According to the Sentence Ramsey is to be Confined in Texas

Former Raza Unida gubernatorial candidate Ramsey Muñiz has been transferred from a federal corrections institute in Three Rivers six months after arriving at the facility.

Muñiz, who ran for governor of Texas in 1974 and 1975 under the Raza Unida Party, was transferred from Three Rivers on Tuesday.

Mike Truman, spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said Muñiz is being housed in the Federal Transfer Facility in Oklahoma City until he can be transferred to another facility.

Truman said he could not release where Muñiz would be transferred or when, citing security concerns. He also said he did not know why Muñiz was transferred.

Muñiz, 64, is serving a life sentence for three felony drug convictions.

The Three Rivers Federal Correctional Institute, 77 miles northwest of Corpus Christi, has been the closest the former Miller High School football star and local defense attorney has been to home since his 1994 conviction.

Under the banner of Raza Unida, a political party shaped and led by Hispanic activists seeking a political voice, Muñiz earned support from 6 percent the state's registered voters.

Muñiz's wife, Irma Muñiz, said she was surprised to learn of the transfer especially because senators, congressmen and civic groups have written letters to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on her husband's behalf.

Irma Muñiz said her husband had hoped to be housed at the Three Rivers facility because of its proximity to his family in South Texas.

Since he was transferred there in December from an institute in Colorado, Irma Muñiz has made frequent trips to visit her husband.

She likened Muñiz's transfer out of Three Rivers to the treatment of Hispanic Civil Rights figure Felix Longoria.

Longoria, a U.S. Army private killed on-duty in the Philippines in 1945, was refused a proper funeral in his hometown of Three Rivers because the only funeral home in town didn't allow Hispanics to use its funeral chapel.

Civil Rights hero Dr. Hector P. Garcia interceded and U.S. Sen. Lyndon Johnson arranged for Longoria to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Joe Ortiz, League of United Latin American Citizens district director and national and state civil rights director of the American GI Forum, helped organize letter-writing campaigns when Muñiz was in Colorado asking for his transfer to Texas.

Ortiz didn't know about the transfer out of Three Rivers but said both LULAC and the American GI Forum will work toward getting Muñiz returned to Texas.

"We are going to petition our legislators to see if they can do anything to bring him back," Ortiz said.

Contact Adriana Garza at 886-3618 or garzaa@caller.com

The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) told her definitions inconsistent with DHS interpretation

Dear Workforce Executives,

The Texas DHS charged wife with Tampering with a government document with intent to defraud & harm. A state jail felony 2 years in prison. I will tell you the details slowly. First, my family was on welfare. I took care of the kids while my wife earned her degree at A&I. Mary Cano the TWC Executive vice president worked directly with us. Then My wife graduated and started looking for a job. She used the TWC fax to send resumes and such. She interviewed for a job at EZ Pawn for the regional auditor. She was awarded the job and then they said they could not hire her because something came out of Austin that said they could not hire her. Austin is the EZ Pawn headquarters as well as the TWC. So I started Substitute teaching. Mary Cano sent me a outreach letter requiring me to attend an orientation. We called MRs Cano and told her that I was already working as a Substitute teacher. Mrs Cano insisted that I attend the orientation or she would be forced to penalize my family. She said, "Mrs Haley the Texas Workforce Does not recognize substitute teaching as employment." I argued with her to no avail. Then I clarified. I asked her if I was going to be penalized for being unemployed cuz substitute teaching is not considered employment then I should not need to count that income as income from employment, I reasoned that they could not penalize my family for being unemployed; while at the same time counting the income as money from employment. I worked one day in the first pay period. The net was $45. The taxes, social Security and Medicaid were deducted and I received ~$37. My wife made an entry in the application stating I had received "no money from work". This is what they prosecuted her for. We were becoming self sufficient as in the following months I began to work as did she. Then one day at lunch they came to my house and took her to jail. It is appreciated, your attention in this matter. We pray for relief in the interest of justice.

Awaiting your response I remain

Anton S Haley

Q. Did you tell the
people at the Workforce that you were substitute teaching?

A. Yes, sir.
I told Mary Cano. I called her by phone and I communicated to her that
I didn't need to go to this workshop because I was substitute
teaching.

Q. Did the Texas Workforce know you were substitute
teaching?

A. Yes.

Q. Did they still insist on you coming to their
workshops?

Mary Cano: "The Texas Workforce does not consider substitute teaching as employment".

TPU 105.00 CONTRACT OBLIGATION.
INCLUDES CASES IN WHICH THE CLAIMANT'S CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON DETERMINING HIS UNEMPLOYMENT STATUS.
Appeal No. 82-4799-10-0782. Substitute teachers may have reasonable assurance of continued employment within the meaning of Section 3(f) (now codified as Section 207.041) of the Act. In determining whether such reasonable assurance exists with regard to substitute teachers, the following criteria should be utilized: The school district must furnish to the Commission written statements which provide facts that the substitute
teacher has been asked to continue in the same capacity for the following academic year. Simply
placing the substitute teacher on a list for the following year does not establish reasonable assurance. It must be shown that both parties expect the relationship to resume at the beginning of the following year. The assurance must also be based on past experience with regard to the number of substitutes needed in the past.

http://www.twc.state.tx.us/ui/appl/tpu.pdf

Appellant's husband testified as follows:

Q. Did you tell the people at the Workforce that you were substitute teaching?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. What was their rationale for insisting that
you come to the workshops?

