{"id":9120,"date":"2019-08-08T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/?p=9120"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:21:14","slug":"one-bad-turn-deserving-of-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/one-bad-turn-deserving-of-another\/","title":{"rendered":"One Bad Turn Deserving of Another"},"content":{"rendered":"

My initial reaction upon reading of Juaquin Castro \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcouting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 local San Antonio donors to the Trump campaign was along the lines of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh dear, that was so not a good idea!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> Nothing that I have read about the imbroglio<\/a> in the days since has given me cause to revise that opinion \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 other than to confirm it. Yes, such information is a matter of public record, but opening up certain of your constituents to harassment, especially in the wake of such things as calls for Republicans to be harassed in restaurants, protested by persons threatening violence at their homes, attacked physically, and going so far as shooting up their softball teams \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 this does not calm the political passions in any degree. No, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as good as spraying gasoline on a bonfire, and the Castro brothers richly deserve every bit of the opprobrium they have earned \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially locally.<\/p>\n

There is a rather curious thing about San Antonio; it may look like a medium-sized city to the distant observer, but it is actually the biggest small town in the world. The networks of personal connection are as strong and as intertwined as any small town.<\/p>\n

Examples? I used to part-time at the local public radio\/classical music station, which turned out to be a major node; any number of various circles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the military, business, artistic, political, medical\/scientific, scholastic etc. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all intersected there. One of the other announcers was big in local small theater, another announcer was noted on the local music scene for performing and building harpsichords, yet another\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family was neighbors with a former San Antonio mayor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the mayor was himself their family dentist \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the senior radio guy was a retired colonel who had been a squadron commander in my own former career field. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just the radio station, either: one of my occasional employers was a high-school friend of the previous employers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wife \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and it turned out that another of his high school friends was the CPA who does both of our taxes. A neighbor from just three houses away \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his brother owns the best independent burger joint on Broadway, and their family also owned one of the classic old movie theaters downtown. One big small town, you see. <\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know personally any of those people whom Juaquin Castro so maliciously chose to all but dox \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I know of them. They aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t national names, especially; but they are local, of substance, and generally considered solid good citizens. Phyllis Browning<\/a> Realty, Bill Miller BBQ<\/a>, Valero Energy, the Pearl Brewery<\/a> development, USAA, Kuykendall, Steves<\/a>; all names and companies of local note, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bet just about anything you like that they all know each other, or at least, know of each other. It shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been any surprise that half a dozen<\/a> of those named had previously contributed to his own and his brother Julian Castro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s various political campaigns. The Castros likewise were of note; and probably got to where they are in local and national office through the monetary support of those donors — donors whom Juaquin Castro gratuitously kicked in the teeth, because he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it that they also donated to Trump. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just go ahead and assume that the Brothers Castro have pretty written off local office-holding; those local donors who consented to comment to the media seem rather annoyed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c those who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comment are probably incandescent with fury. Just my .02 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c comment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My initial reaction upon reading of Juaquin Castro \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcouting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 local San Antonio donors to the Trump campaign was along the lines of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh dear, that was so not a good idea!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nothing that I have read about the imbroglio in the days since has given me cause to revise that opinion \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 other than to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}