Loweree's Mailer Features Vendor/Boxer

Controversial EPISD Trustee Mickey Loweree has raised eyebrows yet again in this campaign season. This time over a campaign mailer that features a vendor at EPISD.

The vendor is El Paso Boxer David Rodriguez. Rodriguez has a contract to provide anti-bullying course/training/services (not really sure what to call it) at EPISD. I can't recall ever seeing a vendor actually show up on a mailer before, although they periodically donate to candidates.

If you recall Loweree's predecessor was Dori Fenenbock and she rolled out the endorsement of Rodriguez in a pretty high-profile press event, only to have to walk it back shortly thereafter when Rodriguez' extremist policy stances - and overt support for Donald Trump came to light.

At the time he had posted several Facebook posts that were considered anti-immigrant and sexist. Well since then, his demeanor doesn't appear to have evolved much. Here are a couple of recent examples of posts that are anti-immigrant and anti LGBTQ.

These aren't old posts. One was from a couple of weeks ago and that anti-trans post was less than 24 hours ago.

Seems pretty antithetical to the whole, don't be a bully thing.

Admittedly I don't know much about the services provided by Rodriguez but the fact that he makes money off of a contract with EPISD and then ends up on a mailer endorsing a trustee candidate is what is getting the attention of people.

What is also getting their attention is the fact that Rodriguez is the vendor for that particular course/training/service. If you may recall he was involved in an altercation that resulting in him being stabbed in Scottsdale, Arizona. A news report indicated that he may have allegedly used a racial slur toward the African-Americans that were allegedly involved in the incident.

But somehow this guy:



is getting paid to teach kids about how not to be a bully by EPISD.

And if that doesn't crystalize the problems at EPISD, well I just don't know what does.

To be clear, bullying is a serious issue for kids in school these days. Many of us didn't grow up with social media and the pressures kids have to deal with on top of normal kid drama and just problems a lot of us never dealt with and we all have those people on FB who get on our last nerve.

In junior high I had a crush on a girl named Claudia Reyes. She hung around two other girls, Veronica Sustaita and Kiki Nuñez. Well one day while I was in PE class she and her friends were sitting on some benches and I finally dug up the courage to go try to talk to her. So mind you, this was the late 80's so our PE uniforms were really short shorty shorts and half shirts.

I know, I know. But dressing out was part of our grade and it was the 80's.

Anywho, I went to go talk to her and he friends walked off, which I thought was great. Well I'm talking to her for a couple of minutes and then all of a sudden Kiki, had come from behind and pantsed me.

Down to the freaking ankles. And I was, well there's no gentle way of putting it, a late bloomer. Even though I was only in the 7th grade. Obviously it was freaking humiliating. I'm glad that of all the kids that saw it, none of them were armed with a cellphone and Snapchat to catch the whole thing on and spread it around. I would be mortified.

So like I said, kids deal with stuff we never had to contend with and bullying is a big deal. Just not sure the guy that got stabbed and allegedly used a racial slur is the guy to be teaching the class is alls I'm sayin'.

Oh and the fact that he's a vendor that Loweree and the Super proudly show off and he's on a campaign mailer just smells like, well, classic EPISD.