Chron Trivializes H-Town Latinos
The Chron hard copy has now six consecutive front page stories on the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. See the featured photo. Too bad the Chron E-Board put the Op-Ed by the right-wing knucklehead Kenny Webster on the front page of Sunday’s Chron Outlook section hard copy. The Op-Ed trivializes the Latino leadership and Latino community on our response to the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Webster also wrote this in his Op-Ed:
Then there is the mayor. John Whitmire is unfairly being hammered by critics over this news because that is what happens when federal officers do their job inside city limits. Whitmire is a lifelong Democrat, but apparently that is not good enough anymore, so now he is being called complicit no matter what he says. His job is the city budget, local crime and fixing potholes. It is not running federal immigration enforcement. He is in the classic no-win spot.
Using this man’s death to go after Whitmire, as if any of this were his fault, does not make sense, and it is more than a little tacky.
Mayor Whitmire was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with H-Town’s Latino elected leaders this past Friday at a press conference in the Mayor’s Proclamation Room on the ICE killing. The Chron trivializes H-Town Latinos by putting Webster’s trash on the front page of their Outlook Section. Shameful for sure.
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From the cowardly MAGA department, see this from the Chron this past weekend:
Gov. Greg Abbott’s radio silence on the ICE shooting in Houston is even more jarring given he was on the radio this week for hours after the shooting.
Abbott had White House Border Czar Tom Homan on during his guest hosting duties on The Sean Hannity Show on Tuesday, where they celebrated ICE ramping up its deportation activities nationwide. But neither said a word about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
“Well, you guys are doing a great job,” Abbott told Homan after the border czar bragged about ICE rounding up 10,000 people in less than 5 days as part of a stepped-up enforcement push.
Salgado was shot early Tuesday morning in Houston’s East End after ICE agents attempted to pull over the van he was driving with three other passengers, including his brother, as the work crew was on their way to a construction site. Salgado is a Mexican national who did not have U.S. citizenship. U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, told reporters that Salgado wasn’t the target of the stop when his vehicle was pulled over.
Abbott didn’t talk about the shooting during the radio program or on his social media accounts since. As of Friday afternoon, he’d posted about his family dog passing away and promotions of his radio program from earlier in the week.
It’s a very different reaction than Abbott had in January after ICE shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After that shooting, Abbott was on a conservative radio program where he said the White House needed to “recalibrate” how it was using ICE to make arrests.
Abbott’s silence isn’t all that shocking, politically, given the victim was undocumented as confirmed by his family. In Minnesota, the shooting victims were both U.S. citizens, which allowed GOP leaders to raise concerns.
Abbott is a coward for sure. This has been the lead story in H-Town for the past week, and his silence tells all you need to know about this chicken sh_t coward.
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This is a Jen Rice tweet on the late MAGA U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham:
There sure are a whole lot of Dems RIPing a guy who voted not to convict Trump after Jan 6 when they don’t actually have to say anything at all
Monica Lewinsky tweeted this:
I’ve disagreed with many (many) of Lindsey Graham’s choices and beliefs, but he was also — as one of the house managers on the ‘98 impeachment — the one who worked tirelessly to prove there was a smear campaign against me from inside the WH. RIP.
I first took note of Graham when he was on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in 1998 and they launched the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. I will just leave it at that.
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Happy 713 Day, whatever that means.
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At the All-Star game break, we are 47-51 and three games back in the AL West. Yordan Alvarez is having an MVP season. His 31 dingers are second highest in MLB, same for his 70 RBIs. His .318 batting average is the fourth highest. We will have a few days off before the Orioles visit Daikin Park this weekend. I will have the Dinger Derby on the flat screen this evening.