaz. That was due to research and accurate reporting something David Diaz does not know about.
8:27 PM
Anonymous said...
yeah keep thinking that
8:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Responding to 12:28....
Tell me what you want to know and I will tell you what I know.
8:39 PM
Anonymous said...
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Anonymous said...
"Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on."
You know absolutely nothing about the newspaper business. The idea of news is its immediacy. If you bury a story on a backpage two days after the story occurs, you minimize its importance.
The president of Texas Southern University was indicted and convicted for the same thing. The interlocking nature of UTPA and The Monitor leads to a lot of suspicion.
"That was due to research and accurate reporting"
This isn't a rocket science story. This is a matter of reading through the report and the accompanying press releases. Any sophomore in a J 312 class at UT-Austin would have pounded out that story in an afternoon.
The article in the Monitor wasn't very long. It wasn't a "researched" article. If the San Antonio Express-News with a San Antonio-based reporter could get the article out in the same news cycle, the Monitor could. I seem to remember the Daily Texan (the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin) had the article out on the same newsday. Unless your implication is that Monitor reporters need more time to do the same story as a bunch of student reporters at the Daily Texan or that Monitor reporters (why by most estimates are younger and hungrier to move up to big town newspapers) are not as good as Express-News reporters, you have to admit that the Monitor was sloppy and lazy in reporting the story.
And once again, the usual ad-homineum attack on me is going to surface. I am going to be accused of either being David Diaz or Eddie Saenz or anyone from their camp.
I am not. I find David Diaz' writing wordy and boring. He fills his "stories" with unncessary detail (for example once he referred to the multi-level parking garage that the county is considering building near the Courthouse as "the Edinburg-based structure" as if garage would be built anywhere but in Edinburg.)
I graduated of the University of Texas Journalism Department in the early 80s. I studied under some of the best jouranlism professors in the country like Griff Singer, Mike Quinn, Warren Burkett and Red Gibson. I worked at the Daily Texan and several other mid-sized Texas dailies. The Monitor does not reflect any of the journalistic values i was taught. The Monitor is a PR rag at best, a glorified supermarket shopper at worst. You guys wouldn't know who I am because I don't work in Edinburg and I teach in a neighboring school district.
1:43 AM
Anonymous said...
uhhhhh, yeah, whatever, anyway, we all know that's you David Diaz. Who else would vouch for you in that way at 1:43am?
8:32 AM
Anonymous said...
Does anyone really want to know who is Edinburg News. It is Aaron Pena's UNCLE, the x-mayor of Ednburg. Isn't that a kick in the pants. Anyone notice how the Richard Alamia family is no longer being talked about on this site. Earn my Vote is run by Aaron and his staff. The Alamia family is stabbing Aaron, their newphew, on Edinburg News. and Aaron cant let anyone know that. If you look at Edinburg News, there is alot of storeys about Aaron's FAMILY secrets. Who else would know that.The Penas and the Alamias are the ones who are tering our city apart. Aaron you should fix your family affairs. Give your UNCLE what he wants. you know what that is.
1:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Are we off trying to destroy the Fagans? Ochoa/Saenz and Diaz need to get a life.
2:12 PM
Anonymous said...
You no nothing of the relationship that the Penas and the Alamias have. They two families just got back from a family reunion and are working together on his re-election camp. Get your facts straight E-news. I am an Alamia!
4:16 PM
Anonymous said...
Be proud of your family. Don't let these hate driven do-nothings distract you. Your relative is doing a great job. You see when their side has nothing to offer all they can do is to create hate.
7:11 PM
Anonymous said...
The reason E-News knows so much about Aaron Pena is because of Saul. He was in Aaron's camp now is in Eddie's
10:23 PM
Anonymous said...
Thats nice. Paris Hilton has the best media manipulators money can buy. Unfortunately Hilton and Saenz, like pigs with lipstick, are big stinkers. Oink! Oink!
8:06 AM
Anonymous said...
Saul is a good man..he might take Eddie's money, but his heart and his vote will be with Pena.
9:07 PM
Anonymous said...
come if you cant even spell how can we believe you cant even spell stories and tearing must be one of eddies buddies or david diaz na got to be eddies bud by the way cant wait to see eddie run remember 30% ha ha lol
11:21 AM
Anonymous said...
Response to:
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Oh yes, there is substantial truth to it. Everyone knows about it, but nobody says anything. Even the city council knows...
5:58 PM
Anonymous said...
Boy, everyone got quiet around here.
10:43 PM
Anonymous said...
fred palacios rules!. live with it, dont be jealous.
12:23 AM
Anonymous said...
So what's up with our Senator Chucho Hinojosa? It looks like this is only the tip of the iceberg. The following was reported in the Houston Chronicle...
Fees paid to probate lawyers unreported
Hidalgo County was among 6 counties that did not follow law on disclosure, investigation finds
By LISE OLSEN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
More than a dozen years after the Texas Supreme Court demanded the disclosure of fees ordered paid by probate judges to court-appointed attorneys, the corruption-fighting measure has been ignored by some of the state's biggest counties, a Houston Chronicle investigation has found.
The law requires that court clerks report every fee of $500 or more awarded by a judge.
At least $1.8 million in probate court-ordered payments went unreported from 2003 to 2005 or were awarded to people who were not identified by name, based on the Chronicle's review.
After several court corruption scandals, the Texas Supreme Court enacted the rule in 1994 to fight cronyism and favoritism. The court ordered county clerks to file monthly reports to spotlight and limit a judge's power to order excessive fees to lawyer friends.
Large counties on list
But the Chronicle found that clerks in six of the state's most populated counties — Travis, Denton, Bexar, El Paso, Hidalgo and Galveston — had failed to fully follow the rule in recent years, based on reports filed with the Office of Court Administration.
Texas probate judges have sweeping power to take money out of private savings to pay attorneys in cases involving wills, guardianships, trusts and related matters.
Though the public picks up the tab for the poorest, most payments come from savings and inheritances.
More than 2,700 payments, totaling more than $8 million, were ordered paid to court appointees by probate judges in 2005 alone, according to the Chronicle's analysis.
The reports of fees are supposed to be displayed in county courthouses, as well as filed with the Office of Court Administration in Austin. They should include names of judges who approved fees, appointees, case information and amounts.
Clerk Toni Garcia of Hidalgo County said workers knew nothing about the reporting requirement until the Chronicle called. She and the probate judge in Hidalgo both said few appointees got more than $500 in fees each year.
One fee that should have been reported, however, was a court order for $100,000 to be paid to State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen. Hinojosa represented a child who lost a family member in an auto accident, according to court records. The judge had earlier ordered that the legislator receive $45,000 for the same case, documents show.
Hinojosa said he never received the $100,000, though he did receive the $45,000, but he did not know the clerk failed to report any fees.
7:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Did we forget the Roadrunners were dying on the vine and not paying their bills. they were no longer the only kid on the block ie the dodge arena etc. the new ball team is still around and the new ball club pays to construct their own stadiums. You want to talk failed projects, talk about Ochoa building that stadium at city expense and giving it to the to the bankrupt Roadrunners for a song. The taxpayers will be paying for that failed project for 20 years.
Failed projects? Lets talk,
(1) Ochoa's 21Million$$failed Water Park
(2) Ochoa's Mega Million$$ Golf Course so his buddy could develop the land around it when we already had two golf courses in the city. It's not just the decades of debt to the taxpayers either. It operates in the RED every year adding insult to injury! But Mr Ochoa just had a House built there with his buddy so lets look the other way.
There's plenty more and it's not forgotten...
11:59 PM
Anonymous said...
Drive to the golf course...it is full of people everyday...yes it costs money..but it seems this one is working
1:00 AM
Anonymous said...
I don't see how... If you ask anyone who knows anything about golf, Los Lagos is a major waste. It's by far one of the worst maintained courses in the valley. It's sad the condition the course is in, but then again, it was never about the course, it's about making money for Hector Casas failing Shea Construction. Let's talk about the new entrance built for the course... They used taxpayer dollars to build a nice new entrance to the course and since Hector Casas didn't like it, they tore it down and used even more taxpayer money to build another one.
10:29 AM
Anonymous said...
enews quote calling all candidates if you candidates are smart dont reply to this if not part of enews click they will bash you and make up lies about so dont fall in their traps they are a bunch of rats
1:40 PM
Anonymous said...
oh enews will have a field day with this calling all candidates to send info on themselfs only the enews click need apply to this
1:46 PM
Anonymous said...
candidates please dont fall for this if the enews click doesnt like you they will slander lie cheat blackmail because they get paid for it its all about money they are a bunch of rats
1:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Who the hell is E news?
BOREDOM since Diaz took over.
Rips off the idiots who pay him, and rips off the people who's originality he steals.
Plaigerism in it's purest form.
2:18 PM
Anonymous said...
Say Enews you say Joe "grandpa munster" Ochoa hasn't done anything since he's been back because he's in the minority. Hell he hasn't even floated an idea for something new. All he does is bitch and complain everytime the majority tries to follow through with Richard Garcia's projects or do something new and positive because it wasn't his idea. The only new idea he's tried to field through his so called Mayor's advisory crew picked by him is to give his buddy Casas' new home buyers a break from having to pay taxes like the rest of us.
In his one term Garcia brought us what Joe couldn't do in five:
A new City Hall
A new Library
A new police station
A new fire substation
A new water plant
A new shopping Mall
New Regional co-operation (which is gone again!)
Amazing Economic development as EEDC chair
All while leading the charge in Austin and Washington as chair for the border Mayors of TBIC.
You can fool some of the people some of the time......
Those days are over, We've learned how read and think.
Now YOU think about your ridiculous statements.
9:03 PM
Anonymous said...
Richard Garcia did nothing while he was mayor. E-News is right! Why do you think he lost? And he will lose again and again and again. E-News exposed these Palacios and how they do business. Give them hell E-News
9:21 PM
Anonymous said...
E-news says the following:
"Now don't tell me Joe Ochoa hasn't done anything, he's in the minority."
I don't mean to respond to those idiots at E-news but I know Joe Ochoa reads this so here is the crystal clear truth.
If Joe Ochoa really wanted to do something, all he has to do is propose it. Up to now, nothing has been proposed. All energies are focused on tearing down any project that Richard Garcia started. To Joe Ochoa, it's all about what's wrong with the City and not how can we improve the City. As an Edinburg resident the last 44 years, we should demand better leadership than that. A leader works with what is there and builds consensus. Not all this power grabbing positioning crap that doesn't do anyone any good. It's been over a year that Joe Ochoa has come back to office, I think the man has had more than enough time to make something happen. True leadership would have allowed for Joe Ochoa to reach consenus with the others to make things happen. That hasn't happened and it will not happen.
9:41 PM
Anonymous said...
That's right. What happened to all those campaign promises that Joe Ochoa made????? Let's see, why don't we recap:
1. Finish police station - It's been a year and not done yet.
2. Fix canton/sugar road sewer issue - Problem still there.
3. Bring the city back to its people - Uhhhh, whatever that meant but you can ask anyone about the city and no one is aware.
So what has Joe Ochoa done? For all you blind supporters, what has Joe Ochoa done? Are we much better off now than we were before? I don't think so. We're all still having the same issues: living paycheck to paycheck, bad streets, not enough water pressure.....i could go on and on and on but I think I've made my point.
10:30 PM
Anonymous said...
why is enews so chicken to let the people of edinburg know who they are because cowards hide behind there thoughts real men dont lol
11:42 AM
Anonymous said...
Because they don't want anyone to call them out on their lies. It's like what they are saying about Carmen Gonzalez. What has she done for the teachers, well, if they did their research, they would find out that before she was on the board, Edinburg was the lowest paying school district. The teachers hadn't had a raise in years. Since she has been on the board, teachers have had a raise every year for the last 3 years to make up for what the previous board never did. And talking about school bonds, maybe they should ask Greg and Jaime about them. They have had 2 failed bonds because everyone knows what rats those two are.
1:16 PM
Anonymous said...
Looks like the Monitor picked up on the Alaskan legislator indicted by the FBI. It was just the other day that E-news' candidate Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a certain Alaskan legislator.???? Why would Eddie Saenz give money to a REPUBLICAN Alaskan legislator?
Federal jury convicts former Alaska lawmaker in bribery trial
By DAN JOLING The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
“I’m devastated,” former state Rep. Tom Anderson said after the federal jury announced its verdict.
Anderson, 39, was accused of conspiring to take money he thought was coming from a private prison firm, Cornell Industries, Inc.
The money was supplied by the FBI through an informant working for Cornell who secretly recorded his conversations with Anderson and a co-conspirator, former municipal lobbyist Bill Bobrick.
Anderson was one of four current or former Alaska state lawmakers facing federal bribery indictments. The other three face trial this fall for charges related Anchoragebased oil field services company VECO Corp.
“I think the prosecution has criminalized being a legislator over the last year,” Anderson said. “I think I fell victim to that.”
Anderson’s family, including his wife, state Sen. Lesil McGuire, were not present for the verdict.
Anderson said they couldn’t get to the downtown Anchorage courthouse in time after it was announced the jury had reached a verdict.
Judge John Sedwick ordered Anderson to surrender his passport and scheduled sentencing for Oct. 2.
Anderson was arrested Dec. 7 and charged with seven felonies, including conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and interfering with commerce, a charge connected to a demand for payments. He faces a maximum penalty of 115 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine.
Department of Justice officials in Washington, D.C., said Anderson was held accountable for his crimes.
Anderson “corrupted his elected office when he took official actions in exchange for bribery payments,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher. “His illegal conduct impaired the integrity of the oath he took to represent citizens of the state of Alaska.”
Bobrick in May pleaded guilty to bribing Anderson. He agreed to testify against Anderson in exchange for a “downward sentencing motion” from prosecutors, he said.
Bobrick said two FBI agents called him in late September and said they wanted to play some tapes for him. They were standing on his front porch when they called.
The agents played tapes secretly recorded in 2004 by Frank Prewitt, a former corrections department commissioner who was a $150,000-per-year consultant for Cornell and an FBI informant.
The company is based in Houston, Texas, and operated halfway houses in Alaska. Cornell also hoped to build a private prison and a juvenile psychiatric treatment center in Alaska.
Anderson was accused of accepting nearly $26,000 he thought was coming from Cornell but really was provided through Prewitt by the FBI.
The defense argued that Anderson was a Cornell supporter and backed its positions without being on the take and that Prewitt wore a wire to bag a legislator and deflect investigators away from his legal problems.
3:36 PM
Anonymous said...
It's only a matter of time before they get to Saenz.
8:44 PM
Anonymous said...
Saenz won't be the only one. Ever hear a trapped Rat Squeel?
10:13 PM
Anonymous said...
Watch as Jaime and Greg squeal like pigs
10:09 AM
Anonymous said...
Come on "Eddie Steal money from the poor and give to the rich Saenz" why don't you respond? E-News? WHY or for WHAT would a MCALLEN resident give thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN ALASKAN LEGISLATOR?
2:19 PM
Anonymous said...
Come on Eddie RUN! the Feds are dying for you to do it. Joe has already re-exposed himself.
4:00 PM
Anonymous said...
at least aron is getting money and will win eddies using most of his money to lose remember 30% lol
8:40 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is not running, he's not stupid. Who would be stupid enough to spend another million dollars to come up with 30% of the vote? Aron has done a damn good job and has put this city in a kick ass position. Why would Saenz fuck that up? Nah the problem here is the shit for brains fuck heads like Diaz, Janet Ron Jackson, Garza, little dick Alamia and all the other dead end losers in Edinburg waiting for crumbs to fall off of Saenz' table. Their just pumping Saenz to send money their way. Its a bottomless pit but throw away your money if you want to. This town remembers you bro.
10:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Aron the republican? is that supposed to offset "EDDIE THE CROOK".
11:28 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Ruben quit defending your friend Aaron Pena. He is a Republican except that you dumb mother fucker
7:42 AM
Anonymous said...
There is a big difference from recieving money from Republicans to fight for Democratic principles. And being a fake ass Democrat like Eddie Saenz and giving thousands of dollars to Alaskan Republican legislators. Oh and did I mention Eddie Steals money from poor people in Pharr and Edinburg. Thank God we kicked him out of our City.
9:55 AM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz/E-news? Why don't you answer the question PEOPLE are talking about? Why would a Valley resident give THOUSANDS of dollars to an ALASKAN REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR? Was it Bribe money?
1:44 PM
Anonymous said...
They got rid of eddie because he was a leach. He was an absolute zero before ochoa started feeding him major taxpayer bucks in edinburg for being simply a middle man in hiring engineers that could really do the work so he could get his "cut". Now it's happening in Pharr.The very people who were against him in pharr ended up hiring him. It's not just the school district they're looking at guy's!
3:53 PM
1Fan said...
Omar Guerrero, Sylvia Handy, and Eddie Saenz bringing confidence and trust to Hidalgo County.
Vote for me and all of your wildest dreams will come true!
4:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Enews is against school teacher pay raises? Enews is eddie and his crooked cronies and he want's us to send him to Austin? They call Carmen a criminal because she was involved in a family spat? Check out the family values of the people accused of being enews! Joe leaves his wife for a cutie in Monterrey, Richie A fathers children out of wedlock and leaves them supportless! the list is long folks but the point is that these are the kind of folks wanting to tell you what's good for our children???????? give us a break!!!
9:11 AM
Anonymous said...
Carmen will lose. Aaron Pena is broke. Give them hell E-News.
9:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Just heard that Aaron Pena will change his endorsement from Rick to Watts. That's not a good idea. Aaron you will lose your support from your democratic friends in the house. You got your self into problems again blunder boy.
2:47 AM
Anonymous said...
Enews must think we're stupid. They try to put down Aaron because besides being a powerful democrat he is in good with the republicans???? Sounds like a winner to me!!! What U got boys?
4:06 PM
Anonymous said...
Aron will kick the shit out of any piece of shit loser they can dig up. Word on the street is that they can't find anybody. Since Diaz is the only one left to throw shit around why doesn't he run. Nah, damaged goods. Plagerism and all that corruption bullshit. How about Saenz, nah, FBI and all that corruption bullshit. What about tricky dick, nah too small a pecker. Well at least he doesn't have the corruption bullshit to worry about. Yeah I'm for tricky dick. Hey little pecker, since you loser fuckers can't find anybody, grow some balls and step up, you got one vote. No not mom or dad but I'll vote for you. Maybe this time you can break the 30% Saenz got against Pena. Shit a convicted felon, Gonzalez got more votes than Saenz did with a million bucks. Vote for tricky dick!!!! He's our man if Saenz can't do it the little dick can!!!!!
6:43 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is running. He also got $100,000 from the democrats up north. This is going to be good. The dems have a chance to get back the house and a dem speaker. That's why you will see some big dogs come down and endorse Saenz. Aaron is Craddick's puppet.
Hey Ruben you dumb fuck. Are you Aaron's campaign manager? lol
7:20 PM
Anonymous said...
Bullshit! If he got a $100,000. then he broke the law because he has not filed with the Sec. of State. Total bullshit!!! Tell the asshole to announce, then I'll believe you. All we hear is lies like the one you just told. Shit I'll spot you 10 million dollars and Saenz still won't win. The FBI is going to pick him and the rest of his rats up. Shit it must really hurt to have lost by 70% that it still hurts 4 years later.
7:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Is that you little dick? I'll vote for you too. Since the town mayor is a loser we might as well have a second loser running for office.
7:35 PM
Anonymous said...
Big dogs like the state party chair and the local democratic chair who both endorsed our rep. Or do you mean corrupt sons of bitches like Saenz campaign manager, Aaron Gonzalez who will be sitting in federal prison for corruption. Will it be Eddie Gonzalez another big time loser like you little dick?
7:39 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is a Republican. Do you even know if the Democratic Chair will allow him to run since he gave big money to Alaskan Republicans to corruption projects to who knows where?
7:43 PM
Big "D" said...
I vote that we let Saenz run so that he can really get the shit kicked out of him. Let's break 80% this time. The guy steals from the taxpayers to line his pockets.
7:47 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm sorry can someone please tell me who little dick is?
7:48 PM
Anonymous said...
Little Dick is the son of one of Edinburg's former mayors. He is just one of the many losers that Saenz surrounds himself with. Although I've heard talk about the FBI and Saenz I have not heard that "little dick" is involved. He works behind the scenes in political campaigns not doing very much but sure acts like he does. He and Saenz were big supporters of the former county clerk Omar Guerrero.
7:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Is JD a republican? According to E-News anyone supporting Watts is a republican. JD Salinas is supporting Watts. Isn't Eddie Saenz supporting Watts? Billy Leo is supporting Watts. Would someone ask Diaz if Leo or Salinas are republicans. We all know what party Saenz is connected with.
10:23 PM
Anonymous said...
Aaron can you please talk about the son you lost? You killed him. You dumb son of a bitch. Monica didnt want your son in the house cause of all the drugs he was on. So you got him an apartment and looked what happened.
You killed your son. You are a murder. You would not let your son stay in the house cause of your wife.
You deserve nothing. You killed my son. I will tell all. People deserve to know the truth. You killed my son. you killed my son. you killed my son. I'm going to make sure everyone knows the truth.
You killed my son.
2:57 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow, the level of maturity coming from Saenz and his supporters is just below that of a five year old. Anybody willing to stoop to these levels needs help. They should be ashamed of themselves.
8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
And now you know why he only got 30% of the vote.
9:01 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow. Joe and eddie are godawful ugly but the ugly face of Greed they have displayed here is incomparably scary ugly. Makes their ugly faces pale in comparisom.
10:13 AM
Anonymous said...
no aron did not kill his son you did because of your family's background and the life you lived he followed your path not arons so because we all know about your life so go back to church and ask for gods help because you need it
12:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Let's not allow Saenz or his people to drag us down into the gutter. We are better than that.
1:04 PM
Anonymous said...
They are from the gutter. We are not.
1:07 PM
Anonymous said...
How can people be so desperate? That's horrible.
7:02 PM
Anonymous said...
These people at E-News are sick. Who would say such things. Does anybody know who they are?
8:46 AM
Anonymous said...
yeah they are shaine mata, orlando salinas
8:56 AM
Anonymous said...
E-news is a paid site to defame and destroy candidates. They are paid with blood and sweat money off the backs of the poor. E-news is Eddie Saenz, Joe Ochoa, Robert Pena and the Devil that leads the way.
1:15 PM
Anonymous said...
It is embarrassing that Edinburg harbors such trash. It is even more embarrassing that some people actually vote for them. We are not only the laughing stock of respectability but are beginning to be shunned like lepers by the leadership of surrounding communities. what went wrong? We were finally moving into the mainstream and one election gone awry set us back ten years!
4:07 PM
Anonymous said...
It's probably Aaron saying all this shit. He wants all of us to feel bad for him. Trying to get the sympathy vote. E-News doesn't say anything about you on there site.
Seems that some people on here don't like the truth.
Aaron voting for Craddick! Truth
Carmen getting arrested! Truth
So what's the problem? You should have thought about your district, first. Not your personal gain. I live in the delta area. And you have done nothing for us.
Give them hell E-News. Your doing a great job. We want more! We want more!
6:34 PM
Holy Spirit said...
I can't believe what I am reading on this site. I am new to the area and the idea that a political faction would bring up a deceased member of another candidates' faction is beyond me. I will pray for person or persons believing that they are going to win on that message. God bless the polititians that get into office to help the poor and less fortunate.
7:16 PM
Anonymous said...
(6:34) I am sure your retired teachers will enjoy the extra pay compliments of our rep. If your an active teacher, the last two pay raises the rep. fought for will be nice. If your child is sick then the CHIP bill passed by the rep will give him health care. If your child gets out in the top 10% of his class then he still will have access to our top universities. If he goes to Pan Am, then the rep. got him a new fine arts auditorium, a health and wellness facility and funded the regional health center to look for cures for diabetes and other illnesses. He saw funding increase to our local universities. Look around there are many more items I and you could point to if you looked. It sounds like the hate we sometimes see here is blinding you from the good that is all around you. One last question, why did you not ask what Hinojosa or Lucio did for your town? I am afraid that you are either driven by hate like the other sad commentors or you are ignorant. Why dont you tell us.
7:51 PM
Anonymous said...
i agree with holy spirit the language has got to go. looks like some one want it to look like arons people are using that language but it not. I will tell you this much we live in a free country we shouldnt be afraid to vote republican or democrat as long as the person is the best person for that position thank you and for god sake stop the language
8:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Earn, where are you? We need you....there's so many shennanigans going on out there at the City and School District.
6:12 AM
Anonymous said...
I dont know about you enews. I dont have anything bad to say about Bobby. But some of his donations come from people you talk bad about. I think you are really losing it. Or you are just picking on aron, boy you really need some mental help.
8:04 PM
Anonymous said...
oh like eddies money is supposed to scare us im shaking already ooooooooooooooooooooooo
8:07 PM
Anonymous said...
hey what's up with that idiot gus garcia, se cree bien chingon asking all these questions at the commission meeting. gus thinks he knows what he's talking about pero no trae nada, people can see right through him, it's all air.
9:21 PM
Anonymous said...
Ok seriously Earn, I know you are all about letting go of the reins while people post left and right here. But that comment about Aaron's son is way overboard and really should be removed. I know things can get dirty around here, and things have been said that shouldn't have been said, but this is by far the worst I have seen to date.
1:27 PM
Anonymous said...
I agree with 1:27pm comment it just takes a real heartless person to come up with that perhaps someone that feels guilty about there own life just remember god is watching you,you will pay one day but yes that is down right out of line
1:43 PM
Anonymous said...
enews doesnt say anything because his father gave 2500.00 watch out bobby if enews get enough money he will talk bad about you to by the way good luck bobby im backing you
4:40 PM
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8:43 AM
Anonymous said...
By:AAWentworth,et al.S.B.ANo.A378
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
habitation,vehicle,or place of business or employment;
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
habitation,vehicle,or place of business or employment;
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8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Goodbye Earn,
We are sad to see you go. Unfortunately the Ochoa-Saenz people at Edinburg News have been such a hateful influence on politics and the people living in the RGV. We are looking forward to your run for mayor. I look forward to shaking your hand one day Mr. Mayor.
5:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Goodbye? Why? Giving up that ez?
8:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz wants to run for Aaron Pena's district? That's a bunch of bs. Saenz is not even from Edinburg. He's from McAllen. I bet you E-news will stay silent on that since they are big on "home grown" candidates.
9:16 PM
Anonymous said...
E-News se la come!
10:33 AM
Anonymous said...
Is this permanent or are you just taking a hiatus?
11:05 AM
Anonymous said...
You know what I find funny. It seems that the paper of south texas is in kind of a hiatus because they are relocating and "Earn" says goodbye. Could it be that "Earn" is part of the paper of south texas? Seems like the same writing style.
1:49 PM
Anonymous said...
I can't believe you're just up and hitting the road.
We have disagreed more times than I can count, but a healthy debate was always welcome.
Have a nice life.
You know where to find me,
-Denise
11:38 AM
Anonymous said...
Time to pay the piper...
1:04 PM
Anonymous said...
earn, i'm sad and disappointed. i hope you're not gone for long.
2:30 PM
Anonymous said...
just on vacation shell be back
9:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Joe Joe the clown filed a lawsuit against her for slander.
9:03 AM
Anonymous said...
Word is FBI's zeroing in on school districts has people in Edinburg-Elsa-Pharr nervous. Any day now the hammer will fall. The rats are squirming.
10:31 AM
Anonymous said...
You moron, written defamation is LIBEL. Spoken defamation is slander. If Earn would be sued for anything, it would be LIBEL.
However, in the Telecommunications Act, Congress exempted online postings from defamation lawsuits.
3:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Are you talking about E. Saenz?
10:17 PM
Anonymous said...
I heard the same rumor. It seems like these rumors all one day come true.
11:30 PM
Anonymous said...
You bunch of idiots, Earn is on vacation. He hasn't gone anywhere. He'll be back. We all need a little R&R once in a while.
5:27 AM
Anonymous said...
Sorry but Earn got exposed. Earn is Orlando Salnias. Who is he you ask? He works for Aaron Pena Jr. He got exposed.
12:27 PM
Anonymous said...
Your retarded 12:27p.m Orlando S. is not Earn my Vote. Good try though! Keep begging for money for your hack jobs E-news.
1:37 PM
Anonymous said...
I hear New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has contacted Joe Ochoa to be his runningmate. What the hell....unqualified mayors with no foreign policy experience are now running for president. First Guiliani. Now Bloomberg. Next one of them will ask Joe Ochoa or Ricard Garcia or Aaron Pena to be their Vice President or Secretary of State.
Just another sign that civilization is breaking down.
5:22 PM
Anonymous said...
Earn give me the password, I'll keep this going.
Hey! Who are they going to sue? Do you even know who to sue? We all know Joe-Joe and his cronies are a bunch of rats. It's just a matter of time til the FBIs get them, then good riddance and send in the next group of clowns.
Don't worry there are more people sniffing these corrupt politicians tails...
7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
2:15 PM
Anonymous said...
One question: was Alonzo Cantu at the Town Hall Meeting? I doubt it. But guess whose house Pres. Clinton went to?
Not Aaron Pena's or Veronica Gonzalez'.
Were any of the other local high rollers in the Democratic Party there? Ramon Garcia?
2:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't forget that Mando Martinez was there too. Saenz is old news. It was noticed that he wasn't there. The guy is just talk and no action, at least none that we can talk about.
3:03 PM
Anonymous said...
Mikal Watts was there. I think he is the number 1 contributor to the party.
3:05 PM
Anonymous said...
Gonzales always does a good job as does Pena. Your not going to find Saenz or Villalobos at these events they are opportunists looking to TAKE not give. Try the post office.
3:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Note to E-news: Your arguments or points are so weak. Is Eddie Saenz really paying you?
3:26 PM
Anonymous said...
of course eddie is paying david diaz eddie thinks all his money is going to buy his way in haha
6:21 PM
Anonymous said...
David Diaz is Edinburg News, you got it he is on the Saenz payroll. The same person who wont deny that he is Edinburg News has for a long time been taking money from Saenz. This all without proper reporting. Along with the "other" problems Saenz has, Diaz will end up taking him down. Damaged goods going down in a sinking ship of trash.
6:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Nah David is not E-News but Earn is someone in Aaron's office. Why were they cleaning out there computers this past weekend. We already know who Earn is.
Now Aaron your going to pay. And pay big. I wonder if your marriage will last? I guess only time will tell. You will go through something like never before. Just ask your good friend, Richard Garcia. He didn't know how to handle it. And as you can see he lost.
Or why don't you ask Melba Gonzalez. She even said herself that she lost cause of E-News.
The time will come when you will have to answer to E-News. In the mean time get all the money you can from the Republicans. Cause your going to need it. You my friend are next.
7:26 PM
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7:41 PM
Anonymous said...
And your point is?
9:06 PM
Anonymous said...
You Saenz people need to get a life. Nobody in this town likes you.
9:17 PM
Anonymous said...
You are full of shit the reps office is not open on weekends.
9:27 PM
Anonymous said...
The State Party are not going to let E-news Saenz even run in the Dem. primary! News from the Chairman's mouth to God's ears. Seems that his major contributions to a certain Congressional republican out of Alaska and his many CHECKS he recieved from the famous Tom Delay TRMPAC have put the nail in his coffin. Looks like Saenz is going to have to run as a Republican if he wants it that bad?
12:31 AM
Anonymous said...
There is very little that the state party can do to keep someone off the ballot. The only thing that can keep Saenz off the ticket is if he voted in the GOP primary in 2006.
Contributing to Republican candidates doesn't disqualify someone from running in the Democratic primary. Remember back in 2002, Tony Sanchez came under considerable critcism for contributing to GOP candidates.
Furthermore, this would lay out a ridiculous double standard and quite possibly a 14th Amendment equal protection violation. Saenz is disqualified from running as a Democrat because he contributed to a GOP PAC, yet Aaron Pena is allowed to run even though he voted for a GOP candidate for speaker. Pena actually openly voted for Tom Craddick.
Just because you fantasize about something happening in your shower while masturbating, does not make it true.
2:43 AM
Anonymous said...
I think what E-News is trying to say is that Aaron Pena is one stupid S.O.B. I would have to agree with them.
6:35 AM
Anonymous said...
You just showed us why people in Edinburg are sick and tired of Saenz and his flunkies. You guys are full of hate. Get over it. Just because you only got 30% of the vote last time is no reason to be filled with so much hate. No one likes you get it in your head.
7:04 AM
Anonymous said...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
Who ever wrote this hit my feelings on the spot. Dude show up if your going to play it like a democrat.
7:37 AM
Anonymous said...
For the 80th session the vote was 121-27 because there was only one candidate for speaker of the house when Jim Pitts dropped out. All reps from the Valley voted in favor of the speaker.
The 79th only had over 140 people vote for the speaker, again all from the Valley voted for Craddick.
The 78th session 149-1 voted for the republican speaker because he again was the only one running. All from the Valley voted for him.
I agree with the commentors who say this talk by one wanna be candidate is smoke and mirrors. If you want to be Mr. Democrat I want to add that showing up is good but telling the truth is better.
8:17 AM
Anonymous said...
Ok Eddie-News.. You gave money to an Alaskan Republican Candidate
then try to run in the Dem. Party?
You then recieve money from Indicted Tom Delay's Texans for a Republican Majority.
1. A Party Officer shall be removed from office if during the current term of office such officer
publicly supports or endorses an opposing party or ,nominee of an opposing party, a person
seeking the nomination of an opposing party, or a non-Democratic candidate seeking an office
in an election in which candidates may file by party affiliation and a Democrat is seeking the
office in question.
2. The terms “publicly supports” and “endorses” shall include, but not be limited to, serving on
a campaign committee; giving financial support, including contributing money!!