A. She told me, Mary Cano told me she did not consider substitute teaching employment, that the Texas Workforce does not consider substitute teaching as employment.

Q. Is that because of the uncertainty of whether or not you are going to work?

A. She said, "you never know. They might not never call you again.

"During appellant's direct examination, the following exchange occurred:

Q. Can you explain to the jury why [you filled out the form indicating your
husband was not employed]?

A. Well, afer my husband had gotten a job, after the 13th we received a letter to go to the Texas Workforce meeting. Well, I called Mary Cano and I told her, I said, "My husband doesn't need to go to the meeting because he's substitute teaching," and well, first she says, she says -- I said, "my husband is working." She goes, "Well, what is he doing?" I said, "He's substitute teaching," and she goes, "[Appellant], the Texas Workforce does not consider substitute teaching as employment," ...

(4)In light of the foregoing testimony, we hold there is no s

howing that the result of appellant's trial would have been different

but for trial counsel's failure to secure the testimony of Mary Cano.

NO. 13-02-00033-CR

LEEANN HALEY § IN THE 13^TH COURT

§

VS. § OF APPEALS

§

§ NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS

THE STATE OF TEXAS

Dear Distinguished Justices,

Now comes Anton S Haley (husband of Appellant LeeAnn Haley) and respectfully request this injustice be dealt with expediently. Red tape, legal jargon and legally correct format have no place standing between my wife and justice. My wife was denied the primary caseworker who advised her throughout the time in Kleberg County while we worked with the Texas Workforce / Department of Human Services. Mary Cano is the only caseworker who was a constant. Mary Cano is the one who advised us, The Texas Workforce does not recognize substitute teaching as employment. This statement is why we checked the entries that we made. The transcript contains my statements to this affect. There is also a submitted affidavit in the record. Mary Cano must be compelled to testify. Furthermore, the rules regarding this technical issue have been rewritten. It has also been requested for a ruling .as to whether or not the $45 would have made a difference to the calculations, as this is a defense to the prosecution. This material has been submitted previously as well.

Judge Banales never suspended sentence in open court until after the Motion to Dismiss from Community Supervision per 42.12.21 (b).was submitted on April 23, 2004. I humbly ask for justice with respect to this motion as well. This motion is contained in the record as well. I pray for relief in the interest of justice.

Finally, I believe the recent ruling was in haste and in retaliation to my involvement in the Politics of South Texas and the 13^th COA specifically the Rose Vela v Federico Hinojosa election. I am a writer / journalist under the pseudo-name Jaime Kenedeno. Need I say anything else in my wife’s advocacy?

Respectfully submitted,

Anton S Haley

4910 Lavaca

Corpus Christi, Texas 78411

361/851-2851

By:___________________________

Anton S Haley

(Husband / Advocate of Defendant/Appellant)

Other Names involved:
>>Cecilio Trevino
>>Mary Cano
>>Chandra Lewis Carrington
>>Marilyn Lewis Ruff
>>Karen Salazar
>>Noel Pena
>>Rick Martinez
>>Yolanda Carmona
>>Dayner Roberts
>>Christian Pineda
>>John Kearney
>>Sam Fugate
>>Alfred Isassi
>>Eric Flores
>>Joseph Collina
>>Linda Rhodes Schauer
>>Ernesto Soliz
>>Texas Workforce Commission (Kleberg County)
>>DHS (Kleberg County)

Executive Director

Larry Temple

Phone: (512) 463-0735
E-mail: larry.temple@twc.state.tx.us

Mr. Larry Temple is the executive director of the Texas Workforce Commission charged with day-to-day operations of the agency including implementation of policies set by the commission.

Deputy Executive Director

Gene Crump

Phone: (512) 936-3609
E-mail: gene.crump@twc.state.tx.us

In addition to responsibilities as the deputy executive director, Mr. Crump also directs the departments providing core internal services that include:

• Finance
• Human Resources Management
• Business Operations

Unemployment Insurance Division

LaSha Lenzy, Division Director

Phone: (512) 463-7234
E-mail: lasha.lenzy@twc.state.tx.us

The unemployment insurance program, funded through employer taxes, provides temporary partial income replacement to workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. The Unemployment Insurance and Regulation Division (UI) oversees:

• payment of unemployment benefits to qualified claimants,
• collection of unemployment taxes from employers, and
• administration of the Texas Payday Law and the Texas Child Labor Law.

Workforce Development Division

Larry Jones, Division Director

Phone: (512) 936-0697
E-mail: larry.jones@twc.state.tx.us

The Workforce Development Division provides oversight, coordination, guidance, planning, technical assistance and implementation of employment and training activities with a focus on meeting the needs of employers throughout the state of Texas. In addition the division:

• supports work conducted in local workforce development areas,
• provides assistance to boards in the achievement of performance goals,
• evaluates education and training providers, and
• promotes and develops partnerships with other agencies and institutions.

