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March 17, 2008 WHY DOES THE PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI LIAISE WITH LENCHO RENDON (AND ...

Asia Access Corp, LR GLOBAL OSI , BY NOW REORGANIZED AND "NEVER CONNECTED TO THE CONGRESSMAN OR HIS CHIEF OF STAFF"? For three decades, Florencio "Lencho" Rendon was US Rep. Solomon Ortiz's closest confidant and political strategist

source: Corpus Christi Caller Times

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March 14, 2008 ATTN: Evan Smith; Regarding Paul Burka's Article on UT Regents

In the latest South Texas Independent Journalists Association (STIJA) survey, the public is demanding that Congressman Solomon Ortiz, his former aide Lencho "El Pescado" Rendon and State Senator "Sucio" Eddie Lucio should spend time in

source: Tip of the Iceberg

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March 12, 2008 Texas Monthly acknowledges (the de facto existence / independence ...

In the latest South Texas Independent Journalists Association (STIJA) survey, the public is demanding that Congressman Solomon Ortiz, his former aide Lencho "El Pescado" Rendon and State Senator "Sucio" Eddie Lucio should spend time in

source: Think Tank

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March 12, 2008 THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE AND ASIAN EXCURSIONS: THE CAT IS REALLY OUT ...

Data retreived through a Google entry - Hong Kong Solomon Ortiz.8 posted on 06/11/2006 7:41:05 AM PDT by gaspar[ Post Reply Private Reply To 5 View Replies ]To: SwinneySwitchI am thinking someone may end up on probation for a whole year ...

source: DEFENZORMAGAZINE

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March 08, 2008 DO YOUR REMEMBER THIS FROM LENCHO?

Political confidant wants family time Jaime Powell Caller-TimesTuesday, April 25, 2006 For three decades, Florencio "Lencho" Rendon was US Rep. Solomon Ortiz's closest confidant and political strategist. APRIL 2006 ...

source: DEFENZORMAGAZINE

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March 03, 2008 Hegemony: Power, Culture & Ideology: Lencho Rendon: The Pimping ...

Shamsie’s support stems from the Office of Congressman Solomon Ortiz and certain other witnesses to the “Capelo Deal”. (Attorney Shamsie (along with George Finley {Defense Contractor & Nueces County Hospital District}) witnessed the ...

source: Nueces Democrats

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March 03, 2008 Hegemony: Power, Culture & Ideology: Lencho Rendon: The Pimping ...

Shamsie’s support stems from the Office of Congressman Solomon Ortiz and certain other witnesses to the “Capelo Deal”. (Attorney Shamsie (along with George Finley {Defense Contractor & Nueces County Hospital District}) witnessed the ...

source: Corpus Christi Caller Times

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March 03, 2008 Lencho Rendon: The Pimping Out Of The President & Hillary

Lencho Rendon, a once behind the scenes person for US Congressman Solomon Ortiz, now is heavy handedly displaying his power and navigated the events, the media coverage and the access to the who, where and why of the Clinton visit(s). ...

source: Hegemony: Power, Culture & Ideology

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March 02, 2008 Tell Them Who You Are.

Last night, Man Shac, who works for State Rep. Solomon Ortiz, Jr., invited me to go with him to the Texas Democratic Women's awards banquet & dinner. After a long day of dropping lit for the LJD campaign, I was kind of concerned that ...

source: meanrachel

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March 01, 2008 Paper questions Ortiz on China travel

Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) and his chief of staff each invested thousands of dollars in a Chinese telecommunications project in 2005 with a Texas businessman whose company paid nearly $20000 to fly them to China the year before and ...

source: Upper Valley Notebook

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February 27, 2008 The Latino vote in Texas: A decisive factor

"The Houston Chronicle noted over the weekend that while Hillary Clinton can claim the support of US Rep. Solomon Ortiz and state Sen. Eddie Lucio -- both longtime officeholders -- Barack Obama has the backing of state Reps. ...

source: THE 2008 US ELECTION: THE MENA REPORT

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February 26, 2008 LATEST FROM DEFENZOR: GET OUT AND VOTE!! MARCH 4, 2008

Rumors are not confirmed that Solomon Ortiz Jr and Sr. supporters such as the Rendons are openly supporting Banales although Joe Benavides helped the Congressman since 2000 on all of his campaigns. This support may be another mistake in ...

source: DEFENZORMAGAZINE

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February 26, 2008 The Latino generational divide

The Houston Chronicle noted over the weekend that while Hillary Clinton can claim the support of US Rep. Solomon Ortiz and state Sen. Eddie Lucio -- both longtime officeholders -- Barack Obama has the backing of state Reps. ...

source: hispanictips

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February 25, 2008 EL DEFENZOR ELECTION DAY ARTICLE: REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION

Rumors are not confirmed that Solomon Ortiz Jr and Sr. supporters such as the Rendons are openly supporting Banales although Joe Benavides helped the Congressman since 2000 on all of his campaigns. This support may be another mistake in ...

source: REAL SOUTH TEXAS POLITICS

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February 23, 2008 sheila jackson lee

... Matthews asked her she thought comments Sheila Jackson Lee Houston (Clinton sandwiched between Ciro Rodriguez San Antonio (uncommitted) and Solomon Ortiz Corpus Christi (Clinton) Chet Edwards Waco (Obama here, too, and Ed Bernice ...

source: Super It Step

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February 20, 2008 HUBdate: The Choice

Previewing Today: Hillary holds a low-dollar fundraiser and delivers a major address in New York and attends early vote rallies with Rep. Rubén Hinojosa in Hidalgo and Rep. Solomon Ortiz in Brownsville, Texas… ...

source: Hillary Clinton: Latest Press Releases

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February 19, 2008 State Representatives, Judges Urged to Return Donations by ...

CORPUS CHRISTI – State lawmakers and judges who received hundreds of thousands of dollars from indicted Democratic contributor Mauricio Celis should follow the lead of Rep. Solomon Ortiz Jr. and return the contributions, according to ...

source: Texas Insider

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February 19, 2008 Fwd: [Solomon P. Ortiz] Republicanos Who Claim To Be Democrats But ...

CORPUS CHRISTI – State lawmakers and judges who received hundreds of thousands of dollars from indicted Democratic contributor Mauricio Celis should follow the lead of Rep. Solomon Ortiz Jr. and return the contributions, according to ...

source: Corpus Christi Watchdog Authority

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February 19, 2008 Republicanos Who Claim To Be Democrats But Aim To Debilitate The ...

CORPUS CHRISTI – State lawmakers and judges who received hundreds of thousands of dollars from indicted Democratic contributor Mauricio Celis should follow the lead of Rep. Solomon Ortiz Jr. and return the contributions, according to ...

source: Solomon P. Ortiz

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February 17, 2008 Threats to affect & harm one's livelihood so as to censor free speech

Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at 8:29 PM ... Lencho Rendon, US Rep Solomon Ortiz's former ai. ... 27thcongressionaldistrict.blogspot.com/2007/09/texas-public-education-watchdog.html - 50k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this ...

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February 17, 2008 Hillary wafts in like a blast from the past

Summary: Some Clinton critics, even Democrats, have feared she would carry on ... Wednesday's rally felt like old South Texas politics, ... It was predictable for US Rep. Solomon Ortiz to introduce Clinton, ... region may have been ...

source: newsgroups.derkeiler.com: alt.politics.bush

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February 16, 2008 Texas: La Brecha Generacional (”The Generation Gap”)

anahernandez.jpg The San Antonio Express-News digs a little deeper into Mexican-American voter preferences and finds a generation gap: U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz

source: The Field

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February 16, 2008 Delaying Dollar Dollar Bills it is a family business

That fat deal fell through, but some time later the DeLay brothers' local congressional ally, a Democrat named Solomon Ortiz, explained why he had endorsed the lobbying scheme. Asked whether he had urged local officials to hire Randy ...

source: Solomon P. Ortiz

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February 15, 2008 Threats to affect & harm one's livelihood so as to censor free speech>

Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at 8:29 PM ... Lencho Rendon, US Rep Solomon Ortiz's former ai. ... 27thcongressionaldistrict.blogspot.com/2007/09/texas-public-education-watchdog.html - 50k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this ...

source: Corpus Christi Watchdog Authority

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February 15, 2008 Threats to affect & harm one's livelihood so as to censor free speech>

Posted by Jaime Kenedeño at 8:29 PM ... Lencho Rendon, US Rep Solomon Ortiz's former ai. ... 27thcongressionaldistrict.blogspot.com/2007/09/texas-public-education-watchdog.html - 50k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this ...

source: Tip of the Iceberg

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February 13, 2008 FUNDS GO TOWARD HEALTH EFFORTS FOR ASIANS, HISPANICS; INITIATIVES TARGET CARDIAC HEALTH, INFANT MORTALITY AMONG HISPANICS, BLACKS

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source: Better

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February 12, 2008 FUNDS GO TOWARD HEALTH EFFORTS FOR ASIANS, HISPANICS; INITIATIVES ...

The cohort is studying obesity, diabetes, heart disease, mental health and other diseases among 2000 Mexican-Americans. Rep. Solomon Ortiz helped secure the funding (U

source: Michael

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February 12, 2008 FUNDS GO TOWARD HEALTH EFFORTS FOR ASIANS, HISPANICS; INITIATIVES ...