5:54 PM
Anonymous said...
hey eddie why dont you run for school board in psja you would fit in and take david diaz with you he'll keep you from getting in trouble he's a good liar
7:54 PM
Anonymous said...
and take joe hector ron and richard exmayor son with you
7:55 PM
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Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
8:25 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Lucio is from Brownsville does that mean he is Santi Klaus?
Where is the FBI boys?
9:11 PM
Anonymous said...
FBI raid Alaskan Legislators
JUNEAU, Alaska - The offices of at least six Alaska legislators, including the son of Sen. Ted Stevens, were raided by federal agents searching for possible ties between the lawmakers and a large oil field services company, officials and aides said.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Jaclyn Lesch said Friday the searches began Thursday and were continuing Friday. FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said a total of 20 search warrants were being executed across Alaska, but would not say where.
A copy of one of the search warrants, obtained by The Associated Press, links the investigation to a new production tax law signed last month by Gov. Frank Murkowski and a draft natural gas pipeline contract Murkowski and the state’s three largest oil companies negotiated.
The warrant called for seizure of documents concerning any payment made to lawmakers by Bill Allen and Richard Smith, executives of oil field services giant VECO Corp. Agents also looked for documents about contracts, agreements or employment of legislators provided by VECO, Allen, Smith and company president Peter Leathard.
Sought-after items named in the search include hats or other garments bearing the phrases “CBC,” “Corrupt Bastards Club” or “Corrupt Bastards Caucus.”
That’s the nickname given to 11 lawmakers after a guest opinion piece published in March listed the contributions those legislators received from VECO Corp. executives, said House Speaker John Harris, R-Valdez. The piece was published in the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Juneau Empire on different dates in March.
“I’ve heard it a few times,” Harris said Friday. “These legislators nicknamed themselves or somebody else did.”
Lesch said no further comment is likely to come from the Justice Department unless charges are filed.
Company says execs on the up and up
VECO’s executives are top contributors to Alaska politicians. The company staunchly supported the governor’s production tax plan, a version of which the Legislature passed in August after twice rejecting it earlier this year. Lawmakers have also twice failed to pass legislation related to the governor’s pipeline fiscal contract with BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp.
Amy Menard, an Anchorage-based attorney for VECO, said the company received a warrant on Thursday. She said the company would cooperate with agents in providing the broad range of information they want.
“We have no information that would suggest that there have been any improper activities either by VECO Corp., VECO Alaska, or any of the principals involved in those companies,” Menard said.
Among the offices searched was that of Republican Senate President Ben Stevens, whose father is Alaska’s senior senator, who has reported collecting more than $240,000 in consulting fees from VECO since 2000. Ted Stevens’ spokesman Aaron Saunders said Friday he had no comment on the search.
Ben Stevens could not be reached at his Anchorage home on Friday.
Agents left Ben Stevens’ Capitol office Thursday evening with 12 boxes of documents labeled “Evidence” and loaded them into a vehicle.
‘It’s pretty bizarre’
Also searched were offices in both Juneau and Anchorage belonging to state Sen. John Cowdery, the Senate Rules chairman; Republican state Rep. Vic Kohring; Republican state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch; Democratic state Sen. Donald Olson, and Republican state Rep. Pete Kott.
“It’s pretty bizarre,” Cowdery said Friday. “That’s all I know, it’s pretty bizarre. I certainly haven’t done anything wrong.”
He said he didn’t know why he was included in the raid or why agents seized items “unrelated to anything,” including the stubs of his legislative salary checks.
Kohring said he cooperated and was told he was not a target of the investigation. Calls to Weyhrauch and Kott were not immediately returned Friday.
Olson issued a statement saying, “I am certain that I will not be a target of this investigation and that I have broken no laws.” Reached by telephone, he said his attorneys advised him not to comment further.
Four different teams of at least six federal agents each spent hours searching offices on each floor of the Capitol.
Besides VECO and its executives, agents were authorized to seize any documents related to The Petroleum Club, Republican pollster David Dittman or his company, Dittman Research and Communication Corp., pollster Marc Hellenthal or his company, Hellenthal and Associates, Roger Chan, VECO’s chief financial officer, and a flying service that Olson owns, according to the warrant.
Dittman’s wife, Terry Dittman, said Friday the FBI had been to their office and said the company was not the subject of the investigation but they may have evidence related to it.
A person who answered the phone at Chan’s home in Anchorage said he was out of town and could not be reached for comment. Messages were also left for Leathard, Smith and Allen.
Hellenthal said Friday that he had not been contacted by federal agents. He said his firm has conducted polls for VECO and other businesses on governors’ and legislative races.
A receipt, obtained by the AP, of items the FBI seized from Olson’s office lists five things: Olson’s 2006 year planner, Murkowski’s gas pipeline proposal released in May, a manila folder labeled “APOC” for the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Olson’s interim travel file and a binder related to the Alaska Stranded Gas Fiscal contract.
10:41 PM
Anonymous said...
Follow the money. Why or for what is Eddie Saenz giving a Republican Alaskan legislator money and lots of it?
10:45 PM
Anonymous said...
So he can build a bridge to nowhere! Remember his slogan: building bridges/spending money or something like that.
10:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Saenz isn't running for a party officer job. He is running for the nomination to a state office. Different rules govern that.
Second, assuming arguendo, that the rule applies to getting on a primary ballot, Aaron Pena will be disqualifed also. He supported Tom Craddick.
11:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Aaron Pena never gave money to any Republicans. Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN legislator which is grounds for the Chairman to deny him the right to run in OUR party.
Second, your flawed argument that "Pena voted for Craddick." Waahhh! Cry me a river Faggot! All the Valley legislators voted for Craddick! They are alot smarter than your dumb,paid ass. Your strategy is horrible..if you had any brains you would of had Eddie wake up after a long night at BOYS TOWN and make it to the Saturday, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY MEETING! But, since he is to busy getting over a hang over. Your not even worth the minute it took me to write this comment.
TRUE DEMOCRATS SHOW UP TO EVENTS!
11:32 PM
Anonymous said...
E.S. wasn't there. also, alot of big shots were not there as well. that just shows the lack of coordintion of Juan Maldonado. overall it was a low turn out.
3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Interesting article about Edinburg not finding a new City Manager. It's not for lack of qualified candidates, that's for sure. I saw the applications. Ochoa has his hand so far up the interim's ass that it isn't even funny. When Ochoa mumbles, the interim listens.
6:58 PM
Anonymous said...
The way the quotes are written in this article basically indicate that Edinburg is too busy to find qualified leadership. What a shame! Believe me...Mr. Rodriguez, all due respect, is not a leader.
7:02 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm not from Edinburg, someone fill me on this.
10:25 PM
Anonymous said...
hey 6:58pm: you sound like someone from the inside.....spill the beans.
11:06 PM
Anonymous said...
Heather Elias where are you?
2:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Joe Ochoa doesn't like people questioning his dictatorship thats why there still not a city manager. And you have a problem with him making money by putting the tax burden on the poor and middle class than vote him out. He is selling property folks! Come to Edinburg, buy a house from my friend Hector Casas..I got you a tax break,drink some alcohol from my friend Hector Casas..we got alcohol! Oh yah and if you need GOOD drugs..I sell those too!
Hey you can even sleep with my X- the Devil;)
3:02 PM
Anonymous said...
Whoever wrote this:
AboutUs: RGVVOTE.COM
Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
FIRST OF ALL IT'S RGVOTE (1 V) you IDIOT!!! And you can register a domain in China if you want, doesn't mean you're from over there. Turn off the computer and go back to picking the fleas of your relatives you DUMB FUCK!!!
4:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Responding to 11:06...
Yes, someone from the inside. Ask what you want and I will try to answer.
Joe Ochoa doesn't like anyone questioning his dictatorship. The interim does what he can to survive. But he doesn't want to be City Manager and he acknowledged that in the newspaper. He only has a little time left before retirement. Think about it...the average career span for a CM is 3 years.
It is well known in City Hall that the interim's girlfriend is also his over-glorified secretary. How is she still allowed to report to him? Just a small insight into what's going on in Shitty...I mean City Hall.
9:54 PM
Anonymous said...
Ochoa and Saenz have really fucked up this city. Has anybody heard when Saenz is being picked up by the FBI? The talk in Pharr is that one of his rats from the Delta area turned on him.
12:23 AM
Anonymous said...
hey 9:54 pm, keep 'em coming....
12:28 AM
Anonymous said...
Just in case anyone forgot, here's E-news, I mean, David "copion" Diaz getting busted and exposed.
P.R. guru admits cribbing E-N copy
Mariano Castillo
Rio Grande Valley Bureau
San Antonio Express News
EDINBURG — The various roles of a South Texas journalist and public relations guru has the San Antonio Express-News and the City of Edinburg looking into evidence he committed plagiarism and other ethical breaches.
In recent years, David Diaz, an independent businessman, has contracted with the city and local politicians to write favorable stories that he distributes through e-mail, some of which have been subsequently published in the Edinburg Daily Review.
After an Edinburg reader alerted the Express-News to a Sept. 21 Daily Review story by Diaz with striking similarities to a 4-day-old story by Guillermo X. Garcia of the Express-News Austin Bureau, the paper examined Diaz's work.
Diaz prepared a statement Friday stating he had properly attributed other sources.
But later, in a phone conversation with Express-News Managing Editor Brett Thacker, he admitted making an error in judgment.
"I made a mistake, for which I apologize," Diaz said. "I'll stop doing that."
In defending himself, Diaz highlighted the prolific, original work he produces.
"I use my legislative skills, my extensive experience in journalism and in the legislature to push for issues that benefit thousands of people here in the Valley, and I've done a lot of that without getting paid for it," he said. "I get hired to promote the people that pay me. That's what I do."
In addition to the Daily Review, Diaz said his stories get picked up by many Valley newspapers, including El Americano News, the Advance News-Journal, Delta Chronicle, Mid-Valley Star, and Valley Town Crier.
Thacker said the Express-News will continue to monitor Diaz's work.
"We have put Mr. Diaz on notice about his misappropriation of material from the Express-News, and will hold him to his word that this practice will stop," Thacker said.
A sample of Diaz's stories distributed by e-mail or published in the Daily Review showed a pattern of sloppy attribution and outright plagiarism of the Express-News and the McAllen Monitor.
In the past, Diaz has been hired to promote state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa and Rep. Roberto Gutierrez, though it was unclear if he still worked for them.
Since August, Diaz has placed his name on at least four articles that included — with minimal attribution — large portions of Express-News stories.
In each, Diaz credited the Express-News with one paragraph, surrounding it with quotation marks, then followed it with hundreds of words lifted verbatim from the same article without further attribution.
The Monitor, the largest daily newspaper in the Rio Grande Valley, is also a source of material for Diaz.
Monitor reporter Brittney Booth, who covers Edinburg, said she has regularly seen portions of her work reprinted in Diaz's articles with no attribution whatsoever.
Booth said she complained to Edinburg city officials, weeks before Diaz's contract with the city was up for renewal last month.
Diaz's contract was renewed, but was amended with a clause requiring him to ensure all his stories "have proper attribution on all information obtained from sources other than through (Diaz's) own investigation."
The contract also requires him to submit all of his press releases and articles to the city for its review.
12:33 AM
Anonymous said...
who is Heather Elias?
11:01 AM
Anonymous said...
David Diaz has a trash story againt Gail Fagan at the Edinburg News blog. Hmm, still pissed at them for the plagerism story? Hey David we here at the paper still have our eyes on you. Cut out the shit!
8:07 PM
Anonymous said...
Who is this Diaz guy and why does he go after so many people?
8:25 AM
Anonymous said...
Sylvia The Whore Handy is going down.
12:20 PM
Anonymous said...
david diaz used to work with that wimpy daily mistake newspaper where he never made any money now he works for eddie and joe and is making big bucks to lie and slander people but god will catch up with him
2:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Millions of people read my words and belive what I write.. To Joe and Eddie I am GOD.
2:49 PM
Anonymous said...
"BELIVE"? MAYBE YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SPELL BEFORE YOU GO TALKING SHIT!
2:51 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't these officials have to report money payments to Diaz or is this under the table? If they are paying him in a legal way, how is it that the officials get away with this. It looks real dirty. Is Fagan or the Monitor likely to sue him?
3:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Yes, I know for a fact that the Fagans are going after Diaz. They have an attorney working on it. It's funny how these things work. It's not a secret that Diaz had assumed that about the Fagans before since he was telling the whole world. But now, the idiot puts it in writing in his E-news blog where he has basically done himself in. Get ready to pay up Diaz, big time.
4:36 PM
Anonymous said...
what did E-News do that was so wrong? They mention fagan working at utpa. They mention fagan working at the monitor. That's all true. So what is the problem. The story that E-News has is from the SA Express. So why are the fagan's all pissed off? Maybe they didn't want the public to know that she works at UTPA. Everything that was said on E-News is all true! So sue for what? You all are dumb fucks. Right Aaron Pena !
5:13 PM
Anonymous said...
The E-News story entirely plagerized the San Antonio Express story by someone with an axe to grind. That axe man is known in Edinburg even though he hides behind his anonymous blog. There is the problem!!!!!
5:46 PM
Anonymous said...
There is a saying that a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn. And although it's David Diaz who is writing the story on the ENews, the Fagan story has some merit.
Professional journalists are supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety. The fact that Fagan edits the Monitor (i.e. makes the calls on what stories are reported and make it in and are placed where) and his wife works in the PR Department (i.e. the spin zone) of UTPA, leads to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Monitor misses a big story like that.
Secondly, there was nothing defamatory about that story in the ENews. The Fagans have no action in libel. In order for the Fagans to be able to recover they have to prove that the material was false and that it harmed their reputations. Although the article maybe harm their professional reputation, the inference isn't false. There is an appearance of a conflict of interest.
The ridiculousness of some on this board is reaching new levels. The Monitor is a lousy newspaper. Compare it to the other major Texas dailies--the San Antonio Express-News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, The Laredo Times or the Corpus Christi Caller Times. The Monitor is substandard, badly edited and dilitory and negligent in its reporting. The newspaper is crappy.
It's an embarassment to our community. We have all this corruption in our public institutions, yet you never see the Monitor conduct investigative reporting.
Fagan deserved to be called on this failure to properly cover the area that his newspaper is entrusted to cover.
Just because David Diaz reported it, doesn't mean it's bad. Even a blind pig finds an acorn. Give the devil his due when he is right.
And BTW, I know some of you morons will accuse me of being someone at the ENews. I am not.
6:18 PM
Anonymous said...
For the record, 6:18pm is David Diaz. Ask him, he won't deny it.
6:38 PM
Anonymous said...
Amen to that Give them hell E-news your doing a great job!
6:40 PM
Anonymous said...
"Even a blind pig finds an acorn." So David Diaz is taking credit for exposing the UTPA issue huh? What an idiot, the Monitor was already covering it. Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on. It's not like the Monitor ignored the issue altogether or waited months before they printed this issue. They printed the very next day. That wasn't 'cuz of David Diaz. That was due to research and accurate reporting something David Diaz does not know about.
8:27 PM
Anonymous said...
yeah keep thinking that
8:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Responding to 12:28....
Tell me what you want to know and I will tell you what I know.
8:39 PM
Anonymous said...
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Anonymous said...
"Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on."
You know absolutely nothing about the newspaper business. The idea of news is its immediacy. If you bury a story on a backpage two days after the story occurs, you minimize its importance.
The president of Texas Southern University was indicted and convicted for the same thing. The interlocking nature of UTPA and The Monitor leads to a lot of suspicion.
"That was due to research and accurate reporting"
This isn't a rocket science story. This is a matter of reading through the report and the accompanying press releases. Any sophomore in a J 312 class at UT-Austin would have pounded out that story in an afternoon.
The article in the Monitor wasn't very long. It wasn't a "researched" article. If the San Antonio Express-News with a San Antonio-based reporter could get the article out in the same news cycle, the Monitor could. I seem to remember the Daily Texan (the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin) had the article out on the same newsday. Unless your implication is that Monitor reporters need more time to do the same story as a bunch of student reporters at the Daily Texan or that Monitor reporters (why by most estimates are younger and hungrier to move up to big town newspapers) are not as good as Express-News reporters, you have to admit that the Monitor was sloppy and lazy in reporting the story.
And once again, the usual ad-homineum attack on me is going to surface. I am going to be accused of either being David Diaz or Eddie Saenz or anyone from their camp.
I am not. I find David Diaz' writing wordy and boring. He fills his "stories" with unncessary detail (for example once he referred to the multi-level parking garage that the county is considering building near the Courthouse as "the Edinburg-based structure" as if garage would be built anywhere but in Edinburg.)
I graduated of the University of Texas Journalism Department in the early 80s. I studied under some of the best jouranlism professors in the country like Griff Singer, Mike Quinn, Warren Burkett and Red Gibson. I worked at the Daily Texan and several other mid-sized Texas dailies. The Monitor does not reflect any of the journalistic values i was taught. The Monitor is a PR rag at best, a glorified supermarket shopper at worst. You guys wouldn't know who I am because I don't work in Edinburg and I teach in a neighboring school district.