External Relations Division

Jesse Lewis, Division Director

Phone: (512) 936-2346
E-mail: jesse.lewis@twc.state.tx.us

The External Relations Division is responsible for planning and implementing a coordinated outreach and education effort to customers and stakeholders. This includes:

• managing external and internal communications for the agency
• coordination of labor market and career information and
• implementing a marketing strategy that unifies the workforce system under an umbrella brand.

Program Integrity Division

Joann Benton, Acting Division Director

Phone: (512) 936-3051
E-mail: joann.benton@twc.state.tx.us

The Program Integrity Division oversees all agency services, including:

• statistical sampling
• performance analysis & reporting
• fraud detection
• subrecipient monitoring

Information Technology Division

Dee Meador, Division Director

Phone: (512) 936-3191
E-mail: dee.meador@twc.state.tx.us

The Information Technology Division is responsible for agency's technology infrastructure, including:

• project management
• information technology operations
• applications development and maintenance
• data processing
• distributed systems

Employer Initiatives

Doug Ridge, Director

Phone: (512) 463-1986
E-mail: douglas.ridge@twc.state.tx.us

The primary responsibility of Employer Initiatives is to provide the leadership and direction within the Texas workforce system to engage employers, business organizations and the economic development community in the ongoing development of a customer-focused, market-driven workforce system.

Office of Internal Audit

Fran Carr, Director

Phone: (512) 936-6125
E-mail: fran.carr@twc.state.tx.us

Internal Audit is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve operations. The role of Internal Audit is:

• to help the agency achieve its objectives and
• to improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes.

Civil Rights Division

Robert Gomez, Division Director

Phone: (512) 437-3451
E-mail: robert.gomez@twc.state.tx.us

The Civil Rights Division (CRD) enforces the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (Texas Labor Code, Chapter 21) and the Texas Fair Housing Act (Texas Property Code, Chapter 301). The Texas Commission on Human Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability and retaliation. The Texas Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination based race, color, religion, sex, national origin, mental or physical disability, familial status and retaliation. The CRD conducts the following activities:

• Review of personnel policies and procedural systems of state agencies and institutions of higher education
• Review of initial firefighter testing
• Reporting of equal employment opportunity statistics
• Equal employment opportunity training of state agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public and private employers
• Enforcement of fair employment laws
• Enforcement of fair housing laws

Regulatory Enforcement Division

John Moore, Division Director

Phone: (512) 463-3041
E-mail: john.moore@twc.state.tx.us

The Regulatory Enforcement Division enforces all regulatory statutes within the jurisdiction of the agency, including UI, career schools, board sanctions, wage claims and child labor. A priority of the division is the prevention, detection and elimination of fraud and abuse in the UI program.

Additionally, all collection matters for the agency involving overpayments and delinquent taxes owed to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund, collection matters for the agency involving wage claims, and the collection of disallowed costs arising from contract monitoring are included in the Regulatory Enforcement Division.

The Regulatory Enforcement Division also works with the Office of Attorney General in all judicial reviews arising from enforcement actions, including UI and wage claim appeals.

General Counsel

Don Ballard

Phone: (512) 463-7902
E-mail: don.ballard@twc.state.tx.us

The General Counsel is responsible for providing legal advice and support to the agency.
Responsibilities encompassed include:

• coordinating litigation,
• reviewing contracts,
• responding to civil rights charges and
• advising on open government issues

Law: “the State’s confession of error in the Supreme Court of the United States is contrary to our state’s procedural law for presenting a claim on ap

Law: “the State’s confession of error in the Supreme Court of the United States is contrary to our state’s procedural law for presenting a claim on appeal

Texas Public Education Watchdog Authority: Dear Chuy Hinojosa, Florence Shapiro and distinguished Education Committee Members

Texas Public Education Watchdog Authority: Dear Chuy Hinojosa, Florence Shapiro and distinguished Education Committee Members


Just give us (Education) the Lottery Proceeds as per original bill of sale. The Lottery was sold to us (the voters of the great State of Texas) as 100% of the proceeds were for Educating our youth.

What percentage of the Lottery proceeds (currently) are dedicated to the education of our youth?

Why is it, the wealth always steals from our children after acting like they were creating, “doing it for th kids” huge reservoirs of Avarice to siphon off.

Like the Lottery originally was ratified by the people of the Great State of Texas with the belief ot was a moneymaker for our Children’s Education. And now how much of the Lottery revenue makes it to Public Education?

Perry Craddick & Corporate Welfare in the name of WIA, ED Byrne Grant, and under the guise of helping the poor.

With the Education funding we should demand that the dedication of lottery money to the Education of our Children be adhered to as it was sold to Texas. The Lottery when legislated was for the Education of Texas Students. Finally, the Private Sector is funded under the WIA slush fund for Corporate Welfare Recipients under the Guise of a Welfare Reform or Welfare to Work / JOB generating program to help the poor. The rich are getting richer in the name of helping the poor. And one needs to always remember it is both parties dippin into the creative crony contractualism. Give it a title, write a grant and set up a front office with a computer and a sign; then get some brochures and a few token clients and funnel the Avarice in a shell game like manner and voila a new ranch or a new house maybe an agency hummer or King Ranch Pickup Truck with a magnetic sign. Give a few JOBS to your network affiliates and send the clients to perform community based work and get rich and richer doing it. Ask Mary Cano or Oscar Martinez to explain it in detail. Charmed I'm sure.



