The Mayor, Cassandra Hernandez, Lucia Najera, Yeehawdists, and Capirotada

This was meant to be several different posts but I've been busy and thought it best to trust truncate the posts into one post, so be prepared for political capirotada. 

First, lets start with some comments from Mayor Leeser that I think need to be called out. A while back during the budget talks at the city, Mayor Leeser got into a dust-up with City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. Leeser is apparently pretty self-conscious about not having a college degree and during a back-and-forth with Rep Hernandez, he basically said she needed to check her privilege because she has an education from a fancy school. 

It takes A LOT for me to defend someone like City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. I don't care much for political grandstanders and she's in the Hall of Fame of grandstanders here in the local political scene. Hell making August 3 all about her at a community meeting shortly after was just one example of the stuff she does that I find annoying. 

But for a wealthy white man to tell a Chicana single mother that she has any kind of privilege is laughable. He literally lives on-high and has the audacity to say that Hernandez's education is an example of her needing to check her privilege? Straight-up sexist. I don't think he'd make that kind of comment to a male colleague. We should be holding up educated Latinas like Hernandez as an example to our daughters. 

Leeser was wrong and completely out of line for that. 

Just like the same City Rep Cassandra Hernandez was wrong about something else. A while back, in yet another example of grandstanding, Hernandez had an exchange with YISD Superindentent De La Torre over the mask mandate. She grandstanded all over Facebook about the exchange - even going so far as to having a picture of his parking spots at schools in the district posted on the same thread. The pinnacle of petty. 

She went on and on about how she was going to show up to the meeting and hold him accountable. Exactly what for is unclear - but Hernandez talked all that shit on social media and ....

...you guessed it...

didn't even show up to the meeting. 

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Y'all Qaida and Call Qaida

Embattled EPISD Trustee Daniel Call doesn't like being compared to Bin Ladin, or so he told me in response to the previous post where I mentioned Call Qaida. 

He apparently misunderstood, so I feel obliged to clarify for him and everyone else reading this. 

Call Qaida is a play on the term Y'all Qaida. Which is essentially a group of religious extremists trying to impose their draconian belief system into government and education. You know, like the other religious extremists they claim to be opposed to so much. 

Sure, I could've used Vanilla Isis or even called them Yeehawdists. 

But Y'all rhymes with Call, and is the one enabling the clown show of Coronado Karens that shows up to disrupt the EPISD meetings over mask mandates. 

It had nothing to do with both of them being tall, thin bearded men. I didn't even think of that until I wrote this. 

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Redistricting Maps

Everyone under the sun is proposing district maps including a prominent women's voting advocacy group. They submitted maps for several different political subdivisions - but they didn't submit one for the Justice of the Peace. 

Why?

Well according to a couple of sources within those organizations, because Najera was trying to put her finger on the scale to draw a map that she felt would benefit her in a future bid to unseat Justice of the Peace John Chatman. 

Chatman is getting a lot of heat because his court just simply doesn't move cases, he can't keep staff, and is allegedly never in his office. Which is bad because its probably the least productive of all the local JP courts and Chatman will likely blame that on everything except his own lack of ability to run his office. 

But for those of you that don't know, the first time she ran for JP, Najera didn't have a clue what the office did. She was telling voters she'd get them street lights, speed bumps, and stop signs - all things that the JP office doesn't do. 

I know she told voters that because I heard her say each of those things to voters with my own ears. I tried really hard not to laugh. 

If the race is just the two of them, that part of town is in real trouble. But I heard a former employee of is is considering a run as well as a couple of other prominent folks considering a bid for the office. 

The JP lines haven't been re-drawn in many years but if they are actually redrawn this time in redistricting, its highly likely that Chatman's base of support will be split into two, possibly three different districts.