1:43 AM
Anonymous said...
uhhhhh, yeah, whatever, anyway, we all know that's you David Diaz. Who else would vouch for you in that way at 1:43am?
8:32 AM
Anonymous said...
Does anyone really want to know who is Edinburg News. It is Aaron Pena's UNCLE, the x-mayor of Ednburg. Isn't that a kick in the pants. Anyone notice how the Richard Alamia family is no longer being talked about on this site. Earn my Vote is run by Aaron and his staff. The Alamia family is stabbing Aaron, their newphew, on Edinburg News. and Aaron cant let anyone know that. If you look at Edinburg News, there is alot of storeys about Aaron's FAMILY secrets. Who else would know that.The Penas and the Alamias are the ones who are tering our city apart. Aaron you should fix your family affairs. Give your UNCLE what he wants. you know what that is.
1:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Are we off trying to destroy the Fagans? Ochoa/Saenz and Diaz need to get a life.
2:12 PM
Anonymous said...
You no nothing of the relationship that the Penas and the Alamias have. They two families just got back from a family reunion and are working together on his re-election camp. Get your facts straight E-news. I am an Alamia!
4:16 PM
Anonymous said...
Be proud of your family. Don't let these hate driven do-nothings distract you. Your relative is doing a great job. You see when their side has nothing to offer all they can do is to create hate.
7:11 PM
Anonymous said...
The reason E-News knows so much about Aaron Pena is because of Saul. He was in Aaron's camp now is in Eddie's
10:23 PM
Anonymous said...
Thats nice. Paris Hilton has the best media manipulators money can buy. Unfortunately Hilton and Saenz, like pigs with lipstick, are big stinkers. Oink! Oink!
8:06 AM
Anonymous said...
Saul is a good man..he might take Eddie's money, but his heart and his vote will be with Pena.
9:07 PM
Anonymous said...
come if you cant even spell how can we believe you cant even spell stories and tearing must be one of eddies buddies or david diaz na got to be eddies bud by the way cant wait to see eddie run remember 30% ha ha lol
11:21 AM
Anonymous said...
Response to:
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Oh yes, there is substantial truth to it. Everyone knows about it, but nobody says anything. Even the city council knows...
5:58 PM
Anonymous said...
Boy, everyone got quiet around here.
10:43 PM
Anonymous said...
fred palacios rules!. live with it, dont be jealous.
12:23 AM
Anonymous said...
So what's up with our Senator Chucho Hinojosa? It looks like this is only the tip of the iceberg. The following was reported in the Houston Chronicle...
Fees paid to probate lawyers unreported
Hidalgo County was among 6 counties that did not follow law on disclosure, investigation finds
By LISE OLSEN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
More than a dozen years after the Texas Supreme Court demanded the disclosure of fees ordered paid by probate judges to court-appointed attorneys, the corruption-fighting measure has been ignored by some of the state's biggest counties, a Houston Chronicle investigation has found.
The law requires that court clerks report every fee of $500 or more awarded by a judge.
At least $1.8 million in probate court-ordered payments went unreported from 2003 to 2005 or were awarded to people who were not identified by name, based on the Chronicle's review.
After several court corruption scandals, the Texas Supreme Court enacted the rule in 1994 to fight cronyism and favoritism. The court ordered county clerks to file monthly reports to spotlight and limit a judge's power to order excessive fees to lawyer friends.
Large counties on list
But the Chronicle found that clerks in six of the state's most populated counties — Travis, Denton, Bexar, El Paso, Hidalgo and Galveston — had failed to fully follow the rule in recent years, based on reports filed with the Office of Court Administration.
Texas probate judges have sweeping power to take money out of private savings to pay attorneys in cases involving wills, guardianships, trusts and related matters.
Though the public picks up the tab for the poorest, most payments come from savings and inheritances.
More than 2,700 payments, totaling more than $8 million, were ordered paid to court appointees by probate judges in 2005 alone, according to the Chronicle's analysis.
The reports of fees are supposed to be displayed in county courthouses, as well as filed with the Office of Court Administration in Austin. They should include names of judges who approved fees, appointees, case information and amounts.
Clerk Toni Garcia of Hidalgo County said workers knew nothing about the reporting requirement until the Chronicle called. She and the probate judge in Hidalgo both said few appointees got more than $500 in fees each year.
One fee that should have been reported, however, was a court order for $100,000 to be paid to State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen. Hinojosa represented a child who lost a family member in an auto accident, according to court records. The judge had earlier ordered that the legislator receive $45,000 for the same case, documents show.
Hinojosa said he never received the $100,000, though he did receive the $45,000, but he did not know the clerk failed to report any fees.
7:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Did we forget the Roadrunners were dying on the vine and not paying their bills. they were no longer the only kid on the block ie the dodge arena etc. the new ball team is still around and the new ball club pays to construct their own stadiums. You want to talk failed projects, talk about Ochoa building that stadium at city expense and giving it to the to the bankrupt Roadrunners for a song. The taxpayers will be paying for that failed project for 20 years.
Failed projects? Lets talk,
(1) Ochoa's 21Million$$failed Water Park
(2) Ochoa's Mega Million$$ Golf Course so his buddy could develop the land around it when we already had two golf courses in the city. It's not just the decades of debt to the taxpayers either. It operates in the RED every year adding insult to injury! But Mr Ochoa just had a House built there with his buddy so lets look the other way.
There's plenty more and it's not forgotten...
11:59 PM
Anonymous said...
Drive to the golf course...it is full of people everyday...yes it costs money..but it seems this one is working
1:00 AM
Anonymous said...
I don't see how... If you ask anyone who knows anything about golf, Los Lagos is a major waste. It's by far one of the worst maintained courses in the valley. It's sad the condition the course is in, but then again, it was never about the course, it's about making money for Hector Casas failing Shea Construction. Let's talk about the new entrance built for the course... They used taxpayer dollars to build a nice new entrance to the course and since Hector Casas didn't like it, they tore it down and used even more taxpayer money to build another one.
10:29 AM
Anonymous said...
enews quote calling all candidates if you candidates are smart dont reply to this if not part of enews click they will bash you and make up lies about so dont fall in their traps they are a bunch of rats
1:40 PM
Anonymous said...
oh enews will have a field day with this calling all candidates to send info on themselfs only the enews click need apply to this
1:46 PM
Anonymous said...
candidates please dont fall for this if the enews click doesnt like you they will slander lie cheat blackmail because they get paid for it its all about money they are a bunch of rats
1:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Who the hell is E news?
BOREDOM since Diaz took over.
Rips off the idiots who pay him, and rips off the people who's originality he steals.
Plaigerism in it's purest form.
2:18 PM
Anonymous said...
Say Enews you say Joe "grandpa munster" Ochoa hasn't done anything since he's been back because he's in the minority. Hell he hasn't even floated an idea for something new. All he does is bitch and complain everytime the majority tries to follow through with Richard Garcia's projects or do something new and positive because it wasn't his idea. The only new idea he's tried to field through his so called Mayor's advisory crew picked by him is to give his buddy Casas' new home buyers a break from having to pay taxes like the rest of us.
In his one term Garcia brought us what Joe couldn't do in five:
A new City Hall
A new Library
A new police station
A new fire substation
A new water plant
A new shopping Mall
New Regional co-operation (which is gone again!)
Amazing Economic development as EEDC chair
All while leading the charge in Austin and Washington as chair for the border Mayors of TBIC.
You can fool some of the people some of the time......
Those days are over, We've learned how read and think.
Now YOU think about your ridiculous statements.
9:03 PM
Anonymous said...
Richard Garcia did nothing while he was mayor. E-News is right! Why do you think he lost? And he will lose again and again and again. E-News exposed these Palacios and how they do business. Give them hell E-News
9:21 PM
Anonymous said...
E-news says the following:
"Now don't tell me Joe Ochoa hasn't done anything, he's in the minority."
I don't mean to respond to those idiots at E-news but I know Joe Ochoa reads this so here is the crystal clear truth.
If Joe Ochoa really wanted to do something, all he has to do is propose it. Up to now, nothing has been proposed. All energies are focused on tearing down any project that Richard Garcia started. To Joe Ochoa, it's all about what's wrong with the City and not how can we improve the City. As an Edinburg resident the last 44 years, we should demand better leadership than that. A leader works with what is there and builds consensus. Not all this power grabbing positioning crap that doesn't do anyone any good. It's been over a year that Joe Ochoa has come back to office, I think the man has had more than enough time to make something happen. True leadership would have allowed for Joe Ochoa to reach consenus with the others to make things happen. That hasn't happened and it will not happen.
9:41 PM
Anonymous said...
That's right. What happened to all those campaign promises that Joe Ochoa made????? Let's see, why don't we recap:
1. Finish police station - It's been a year and not done yet.
2. Fix canton/sugar road sewer issue - Problem still there.
3. Bring the city back to its people - Uhhhh, whatever that meant but you can ask anyone about the city and no one is aware.
So what has Joe Ochoa done? For all you blind supporters, what has Joe Ochoa done? Are we much better off now than we were before? I don't think so. We're all still having the same issues: living paycheck to paycheck, bad streets, not enough water pressure.....i could go on and on and on but I think I've made my point.
10:30 PM
Anonymous said...
why is enews so chicken to let the people of edinburg know who they are because cowards hide behind there thoughts real men dont lol
11:42 AM
Anonymous said...
Because they don't want anyone to call them out on their lies. It's like what they are saying about Carmen Gonzalez. What has she done for the teachers, well, if they did their research, they would find out that before she was on the board, Edinburg was the lowest paying school district. The teachers hadn't had a raise in years. Since she has been on the board, teachers have had a raise every year for the last 3 years to make up for what the previous board never did. And talking about school bonds, maybe they should ask Greg and Jaime about them. They have had 2 failed bonds because everyone knows what rats those two are.
1:16 PM
Anonymous said...
Looks like the Monitor picked up on the Alaskan legislator indicted by the FBI. It was just the other day that E-news' candidate Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a certain Alaskan legislator.???? Why would Eddie Saenz give money to a REPUBLICAN Alaskan legislator?
Federal jury convicts former Alaska lawmaker in bribery trial
By DAN JOLING The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
“I’m devastated,” former state Rep. Tom Anderson said after the federal jury announced its verdict.
Anderson, 39, was accused of conspiring to take money he thought was coming from a private prison firm, Cornell Industries, Inc.
The money was supplied by the FBI through an informant working for Cornell who secretly recorded his conversations with Anderson and a co-conspirator, former municipal lobbyist Bill Bobrick.
Anderson was one of four current or former Alaska state lawmakers facing federal bribery indictments. The other three face trial this fall for charges related Anchoragebased oil field services company VECO Corp.
“I think the prosecution has criminalized being a legislator over the last year,” Anderson said. “I think I fell victim to that.”
Anderson’s family, including his wife, state Sen. Lesil McGuire, were not present for the verdict.
Anderson said they couldn’t get to the downtown Anchorage courthouse in time after it was announced the jury had reached a verdict.
Judge John Sedwick ordered Anderson to surrender his passport and scheduled sentencing for Oct. 2.
Anderson was arrested Dec. 7 and charged with seven felonies, including conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and interfering with commerce, a charge connected to a demand for payments. He faces a maximum penalty of 115 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine.
Department of Justice officials in Washington, D.C., said Anderson was held accountable for his crimes.
Anderson “corrupted his elected office when he took official actions in exchange for bribery payments,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher. “His illegal conduct impaired the integrity of the oath he took to represent citizens of the state of Alaska.”
Bobrick in May pleaded guilty to bribing Anderson. He agreed to testify against Anderson in exchange for a “downward sentencing motion” from prosecutors, he said.
Bobrick said two FBI agents called him in late September and said they wanted to play some tapes for him. They were standing on his front porch when they called.
The agents played tapes secretly recorded in 2004 by Frank Prewitt, a former corrections department commissioner who was a $150,000-per-year consultant for Cornell and an FBI informant.
The company is based in Houston, Texas, and operated halfway houses in Alaska. Cornell also hoped to build a private prison and a juvenile psychiatric treatment center in Alaska.
Anderson was accused of accepting nearly $26,000 he thought was coming from Cornell but really was provided through Prewitt by the FBI.
The defense argued that Anderson was a Cornell supporter and backed its positions without being on the take and that Prewitt wore a wire to bag a legislator and deflect investigators away from his legal problems.
3:36 PM
Anonymous said...
It's only a matter of time before they get to Saenz.
8:44 PM
Anonymous said...
Saenz won't be the only one. Ever hear a trapped Rat Squeel?
10:13 PM
Anonymous said...
Watch as Jaime and Greg squeal like pigs
10:09 AM
Anonymous said...
Come on "Eddie Steal money from the poor and give to the rich Saenz" why don't you respond? E-News? WHY or for WHAT would a MCALLEN resident give thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN ALASKAN LEGISLATOR?
2:19 PM
Anonymous said...
Come on Eddie RUN! the Feds are dying for you to do it. Joe has already re-exposed himself.
4:00 PM
Anonymous said...
at least aron is getting money and will win eddies using most of his money to lose remember 30% lol
8:40 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is not running, he's not stupid. Who would be stupid enough to spend another million dollars to come up with 30% of the vote? Aron has done a damn good job and has put this city in a kick ass position. Why would Saenz fuck that up? Nah the problem here is the shit for brains fuck heads like Diaz, Janet Ron Jackson, Garza, little dick Alamia and all the other dead end losers in Edinburg waiting for crumbs to fall off of Saenz' table. Their just pumping Saenz to send money their way. Its a bottomless pit but throw away your money if you want to. This town remembers you bro.
10:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Aron the republican? is that supposed to offset "EDDIE THE CROOK".
11:28 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Ruben quit defending your friend Aaron Pena. He is a Republican except that you dumb mother fucker
7:42 AM
Anonymous said...
There is a big difference from recieving money from Republicans to fight for Democratic principles. And being a fake ass Democrat like Eddie Saenz and giving thousands of dollars to Alaskan Republican legislators. Oh and did I mention Eddie Steals money from poor people in Pharr and Edinburg. Thank God we kicked him out of our City.
9:55 AM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz/E-news? Why don't you answer the question PEOPLE are talking about? Why would a Valley resident give THOUSANDS of dollars to an ALASKAN REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR? Was it Bribe money?
1:44 PM
Anonymous said...
They got rid of eddie because he was a leach. He was an absolute zero before ochoa started feeding him major taxpayer bucks in edinburg for being simply a middle man in hiring engineers that could really do the work so he could get his "cut". Now it's happening in Pharr.The very people who were against him in pharr ended up hiring him. It's not just the school district they're looking at guy's!
3:53 PM
1Fan said...
Omar Guerrero, Sylvia Handy, and Eddie Saenz bringing confidence and trust to Hidalgo County.
Vote for me and all of your wildest dreams will come true!
4:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Enews is against school teacher pay raises? Enews is eddie and his crooked cronies and he want's us to send him to Austin? They call Carmen a criminal because she was involved in a family spat? Check out the family values of the people accused of being enews! Joe leaves his wife for a cutie in Monterrey, Richie A fathers children out of wedlock and leaves them supportless! the list is long folks but the point is that these are the kind of folks wanting to tell you what's good for our children???????? give us a break!!!
9:11 AM
Anonymous said...
Carmen will lose. Aaron Pena is broke. Give them hell E-News.
9:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Just heard that Aaron Pena will change his endorsement from Rick to Watts. That's not a good idea. Aaron you will lose your support from your democratic friends in the house. You got your self into problems again blunder boy.
2:47 AM
Anonymous said...
Enews must think we're stupid. They try to put down Aaron because besides being a powerful democrat he is in good with the republicans???? Sounds like a winner to me!!! What U got boys?
4:06 PM
Anonymous said...
Aron will kick the shit out of any piece of shit loser they can dig up. Word on the street is that they can't find anybody. Since Diaz is the only one left to throw shit around why doesn't he run. Nah, damaged goods. Plagerism and all that corruption bullshit. How about Saenz, nah, FBI and all that corruption bullshit. What about tricky dick, nah too small a pecker. Well at least he doesn't have the corruption bullshit to worry about. Yeah I'm for tricky dick. Hey little pecker, since you loser fuckers can't find anybody, grow some balls and step up, you got one vote. No not mom or dad but I'll vote for you. Maybe this time you can break the 30% Saenz got against Pena. Shit a convicted felon, Gonzalez got more votes than Saenz did with a million bucks. Vote for tricky dick!!!! He's our man if Saenz can't do it the little dick can!!!!!
6:43 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is running. He also got $100,000 from the democrats up north. This is going to be good. The dems have a chance to get back the house and a dem speaker. That's why you will see some big dogs come down and endorse Saenz. Aaron is Craddick's puppet.
Hey Ruben you dumb fuck. Are you Aaron's campaign manager? lol
7:20 PM
Anonymous said...
Bullshit! If he got a $100,000. then he broke the law because he has not filed with the Sec. of State. Total bullshit!!! Tell the asshole to announce, then I'll believe you. All we hear is lies like the one you just told. Shit I'll spot you 10 million dollars and Saenz still won't win. The FBI is going to pick him and the rest of his rats up. Shit it must really hurt to have lost by 70% that it still hurts 4 years later.
7:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Is that you little dick? I'll vote for you too. Since the town mayor is a loser we might as well have a second loser running for office.
7:35 PM
Anonymous said...
Big dogs like the state party chair and the local democratic chair who both endorsed our rep. Or do you mean corrupt sons of bitches like Saenz campaign manager, Aaron Gonzalez who will be sitting in federal prison for corruption. Will it be Eddie Gonzalez another big time loser like you little dick?
7:39 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is a Republican. Do you even know if the Democratic Chair will allow him to run since he gave big money to Alaskan Republicans to corruption projects to who knows where?
7:43 PM
Big "D" said...
I vote that we let Saenz run so that he can really get the shit kicked out of him. Let's break 80% this time. The guy steals from the taxpayers to line his pockets.
7:47 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm sorry can someone please tell me who little dick is?
7:48 PM
Anonymous said...
Little Dick is the son of one of Edinburg's former mayors. He is just one of the many losers that Saenz surrounds himself with. Although I've heard talk about the FBI and Saenz I have not heard that "little dick" is involved. He works behind the scenes in political campaigns not doing very much but sure acts like he does. He and Saenz were big supporters of the former county clerk Omar Guerrero.
7:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Is JD a republican? According to E-News anyone supporting Watts is a republican. JD Salinas is supporting Watts. Isn't Eddie Saenz supporting Watts? Billy Leo is supporting Watts. Would someone ask Diaz if Leo or Salinas are republicans. We all know what party Saenz is connected with.
10:23 PM
Anonymous said...
Aaron can you please talk about the son you lost? You killed him. You dumb son of a bitch. Monica didnt want your son in the house cause of all the drugs he was on. So you got him an apartment and looked what happened.
You killed your son. You are a murder. You would not let your son stay in the house cause of your wife.
You deserve nothing. You killed my son. I will tell all. People deserve to know the truth. You killed my son. you killed my son. you killed my son. I'm going to make sure everyone knows the truth.
You killed my son.
2:57 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow, the level of maturity coming from Saenz and his supporters is just below that of a five year old. Anybody willing to stoop to these levels needs help. They should be ashamed of themselves.
8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
And now you know why he only got 30% of the vote.
9:01 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow. Joe and eddie are godawful ugly but the ugly face of Greed they have displayed here is incomparably scary ugly. Makes their ugly faces pale in comparisom.
10:13 AM
Anonymous said...
no aron did not kill his son you did because of your family's background and the life you lived he followed your path not arons so because we all know about your life so go back to church and ask for gods help because you need it
12:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Let's not allow Saenz or his people to drag us down into the gutter. We are better than that.
1:04 PM
Anonymous said...
They are from the gutter. We are not.
1:07 PM
Anonymous said...
How can people be so desperate? That's horrible.
7:02 PM
Anonymous said...
These people at E-News are sick. Who would say such things. Does anybody know who they are?
8:46 AM
Anonymous said...
yeah they are shaine mata, orlando salinas
8:56 AM
Anonymous said...
E-news is a paid site to defame and destroy candidates. They are paid with blood and sweat money off the backs of the poor. E-news is Eddie Saenz, Joe Ochoa, Robert Pena and the Devil that leads the way.
1:15 PM
Anonymous said...
It is embarrassing that Edinburg harbors such trash. It is even more embarrassing that some people actually vote for them. We are not only the laughing stock of respectability but are beginning to be shunned like lepers by the leadership of surrounding communities. what went wrong? We were finally moving into the mainstream and one election gone awry set us back ten years!
4:07 PM
Anonymous said...
It's probably Aaron saying all this shit. He wants all of us to feel bad for him. Trying to get the sympathy vote. E-News doesn't say anything about you on there site.
Seems that some people on here don't like the truth.
Aaron voting for Craddick! Truth
Carmen getting arrested! Truth
So what's the problem? You should have thought about your district, first. Not your personal gain. I live in the delta area. And you have done nothing for us.
Give them hell E-News. Your doing a great job. We want more! We want more!
6:34 PM
Holy Spirit said...
I can't believe what I am reading on this site. I am new to the area and the idea that a political faction would bring up a deceased member of another candidates' faction is beyond me. I will pray for person or persons believing that they are going to win on that message. God bless the polititians that get into office to help the poor and less fortunate.
7:16 PM
Anonymous said...
(6:34) I am sure your retired teachers will enjoy the extra pay compliments of our rep. If your an active teacher, the last two pay raises the rep. fought for will be nice. If your child is sick then the CHIP bill passed by the rep will give him health care. If your child gets out in the top 10% of his class then he still will have access to our top universities. If he goes to Pan Am, then the rep. got him a new fine arts auditorium, a health and wellness facility and funded the regional health center to look for cures for diabetes and other illnesses. He saw funding increase to our local universities. Look around there are many more items I and you could point to if you looked. It sounds like the hate we sometimes see here is blinding you from the good that is all around you. One last question, why did you not ask what Hinojosa or Lucio did for your town? I am afraid that you are either driven by hate like the other sad commentors or you are ignorant. Why dont you tell us.
7:51 PM
Anonymous said...
i agree with holy spirit the language has got to go. looks like some one want it to look like arons people are using that language but it not. I will tell you this much we live in a free country we shouldnt be afraid to vote republican or democrat as long as the person is the best person for that position thank you and for god sake stop the language
8:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Earn, where are you? We need you....there's so many shennanigans going on out there at the City and School District.
6:12 AM
Anonymous said...
I dont know about you enews. I dont have anything bad to say about Bobby. But some of his donations come from people you talk bad about. I think you are really losing it. Or you are just picking on aron, boy you really need some mental help.
8:04 PM
Anonymous said...
oh like eddies money is supposed to scare us im shaking already ooooooooooooooooooooooo
8:07 PM
Anonymous said...
hey what's up with that idiot gus garcia, se cree bien chingon asking all these questions at the commission meeting. gus thinks he knows what he's talking about pero no trae nada, people can see right through him, it's all air.
9:21 PM
Anonymous said...
Ok seriously Earn, I know you are all about letting go of the reins while people post left and right here. But that comment about Aaron's son is way overboard and really should be removed. I know things can get dirty around here, and things have been said that shouldn't have been said, but this is by far the worst I have seen to date.
1:27 PM
Anonymous said...
I agree with 1:27pm comment it just takes a real heartless person to come up with that perhaps someone that feels guilty about there own life just remember god is watching you,you will pay one day but yes that is down right out of line
1:43 PM
Anonymous said...
enews doesnt say anything because his father gave 2500.00 watch out bobby if enews get enough money he will talk bad about you to by the way good luck bobby im backing you
4:40 PM
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relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
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(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
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(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
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(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
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(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
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(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
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Anonymous said...
By:AAWentworth,et al.S.B.ANo.A378
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
habitation,vehicle,or place of business or employment;
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 9.01,Penal Code,is amended by adding
Subdivisions (4)and (5)to read as follows:
(4)AA"Habitation"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
(5)AA"Vehicle"has the meaning assigned by Section
30.01.
SECTIONA2.AASection 9.31,Penal Code,is amended by amending
Subsection (a)and adding Subsections (e)and (f)to read as
follows:
(a)AAExcept as provided in Subsection (b),a person is
justified in using force against another when and to the degree the
actor [he ]reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary
to protect the actor [himself ]against the other ’s use or attempted
use of unlawful force.The actor ’s belief that the force was
immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed
to be reasonable if the actor:
(1)AAknew or had reason to believe that the person
against whom the force was used:
(A)AAunlawfully and with force entered,or was
attempting to enter unlawfully and with force,the actor ’s occupied
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8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Goodbye Earn,
We are sad to see you go. Unfortunately the Ochoa-Saenz people at Edinburg News have been such a hateful influence on politics and the people living in the RGV. We are looking forward to your run for mayor. I look forward to shaking your hand one day Mr. Mayor.
5:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Goodbye? Why? Giving up that ez?
8:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz wants to run for Aaron Pena's district? That's a bunch of bs. Saenz is not even from Edinburg. He's from McAllen. I bet you E-news will stay silent on that since they are big on "home grown" candidates.
9:16 PM
Anonymous said...
E-News se la come!
10:33 AM
Anonymous said...
Is this permanent or are you just taking a hiatus?
11:05 AM
Anonymous said...
You know what I find funny. It seems that the paper of south texas is in kind of a hiatus because they are relocating and "Earn" says goodbye. Could it be that "Earn" is part of the paper of south texas? Seems like the same writing style.
1:49 PM
Anonymous said...
I can't believe you're just up and hitting the road.
We have disagreed more times than I can count, but a healthy debate was always welcome.
Have a nice life.
You know where to find me,
-Denise
11:38 AM
Anonymous said...
Time to pay the piper...
1:04 PM
Anonymous said...
earn, i'm sad and disappointed. i hope you're not gone for long.
2:30 PM
Anonymous said...
just on vacation shell be back
9:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Joe Joe the clown filed a lawsuit against her for slander.
9:03 AM
Anonymous said...
Word is FBI's zeroing in on school districts has people in Edinburg-Elsa-Pharr nervous. Any day now the hammer will fall. The rats are squirming.
10:31 AM
Anonymous said...
You moron, written defamation is LIBEL. Spoken defamation is slander. If Earn would be sued for anything, it would be LIBEL.
However, in the Telecommunications Act, Congress exempted online postings from defamation lawsuits.
3:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Are you talking about E. Saenz?
10:17 PM
Anonymous said...
I heard the same rumor. It seems like these rumors all one day come true.
11:30 PM
Anonymous said...
You bunch of idiots, Earn is on vacation. He hasn't gone anywhere. He'll be back. We all need a little R&R once in a while.
5:27 AM
Anonymous said...
Sorry but Earn got exposed. Earn is Orlando Salnias. Who is he you ask? He works for Aaron Pena Jr. He got exposed.
12:27 PM
Anonymous said...
Your retarded 12:27p.m Orlando S. is not Earn my Vote. Good try though! Keep begging for money for your hack jobs E-news.
1:37 PM
Anonymous said...
I hear New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has contacted Joe Ochoa to be his runningmate. What the hell....unqualified mayors with no foreign policy experience are now running for president. First Guiliani. Now Bloomberg. Next one of them will ask Joe Ochoa or Ricard Garcia or Aaron Pena to be their Vice President or Secretary of State.
Just another sign that civilization is breaking down.
5:22 PM
Anonymous said...
Earn give me the password, I'll keep this going.
Hey! Who are they going to sue? Do you even know who to sue? We all know Joe-Joe and his cronies are a bunch of rats. It's just a matter of time til the FBIs get them, then good riddance and send in the next group of clowns.
Don't worry there are more people sniffing these corrupt politicians tails...
7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
2:15 PM
Anonymous said...
One question: was Alonzo Cantu at the Town Hall Meeting? I doubt it. But guess whose house Pres. Clinton went to?
Not Aaron Pena's or Veronica Gonzalez'.
Were any of the other local high rollers in the Democratic Party there? Ramon Garcia?
2:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't forget that Mando Martinez was there too. Saenz is old news. It was noticed that he wasn't there. The guy is just talk and no action, at least none that we can talk about.
3:03 PM
Anonymous said...
Mikal Watts was there. I think he is the number 1 contributor to the party.
3:05 PM
Anonymous said...
Gonzales always does a good job as does Pena. Your not going to find Saenz or Villalobos at these events they are opportunists looking to TAKE not give. Try the post office.
3:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Note to E-news: Your arguments or points are so weak. Is Eddie Saenz really paying you?
3:26 PM
Anonymous said...
of course eddie is paying david diaz eddie thinks all his money is going to buy his way in haha
6:21 PM
Anonymous said...
David Diaz is Edinburg News, you got it he is on the Saenz payroll. The same person who wont deny that he is Edinburg News has for a long time been taking money from Saenz. This all without proper reporting. Along with the "other" problems Saenz has, Diaz will end up taking him down. Damaged goods going down in a sinking ship of trash.
6:56 PM
Anonymous said...
Nah David is not E-News but Earn is someone in Aaron's office. Why were they cleaning out there computers this past weekend. We already know who Earn is.
Now Aaron your going to pay. And pay big. I wonder if your marriage will last? I guess only time will tell. You will go through something like never before. Just ask your good friend, Richard Garcia. He didn't know how to handle it. And as you can see he lost.
Or why don't you ask Melba Gonzalez. She even said herself that she lost cause of E-News.
The time will come when you will have to answer to E-News. In the mean time get all the money you can from the Republicans. Cause your going to need it. You my friend are next.
7:26 PM
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7:41 PM
Anonymous said...
And your point is?
9:06 PM
Anonymous said...
You Saenz people need to get a life. Nobody in this town likes you.
9:17 PM
Anonymous said...
You are full of shit the reps office is not open on weekends.
9:27 PM
Anonymous said...
The State Party are not going to let E-news Saenz even run in the Dem. primary! News from the Chairman's mouth to God's ears. Seems that his major contributions to a certain Congressional republican out of Alaska and his many CHECKS he recieved from the famous Tom Delay TRMPAC have put the nail in his coffin. Looks like Saenz is going to have to run as a Republican if he wants it that bad?
12:31 AM
Anonymous said...
There is very little that the state party can do to keep someone off the ballot. The only thing that can keep Saenz off the ticket is if he voted in the GOP primary in 2006.
Contributing to Republican candidates doesn't disqualify someone from running in the Democratic primary. Remember back in 2002, Tony Sanchez came under considerable critcism for contributing to GOP candidates.
Furthermore, this would lay out a ridiculous double standard and quite possibly a 14th Amendment equal protection violation. Saenz is disqualified from running as a Democrat because he contributed to a GOP PAC, yet Aaron Pena is allowed to run even though he voted for a GOP candidate for speaker. Pena actually openly voted for Tom Craddick.
Just because you fantasize about something happening in your shower while masturbating, does not make it true.
2:43 AM
Anonymous said...
I think what E-News is trying to say is that Aaron Pena is one stupid S.O.B. I would have to agree with them.
6:35 AM
Anonymous said...
You just showed us why people in Edinburg are sick and tired of Saenz and his flunkies. You guys are full of hate. Get over it. Just because you only got 30% of the vote last time is no reason to be filled with so much hate. No one likes you get it in your head.
7:04 AM
Anonymous said...
Edinburg News keeps pumping up Eddie Saenz as a challenger to our St. Rep. Aaron Pena. I was pleased to see Mr. Pena at the Democrats Town Hall meeting in Edinburg but saw nothing of Saenz. I haven't heard good things about this Saenz guy and today seems to back that up. If the state leadership of the Democratic Party takes the time to comes down I think this Saenz guy and other leaders from the Valley should participate. I grew up here in Edinburg and am trying to work with other Democrats from other parts of Texas. Rep. Gonzales can always be counted on and we were pleased she was there. Other Young Dems. took notice and we are happy for the support from those who bothered to show up.
Who ever wrote this hit my feelings on the spot. Dude show up if your going to play it like a democrat.
7:37 AM
Anonymous said...
For the 80th session the vote was 121-27 because there was only one candidate for speaker of the house when Jim Pitts dropped out. All reps from the Valley voted in favor of the speaker.
The 79th only had over 140 people vote for the speaker, again all from the Valley voted for Craddick.
The 78th session 149-1 voted for the republican speaker because he again was the only one running. All from the Valley voted for him.
I agree with the commentors who say this talk by one wanna be candidate is smoke and mirrors. If you want to be Mr. Democrat I want to add that showing up is good but telling the truth is better.
8:17 AM
Anonymous said...
Ok Eddie-News.. You gave money to an Alaskan Republican Candidate
then try to run in the Dem. Party?
You then recieve money from Indicted Tom Delay's Texans for a Republican Majority.
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seeking the nomination of an opposing party, or a non-Democratic candidate seeking an office
in an election in which candidates may file by party affiliation and a Democrat is seeking the
office in question.
2. The terms “publicly supports” and “endorses” shall include, but not be limited to, serving on
a campaign committee; giving financial support, including contributing money!!
5:54 PM
Anonymous said...
hey eddie why dont you run for school board in psja you would fit in and take david diaz with you he'll keep you from getting in trouble he's a good liar
7:54 PM
Anonymous said...
and take joe hector ron and richard exmayor son with you
7:55 PM
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Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
8:25 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Lucio is from Brownsville does that mean he is Santi Klaus?
Where is the FBI boys?
9:11 PM
Anonymous said...
FBI raid Alaskan Legislators
JUNEAU, Alaska - The offices of at least six Alaska legislators, including the son of Sen. Ted Stevens, were raided by federal agents searching for possible ties between the lawmakers and a large oil field services company, officials and aides said.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Jaclyn Lesch said Friday the searches began Thursday and were continuing Friday. FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said a total of 20 search warrants were being executed across Alaska, but would not say where.
A copy of one of the search warrants, obtained by The Associated Press, links the investigation to a new production tax law signed last month by Gov. Frank Murkowski and a draft natural gas pipeline contract Murkowski and the state’s three largest oil companies negotiated.