TFT LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE--FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2007
>(copyright 2007 Texas Federation of Teachers)
>
>Proposed State Budget Shortchanges Schools and Educators; Keep Up the Fight
>For House TRS Plan; House at a Standstill as Speaker Clings to Power
>
>Proposed Budget Shortchanges Public Schools, Education Employees: TFT
>President Linda Bridges put out a press statement today deploring the
>results of the House-Senate conference committee on the 2008-2009 budget.
>The state budget plan in House Bill 1 still must win the approval of
>majorities in both the House and Senate. As President Bridges' statement
>below explains, HB 1 in its current form does not deserve that approval:
>
>"Education and educators would be shortchanged badly in the budget proposed
>by House-Senate conferees this afternoon. Based on the information
>currently
>available, school funding would remain static, not even getting back to the
>level of state and local funding school districts had in 2002 in real
>terms, after you take inflation into account. The $850-a-year
>cost-of-living pay raise for teachers passed by the House last month would
>shrivel to about $425, according to the legislative budget staff. If paid
>out to all teachers across the board, this would amount to less than $25 a
>month after taxes and deductions--not even enough to cover the cost of
>rising average health-care premiums. And the conferees took pains today to
>say the money would not even have to be paid out across the board to all
>teachers.
>
>"Worst of all is what this budget proposal would do regarding TRS pension
>benefits. The bill would withhold an eminently affordable and exceedingly
>modest pension boost--a 13th check for TRS retirees--unless other
>legislation passes
>to impose new levies on all current school employees. The only way retirees
>would get a 13th check, under this scheme devised by Sen. Robert Duncan,
>would be if active school employees pay a higher contribution rate, taking
>roughly $50 million a year out of their pockets. This plan totally
>contradicts the House legislation passed unanimously on Wednesday that
>would provide a 13th check for retirees fully funded by the state, without
>imposing any new levies on active employees.
>
>"In short, school districts under this budget would regain none of the
>ground they have lost financially, teachers would get at best a measly pay
>raise of less than $25 a month that wouldn't even keep up with inflation,
>and 300,000 school support personnel would suffer an actual pay cut, as a
>result of the higher levies imposed on them for TRS with no compensating
>increase in pay. You have to give the
>conferees credit--it takes a certain ingenuity to come up with a plan this
>bad at a time when the state is sitting on a record-high budget surplus."
>
>Keep Up the Fight for House TRS Plan! At this writing members of the Texas
>House are standing firm in support of their unanimously approved plan for a
>13th check for TRS retirees, funded by an increase in the state
>contribution rate to 6.7 percent, with no new costs imposed on active
>school employees. Several Senate offices reported to us today that they are
>receiving a high volume of calls in support of this House version of SB
>1846--as well they should be. The Senate alternative proposed by Sen.
>Robert Duncan, Republican of Lubbock, is a thinly veiled attempt to shift
>state costs for TRS pensions onto active employees and their school
>districts.
>
>Duncan let slip the real agenda during floor debate on his plan,
>noting that increasing the TRS levy on active employees and requiring a
>contribution from school districts could "free up general revenue for other
>purposes." In other words, this scheme would allow the state to save money
>by shifting costs onto education employees and local taxpayers.
>
>Duncan's staff in response to callers today reportedly was claiming that
>the freshly hatched budget deal (see above) means that there's no money and
>no time left to provide this session for the 6.7-percent state contribution
>rate that the House proposes. But that's not so. The legislature has
>billions of dollars left to allocate right now, and it would take only a
>tiny fraction of that treasure--less than 1 percent of it, in fact--for the
>state to get to the 6.7-percent TRS contribution rate from the 6.58 percent
>already built into the budget. Even if the budget bill passes in its
>current form, the
>House plan for a fully state-paid 13th check with no new costs imposed on
>active employees could also still pass and become law with full force and
>effect, delivering a 13th check in September.
>
>The upshot is that you have an opportunity right now to shape the outcome
>of this TRS benefit fight in the critical remaining days before adjournment
>of the legislative session on Monday. Just send the letter on this issue to
>your state senator from the TFT Web site. If you don't know your state
>senator, you can find out quickly when you go to that Web letter.
>
>Speaker's Grip on Gavel Threatened: The Texas House came to a standstill at
>8 PM this evening, as Speaker of the House Tom Craddick shut off House
>members' microphones and called a three-hour recess to head off a
>rank-and-file revolt
>threatening to oust him from the speaker's chair. The Midland Republican is
>under heavy fire from both fellow Republicans and Democrats for what many
>consider his tyrannical rule of the House. Tonight he gave them new grist
>for their argument, by ruling that there is no appeal to the membership as
>a whole if he blocks the parliamentary procedure needed to oust him. His
>ruling, epitomizing the arbitrary, one-man rule of which Speaker Craddick
>stands accused, apparently has led to the resignation of the House
>parliamentarian in protest this evening. Like everyone else at the capitol,
>we are now waiting to see if the House will actually reconvene tonight.
>Keep an eye out for news of the latest developments in the daily TFT
>hotlines that will be published each of the next three days as the
>legislative session hurtles toward final adjournment.

