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Published – Brownsville Herald 9/24/2006
In just recent weeks our “rulers” seem to be doing everything they can to help their opponents and encourage a recall. It was only in my last column “Leaders and Rulers” that this future was foretold.
Firstly, our city “Rulers” are considering a choice between acting in behalf of the people which will insure substantial and regular increases in the costs to deliver utility services to the folks. That will be the result of not assessing proper periodic fees to pay for infrastructure required to accommodate the additional users now.
This guarantees that the smaller amounts that should be paid through the developers for being allowed to participate in the city owned services, must be borne with interest by all, are currently hostages to the situation. We cannot choose an alternative. More »

Published Brownsville Herald September 10, 2006 

There are consequences to the community when the keeper of peace and order doesn’t do its job. The first responsibility and primary job of government is to establish and maintain peace and order so that we “the people” will be free to pursue happiness- one of our unalienable rights named in the Declaration of Independence. Many of the leaders of government lose sight of this fact and concentrate more and more on making the constituents more and more dependent on them so that the people will keep reelecting them. That is the point at which our representative leaders become rulers, who now know what is best for all of us and try to limit our choices. The problem is that the folks that usually rise to the top of the heap to pursue public office in the beginning are extraordinarily charismatic, genuinely interested in working to improve the lot of the community and its residents and intelligent or sly depending on whether the politician is in your party or another. More »