The cohort is studying obesity, diabetes, heart disease, mental health and other diseases among 2000 Mexican-Americans. Rep. Solomon Ortiz helped secure the funding (U

source: Unknown

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February 11, 2008 Congressman Gonzalez endorses Sen. Barack Obama

Senator Barack Obama & Congressman Charlie Gonzalez (photos) by Gary Martin, S.A. Express-News WASHINGTON – Illinois Sen ... include Rep. Solomon Orti

source: Walker Report - Shedding Light on Bexar County

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February 11, 2008 Funds Go Toward Health Efforts For Asians, Hispanics; Initiatives Target Cardiac Health, Infant Mortality Among Hispanics, Blacks

Funds Go Toward Health Efforts For Asians, Hispanics; Initiatives Target Cardiac Health, Infant Mortality Among Hispanics, Blacks February 11th, ... -Americans. Rep. Solomon k

source: Medical Health Articles-Free Resource For You Keep Body Health

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Posted on March 9, 2008 by Jamie Spencer
Naming Names and Plagiarism in Criminal Defense Blogs

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Houston defense attorney Mark Bennett is understandably outraged to see that fellow criminal law blogger David Finn has reproduced the Department of Justice’s press release about Mark’s client as his own work. Mark’s concern, as always, is for his own client, who thanks to this “Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer” has his name besmirched before a jury can even be selected.

Others might consider it unseemly to not even attribute the DOJ in the post, not to link to the original, not even to indent someone else’s words as is customary in blogging etiquette. No, this is all under the banner of the “Personal Online Journal of David Finn”.

Meanwhile New York defense lawyer Scott Greenfield recently groused about his original writings being bastardized as unintelligible garbage in random blogs. He first thought the culprit was the blogging platform WordPress, but Windy Pundit cleared up the misunderstanding in a comment. Turns out it was just another splog.

These two instances are related, and they illustrate the 2 types of bad and/or useless blogs in the criminal blawgosphere:

1. Lawyers that don’t know or understand the purpose of blogging.
2. Folks trying to monetize a cheap/free site quickly, using Google’s AdSense program.

Category Number One: the Lawyers.

These are lawyers who have contacted (or been contacted by) some Search Engine Optimization genius, who tells them that blogs are the latest thing.

“It’s all about content. Frequently changing and updating content on your site. That’s what Google values the most. That’s what a blog is,” says our easily imaginable SEO expert.

So the web designer sets up a ‘blog’ for the defense lawyer, and tells him, “Take snippets from the local news and post regularly.” Soemtimes the webmeister advises the potential client to “comment on the story”.

Perhaps that saves Finn from the plagiarism charge. Referring, apparently, to federal indictments relating to mortgage fraud, he prefaces the cut-and-paste with the pithy phrase, “Expect to see more of this in 2008”. So at least that’s original.

But, ignoring Bennett’s point about criminal defense lawyers doing the government’s dirty work for the, I still don’t get it. This blog is clearly being used as a marketing tool and exists for that purpose alone. There’s no insight or commentary. Nothing.

The part that confuses me is this: would someone being investigated or perhaps already indicted by the Federal Government run across this site? Potentially yes. Would they say to themselves, what, I don’t know, “I want to hire the guy who repeats the federal prosecutor’s propaganda? Give me the guy who names defendants in his blog.”?

I would think not. So, never mind the ethics of plagiarism, how effective a marketing tool could it be?

Category Number Two: the sploggers.

Written after the fact, and now contained in a separate post.
Tags: Other Blogs, criminal defense lawyer blogs

Port Commission meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center

Port Commissioners The Authority is governed by a Port Commission composed of seven commissioners who serve without pay. Each commissioner serves a staggered term of three years with appointments made to the Commission each year. Three commissioners are appointed by the Corpus Christi City Council, the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi, three commissioners are appointed by the Nueces County Commissioners Court, the governing body of Nueces County, and one is appointed by the San Patricio County Commissioners Court. The executive staff, under the leadership of the executive director, manages the operations of the Authority and assists the Commission in planning for the future. Port Commission efforts are directed toward encouraging industrial expansion, attracting new cargo, building and maintaining public terminals, setting operational policy and cooperating with the Federal Government as a local sponsor in maintaining and further improving vital navigation channels. Port Commission meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center. To view latest agenda, Commission Agenda, Audit Committee and Investment Commette, Industrial Development Corporation of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, and Pilot Board of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority. Ruben Bonilla, Jr. Chairman Term: 2007-2010 City Appointee Port Commissioner since 1998 Bonilla holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Dr. of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin Law School and is a partner with Law Firm Bonilla & Chapa, P.C. His current community involvement and organizational affiliations include Chairman of Corpus Christi MPO, World Affairs Council, South Texas Institute of the Arts, LULAC, American GI Forum, and Board of Trustees for Tx A&M CC . Bonilla's professional affiliations include the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Nueces County Bar Association. He has assisted in establishing many scholarships throughout this community including the Dan Purcell Scholarship Fun, Ruben Bonilla, Sr Memorial Scholarship, Maria Bonilla Scholarship, Bay Area Sports Most Valuable Player Scholarship and Jim Fisher Memorial Scholarship. His involvement in the community have been recognized through such honors as the Cecil Burney Humanitarian Award, Robert Baldwin, Award, Heroes of Children Award, and President's Award from the H. Boyd Hall Branch of the NAACP to name a few.