Senate Committee on Education

Committee Information

Chair .Florence Shapiro Vice-Chair .Kyle Janek

Members: .Kip Averitt .Steve Ogden .Dan Patrick .Leticia Van de Putte

.Royce West .Tommy Williams .Judith Zaffirini

Kenedeno's Texas Monthly: What did Randy tell his Insurance Agent? "If he turned up dead, his @(@*& did it."

Kenedeno's Texas Monthly: What did Randy tell his Insurance Agent? "If he turned up dead, his @(@*& did it."

Was Ramsey a threat to Sissy?

Google Yourself Corpus Christi: Google Yourself Corpus Christi! CCREDC's Roland Mower, Corpus Christi's E. Ray Covey & TEDC Leadership. Who is E. Ray

Google Yourself Corpus Christi: Google Yourself Corpus Christi! CCREDC's Roland Mower, Corpus Christi's E. Ray Covey & TEDC Leadership. Who is E. Ray Covey?

CCISD: Freedom of Information Request: The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair.

CCISD: Freedom of Information Request: The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair.


Freedom of Information Request

This Publication request any and all communications including email and written correspondence from one week before Trustee Harry Williams resigned.

Must I formalize it on Monday?

Think I am bluffing?

You gotta ask yourself

Do you feel lucky?

Well Do ya?

Go ahead.........


You guys get the idea?

Now, don't go and seek the OAG's opinion as it will delay our children.

Just fess up and conduct business with honor and integrity and at least give us an appearance of due process. Not one black appointment. You guys are definitely walking on thin ice or maybe already fallen through but just don't know it. Such inadequacy is unacceptable.

CORPUS CHRISTI - CCISD school board members interviewed five candidates Friday to fill the board position vacated by Reverend Harry Williams.

The school board said it will set another meeting to discuss the finalists, and will possibly make a decision then, but still no word on when that would be.

Williams served the school board for more than seven years before resigning last month.

Nick Adame

"Do not be a disservice to our community and choose because this guy is my friend or this guy is my business associate," Dr. Nick Adame said. "I don't want to hear that. I want to hear that we're going to choose somebody because they're going to do right for the community."

Last week, the board narrowed the list of 20 candidates to five

Kenedeno:

Where is the criteria the process for "narrowing the list"?

The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair. Every single applicant took the time to fill out an application, and the thought process for the letter of interest and update of their resume and references. For all intensive purposes this CCISD Board just threw that work product into the trash can while opting for business partners, friends cronies and industry allies.

It is not about the 5 selected it is about how the 5 were selected. It is not about Barrera or Prezas or Bill Clark or Lucy Rubio.

It is about a change of policy where policy is defined by processes of the past. Lucy is the only one with the guts to make the motion, "for the board to scrap the current process and start over. There was no second to the motion." Are there others in that room who agree with her, but politically, they are bound & gagged. The current process is in conflict with current policy. The current process is now a civil rights issue. Is that what CCISD wanted, another Cisneros v CCISD?

We have 19 Candidates who deserve Equal Opportunity and fair consideration. It is called due process.


1. Herbert Cromwell Arbuckle, III Retired Teacher
2. Rolando G. Barrera Insurance Agent
3. Tony C. Diaz, Ed.D. Retired CCISD Administrator
4. Victor Frazier, Ed.D. Minister and University Instructor
5. Cezar Galindo Business Owner and College Instructor
6. Marsha Lynn Grace Professor of Education
7. Coretta Graham Lawyer
8. Helen Gurley, Ph.D. Educator, Director of Academics
9. Patricia Harris Educator
10. Robert Elliott Jones Pastor and Business Manager
11. Deborah W. Johnson Retired Firefighter
12. Bradford Lee Kisner Director of Music and Fine Arts
13. Verna Faye Portis Retired CCISD Administrator
14. Raul R. Prezas, Ed.D. College Professor
15. Norman Haden Ransleben Certified Public Accountant
16. Woodrow Mac Sanders Medical Social Worker
17. Ronald G. Sepulveda Athletic Aquatic Superintendent
18. George Wetzel Retired Public School Administrator/Consultant
19. Goldie Lamarr Wooten Retired Educator

Rubio has said she disagrees with the selection process and would have preferred to use a scoring system instead.

Trustees selected the five candidates to be interviewed by each nominating one from a pool of 20 applicants.

We elect you guys to represent the district with honor & integrity

But before trustees interviewed the first candidate, trustee Lucy Rubio motioned for the board to scrap the current process and start over. There was no second to the motion.

Rubio has said she disagrees with the selection process and would have preferred to use a scoring system instead.

CCCT Editorial

The trustees' refusal to lay out the cards is beyond irritating; it borders on the outrageous.

Particularly disturbing is the fact that three new trustees elected last year - Carol Scott, John Longoria and Dwayne Hargis, all of whom emphasized their intent to bring new openness to the board - appear to have bought into the mum's-the-word ethos that has dominated this exercise.

To be sure, they (and their colleagues) could, and should, reverse their field.

CCISD Trustees: Pick and choose Policy Making with malice. Shame on YOU.

CORPUS CHRISTI - CCISD school board members have decided not to change their policy which forbids seniors who fail the TAKS from graduating.