The warrant called for seizure of documents concerning any payment made to lawmakers by Bill Allen and Richard Smith, executives of oil field services giant VECO Corp. Agents also looked for documents about contracts, agreements or employment of legislators provided by VECO, Allen, Smith and company president Peter Leathard.
Sought-after items named in the search include hats or other garments bearing the phrases “CBC,” “Corrupt Bastards Club” or “Corrupt Bastards Caucus.”
That’s the nickname given to 11 lawmakers after a guest opinion piece published in March listed the contributions those legislators received from VECO Corp. executives, said House Speaker John Harris, R-Valdez. The piece was published in the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Juneau Empire on different dates in March.
“I’ve heard it a few times,” Harris said Friday. “These legislators nicknamed themselves or somebody else did.”
Lesch said no further comment is likely to come from the Justice Department unless charges are filed.
Company says execs on the up and up
VECO’s executives are top contributors to Alaska politicians. The company staunchly supported the governor’s production tax plan, a version of which the Legislature passed in August after twice rejecting it earlier this year. Lawmakers have also twice failed to pass legislation related to the governor’s pipeline fiscal contract with BP PLC, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp.
Amy Menard, an Anchorage-based attorney for VECO, said the company received a warrant on Thursday. She said the company would cooperate with agents in providing the broad range of information they want.
“We have no information that would suggest that there have been any improper activities either by VECO Corp., VECO Alaska, or any of the principals involved in those companies,” Menard said.
Among the offices searched was that of Republican Senate President Ben Stevens, whose father is Alaska’s senior senator, who has reported collecting more than $240,000 in consulting fees from VECO since 2000. Ted Stevens’ spokesman Aaron Saunders said Friday he had no comment on the search.
Ben Stevens could not be reached at his Anchorage home on Friday.
Agents left Ben Stevens’ Capitol office Thursday evening with 12 boxes of documents labeled “Evidence” and loaded them into a vehicle.
‘It’s pretty bizarre’
Also searched were offices in both Juneau and Anchorage belonging to state Sen. John Cowdery, the Senate Rules chairman; Republican state Rep. Vic Kohring; Republican state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch; Democratic state Sen. Donald Olson, and Republican state Rep. Pete Kott.
“It’s pretty bizarre,” Cowdery said Friday. “That’s all I know, it’s pretty bizarre. I certainly haven’t done anything wrong.”
He said he didn’t know why he was included in the raid or why agents seized items “unrelated to anything,” including the stubs of his legislative salary checks.
Kohring said he cooperated and was told he was not a target of the investigation. Calls to Weyhrauch and Kott were not immediately returned Friday.
Olson issued a statement saying, “I am certain that I will not be a target of this investigation and that I have broken no laws.” Reached by telephone, he said his attorneys advised him not to comment further.
Four different teams of at least six federal agents each spent hours searching offices on each floor of the Capitol.
Besides VECO and its executives, agents were authorized to seize any documents related to The Petroleum Club, Republican pollster David Dittman or his company, Dittman Research and Communication Corp., pollster Marc Hellenthal or his company, Hellenthal and Associates, Roger Chan, VECO’s chief financial officer, and a flying service that Olson owns, according to the warrant.
Dittman’s wife, Terry Dittman, said Friday the FBI had been to their office and said the company was not the subject of the investigation but they may have evidence related to it.
A person who answered the phone at Chan’s home in Anchorage said he was out of town and could not be reached for comment. Messages were also left for Leathard, Smith and Allen.
Hellenthal said Friday that he had not been contacted by federal agents. He said his firm has conducted polls for VECO and other businesses on governors’ and legislative races.
A receipt, obtained by the AP, of items the FBI seized from Olson’s office lists five things: Olson’s 2006 year planner, Murkowski’s gas pipeline proposal released in May, a manila folder labeled “APOC” for the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Olson’s interim travel file and a binder related to the Alaska Stranded Gas Fiscal contract.
10:41 PM
Anonymous said...
Follow the money. Why or for what is Eddie Saenz giving a Republican Alaskan legislator money and lots of it?
10:45 PM
Anonymous said...
So he can build a bridge to nowhere! Remember his slogan: building bridges/spending money or something like that.
10:49 PM
Anonymous said...
Saenz isn't running for a party officer job. He is running for the nomination to a state office. Different rules govern that.
Second, assuming arguendo, that the rule applies to getting on a primary ballot, Aaron Pena will be disqualifed also. He supported Tom Craddick.
11:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Aaron Pena never gave money to any Republicans. Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN legislator which is grounds for the Chairman to deny him the right to run in OUR party.
Second, your flawed argument that "Pena voted for Craddick." Waahhh! Cry me a river Faggot! All the Valley legislators voted for Craddick! They are alot smarter than your dumb,paid ass. Your strategy is horrible..if you had any brains you would of had Eddie wake up after a long night at BOYS TOWN and make it to the Saturday, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY MEETING! But, since he is to busy getting over a hang over. Your not even worth the minute it took me to write this comment.
TRUE DEMOCRATS SHOW UP TO EVENTS!
11:32 PM
Anonymous said...
E.S. wasn't there. also, alot of big shots were not there as well. that just shows the lack of coordintion of Juan Maldonado. overall it was a low turn out.
3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Interesting article about Edinburg not finding a new City Manager. It's not for lack of qualified candidates, that's for sure. I saw the applications. Ochoa has his hand so far up the interim's ass that it isn't even funny. When Ochoa mumbles, the interim listens.
6:58 PM
Anonymous said...
The way the quotes are written in this article basically indicate that Edinburg is too busy to find qualified leadership. What a shame! Believe me...Mr. Rodriguez, all due respect, is not a leader.
7:02 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm not from Edinburg, someone fill me on this.
10:25 PM
Anonymous said...
hey 6:58pm: you sound like someone from the inside.....spill the beans.
11:06 PM
Anonymous said...
Heather Elias where are you?
2:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Joe Ochoa doesn't like people questioning his dictatorship thats why there still not a city manager. And you have a problem with him making money by putting the tax burden on the poor and middle class than vote him out. He is selling property folks! Come to Edinburg, buy a house from my friend Hector Casas..I got you a tax break,drink some alcohol from my friend Hector Casas..we got alcohol! Oh yah and if you need GOOD drugs..I sell those too!
Hey you can even sleep with my X- the Devil;)
3:02 PM
Anonymous said...
Whoever wrote this:
AboutUs: RGVVOTE.COM
Aaron Pena's boss is from Brownsville. Your busted you dumb fuck.
FIRST OF ALL IT'S RGVOTE (1 V) you IDIOT!!! And you can register a domain in China if you want, doesn't mean you're from over there. Turn off the computer and go back to picking the fleas of your relatives you DUMB FUCK!!!
4:46 PM
Anonymous said...
Responding to 11:06...
Yes, someone from the inside. Ask what you want and I will try to answer.
Joe Ochoa doesn't like anyone questioning his dictatorship. The interim does what he can to survive. But he doesn't want to be City Manager and he acknowledged that in the newspaper. He only has a little time left before retirement. Think about it...the average career span for a CM is 3 years.
It is well known in City Hall that the interim's girlfriend is also his over-glorified secretary. How is she still allowed to report to him? Just a small insight into what's going on in Shitty...I mean City Hall.
9:54 PM
Anonymous said...
Ochoa and Saenz have really fucked up this city. Has anybody heard when Saenz is being picked up by the FBI? The talk in Pharr is that one of his rats from the Delta area turned on him.
12:23 AM
Anonymous said...
hey 9:54 pm, keep 'em coming....
12:28 AM
Anonymous said...
Just in case anyone forgot, here's E-news, I mean, David "copion" Diaz getting busted and exposed.
P.R. guru admits cribbing E-N copy
Mariano Castillo
Rio Grande Valley Bureau
San Antonio Express News
EDINBURG — The various roles of a South Texas journalist and public relations guru has the San Antonio Express-News and the City of Edinburg looking into evidence he committed plagiarism and other ethical breaches.
In recent years, David Diaz, an independent businessman, has contracted with the city and local politicians to write favorable stories that he distributes through e-mail, some of which have been subsequently published in the Edinburg Daily Review.
After an Edinburg reader alerted the Express-News to a Sept. 21 Daily Review story by Diaz with striking similarities to a 4-day-old story by Guillermo X. Garcia of the Express-News Austin Bureau, the paper examined Diaz's work.
Diaz prepared a statement Friday stating he had properly attributed other sources.
But later, in a phone conversation with Express-News Managing Editor Brett Thacker, he admitted making an error in judgment.
"I made a mistake, for which I apologize," Diaz said. "I'll stop doing that."
In defending himself, Diaz highlighted the prolific, original work he produces.
"I use my legislative skills, my extensive experience in journalism and in the legislature to push for issues that benefit thousands of people here in the Valley, and I've done a lot of that without getting paid for it," he said. "I get hired to promote the people that pay me. That's what I do."
In addition to the Daily Review, Diaz said his stories get picked up by many Valley newspapers, including El Americano News, the Advance News-Journal, Delta Chronicle, Mid-Valley Star, and Valley Town Crier.
Thacker said the Express-News will continue to monitor Diaz's work.
"We have put Mr. Diaz on notice about his misappropriation of material from the Express-News, and will hold him to his word that this practice will stop," Thacker said.
A sample of Diaz's stories distributed by e-mail or published in the Daily Review showed a pattern of sloppy attribution and outright plagiarism of the Express-News and the McAllen Monitor.
In the past, Diaz has been hired to promote state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa and Rep. Roberto Gutierrez, though it was unclear if he still worked for them.
Since August, Diaz has placed his name on at least four articles that included — with minimal attribution — large portions of Express-News stories.
In each, Diaz credited the Express-News with one paragraph, surrounding it with quotation marks, then followed it with hundreds of words lifted verbatim from the same article without further attribution.
The Monitor, the largest daily newspaper in the Rio Grande Valley, is also a source of material for Diaz.
Monitor reporter Brittney Booth, who covers Edinburg, said she has regularly seen portions of her work reprinted in Diaz's articles with no attribution whatsoever.
Booth said she complained to Edinburg city officials, weeks before Diaz's contract with the city was up for renewal last month.
Diaz's contract was renewed, but was amended with a clause requiring him to ensure all his stories "have proper attribution on all information obtained from sources other than through (Diaz's) own investigation."
The contract also requires him to submit all of his press releases and articles to the city for its review.
12:33 AM
Anonymous said...
who is Heather Elias?
11:01 AM
Anonymous said...
David Diaz has a trash story againt Gail Fagan at the Edinburg News blog. Hmm, still pissed at them for the plagerism story? Hey David we here at the paper still have our eyes on you. Cut out the shit!
8:07 PM
Anonymous said...
Who is this Diaz guy and why does he go after so many people?
8:25 AM
Anonymous said...
Sylvia The Whore Handy is going down.
12:20 PM
Anonymous said...
david diaz used to work with that wimpy daily mistake newspaper where he never made any money now he works for eddie and joe and is making big bucks to lie and slander people but god will catch up with him
2:17 PM
Anonymous said...
Millions of people read my words and belive what I write.. To Joe and Eddie I am GOD.
2:49 PM
Anonymous said...
"BELIVE"? MAYBE YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SPELL BEFORE YOU GO TALKING SHIT!
2:51 PM
Anonymous said...
Don't these officials have to report money payments to Diaz or is this under the table? If they are paying him in a legal way, how is it that the officials get away with this. It looks real dirty. Is Fagan or the Monitor likely to sue him?
3:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Yes, I know for a fact that the Fagans are going after Diaz. They have an attorney working on it. It's funny how these things work. It's not a secret that Diaz had assumed that about the Fagans before since he was telling the whole world. But now, the idiot puts it in writing in his E-news blog where he has basically done himself in. Get ready to pay up Diaz, big time.
4:36 PM
Anonymous said...
what did E-News do that was so wrong? They mention fagan working at utpa. They mention fagan working at the monitor. That's all true. So what is the problem. The story that E-News has is from the SA Express. So why are the fagan's all pissed off? Maybe they didn't want the public to know that she works at UTPA. Everything that was said on E-News is all true! So sue for what? You all are dumb fucks. Right Aaron Pena !
5:13 PM
Anonymous said...
The E-News story entirely plagerized the San Antonio Express story by someone with an axe to grind. That axe man is known in Edinburg even though he hides behind his anonymous blog. There is the problem!!!!!
5:46 PM
Anonymous said...
There is a saying that a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn. And although it's David Diaz who is writing the story on the ENews, the Fagan story has some merit.
Professional journalists are supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety. The fact that Fagan edits the Monitor (i.e. makes the calls on what stories are reported and make it in and are placed where) and his wife works in the PR Department (i.e. the spin zone) of UTPA, leads to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Monitor misses a big story like that.
Secondly, there was nothing defamatory about that story in the ENews. The Fagans have no action in libel. In order for the Fagans to be able to recover they have to prove that the material was false and that it harmed their reputations. Although the article maybe harm their professional reputation, the inference isn't false. There is an appearance of a conflict of interest.
The ridiculousness of some on this board is reaching new levels. The Monitor is a lousy newspaper. Compare it to the other major Texas dailies--the San Antonio Express-News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, The Laredo Times or the Corpus Christi Caller Times. The Monitor is substandard, badly edited and dilitory and negligent in its reporting. The newspaper is crappy.
It's an embarassment to our community. We have all this corruption in our public institutions, yet you never see the Monitor conduct investigative reporting.
Fagan deserved to be called on this failure to properly cover the area that his newspaper is entrusted to cover.
Just because David Diaz reported it, doesn't mean it's bad. Even a blind pig finds an acorn. Give the devil his due when he is right.
And BTW, I know some of you morons will accuse me of being someone at the ENews. I am not.
6:18 PM
Anonymous said...
For the record, 6:18pm is David Diaz. Ask him, he won't deny it.
6:38 PM
Anonymous said...
Amen to that Give them hell E-news your doing a great job!
6:40 PM
Anonymous said...
"Even a blind pig finds an acorn." So David Diaz is taking credit for exposing the UTPA issue huh? What an idiot, the Monitor was already covering it. Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on. It's not like the Monitor ignored the issue altogether or waited months before they printed this issue. They printed the very next day. That wasn't 'cuz of David Diaz. That was due to research and accurate reporting something David Diaz does not know about.
8:27 PM
Anonymous said...
yeah keep thinking that
8:37 PM
Anonymous said...
Responding to 12:28....
Tell me what you want to know and I will tell you what I know.
8:39 PM
Anonymous said...
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Anonymous said...
"Just because it didn't get printed the day the audit was released doesn't mean it wasn't being worked on."
You know absolutely nothing about the newspaper business. The idea of news is its immediacy. If you bury a story on a backpage two days after the story occurs, you minimize its importance.
The president of Texas Southern University was indicted and convicted for the same thing. The interlocking nature of UTPA and The Monitor leads to a lot of suspicion.
"That was due to research and accurate reporting"
This isn't a rocket science story. This is a matter of reading through the report and the accompanying press releases. Any sophomore in a J 312 class at UT-Austin would have pounded out that story in an afternoon.
The article in the Monitor wasn't very long. It wasn't a "researched" article. If the San Antonio Express-News with a San Antonio-based reporter could get the article out in the same news cycle, the Monitor could. I seem to remember the Daily Texan (the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin) had the article out on the same newsday. Unless your implication is that Monitor reporters need more time to do the same story as a bunch of student reporters at the Daily Texan or that Monitor reporters (why by most estimates are younger and hungrier to move up to big town newspapers) are not as good as Express-News reporters, you have to admit that the Monitor was sloppy and lazy in reporting the story.
And once again, the usual ad-homineum attack on me is going to surface. I am going to be accused of either being David Diaz or Eddie Saenz or anyone from their camp.
I am not. I find David Diaz' writing wordy and boring. He fills his "stories" with unncessary detail (for example once he referred to the multi-level parking garage that the county is considering building near the Courthouse as "the Edinburg-based structure" as if garage would be built anywhere but in Edinburg.)
I graduated of the University of Texas Journalism Department in the early 80s. I studied under some of the best jouranlism professors in the country like Griff Singer, Mike Quinn, Warren Burkett and Red Gibson. I worked at the Daily Texan and several other mid-sized Texas dailies. The Monitor does not reflect any of the journalistic values i was taught. The Monitor is a PR rag at best, a glorified supermarket shopper at worst. You guys wouldn't know who I am because I don't work in Edinburg and I teach in a neighboring school district.
1:43 AM
Anonymous said...
uhhhhh, yeah, whatever, anyway, we all know that's you David Diaz. Who else would vouch for you in that way at 1:43am?
8:32 AM
Anonymous said...
Does anyone really want to know who is Edinburg News. It is Aaron Pena's UNCLE, the x-mayor of Ednburg. Isn't that a kick in the pants. Anyone notice how the Richard Alamia family is no longer being talked about on this site. Earn my Vote is run by Aaron and his staff. The Alamia family is stabbing Aaron, their newphew, on Edinburg News. and Aaron cant let anyone know that. If you look at Edinburg News, there is alot of storeys about Aaron's FAMILY secrets. Who else would know that.The Penas and the Alamias are the ones who are tering our city apart. Aaron you should fix your family affairs. Give your UNCLE what he wants. you know what that is.
