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Published Brownsville Herald 9/11/2005
This month marks one year of professional journalism as my first Op/Ed Column was published on September 19 of last year. This year the opening guns of the local political season have sounded at recent meeting of the South Texans for Good Government.
Because substantial changes are being proposed to the City Charter that provides the authority for how business is conducted, an understanding of the proposals is needed to make the right decision at the polls.
Thomas Paine once said of government in Common Sense “We furnish the means by which we suffer”; the vote and acceptance of the “party line” are where we furnish that means. “Today’s Common Sense” is looking back at 200 plus years of bureaucracy; what our public leaders have told us, and the observation that what they told us and have done are frequently in the best interest of the politician rather than the folks.
Attorney John Shergold took the point at the meeting by describing a few selected changes that he referred to as interesting and made no comments as to whether he thought they were good or bad; just interesting and worthy of being considered!
City Commissioner Ernie Hernandez was there to face the crowd and provide the point of view of the City Rulers.
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