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Hidalgo County Politics: The Way It Was — Guns, Graft, and Corruption

Hidalgo County Politics: The Way It Was — Guns, Graft, and Corruption

Another election cycle and already people are calling me, asking me if I heard about so-and-so’s son accused of multiple improprieties. It’s all over social media, they tell me.“Yeah, but he’s not running for office. It’s his dad. So where is the relevancy?”In the age of Twitter, political bickering is akin to launching full-scale grenades at the opponents. Boom.If we look back at this county’s history, it’s interesting to note, not only were some “interesting” things going on behind political doors in days gone by, but these people were not only “getting away with it,” they ended up having streets ...

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