1:12 PM
Anonymous said...
Are we off trying to destroy the Fagans? Ochoa/Saenz and Diaz need to get a life.
2:12 PM
Anonymous said...
You no nothing of the relationship that the Penas and the Alamias have. They two families just got back from a family reunion and are working together on his re-election camp. Get your facts straight E-news. I am an Alamia!
4:16 PM
Anonymous said...
Be proud of your family. Don't let these hate driven do-nothings distract you. Your relative is doing a great job. You see when their side has nothing to offer all they can do is to create hate.
7:11 PM
Anonymous said...
The reason E-News knows so much about Aaron Pena is because of Saul. He was in Aaron's camp now is in Eddie's
10:23 PM
Anonymous said...
Thats nice. Paris Hilton has the best media manipulators money can buy. Unfortunately Hilton and Saenz, like pigs with lipstick, are big stinkers. Oink! Oink!
8:06 AM
Anonymous said...
Saul is a good man..he might take Eddie's money, but his heart and his vote will be with Pena.
9:07 PM
Anonymous said...
come if you cant even spell how can we believe you cant even spell stories and tearing must be one of eddies buddies or david diaz na got to be eddies bud by the way cant wait to see eddie run remember 30% ha ha lol
11:21 AM
Anonymous said...
Response to:
So the Interim's secretary is also his girlfriend? Damnnnnnn, is that a rumor or is there truth to that?
8:54 PM
Oh yes, there is substantial truth to it. Everyone knows about it, but nobody says anything. Even the city council knows...
5:58 PM
Anonymous said...
Boy, everyone got quiet around here.
10:43 PM
Anonymous said...
fred palacios rules!. live with it, dont be jealous.
12:23 AM
Anonymous said...
So what's up with our Senator Chucho Hinojosa? It looks like this is only the tip of the iceberg. The following was reported in the Houston Chronicle...
Fees paid to probate lawyers unreported
Hidalgo County was among 6 counties that did not follow law on disclosure, investigation finds
By LISE OLSEN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
More than a dozen years after the Texas Supreme Court demanded the disclosure of fees ordered paid by probate judges to court-appointed attorneys, the corruption-fighting measure has been ignored by some of the state's biggest counties, a Houston Chronicle investigation has found.
The law requires that court clerks report every fee of $500 or more awarded by a judge.
At least $1.8 million in probate court-ordered payments went unreported from 2003 to 2005 or were awarded to people who were not identified by name, based on the Chronicle's review.
After several court corruption scandals, the Texas Supreme Court enacted the rule in 1994 to fight cronyism and favoritism. The court ordered county clerks to file monthly reports to spotlight and limit a judge's power to order excessive fees to lawyer friends.
Large counties on list
But the Chronicle found that clerks in six of the state's most populated counties — Travis, Denton, Bexar, El Paso, Hidalgo and Galveston — had failed to fully follow the rule in recent years, based on reports filed with the Office of Court Administration.
Texas probate judges have sweeping power to take money out of private savings to pay attorneys in cases involving wills, guardianships, trusts and related matters.
Though the public picks up the tab for the poorest, most payments come from savings and inheritances.
More than 2,700 payments, totaling more than $8 million, were ordered paid to court appointees by probate judges in 2005 alone, according to the Chronicle's analysis.
The reports of fees are supposed to be displayed in county courthouses, as well as filed with the Office of Court Administration in Austin. They should include names of judges who approved fees, appointees, case information and amounts.
Clerk Toni Garcia of Hidalgo County said workers knew nothing about the reporting requirement until the Chronicle called. She and the probate judge in Hidalgo both said few appointees got more than $500 in fees each year.
One fee that should have been reported, however, was a court order for $100,000 to be paid to State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen. Hinojosa represented a child who lost a family member in an auto accident, according to court records. The judge had earlier ordered that the legislator receive $45,000 for the same case, documents show.
Hinojosa said he never received the $100,000, though he did receive the $45,000, but he did not know the clerk failed to report any fees.
7:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Did we forget the Roadrunners were dying on the vine and not paying their bills. they were no longer the only kid on the block ie the dodge arena etc. the new ball team is still around and the new ball club pays to construct their own stadiums. You want to talk failed projects, talk about Ochoa building that stadium at city expense and giving it to the to the bankrupt Roadrunners for a song. The taxpayers will be paying for that failed project for 20 years.
Failed projects? Lets talk,
(1) Ochoa's 21Million$$failed Water Park
(2) Ochoa's Mega Million$$ Golf Course so his buddy could develop the land around it when we already had two golf courses in the city. It's not just the decades of debt to the taxpayers either. It operates in the RED every year adding insult to injury! But Mr Ochoa just had a House built there with his buddy so lets look the other way.
There's plenty more and it's not forgotten...
11:59 PM
Anonymous said...
Drive to the golf course...it is full of people everyday...yes it costs money..but it seems this one is working
1:00 AM
Anonymous said...
I don't see how... If you ask anyone who knows anything about golf, Los Lagos is a major waste. It's by far one of the worst maintained courses in the valley. It's sad the condition the course is in, but then again, it was never about the course, it's about making money for Hector Casas failing Shea Construction. Let's talk about the new entrance built for the course... They used taxpayer dollars to build a nice new entrance to the course and since Hector Casas didn't like it, they tore it down and used even more taxpayer money to build another one.
10:29 AM
Anonymous said...
enews quote calling all candidates if you candidates are smart dont reply to this if not part of enews click they will bash you and make up lies about so dont fall in their traps they are a bunch of rats
1:40 PM
Anonymous said...
oh enews will have a field day with this calling all candidates to send info on themselfs only the enews click need apply to this
1:46 PM
Anonymous said...
candidates please dont fall for this if the enews click doesnt like you they will slander lie cheat blackmail because they get paid for it its all about money they are a bunch of rats
1:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Who the hell is E news?
BOREDOM since Diaz took over.
Rips off the idiots who pay him, and rips off the people who's originality he steals.
Plaigerism in it's purest form.
2:18 PM
Anonymous said...
Say Enews you say Joe "grandpa munster" Ochoa hasn't done anything since he's been back because he's in the minority. Hell he hasn't even floated an idea for something new. All he does is bitch and complain everytime the majority tries to follow through with Richard Garcia's projects or do something new and positive because it wasn't his idea. The only new idea he's tried to field through his so called Mayor's advisory crew picked by him is to give his buddy Casas' new home buyers a break from having to pay taxes like the rest of us.
In his one term Garcia brought us what Joe couldn't do in five:
A new City Hall
A new Library
A new police station
A new fire substation
A new water plant
A new shopping Mall
New Regional co-operation (which is gone again!)
Amazing Economic development as EEDC chair
All while leading the charge in Austin and Washington as chair for the border Mayors of TBIC.
You can fool some of the people some of the time......
Those days are over, We've learned how read and think.
Now YOU think about your ridiculous statements.
9:03 PM
Anonymous said...
Richard Garcia did nothing while he was mayor. E-News is right! Why do you think he lost? And he will lose again and again and again. E-News exposed these Palacios and how they do business. Give them hell E-News
9:21 PM
Anonymous said...
E-news says the following:
"Now don't tell me Joe Ochoa hasn't done anything, he's in the minority."
I don't mean to respond to those idiots at E-news but I know Joe Ochoa reads this so here is the crystal clear truth.
If Joe Ochoa really wanted to do something, all he has to do is propose it. Up to now, nothing has been proposed. All energies are focused on tearing down any project that Richard Garcia started. To Joe Ochoa, it's all about what's wrong with the City and not how can we improve the City. As an Edinburg resident the last 44 years, we should demand better leadership than that. A leader works with what is there and builds consensus. Not all this power grabbing positioning crap that doesn't do anyone any good. It's been over a year that Joe Ochoa has come back to office, I think the man has had more than enough time to make something happen. True leadership would have allowed for Joe Ochoa to reach consenus with the others to make things happen. That hasn't happened and it will not happen.
9:41 PM
Anonymous said...
That's right. What happened to all those campaign promises that Joe Ochoa made????? Let's see, why don't we recap:
1. Finish police station - It's been a year and not done yet.
2. Fix canton/sugar road sewer issue - Problem still there.
3. Bring the city back to its people - Uhhhh, whatever that meant but you can ask anyone about the city and no one is aware.
So what has Joe Ochoa done? For all you blind supporters, what has Joe Ochoa done? Are we much better off now than we were before? I don't think so. We're all still having the same issues: living paycheck to paycheck, bad streets, not enough water pressure.....i could go on and on and on but I think I've made my point.
10:30 PM
Anonymous said...
why is enews so chicken to let the people of edinburg know who they are because cowards hide behind there thoughts real men dont lol
11:42 AM
Anonymous said...
Because they don't want anyone to call them out on their lies. It's like what they are saying about Carmen Gonzalez. What has she done for the teachers, well, if they did their research, they would find out that before she was on the board, Edinburg was the lowest paying school district. The teachers hadn't had a raise in years. Since she has been on the board, teachers have had a raise every year for the last 3 years to make up for what the previous board never did. And talking about school bonds, maybe they should ask Greg and Jaime about them. They have had 2 failed bonds because everyone knows what rats those two are.
1:16 PM
Anonymous said...
Looks like the Monitor picked up on the Alaskan legislator indicted by the FBI. It was just the other day that E-news' candidate Eddie Saenz gave thousands of dollars to a certain Alaskan legislator.???? Why would Eddie Saenz give money to a REPUBLICAN Alaskan legislator?
Federal jury convicts former Alaska lawmaker in bribery trial
By DAN JOLING The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.
“I’m devastated,” former state Rep. Tom Anderson said after the federal jury announced its verdict.
Anderson, 39, was accused of conspiring to take money he thought was coming from a private prison firm, Cornell Industries, Inc.
The money was supplied by the FBI through an informant working for Cornell who secretly recorded his conversations with Anderson and a co-conspirator, former municipal lobbyist Bill Bobrick.
Anderson was one of four current or former Alaska state lawmakers facing federal bribery indictments. The other three face trial this fall for charges related Anchoragebased oil field services company VECO Corp.
“I think the prosecution has criminalized being a legislator over the last year,” Anderson said. “I think I fell victim to that.”
Anderson’s family, including his wife, state Sen. Lesil McGuire, were not present for the verdict.
Anderson said they couldn’t get to the downtown Anchorage courthouse in time after it was announced the jury had reached a verdict.
Judge John Sedwick ordered Anderson to surrender his passport and scheduled sentencing for Oct. 2.
Anderson was arrested Dec. 7 and charged with seven felonies, including conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and interfering with commerce, a charge connected to a demand for payments. He faces a maximum penalty of 115 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine.
Department of Justice officials in Washington, D.C., said Anderson was held accountable for his crimes.
Anderson “corrupted his elected office when he took official actions in exchange for bribery payments,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher. “His illegal conduct impaired the integrity of the oath he took to represent citizens of the state of Alaska.”
Bobrick in May pleaded guilty to bribing Anderson. He agreed to testify against Anderson in exchange for a “downward sentencing motion” from prosecutors, he said.
Bobrick said two FBI agents called him in late September and said they wanted to play some tapes for him. They were standing on his front porch when they called.
The agents played tapes secretly recorded in 2004 by Frank Prewitt, a former corrections department commissioner who was a $150,000-per-year consultant for Cornell and an FBI informant.
The company is based in Houston, Texas, and operated halfway houses in Alaska. Cornell also hoped to build a private prison and a juvenile psychiatric treatment center in Alaska.
Anderson was accused of accepting nearly $26,000 he thought was coming from Cornell but really was provided through Prewitt by the FBI.
The defense argued that Anderson was a Cornell supporter and backed its positions without being on the take and that Prewitt wore a wire to bag a legislator and deflect investigators away from his legal problems.
3:36 PM
Anonymous said...
It's only a matter of time before they get to Saenz.
8:44 PM
Anonymous said...
Saenz won't be the only one. Ever hear a trapped Rat Squeel?
10:13 PM
Anonymous said...
Watch as Jaime and Greg squeal like pigs
10:09 AM
Anonymous said...
Come on "Eddie Steal money from the poor and give to the rich Saenz" why don't you respond? E-News? WHY or for WHAT would a MCALLEN resident give thousands of dollars to a REPUBLICAN ALASKAN LEGISLATOR?
2:19 PM
Anonymous said...
Come on Eddie RUN! the Feds are dying for you to do it. Joe has already re-exposed himself.
4:00 PM
Anonymous said...
at least aron is getting money and will win eddies using most of his money to lose remember 30% lol
8:40 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is not running, he's not stupid. Who would be stupid enough to spend another million dollars to come up with 30% of the vote? Aron has done a damn good job and has put this city in a kick ass position. Why would Saenz fuck that up? Nah the problem here is the shit for brains fuck heads like Diaz, Janet Ron Jackson, Garza, little dick Alamia and all the other dead end losers in Edinburg waiting for crumbs to fall off of Saenz' table. Their just pumping Saenz to send money their way. Its a bottomless pit but throw away your money if you want to. This town remembers you bro.
10:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Aron the republican? is that supposed to offset "EDDIE THE CROOK".
11:28 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Ruben quit defending your friend Aaron Pena. He is a Republican except that you dumb mother fucker
7:42 AM
Anonymous said...
There is a big difference from recieving money from Republicans to fight for Democratic principles. And being a fake ass Democrat like Eddie Saenz and giving thousands of dollars to Alaskan Republican legislators. Oh and did I mention Eddie Steals money from poor people in Pharr and Edinburg. Thank God we kicked him out of our City.
9:55 AM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz/E-news? Why don't you answer the question PEOPLE are talking about? Why would a Valley resident give THOUSANDS of dollars to an ALASKAN REPUBLICAN LEGISLATOR? Was it Bribe money?
1:44 PM
Anonymous said...
They got rid of eddie because he was a leach. He was an absolute zero before ochoa started feeding him major taxpayer bucks in edinburg for being simply a middle man in hiring engineers that could really do the work so he could get his "cut". Now it's happening in Pharr.The very people who were against him in pharr ended up hiring him. It's not just the school district they're looking at guy's!
3:53 PM
1Fan said...
Omar Guerrero, Sylvia Handy, and Eddie Saenz bringing confidence and trust to Hidalgo County.
Vote for me and all of your wildest dreams will come true!
4:31 PM
Anonymous said...
Enews is against school teacher pay raises? Enews is eddie and his crooked cronies and he want's us to send him to Austin? They call Carmen a criminal because she was involved in a family spat? Check out the family values of the people accused of being enews! Joe leaves his wife for a cutie in Monterrey, Richie A fathers children out of wedlock and leaves them supportless! the list is long folks but the point is that these are the kind of folks wanting to tell you what's good for our children???????? give us a break!!!
9:11 AM
Anonymous said...
Carmen will lose. Aaron Pena is broke. Give them hell E-News.
9:45 AM
Anonymous said...
Just heard that Aaron Pena will change his endorsement from Rick to Watts. That's not a good idea. Aaron you will lose your support from your democratic friends in the house. You got your self into problems again blunder boy.
2:47 AM
Anonymous said...
Enews must think we're stupid. They try to put down Aaron because besides being a powerful democrat he is in good with the republicans???? Sounds like a winner to me!!! What U got boys?
4:06 PM
Anonymous said...
Aron will kick the shit out of any piece of shit loser they can dig up. Word on the street is that they can't find anybody. Since Diaz is the only one left to throw shit around why doesn't he run. Nah, damaged goods. Plagerism and all that corruption bullshit. How about Saenz, nah, FBI and all that corruption bullshit. What about tricky dick, nah too small a pecker. Well at least he doesn't have the corruption bullshit to worry about. Yeah I'm for tricky dick. Hey little pecker, since you loser fuckers can't find anybody, grow some balls and step up, you got one vote. No not mom or dad but I'll vote for you. Maybe this time you can break the 30% Saenz got against Pena. Shit a convicted felon, Gonzalez got more votes than Saenz did with a million bucks. Vote for tricky dick!!!! He's our man if Saenz can't do it the little dick can!!!!!
6:43 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is running. He also got $100,000 from the democrats up north. This is going to be good. The dems have a chance to get back the house and a dem speaker. That's why you will see some big dogs come down and endorse Saenz. Aaron is Craddick's puppet.
Hey Ruben you dumb fuck. Are you Aaron's campaign manager? lol
7:20 PM
Anonymous said...
Bullshit! If he got a $100,000. then he broke the law because he has not filed with the Sec. of State. Total bullshit!!! Tell the asshole to announce, then I'll believe you. All we hear is lies like the one you just told. Shit I'll spot you 10 million dollars and Saenz still won't win. The FBI is going to pick him and the rest of his rats up. Shit it must really hurt to have lost by 70% that it still hurts 4 years later.
7:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Is that you little dick? I'll vote for you too. Since the town mayor is a loser we might as well have a second loser running for office.
7:35 PM
Anonymous said...
