Telephone town hall set for 6 p.m. CST Wednesday, Sept. 2
WASHINGTON--U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz (TX-27) announced today he will host a telephone town hall meeting for residents of the 27th Congressional District of Texas on health care reform at 6 p.m. CST Wednesday, Sept. 2.
“I welcome people to contact our offices in Brownsville, Corpus Christi and Washington, so they may participate in the telephone town hall meeting,” Ortiz said. “Residents contacting our offices should provide staff with their full name, telephone number, physical address, and e-mail address.
“Minutes before the telephone town hall meeting is to start, our office will call residents of the district in our database so they can join in on the conference call,” he said. “Residents can ask questions about the proposed health care reform.”
Ortiz expects thousands of residents to listen in and ask questions about health care reform during the one and a half hour long town hall meeting.
“We must listen to all sides of the discussion,” he said. “I continue to review the most recent information being provided by leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, and at the same time, I am aware that many Americans have questions which must be addressed. It is my goal to provide the most recent information about the health care bill.
“I represent a large district that spans more than 200 miles from Brownsville to north of Corpus Christi, with many rural areas. Using the telephone town hall model will allow the most constituents to participate at once and limit any travel inconveniences,” Ortiz said. “I look forward to engaging all interested residents to discuss this important issue.”
Residents can register for the telephone town hall meeting via the Internet by going to, http://www.house.gov/
For more information on the proposed health care reform, go to http://ortiz.house.gov.
Robstown, Texas and Area in Danger – Critical INFO KEPT FROM THEM!!!
“WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO RUN OUR ANNOUNCEMENT IN SPANISH”
Robstown, Texas – US Ecologists is listed as one of the most dangerous and dirtiest chemical/nuclear waste disposal sites in the nation by an organization that keeps score on such dangerous dump sites. SCORECARD.ORG; this watchdog group and other trustworthy ones are concerned about US Ecologist (especially their role in Robstown area; an area where Hispanics for the most part orbit the burg). Their website displays a chart that diagrams the score of all dumpsites they have researched. US Ecologists in Robstown is portrayed in an ultra-dangerous category.
The local US Ecologists dumping site is located less than a handful of miles from the small community of Robstown. Despite the above, and as it is getting more clearly more obvious by the day, their “infamous” mount of waste and refuge (known as “El Centro) is protruding higher and higher in altitude. As one visitor to the site put it: “It looks like a huge volcano that is going gobble up their tiny offices.” In this city, known as Robstown, mostly an Hispanic and ethnic minority community is plague according to regional medical data obtained as being weighed down with high rates of cancer, diabetes, kidney and liver maladies and a crazy quilt of other environmental factor related variables related to ill health.
US Ecologists IN A BLATANT MOVE, NOW Seeks New Permits Before Governmental Regulatory Agencies – Yet Refuses To Responsibly Inform The Public About Required Hearings (in Spanish as required or as ethically expected by any entity)…
But the biggest danger of all is not the despicable site or activities that seem to be furtively conducted on a day-in and day-out basis, but the lack of responsible information they are blatantly keeping from the public. A representative of US Ecologists – which for care reasons we shall abbreviate to Christie Perez – told El Defenzor newspaper that they are not required by law to do their new cycles of “news announcements of public hearing in Spanish.”
The above behavior by the regional US Ecologists clearly hints at their clandestine and mealy-mouth agenda. As one resident said: “Nuclear waste being dumped here from other states and they don’t want us to know the consequences? We have children, we have wives, and we have grandmas. I have seen people here die of horrible, horrible illnesses such as cancer and other maladies that have never been fully explained. US Ecologists now much be placed under the microscope.”
Another resident opined: “Where are our leaders? They are sitting next to the former CEO of US Ecologists at the regional Fairgrounds? In fact, the former president – Joe Kramer -- of US Ecologists is there is now the President of the Robstown Area Development Corporation and has been a seat in the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development.
And Kramer’s role in the Robstown Area Development Corporation now has being in question. As the Corpus Christi-times Reported: “In April, an auditor disclosed that the agency (Robstown Area Development Corporation) had failed to submit annual financial statements to the IRS, used by donors to gauge whether money is being spent wisely. The audit also found that checks were missing, documentation was lacking for a nutrition program and purchase orders were not being used. Those documents are also used to determine whether funds are used appropriately.”
There are many new links that will looked at the in the next coming editions of El Defenzor newspaper (Visit our website at www.eldefenzor.com).
$4.8 MILLION IN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RECOVERY ACT FUNDING
USDA Recovery Act Spending is Stimulating Economies, Revitalizing Rural Communities Across America
WASHINGTON-- It has been announded by U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz (TX-27) and other officials and respective government websites (see link below this article) that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has distributed $4.8 million in funding to the 27th Congressional District of Texas from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to help stimulate job growth in South Texas.
“We must continue to work for all Americans,” Ortiz said. “For our district, $625,000 in farm loans will be available from the Farm Service Agency; $1.6 million will go for rural development of water and waste treatment projects and $2.5 million will go for single family housing loans.
“We continue to see funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act reach South Texas,” Ortiz said. “Today, we learned that the unemployment rate has decreased from previous months, which is a clear indication that the stimulates package is working.”
“USDA is working to distribute Recovery Act funds to help rural Americans weather the impact of the current economic downturn while making a down payment on building communities that will thrive and compete in the 21st century,” said Secretary Tom Vilsack. “These investments reflect my shared commitment, with President Obama, to strengthening America’s rural communities.”
USDA worked quickly to announce $27.7 billion of the $28 billion that it was provided by the Recovery Act. In addition, USDA has announced $12.5 billion of the $24.9 billion in low-cost loans as authorized by the Act to help struggling rural families.
USDA Recovery Act funds are helping provide immediate assistance to those in need. The increased benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which affects 1 in 10 Americans, are providing most recipient families of four an extra $80 per month. In addition to preventing hunger, this spending acts as broad economic stimulus – as each $1 in benefits is estimated to generate $1.84 in economic activity.
In addition, USDA Recovery Act investments nationwide will:
· Expand opportunities and spur economic development with up to $9 billion in broadband loans and grants to rural communities.
· Distribute $11.2 billion to provide 80,000 home loans in rural communities.
· Provide loans and grants worth $3.6 billion to provide safe drinking water, improve wastewater treatment systems, and to create jobs and bring increased economic benefits to rural America.
· Utilize nearly $3 billion to improve, develop, and finance business, industry, and employment while improving the economic and environmental climate in rural communities.
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