State Representative Poncho Nevarez criticizes Governor Abbott for denying Maverick County’s Application for Emergency Disaster Relief
By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015
State Representative Poncho Nevarez (D-Eagle Pass) inked a highly critical letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticizing the Governor for denying Maverick County’s Application for Emergency Disaster Relief due to the October 8-9, 2015 flooding incident.
Nevarez stated in his letter to Governor Abbott that “the State’s denial of the County’s request for assistance in a time of much need speaks volumes about the Governor’s Office lack of empathy or understanding of the border.” Nevarez noted that “the Office of the Governor never shies away from bringing attention to the border in ways that ultimately diminish and alienate the region or its people, but when an opportunity arises to assist it, it is ignored.”
Nevarez pointed out that “the Governor’s Office seems ready these days to sensationalize the security of the border. The people of the border expect the state to be just as ready to provide assistance in their time of need.”
Nevarez added that “I will not stay silent when it is continually abused by state-wide officials who are supposed to assist and represent it.” Nevarez tells Governor Abbott to “rethink your position to the recent storm and request made. I ask you to set aside time and I invite you to visit House District 74 and Maverick County. You will find that we have the same type of commitments to our communities and to our responsibilities as citizens of this state as they do in any other community in Texas.”
Nevarez adds that “the people of Maverick County and other border counties are filled with hardworking families and businesses that deserve the same treatment and respect as any other part of the state.”
Nevarez’s stinging letter to Governor Abbott directs the disparate treatment the Governor gives the Texas-Mexico border communities with heavy criticism of being the most corrupt region of the state and lacking border security while denying it equal opportunities of economic development and assistance. Governor Abbott holds the Texas-Mexico border communities to a double standard and quickly uses criticism of it to bait his Texas Tea Party Republican base and news media to sensationalize the border while playing dumb and deaf to the current Republican ethical and corruption crisis affecting state-wide officials and Austin, Texas.
Unlike the Governor’s Office, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) approved Maverick County businesses for low interest loans to assist them with the damages their small businesses sustained as a result of the October 8-9, 2015 flooding.
Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos last week told a Rio Grande Valley business meeting that the Texas-Mexico border is unfairly singled out by state and federal politicians whom live far and away as being unsafe or corrupt without having first hand and personal knowledge of the real issues and progress affecting the Texas-Mexico border. Cascos is the former Cameron County Judge in Brownsville, Texas.