Big dogs like the state party chair and the local democratic chair who both endorsed our rep. Or do you mean corrupt sons of bitches like Saenz campaign manager, Aaron Gonzalez who will be sitting in federal prison for corruption. Will it be Eddie Gonzalez another big time loser like you little dick?
7:39 PM
Anonymous said...
Eddie Saenz is a Republican. Do you even know if the Democratic Chair will allow him to run since he gave big money to Alaskan Republicans to corruption projects to who knows where?
7:43 PM
Big "D" said...
I vote that we let Saenz run so that he can really get the shit kicked out of him. Let's break 80% this time. The guy steals from the taxpayers to line his pockets.
7:47 PM
Anonymous said...
I'm sorry can someone please tell me who little dick is?
7:48 PM
Anonymous said...
Little Dick is the son of one of Edinburg's former mayors. He is just one of the many losers that Saenz surrounds himself with. Although I've heard talk about the FBI and Saenz I have not heard that "little dick" is involved. He works behind the scenes in political campaigns not doing very much but sure acts like he does. He and Saenz were big supporters of the former county clerk Omar Guerrero.
7:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Is JD a republican? According to E-News anyone supporting Watts is a republican. JD Salinas is supporting Watts. Isn't Eddie Saenz supporting Watts? Billy Leo is supporting Watts. Would someone ask Diaz if Leo or Salinas are republicans. We all know what party Saenz is connected with.
10:23 PM
Anonymous said...
Aaron can you please talk about the son you lost? You killed him. You dumb son of a bitch. Monica didnt want your son in the house cause of all the drugs he was on. So you got him an apartment and looked what happened.
You killed your son. You are a murder. You would not let your son stay in the house cause of your wife.
You deserve nothing. You killed my son. I will tell all. People deserve to know the truth. You killed my son. you killed my son. you killed my son. I'm going to make sure everyone knows the truth.
You killed my son.
2:57 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow, the level of maturity coming from Saenz and his supporters is just below that of a five year old. Anybody willing to stoop to these levels needs help. They should be ashamed of themselves.
8:45 AM
Anonymous said...
And now you know why he only got 30% of the vote.
9:01 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow. Joe and eddie are godawful ugly but the ugly face of Greed they have displayed here is incomparably scary ugly. Makes their ugly faces pale in comparisom.
10:13 AM
Anonymous said...
no aron did not kill his son you did because of your family's background and the life you lived he followed your path not arons so because we all know about your life so go back to church and ask for gods help because you need it
12:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Let's not allow Saenz or his people to drag us down into the gutter. We are better than that.
1:04 PM
Anonymous said...
They are from the gutter. We are not.
1:07 PM
Anonymous said...
How can people be so desperate? That's horrible.
7:02 PM
Anonymous said...
These people at E-News are sick. Who would say such things. Does anybody know who they are?
8:46 AM
Anonymous said...
yeah they are shaine mata, orlando salinas
8:56 AM
Anonymous said...
E-news is a paid site to defame and destroy candidates. They are paid with blood and sweat money off the backs of the poor. E-news is Eddie Saenz, Joe Ochoa, Robert Pena and the Devil that leads the way.
1:15 PM
Anonymous said...
It is embarrassing that Edinburg harbors such trash. It is even more embarrassing that some people actually vote for them. We are not only the laughing stock of respectability but are beginning to be shunned like lepers by the leadership of surrounding communities. what went wrong? We were finally moving into the mainstream and one election gone awry set us back ten years!
4:07 PM
Anonymous said...
It's probably Aaron saying all this shit. He wants all of us to feel bad for him. Trying to get the sympathy vote. E-News doesn't say anything about you on there site.
Seems that some people on here don't like the truth.
Aaron voting for Craddick! Truth
Carmen getting arrested! Truth
So what's the problem? You should have thought about your district, first. Not your personal gain. I live in the delta area. And you have done nothing for us.
Give them hell E-News. Your doing a great job. We want more! We want more!
6:34 PM
Holy Spirit said...
I can't believe what I am reading on this site. I am new to the area and the idea that a political faction would bring up a deceased member of another candidates' faction is beyond me. I will pray for person or persons believing that they are going to win on that message. God bless the polititians that get into office to help the poor and less fortunate.
7:16 PM
Anonymous said...
(6:34) I am sure your retired teachers will enjoy the extra pay compliments of our rep. If your an active teacher, the last two pay raises the rep. fought for will be nice. If your child is sick then the CHIP bill passed by the rep will give him health care. If your child gets out in the top 10% of his class then he still will have access to our top universities. If he goes to Pan Am, then the rep. got him a new fine arts auditorium, a health and wellness facility and funded the regional health center to look for cures for diabetes and other illnesses. He saw funding increase to our local universities. Look around there are many more items I and you could point to if you looked. It sounds like the hate we sometimes see here is blinding you from the good that is all around you. One last question, why did you not ask what Hinojosa or Lucio did for your town? I am afraid that you are either driven by hate like the other sad commentors or you are ignorant. Why dont you tell us.
7:51 PM
Anonymous said...
i agree with holy spirit the language has got to go. looks like some one want it to look like arons people are using that language but it not. I will tell you this much we live in a free country we shouldnt be afraid to vote republican or democrat as long as the person is the best person for that position thank you and for god sake stop the language
8:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Hey Earn, where are you? We need you....there's so many shennanigans going on out there at the City and School District.
6:12 AM
Anonymous said...
I dont know about you enews. I dont have anything bad to say about Bobby. But some of his donations come from people you talk bad about. I think you are really losing it. Or you are just picking on aron, boy you really need some mental help.
8:04 PM
Anonymous said...
oh like eddies money is supposed to scare us im shaking already ooooooooooooooooooooooo
8:07 PM
Anonymous said...
hey what's up with that idiot gus garcia, se cree bien chingon asking all these questions at the commission meeting. gus thinks he knows what he's talking about pero no trae nada, people can see right through him, it's all air.
9:21 PM
Anonymous said...
Ok seriously Earn, I know you are all about letting go of the reins while people post left and right here. But that comment about Aaron's son is way overboard and really should be removed. I know things can get dirty around here, and things have been said that shouldn't have been said, but this is by far the worst I have seen to date.
1:27 PM
Anonymous said...
I agree with 1:27pm comment it just takes a real heartless person to come up with that perhaps someone that feels guilty about there own life just remember god is watching you,you will pay one day but yes that is down right out of line
1:43 PM
Anonymous said...
enews doesnt say anything because his father gave 2500.00 watch out bobby if enews get enough money he will talk bad about you to by the way good luck bobby im backing you
4:40 PM
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
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and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
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(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
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(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
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records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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By:AAQuintanilla H.B.ANo.A613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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By:AAQuintanilla H.B.ANo.A613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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By:AAQuintanilla H.B.ANo.A613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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By:AAQuintanilla H.B.ANo.A613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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By:AAQuintanilla H.B.ANo.A613
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the board of trustees of the
Employees Retirement System of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AASection 815.003,Government Code,is amended by
amending Subsections (a)and (b)and adding Subsection (b-1)to
read as follows:
(a)AAThree members of the board of trustees are nominated and
elected by members of the retirement system and retirees under
rules adopted by the board.Two of the trustees described by this
subsection must meet the eligibility requirements specified in
Subsection (b),and the third trustee described by this subsection
must meet the eligibility requirements specified in Subsection
(b-1).
(b)AATo be eligible to serve in either of the first two
elected positions on [as an elected member of ]the board,a person
must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position
that:
(1)AAis included in the employee class of membership;
and
(2)AAis not with an agency or department with which
another trustee holds a position.
(b-1)AATo be eligible to serve in the third elected position
on the board,a person must be a retiree.
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80R2468 KFF-D 1
By:AAKing of Taylor H.B.ANo.A1585
Substitute the following forAH.B.ANo.A1585:
By:AALaubenberg C.S.H.B.ANo.A1585
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to administrative penalties imposed by a public health
district or a county for violations of health and safety provisions
relating to retail food service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 437,Health and Safety Code,is amended
by adding Sections 437.0185 and 437.0186 to read as follows:
Sec.A437.0185.AAADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY BY PUBLIC HEALTH
DISTRICT OR COUNTY.(a)The director of a public health district
or the commissioners court of a county may impose an administrative
penalty on a person the district or county requires to hold a permit
under Section 437.003 or 437.004 if the person violates this
chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter.
(b)AAThe amount of the penalty may not exceed $500 per day,
and each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation
for the purpose of imposing a penalty.The amount shall be based
on:
(1)AAthe seriousness of the violation,including the
nature,circumstances,extent,and gravity of the violation;
(2)AAthe history of previous violations;
(3)AAthe amount necessary to deter a future violation;
(4)AAefforts to correct the violation;and
(5)AAany other matter that justice may require.
(c)AAThe enforcement of the penalty may be stayed during the
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80R12948 ABC-D 1
By:AAFlynn,et al.(Senate SponsorA-AVan de Putte)H.B.ANo.A73
(In the SenateA-AReceived from the House AprilA10,A2007;
AprilA11,A2007,read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce;MayA4,A2007,reported adversely,with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:YeasA7,
NaysA0;MayA4,A2007,sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B.ANo.A73 By:AAVan de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the protection of customer telephone records;providing
a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTIONA1.AAChapter 35,Business &Commerce Code,is amended
by adding Subchapter L to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER L.PROTECTION OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE RECORDS
Sec.A35.151.AADEFINITIONS.In this subchapter:
(1)AA"Caller identification record"means a record
that:
(A)AAis delivered electronically to the recipient
of a telephone call simultaneously with the reception of the call;
and
(B)AAindicates the telephone number from which the
telephone call was made or other similar information regarding the
call.
(2)AA"Telephone company"means a provider of commercial
telephone services,or a provider that bills for those services,
regardless of the technology used to provide that service,
including landline,radio,wireless,microwave,satellite,Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP),or other cable,broadband,or
digital technology.
(3)AA"Telephone record"means a written,electronic,or
oral record,other than a caller identification record collected
and retained by or on behalf of a customer,created by a telephone
company about a customer,that includes:
(A)AAthe telephone number:
(i)AAdialed by a customer;or
(ii)AAof an incoming call made to a customer;
(B)AAthe time a call was made to or by a customer;
(C)AAthe duration of a call made to or by a
customer;or
(D)AAthe location from which a call was initiated
or at which a call was received by a customer.
Sec.A35.152.AACONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER.This subchapter
does not apply to expand the obligations or duties of a telephone
company under federal or other state law to protect telephone
records.
Sec.A35.153.AAUNAUTHORIZED OR FRAUDULENT PROCUREMENT,SALE,
OR RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE RECORDS.(a)A person commits an offense
if the person:
(1)AAobtains,attempts to obtain,or conspires with
another to obtain a telephone record of a resident of this state
without the authorization of the resident to whom the record
pertains by:
(A)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to an agent of a telephone company;
(B)AAmaking a statement the person knows to be
false to a telephone company;
(C)AAfraudulently accessing the record through
the telephone company ’s Internet website;or
(D)AAproviding to a telephone company a document
that the person knows:
(i)AAis fraudulent;
(ii)AAhas been lost or stolen;
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what happened
It was Gus Garcia trying to keep people from reading the following:
"hey what's up with that idiot gus garcia, se cree bien chingon asking all these questions at the commission meeting. gus thinks he knows what he's talking about pero no trae nada, people can see right through him, it's all air."
Be careful what you say about gus he looks like the type of person,that doesnt like to be pick on.
Is that supposed to be a threat? So it's okay when Gus Garcia picks on people but not when they pick on him? Get over it. He's a public official, deal with it.
Im sorry 11:16 i was being sarcastic.
wow i cant believe were on the same page on this on enews about ecisd pd belive me im going to talk to some one about this
There's a few boys that are and used to be with the Edinburg School District that need to start making trip arrangements. You might want to start gathering your retirement funds for your family to live on while you are gone. No need to pack a bag though, the Federal resort where you'll be housed is all inclusive. They provide all the food and drink and even your resort wear! We won't miss you! Incidently don't worry about being lonesome overthere... your city buddies won't be far behind
Incidently don't worry about being lonesome overthere... your city buddies won't be far behind
9:12 AM
Richard, Retardo and Eddie????
when is someone going to do someting about canton & sugar road come on were going on three weeks with raw crap coming out of the man hole then if you look at the house on the corner toilet paper and you know what else coming out of the clean out pipe im suprised someone hasnt gotten sick and sue the city that what the city wating for come on city council wake up this is real bad like i said monday will be three weeks
Hey enews why don't you guys say anything,about sugar road. Mabe because your boss might fire you. Oh we can't say anything about joe because he will have you fired.
Don't play dumb about "what city buddies"! We all know who's there now.
the problem with the smell at Canton and Sugar has been there for 10 years. The problem is the design of the whole system that was done by Joe's engineer buddy!
there sewage and water coming out for the last two weeks not just smell
The sewage problem is at Canton and Sugar. The SMELL is at city hall! Thought that was your big promise when you ran new boy Gus? We don't hear that being bitched about at city meetings.
Some on just needs to fix the dam problem its a health hazard, quit the finger pointing and fix it before some sues for our tax money you bunch of idiots
I just passed by there myself and it is ridiculous. All that sewer everywhere, what are our taxes paying for? Do something about it all you no good for nothing elected officials.
I can understand stuff like this happening in mexico. But come on not in the United States raw sewage for almost three weeks. Thats just sucks come on guys get it together now not next year. Before you spend more on a lawsuit you guys talk about saving money every meeting, well start here.
When's the next public meeting, we should all go to complain.
Why wont enews say anything about canton & sugar?
Probably cause E-News doesn't read this site. Have you emailed them?
I was looking through e-news and found it pretty funny that they are blaming Carmen and Gilbert for removing the night patrol from the school district. Why do I find it funny you might ask? Well, first and foremost it was Robert Pena who said that he had talked to city leaders (the chief of police, Joe Ochoa and the city manager) and they felt it was in the best interest to let the city take care of the patrol because the school district only one patrol car at night to take care of about 30 schools and the city had several cars who could respond much, much faster. It's part of what Robert likes to call his new cooperation between the city and schools. I have heard that Robert, Greg and Jaime were behind the move 100%. Once again, it seems that Greg, Jaime and Robert shift the blame to someone else when people don't agree with THEIR decisions. Note to the three stooges (Robert, Greg and Jaime), if you don't have the balls to stand behind your own vote, then move aside and let someone else show you how it's done. Melba may have not have made the best decisions, but at least once she voted, she stood behind her vote. She didn't run off like a litte girl and blame it on someone else. If you want to call someone and complain cause the mayor and several board members felt the city police department could handle patroling the schools at night than one lone officer who slept half the night anyway, then complaing to Greg, Jaime, Robert and Joe Ochoa. I'm sure once you find out that they had lot's and lot's to do with this move, it might change E-new's thoughts about the whole situation.
E-news just posted "supposed solution" to the sewage spill on Canton/Sugar by the idiot Gus Garcia. My response to that is, so what's the solution? I mean forget this crap that it may be this or it may be that. Fix the darn thing. We don't need explanations, we need action.
I don't understand, why is the ECISD cutting night patrol? So what happens to night activities (volleyball,basketball,PTA,Student Council, etc.)Edinburg PD can't wait around.
Hey Gus did you used to get your mommy to call in sick for you when you were scared to go to work???
J.J. can't explain this away for you. He didn't do it and he didn't promise to fix it. They have televised it before, They have known it gets infiltrated before, and they have known the system was designed insufficient before.
The solution is rebuild the system! Trouble is that takes big bucks. Your buddy Joe would spend money on a silly waterpark but not for a city hall,
money for a ballpark built free for his ballteam
but wouldn't spend on a library or waterplant.
these were all taken care of by the subsequent administration who made the tough decisions regardless of political impact. Now you guys want to to give tax breaks to Hector's new homebuyers instead of spending some money to get raw sewage out of our childrens streets?
The problem was fully identified along with the necessary solution in early 2006 for you. Now quit worrying about getting re-elected and do the job you were elected to do!
By the way, why didn't you have J.J. Email EARN MY VOTE where everyone gets to speak???
Unbelievable, I just read that Enews post on the sewage issue. What a bunch of morons! I'm calling channel 4 and 5 tomorrow.
Make sure the news knows that the sewage has been comming out for three weeks,amd it has'nt rained in a week. I guess our public officals don't drive by there everyday or it would be fixed by now.
In case you have any doubts about david writing for Enews,check out all the plagiarized articles where the actual writer is not given credit for his or her work. Didn't he get in big trouble for that before?
"I don't understand, why is the ECISD cutting night patrol? So what happens to night activities (volleyball,basketball,PTA,Student Council, etc.)Edinburg PD can't wait around"
According to administration... The night patrol will still be there when there are functions, games, ect.. The only time will be when there are NO functions and the schools are closed. Once again, it's E-News misinforming people trying to cause panic. It's another case of opening your mouth when you don't know all the facts, something that E-News is well acustomed to.
E-News is also accustomed to winning.
channel 4 was covering a story on canton&sugar today this could really hurt are city officals if they dont watch out watch channel 4 tonight at 10
I told you Channel 4 would be called.
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