In January, amid the throes (up) of “BJGate,” Mike Montemayor was sworn into office as Webb County Commissioner, Pct. 1. This was due, in great part to the fact that the spotlight shone brightly on combatants in BJGate, former commissioner Frank Sciaraffa and former county judge and perennial candidate “King” Louie Bruni, who duked it […]

Just when you thought you hadn’t seen anything stupider than the Federal government shutdown, we get our very own debacle right here in sunny South Texas earlier this month. Granted, the stakes in this city-county chingazo weren’t nearly as high as the stakes were when Rafael Cruz (you might know him as Canadian Ted) and […]

  The political season is heating up.  Candidates are announcing for office, and some of our “less accomplished” incumbents are hopping like a frogs on a hot plate to try and make themselves look fresh, new and worthy to us. Most of them are failing miserably.