By: Corky Medrano
Having watched Kori Marra’s rise to power over the past 5 years, I doubt if this is the last time we will hear from her on this site or the local media in general.
I personally believe that she has orchestrated this whole controversy on this website to garner public attention.
Why would she do that? Because she is acting like Hillary Clinton. Denying she is running for anything but making sure she gets her mug on TV (tonight on Channel 5 TV) in the VMS whenever she can, and in this blog site.
A good friend of mine passed me a secret email circulating the city that Miss Marra wrote to the city editor Charlene Vandini of the VMS demanding that Ms. Vandini censor letters to the editor that are critical of Kori, because they may have been written by, “ghost writers.”
Kori really is afraid of ghosts, you know! Kori is now a seasoned politician and knows exactly what she is doing and how to position herself. She helped Kori-ograph and act in the Shakespearean drama that took place earlier this month at the City Commissioner meeting to terminate City Manager Craig Lonon.
I would suggest that the only actors who out-shined her performance were perhaps former city commissioner Jay Meade and current Mayor, Chris Boswell.
She did not win the Oscar for her performance but she was definitely in the running, a real trooper. Why does she seek all the attention at this time in the history of Harlingen (the beginning of its second century)?
It is no coincidence that her father is an elected Sheriff. She seeks higher office! She has quietly put out feelers to her inside backers indicating that she wants to be the first female Mayor of Harlingen and as a double whammy, the first Mayor to start the second 100 years of Harlingen’s history.
To do this, she must create controversy, ring the bell, sound the horn, beat the bushes, make accusations, play possum, be tough, be soft, cry, laugh, cajole, in order to build and keep a following.
The people love a mover and shaker, a maker of events, an emotionalist.
City Commissioner Larry Galbreath was the only one from her coalition standing in the way of her attempt to seek the Mayoral seat.
They would have split the vote amongst themselves which would have allowed another they do not control (perhaps a Hispanic) to become Mayor.
Thus, Mr. Larry capitulated or blinked first under withering pressure and fearing the wrath of Dial Dunkin and Frank Boggus, announced he would stay safely in District 1 and run for re-election. He even made the statement that, “Dial Dunkin can’t get to me if I stay in the 1st District.”
So, with Larry out of the way and lame-duck Mayor Boswell damaged goods for a laundry list of reasons, the path is now clear for Kori Marra to announce for Mayor.
You’ll note that I did not say win for Mayor but rather announce for Mayor.
Who wins will be up to the voters of our great city. If she doesn’t pull it off, she can always try out for the part of Eva Peron in the summer stock theatrical production of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” down at the municipal auditorium.
And as always, I am Corky Medrano at your service!
IT is my opinion that Kori Marra City Commissioner of district 3 does not have the backing to run for Mayor. She does not have the experience and she picked to side with the good old boys who are going out.The real Estate market is not doing much so financing might be another problem. Our Mayor Chris Boswell has been posted on a blog called El Rocinante. The caption under a picture of Mayor Chris Boswell reads “Chris Boswell to open KKK museum in 2010.” Every one now knows what I have been stating all along this town is full of disdain for the Hispanic community. Larry Galbreath threw the latest insult with the Centennial and the Book which lift out the 85% Hispanic Citizenry.
Like I said, first J.J. Gonzalez and know Kori. Why do we have such poor elected officials in Harlingen?
People equate politicians with thieves and no shame people who get caught committing illegal activities and continue to seek office. That is primarily the reason people do not seek office. If it is true that Kori is going to run and she has befriended Chris and Larry well once they are gone what is she going to do? We are looking for equality and unity for the Hispanic people and she is not Hispanic, and she is not a uniter, she sells homes, except for saying what a wonderful man Craig Lonon was, what has she done for the city? How is she helping the plight of the Hispanics, by ignoring them? Kori means nothing to me I do not care one way or the other but a super politician she is not. We are trying to stop the good old boy and girl political circuses not try to restart it. These people putting them selves up for scrutiny had better be clean. No under the table deals because it will come out into the open. There are “secrets” everywhere downtown activities are better known that people think.
To: the Commissioners of Harlingen
It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result.
But it is conceived and ordered; moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smoothshaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. These of course are the Gringos and their Gringo/coconuts.
Well, because these quiet (pendejos or pendejas) men do not raise their voices, because they sometimes speak in
soothing tones of brotherhood and peace, because, like other
dictators (mayors) before them, they’re always making “their final territorial
demand,” some would have us accept them at their word and
accommodate ourselves to their aggressive impulses. But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful
thinking about our adversaries is folly.
It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom, our equality, our equal opportunities, and the mindset attitude of racial discrimination by the majority of white people.
So, I urge you to speak out against those laws and people who would place our citizens/community in a position of physical and mental inferiority. I urge you to beware the temptation of pride the temptation to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an
individual drunk with power.
I ask you to resist the attempts of those who would have you withhold your
support for our efforts, this blog’s efforts, to keep our community strong and free, while we negotiate real and
verifiable results in our communities’s efforts to have a city hall that is united and dedicated to the fulfillment of having a city dedicated to our citizens as a whole and one day, with God’s help, the total elimination of mindset Gringos and Gringo/coconuts from politics.
Anonymous
Well spoken My Friend our time has come
Anonymous, you sound a lot like Nacho Libre.
“The people love a mover and shaker, a maker of events, an emotionalist..”
This is more Sara Palin antics than Hillary Clinton. I need to ask though,
1) Where are all these 85% Hispanics on voting days? The harlingen election is decided by less than 2000 people give or take out of a population of 60,000.. yes some are kids and 10,000 are illegal but that still leaves a whole lot of beans eligible to take time from watching the Cowboys to vote. You can have Hispanic candidates all you want, but if only a couple Hispanic voters come out to validate the candidacy then its still not a representation that the people have spoken. Its is just validating that someone’s pachanga’s were better than others.
2) You can’t put the blame on the gringo commissioners. They put themselves on and ballot and did what they had to get it done. You can’t say that funds are the problem. Zamora has spent most than any candidate in history and still can’t get voted in. It seems to be who can do the best selling.
3) Hispanic voters need to take a page from ex-San Antonio mayor Cisneros (before the affair), current S.A. mayor – Castro and yes current USA president Obama. Regardless of what your politics are against them, they were able to get votes from across the spectrum. If I was a hispanic commissioner (which I have no desire to be), I would want to know that I had just as much confidence from the whites, the indian doctors, and the chinese buffet owners as I do the peeps. Our peeps have a history of eating their own and I think that is a fact that does not escape many a hispanic who first thinks about and then decides not to enter politics.
I hope the people that are being backed by the organizers of this site can put forth some hispanic candidates who down the line will not follow suit the bozos that plague the school districs of BISD, Donna, Edcouch Elsa, Hidalgo County and so on who end up getting caught up in the egos, fraud cases and suing their respective boards at the end.
Mr Wilson has put forth the facts very well, indeed! You can front all the Hispanic candidates you want, but if the population doesn’t come out and vote, then they have no right to complain. You make it sound like it’s all race and it’s not. The average Harlingenite is not politically involved and doesn’t want to be part of the process. As a teacher, I see that attitude in the young people…it’s all a matter of “what’s in it for me” and “how can I get it for free”.
Until the Hispanics stop acting like the crabs in that dicho–and if you’re a REAL Hispanic, Mr. Medrano, you’ll know which one–and keep dragging each other down, then REAL change will not happen. I for one do not want to see Harlingen become another “Crystal City”…..