One parent we spoke with Thursday said the policy didn't make sense, because while students who fail the TAKS test during the school year aren't allowed to take part in graduation ceremonies. The same doesn't hold true for summer school grads. They're allowed to participate in summer graduation ceremonies without knowing whether they passed the test.

The decision didn't sit well with some parents and students.

School board member Lucy Rubio had hoped to amend the policy, and allow seniors who failed the TAKS to at least walk in with their class during may commencement. But other school board members didn't agree.

The Age of Winchell: Irma Rangel Legacy : Relating to the establishment of a law school at Texas A&I University.

Monday, May 7, 2007
Carlos Truan | Hugo Berlanga | Henry Cuellar | Edwards, Al | Todd Hunter | Luci0 : The Primrose Path & Rangel Law School @ Texas A&I University.

Or posture for another agenda?

Who at that time wanted a Pharmacy College?

Celanese, King Ranch, URI?

Now we have this unorthodox legislation for an Engineering School @ TAMUCC?

This is a Developing Medical Community with the ability to become the finest in the world. Medical Nanotechnology is already here, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ are already here.

The Political Faction at TAMUCC will find their equilibrium eventually. An engineering school @ CCSU / TAMUCC is obtuse to the medical assets we have accumulated and the Philanthropy already well rooted in South Texas.


Irma Rangel Legislation was for the establishment of a law school at Texas A & I




The Age of Winchell: Irma Rangel Legacy : Relating to the establishment of a law school at Texas A&I University.



Hugo Berlanga | Henry Cuellar | Edwards, Al | Todd Hunter | Eddie Lucio

Bill: SB 646

Legislative Session: 71(R)

Council Document: 71R 1835 MHT-D

Add to Bill List

Last Action:	02/28/1989 S Reported favorably w/o amendments

Caption Version:	Introduced
Caption Text:	Relating to the establishment of a law school at Texas A&I University.

Author:	Truan

Subjects:	Education--Higher-- General (I0231) TEXAS A&I UNIVERSITY (U2467)

Companion:	HB 1630 by Rangel, Identical

Senate Committee:	Education
Status:	Out of committee
Vote:	Ayes=9 Nays=1 Present Not Voting=0 Absent=1

Nueces De La Parra: Nobody kicked Joe Elizondo off of the CCREDC Board. He was inebriated and "with" females not his wife. Ask Denise about the "Bache

Nueces De La Parra: Nobody kicked Joe Elizondo off of the CCREDC Board. He was inebriated and "with" females not his wife. Ask Denise about the "Bachelorettes' dancing w/ her hubby?

If the situation was reversed I would definitely be the bad guy. Maybe I should go yell at Juan's next event "WHO GIVES A F//K" and chant the CCREDC mantra Chorus. "JUAN MORE" "JUAN MORE" and ask him if he remembers? Juan must be held to a higher standard. Keep the reigns tight on him and everytime he starts to veer byte his a$$.

LOL


Joe Elizondo, surely he is a gentle man and a member of our leadership INFRASTRUCTURE? However, there must be HOUSECLEANING and the "Pulling of Weeds" that poisons us from the Top Down.


Elizondo began chanting JUAN MORE, JUAN MORE over and over (increasing in menacing heckle tone). Everyone ignored him so he continued with the JUAN MORE, JUAN MORE escalation. Then the Guitar Guy with the HAt "straight off of the sunset strip" was suggesting songs (lead ins). Elizondo yelled, "WHO GIVES A FUCK" and some other MINUTIA (uncalled for). He was directing his disrespect at the stage. My wife & I at the same time said, "HEY" and we turned to him with a meeting of the eyes. His group separated and Elizondo departed in a new truck. The others with him were friendly & charming before and after.

Joseph Adams, BND, OSI and the like.....

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Houston, TX http://www.oceanshipholdings.com Ocean Shipholdings Inc. builds, repairs and operates ocean-going marine vessels. Over the past six years, the company ranked as the Pentagon's second-largest provider of marine transportation of equipment.

Defense Contracts

Total Defense Contracts, 1998-2003: $1,094,875,569
Rank: 86

Defense Contracts by Fiscal Year $278.78 $323.81 $98.94 $95.69 $119.99 $177.66 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003	Type of Contracts Awarded Type Awarded % Fixed Price $1,094,875,569 100.00%
Contracts won by Major Subsidiaries/Divisions (totals in millions) Name Total 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Ocean Champion Shipping $69.17 $20.64 $17.89 $12.32 $18.33 Ocean Chemical Carriers $22.97 $22.97 Ocean Freedom Shipping $89.07 $16.12 $28.27 $44.69 Ocean Shipholdings $602.59 $278.78 $323.81 Ocean Spirit Shipping $109.01 $18.33 $20.60 $30.51 $39.56 Ocean Star Shipping $91.26 $19.88 $19.03 $11.78 $40.57 Ocean Triumph Shipping $110.79 $17.12 $22.05 $37.11 $34.50
What the Pentagon bought Product/Service Category Total Transportation, Travel and Relocation Services $995,726,025 Ships, Small Craft, Pontoons and Floating Docks $99,149,544

Competition: How They Won the Contracts

The Pentagon defines several different "solicitation procedures" that roughly indicate the level of competition in awarding contracts. Full and open competition generally indicates that the contracts went out to competitive bid. Not full and open generally don't go out to bid – the pie chart below shows the reasons why. Set-aside contracts are competitive, but only certified small businesses can bid on them. Most of the contracts with no information were awarded on the "federal schedule." Contractors pre-qualify to supply specific goods and services, and federal employees can order them without going through the bidding process.