Bernard A. Paulson Vice-Chairman Term: 2006-2009 County Appointee Port Commissioner since 1997 Paulson is a Chemical Engineer from Michigan State University in East Lansing and recipient of the Claud Erickson Award Distinguished Engineering Alumni. He is president and CEO of TOR Minerals International. Paulson has Chaired organizations such as the Safeharbor Committee, the Mayor's Water Advisory Committee and the Art Museum of South Texas. His civic involvement includes, but not limited to, Bay Area Economic Development Corp., Executive Committee Coastal Bend Bays Foundation and Policy Committee Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program. Paulson was 1st Lt. in the United States Air Force.

Mike Carrell Secretary Term: 2008- 2011 City Appointee Port Commissioner since 2002 Carrell, President of Frost National Bank, graduated from Carroll High School and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Engineering from Texas A&M University. He also has a Master of Business Administration from Corpus Christi State University. Carrell serves on the board of numerous community organizations including USS Lexington Museum on the Bay, United Way, Corpus Christi Town Club, Corpus Christi Banker's Association, Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Board, and Buccaneer Commission. Other community involvement includes Boy Scouts of America, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi Rotary Club, and CC Bay Area Economic Development Corp.

Yolanda G. Olivarez Commissioner Term: 2006-2009 County Appointee Former Chairman from 2001 - 2002 Port Commissioner since 1997 Olivarez is a Sr. Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank with more than 14+ years in the banking industry. Her community service includes fundraising for numerous charities, such as March of Dimes, Heart Association, United Way Task Force and American Cancer Society. She has served on many community boards, such as Avance Selena Center, Selena Memorial Committee, Texas A&M University/Project for Dr. Hector P. Garc’a, Garc’a Plaza Scholarship Fund, Civil Service Commissioner, Workforce Development Corporation, and many other boards. Her most recent awards and accomplishments include assisting to chair the fundraiser for Avance Selena Center, assistant fundraiser for the USS Lexington and assisted Nueces County in the Earned Income Credit Program.

Robert J. Gonzalez, Sr. Commissioner Term: 2006-2009 County Appointee Port Commissioner since 2000 Former Vice-Chair from 2001 - 2002 Gonzalez has Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law and is the Founder/Senior Partner of the Law Offices of Gonzalez & Gonzalez, LLP. His community service includes involvement in the Buccaneer Commission, the Carnival Committee and a National Recruiter, Parade Commodore. He is a member of the Corpus Christi Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.

Judy Hawley Commissioner Term: 2007-2010 San Patricio County Appointee Port Commissioner since 2004 Following her first career of teaching and coaching tennis, Judy Hawley served four terms in the Texas House of Representatives. During her tenure in the House, she focused her legislative agendas around issues which impacted rural Texas. She served as Vice-Chair of both the Transportation and Energy Resources Committees and authored numerous bills relating to those industries. Additionally, she served on the Agriculture and Livestock Committee and sponsored major legislation for the agricultural producers in the state. As Chair of the Rural Caucus, she carried the legislation establishing the Office of Rural Community Affairs which coordinates rural issues among the state agencies and serves as a resource for rural communities. Serving as the Vice-Chair of the House Military Caucus, Ms. Hawley carried the legislation which established both the Texas Military Preparedness Commission and the Office of Defense Affairs. Ms. Hawley represented Texas as Vice-Chair of the Southern States Energy Board and as a member of the National Energy Council. Currently, Ms. Hawley is the Texas Business Development Director for Advanced Acoustic Concepts in Corpus Christi, Texas. She serves on numerous community boards including those of the South Texas Institute of the Arts, South Texas Public Broadcasting, Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation, Texas Maritime Museum, Regional Leaders Forum and Citizens for Educational Excellence.

Ken Berry Commissioner Term: 2008-2011 County Appointee Port Commissioner since 2005 Berry has a Bachelor’s degree in civil and industrial engineering, Texas A&M University, 1978. Berry has served a previous term as a port commissioner (1999-2002). He also has been a Tuloso-Midway school board trustee and chairman of the county's hospital board. .

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