COUNTY COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ (Part 3): Chico Rodriguez defends his "Loren Brewer" appointment

No Justice for a community who's safety has been put in jeopardy by the re-appointment of members to the ESD6 board.

In January, the County Commissioners reappointed the same individuals, Sylvia Mendelsohn (Chico Rodriguez's campaign manger), Norbeto Chavez, Luisa J. Vargas, John Nolan Wood to another term on the ESD6. Mr. Loren Brewer was not re-appointed, but was left as a "hold over" status member because his position was not filled.

There was however, a typo-clerical error; which meant that the board had to rescind the appointments and vote for them again. This gave the community of South Bexar County the opportunity to attend the commissioners court meeting and plead with the commissioners to table the motion until they could look into the activities of this board or appoint other members to the board.

Their pleas were met with some "interest", genuine or not, by Commissioner Nelson Wolff, while his son Kevin Wolff remained silent and listened. Mr. Elizondo seemed genuinely concerned and yet listening at plea after plea from the South Bexar County community members, Chico Rodriguez prevailed and his board members were once again reappointed.

According to an interesting article in today's paper, Commissioner Rodriguez hints at putting blame on a volunteer fire department and that this is the wrong time to dismantle the ruling body. Leaving the South Bexar County community to wonder, when the right time is.

• Is it when there are absolutely no funds left to run the ESD6? It's obvious from their budget numbers presented at this months meeting, that there is not enough money to fund the fire departments. As board treasurer, Luisa Vargas stated, "$414,000 is not a lot of money." It's this type of mentality that has created the funding problems within the ESD6. No grasp for the value of a dollar.
• Or could it be after the clean up, Ms. Mendelsohn allowed The Computer Guy to remove the office computer for "external backup" according to the Feb. 2, 2011 ESD meeting. She stated that there were problems with the computer, the Administrator, Shiela Staggs, who works with the computer stated at the same meeting that "the computer guy took the computer for a day last week and we weren't having any problems with it."

When a community member, Jim Clement mentioned the fact that Mr. Brewer had not attended a single meeting, other than the one at his appointment and swearing in; Commissioner Rodriguez defended the fact that Mr. Brewer was serving his country in Iraq or Afghanistan, not knowing which.

According to members of Mr. Brewer's community, to include family members, Mr. Brewer has never stepped foot on middle eastern soil and pretending to do so at best is a dishonor to those men and women who have. Mr. Brewer has a long history in his community (birth name: Loren G. Martin). Mr. Brewer (then Loren G. Adcock) served in the Air Force after high school and was discharged. He then became Loren G. Brewer and shortly there after, he ran for the Southside ISD school board.

While Mr. Brewer was on the board, he bid and "won" the bid to purchase school property on FM1937, which was the Buena Vista Elementary school property. Documentation shows some litigation problems with the purchase of the property. The property sits abandoned, unkept, and has been reported on numerous occasions to the "code compliance" office. With the purchase of the property, it opened the opportunity for Mr. Brewer who had no record of owning any property within the community, to appointments on boards, as the property sits inside the San Antonio city limits. Commissioner Rodriguez appointed Mr. Brewer to the City South Board, where he is still shown as being a member and it would be safe to say, that if he is "out of country" that he has not attended their meetings either.

As a board member, he served as board president and created turmoil within the district and was censured (According to agenda found on www.southsideisd.org). At this time he stepped down from his position as board president. He then began the process of re-enlisting, this time into the Army Reserves. Mr. Brewer, according to members of his community, attended a handful of meetings, in uniform, but removed his rank. Grandstanding perhaps, but a violation of the military code. A soldier cannot wear their uniform when they are not on duty. Then it was learned from a family member that Mr. Brewer was doing contract work in the states, but he lead members of the community to believe that he was being deployed, on several occasions, to Iraq.

The ESD6 board president, a personal friend and former campaign backer, has continued to mention him as TDY for over a year at their meetings, Mr. Brewer is also known for popping into his community and making announcements of his departure to Afghanistan, but there has been nothing to prove that he has ever been. His last known location was El Paso, Texas.

ARMY REGULATIONS: TDY: Temporary duty shall run a minimum of 2 days and could run up to two months, with an extension, but not to exceed 1 year away from the unit or duty station.

An idea for finding the missing board member: Open Records Request: DD4187 request. If Mr. Brewer is to be absent for an extended length of time, he must report it to the board and his employer by submitting this documentation.

WHERE'S MR. BREWER?

If anyone else knows the location of the missing political figure, I welcome the information as the community has a right to know the activities and more so, the physical location of their representative.

THANK YOU FOR THE INFO: Mr. Loren Brewer has arrived. He was last spotted on the evening of the 10th of February, at the J.L. Matthey Middle School, for an athletic function. Could be that he is back in town to run for a position on the Southside ISD school board, a recent posting on the Southside ISD website shows that they are having elections.

Wondering how Mr. Brewer, who has a history of injury and minimal employment could purchase a property from the school district, while sitting on the board, I decided this merited a little further investigation.

The school property was purchased by Mr. Brewer et el, meaning he purchased it with others, then the ownership changed to Loren Glen Adcock Brewer and today it sits valued at $35,350 with an AG/Land value. Although it sits unkept. His homestead sits on property that isn't his, only the home. However, in Atascosa County, about the time he became a school board member, Mr. Brewer also purchased property in Jourdanton, Texas valued at $49,000 at the time of purchase, today at $79,000. He also purchased property in Pleasanton, Texas which started out at $19,000 and increased value to $102,380 when he became a member of the ESD board. The properties in Atascosa County are registered to Loren G. Adcock.

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