Competition Categories Competition Amount % No Information $1,094,875,569 100.00%
Small Business and other Preferences Contracts % of Total Small Business Total $816,091,394 74.53%	This table shows how many contract dollars were classified as going to a small business or small disadvantaged business (minority-owed, etc.). Set-aside contracts are reserved for small businesses; large companies cannot compete for them. Under guidelines set by Congress, federal agencies are supposed to direct 23 percent of their outside contracts to small companies.

Influence

Campaign Contributions Campaign Contributions by Year $0 $0 $500 $15,000 $86,250 $41,000 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Party Contributions % Democrat $105,250 73.73% Republican $37,500 26.27%

Top Recipients Democratic Party Committees $61,000 Rep Solomon P Ortiz (D-TX) $9,750 Rep Gene Green (D-TX) $9,500 President George W Bush (R) $8,250 Rep Ike Skelton (D-MO) $7,500 Rep Richard A Gephardt (D-MO) $6,000 Republican Party Committees $5,750 Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) $5,000 Rep Ken Bentsen (D-TX) $5,000 Rep Chris Bell (D-TX) $4,500 Rep Tom DeLay (R-TX) $3,000 Rep John Culberson (R-TX) $3,000 Sen John Cornyn (R-TX) $3,000 Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) $2,500 Rep Don Young (R-AK) $2,000 Rep Henry Bonilla (R-TX) $2,000 Rep Jerry Lewis (R-CA) $1,000 Rep Norman D Dicks (D-WA) $1,000 Rep Martin Frost (D-TX) $1,000 Rep Helen Delich Bentley (R-MD) $1,000

The Center for Public Integrity has instituted an improved methodology to compute lobbying figures in order to produce the most accurate possible totals. For up-to-date lobbying information calculated with the revised methodology please see the Center's LobbyWatch site.

"IN THE KNOW": Remember The Crime Stoppers "Vandalism" of the Corpus Christi Country Club Golf Coursehigh powered members who control our nation’s eco

"IN THE KNOW": Remember The Crime Stoppers "Vandalism" of the Corpus Christi Country Club Golf Course? Were there not high powered CCCC members who control our nation’s economy & industry. This work of fiction written by Hal Bray set here in Corpus Christi; I just thought you guys might like it. BTW, cant find that particular Crime Stoppers announcement. They tore up the CCCC Golf Course. Who is they?

Google Yourself Corpus Christi: Beinvenidos Mr Vasella, Could we interest you in a Ground Floor Opportunity venture with our Brand New TEXAS A&M HEALT

Google Yourself Corpus Christi: Beinvenidos Mr Vasella, Could we interest you in a Ground Floor Opportunity venture with our Brand New TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

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Posted on April 14, 2007 at 09:19:16 PM by P . MAN

Iam not a geek!!!
Iam not a bean counter!!!
Iam not a yes man for the Kenedy Foundation!!!
Iam not the reason the Fernandez
people lost their case but I sure
did all I could and now the KFATSO
group ( JOE MULLER, BILL BRADLEY,
Judge GARCIA, DR GRONER AND BISHOP
CARMONDY) don't give me gratitude I deserve .
I don't need anything from you guys
I have way better future in Houston anyway!!!
Next time you have trouble like the Fernandez clan, Balli Clan or
DeLLano clan don't come crying to me
for help!!! Your on your own.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!
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"What this case is about is B.K. Johnson thought his money was his. His daughters thought his money was theirs,"

Family's big-bucks feud now in court

Web Posted: 03/29/2007 11:42 PM CDT

Elizabeth Allen
Express-News Belton Kleberg Johnson was many things, most of them big. He was a big man from a big ranch and he has a big family fighting over a big fortune.

And it's going to be a big trial.

The children of B.K. Johnson, who was known as B, are suing his widow, Laura McAllister Johnson, contending she took advantage of a man 20 years her senior, emotionally needy, incredibly rich and alcoholically enfeebled.

They want a jury to decide B wasn't in his right mind when he rewrote his will to give half his estate in trust to his wife and the other half to charity, leaving them out. The estate has been estimated at $40 million.

Calling Laura Johnson a "self-described canny Scotswoman," lawyers for B's children said they'll demonstrate how Johnson, along with lawyers and estate consultants, influenced B to leave his descendants out of the will before he died in 2001 at the age of 71.

Laura Johnson's lawyers, as well as lawyers for the trust and lawyers for the bank that handled the business, argue in turn that B gave his kids plenty in life, that despite his battles with alcohol he knew what he was doing. And, they add, they'll show his will was but a small piece of B's extensive estate planning that set up his children and grandchildren with millions in direct funds and trusts.

"What this case is about is B.K. Johnson thought his money was his. His daughters thought his money was theirs," said Barry McClenahan, Laura Johnson's lawyer.

