Mayor asks commissioners to repay city for benefits
May 10, 2008 - 11:18PM
BY EMMA PEREZ-TREVIÑO/The Brownsville Herald
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Present Brownsville City Commission members that receive insurance at taxpayers' expense: Commissioners Carlos A. Cisneros, the family of Ricardo Longoria Jr., and Charlie Atkinson.
Photo not part of the original article,unfortunately.
The day of the Corpus Christi ruling, you would have thought these people would have seen the writing on the wall and requested immediate removal from the "program" themselves. But no! They have to wait and push until they get the same bad news for exactly the same reasons as given in the Corpus ruling.
I know that when you were little, mama told you that you were special and not like the other little children. Guess what? Mama was wrong again!
There appears to be a long list of things that mama was wrong about during your formative years. Your personal agendas seem to be high on this list.
"But mama says..but mama says....", no! Fix the streets. Quit pushing debt on future generations. Put qualified people on boards. Lower the number of these boards. And for God's sake, quit micro-managing! We have a city manager form of local government. Turn off your cell phones during meetings: The Heads of State that you seem to be advising can get your "sage wisdom" after the meeting concludes.
"Of course I know. It is my business to know" -The Merovingian
Sunday, May 11, 2008
This little piggie went to market.....
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The failure of some segments of society to grasp the proprieties and improprieties of cellular telephone usage are actually quite interesting from a sociological point of view.
Why is it that certain groups display an almost identical set of behaviors across groups that seem, in large part, to be disparate?
Many of the behaviors demonstrated by groups can be related to just a few social structures and the individual’s perception of his or her position in society in relation to others. Stratification, in other words (see Weber).
Three primary structures we might look at would be class, status, and power. Cellular phones used to be a symbol of power as they were directly related to wealth. The economy of scale that has reduced price while increasing availability has removed much of the perception of power associated with demonstrative cellular telephone usage. Being conspicuous is no longer a demonstration of power.
Status was also once related to cellular telephones. Since they were so expensive, they were only owned and used by members of society who were wealthy; again showing the relationship between wealth and power being used as the relative measure of status. Generally, only persons of a few classes were owners and users of cellular phones.
This has changed in many ways. Class is no longer determinate in access to the resources necessary for cellular telephone ownership. Status is still related to cellular telephones, with relationships within, and between, classes being affected by the features and cost of their cellular telephones. Individuals feeling a need to establish their dominant status—and thus higher level of power—over others are typically those with what we might term poor cellular telephone etiquette.
This goes toward understanding loud conversations in inappropriate places, with the behavior telling everyone that the status of the person involved is such that their personal instructions to a child attempting to successfully assemble a pot of macaroni and cheese are more important than anything that anyone around them could be doing.
If city commissioners are not receiving calls that determine life and death, then they are sending the message that their status in that room is such that whatever that particular call is about, it is more important than what is happening in the room simply because it is coming to their telephone. City Commission meetings are rarely, if ever, surprise events, meaning that the commissioners know when they will be in a meeting. If the business of the commission is important enough for them to want to be a commissioner, isn’t it important enough for them to devote their entire attention to it while attending meetings?
Just saying, this mentality is typical of the persons who present themselves as community leaders.
In an endeavor to make this understandable for el Vato, who is one of my favorite readers, I will take the liberty of condensing this excellent analysis to what could be called a synopsis statement:
"They have gotten too big for their britches."
-or-
"The think they are all that."
M.
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