The trial in Judge Polly Jackson Spencer's Bexar County Probate Court 1 began this week. It may take three months.

B inherited millions as the great-grandson of King Ranch founder Richard King. Lawyers on both sides presented his life in opening statements as a mix of privilege and struggle.

He grew up riding and working cattle on the King Ranch. His mother taught him to hunt, something he'd love most of the rest of his life. He lost his father when he was still a baby, and his mother died in an alcohol-related car accident when he was about 12.

Johnson was a hard drinker himself. When he was passed over in his hopes to run the ranch after his uncle's death, B sold his interest in it for about $70 million. Later he sued the family over that agreement and won a couple million more.

So it should have been no surprise when his own children sued him over his sale of their family ranch, Chaparrosa, as he fought against bankruptcy in the 1980s, said lawyers for the daughters. They were standing up for what was right just as he did, lawyer Jack W. Lawter Jr. said.

B had his children, two daughters and a son, with his first wife, Patsy. Lawter said growing up with B was an emotional roller coaster and that they could tell when an alcohol binge was coming. They even had a name for the prelude. They called it "getting spun up," he said.

Through it all, "B Johnson was crazy in love with his kids," Lawter said, "and they were crazy in love with him."

"As far as this case is concerned, the surest way to say 'I love you' is to leave your estate to your kids," he said.

The marriage to Patsy ended in divorce in 1987. In 1990, B married Lynne Murray, the same year he entered the Mayo Clinic for alcohol addiction, where he stated he long had been a heavy drinker, often consuming up to a quart of vodka a day, Lawter said.

At the Mayo Clinic, doctors determined he had damaged his brain with alcohol, Lawter said.

Just days after Lynne's death from breast cancer four years later, B was traveling to Australia to see her family and stopped over in Hong Kong, where he went to a pub called Mad Dogs and thought it might transfer well to his property in San Antonio, the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the River Walk.

And it did. The pub still operates today. But in his negotiations with the owner, Laura McAllister, then married, B became intrigued with her and soon began courting her, marrying the animal rights activist in 1996.

Shortly thereafter, B essentially gave up hunting.

"That right there shows you Laura was in control," lawyer Jim Hartnett said, displaying a slide for jurors titled "The Great Hunter is Caged."

Daughters Sarah Johnson Pitt and Cecilia Johnson McMurrey and daughter-in-law Cecilia Johnson Hager, and the eight children among them, filed this lawsuit in 2003.

Pointing to the Mayo Clinic tests, the family's lawyers contend that after 1990, B wasn't competent to make a will.

But lawyers for Johnson, the trust and bank maintain B was sharp enough to serve on boards of major companies for years and was deeply concerned with avoiding a heavy tax burden on his estate, as evidenced by multiple wills and estate plans over the years as his children grew up and had children and his own marital status changed.

And he even took his kids out of his will long before he met Laura, they noted.

A 1991 video will they intend to present to jurors will show B in his own words explaining that he'd left his kids out because he already had provided for them, they said.

"He never disinherited his family. His estate plan was not just his will. His estate plan was what he did throughout his entire life," McClenahan said.

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Juror passes out as King Ranch probate trial opens

Web Posted: 03/29/2007 12:31 AM CDT

Elizabeth Allen
Express-News Bailiffs are more often called upon to subdue people than to revive them.

So when a juror passed out just a few minutes into a lawyer's opening statement Wednesday in the probate fight over B.K. Johnson's multimillion-dollar estate, the bailiff called for backup.

Lawyer Jack Lawter, representing Johnson's children and grandchildren in their lawsuit against his third wife, Laura McAllister Johnson, had just begun detailing a lifetime of heavy alcohol consumption by the man often referred to as B.

The juror gasped briefly and his head slipped back. Several people, including Bexar County Probate Court 1 Judge Polly Jackson Spencer, later remarked they at first thought he'd nodded off rather early in what's expected to be a long trial.

But an uneasy silence filled the courtroom as it became apparent the man was not sleeping.

"Bailiff," Spencer called, and the bailiff threaded through the tables and lawyers to get to the juror while calling a code into his radio. Several other bailiffs quickly arrived, and an ambulance was called.

The man revived without help after a few seconds and sat up, sweating and looking dazed. Another juror leaned forward, her hand on his shoulder, and asked him if he might have had a seizure, and whether he had a medical condition.

He shook his head and sat quietly until emergency medical personnel took him out on a stretcher. He later was reported to be in good condition. If he doesn't continue jury duty, there still would be 14 jurors, as three alternates were chosen for the trial.

Bailiffs are trained in CPR and emergency first aid, sheriff's Deputy Sgt. Larry Quintanilla said, and get a refresher course each year.

However, he said: "We cover ourselves by having EMS take over."

The delay was not the first in this prolonged struggle. B.K. Johnson, an heir to the King Ranch, died of cancer at 71 in 2001. He left his $40 million estate in trust to Laura Johnson, while bequeathing to his daughters and his son's widow his collection of vintage firearms, valued at about $75,000.

The children and their grandchildren filed the lawsuit in 2003. In recent months they reached a settlement, but that fell through and they ended up back in Probate Court 1, where lawyers once again will begin opening statements today.

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