The RGV Needs ... A Marjorie Taylor Greene

The RGV needs a woman like Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Sure, on one hand, people might say, “Are all the people who live in the Rio Grande Valley as nuts as her?”

On the other hand, the media exposure will be great for this area: “Greene (rather, someone just like her) represents an area of the country where the cost of living is almost second to none. Crime is low.”

That’s the added sort of positive publicity that we could use to further promote our area.

Yeah, but Greene is a kook. Granted, one among many in D.C., from both parties, but still a kook.

Doesn’t matter. Publicity is everything when an area like Hidalgo County is trying to draw interested investors.

“If we get new developers down here to relocate their business and create a lot of jobs, though, where are we going to get the water to service so many new people?”

A woman like Greene actually has an answer for that. No worries. So, we’ll end up with a two-fer: more water and a seeming crackpot who gets her name in the news on a regular basis.

Two weeks ago, for example, when Hurricane Helene was barreling down on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Greene took to X to write this on Oct. 3: “Yes they can control the weather. It's ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done.”

Say what?

Who is they?

Well, on Oct. 9, as a second hurricane, Milton, was on a similar track toward Florida, the Greene Machine tweeted, getting Georgia’s name mentioned in the process once again (more PR):

“Everyone keeps asking, ‘who is they?'

“Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified, because they are required to report it to the Secretary of Commerce by the Weather Modification Act of 1972.

“The NOAA government website has a library catalog of 1,026 entries of weather modifications, but that’s not all of them.

“If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation?”

We should hope so. “After all,” Greene concluded, “did they ask you if you agreed to our weather being modified?”

Nope.

Greene was initially responding to a map of the East Coast created by a conspiracy theorist who wrote this about Hurricane Helene, sensing skullduggery into how exactly the hurricane tracked:

“The storm seemed to almost methodically miss the bluest parts of those crucial swing states, while simultaneously ravaging the red parts. What a crazy coincidence!”

Indeed. Funny how a hurricane can be perfectly routed. Who would have known?

The anonymous user added:

“There were a few notable exceptions, like Ashville (which is about 60% blue/Democrat), but besides that, the larger blue cities seemed to almost all get ‘lucky’ together.”

Greene has a knack for making headlines, something of which our own congressional reps should take note; and no, the FBI raid on Rep. Henry Cuellar’s home in Laredo in January 2022 doesn’t count. Granted, Cuellar represents part of the western part of the RGV, Starr County, but his home turf is still centered in dusty Laredo.

Of course, there is cloud seeding, weather modification of sorts, but that’s not what Rep. Greene means when she says, “Yes, they can control the weather.”

She’s talking about the sort of futuristic tech that could easily fill our two reservoirs — Falcon and Amistad — in the blink of an eye. Just look at the two “man-created” hurricanes that struck Florida. How many inches of rain did they produce?

Marjorie Taylor Greene would boost Valley exposure no doubt, as she rattles off another conspiracy theory, and people ask — “Where is she from?”

If it were only here, instead of Georgia, people would say, “The Rio Grande Valley.”

Sure, the GEORGIA rep. will get criticized, but her name will make it into print, along with the place from which she hails — “Georgia congresswoman.”

So, not to worry when people lambast her weather claims — “Yours is a special kind of stupid,” tweeted former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

The difference being, Marge is a huge Trump supporter, while Steele criticizes the former president every chance he gets.

On top of the weather claim, before Greene was elected to a GEORGIA district, she once tweeted that she hoped that Nancy Pelosi would lose her memory sitting in prison.

Turning bloody, Greene had this to say in a video produced in 2020: “The only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.”

“Where is that whack job from? The Rio Grande Valley?”

Unfortunately, no. She’s from Georgia. The last guy we had running for local office with any sort of eccentricity, for which he gained free publicity, was the pizza delivery guy who once ran for McAllen mayor. That got the city some publicity.

Othal Brand’s traffic stop of a driver on 10th Street while he was in his last term as mayor could also count as free publicity of a sort, but out of respect for the dead, why mention that, and besides, unlike his shooting-grackles-out-of-the-sky story that once made the front page of the Wall Street Journal in the early 1990s, the traffic stop wasn’t going to make national news.

To bring attention to an area, one needs a larger platform, like holding elected office in D.C.

We need to elect a real crackpot to Congress to bring more attention to the Valley.

A conspiracy theorist would be fine. One who makes everyone sit up and take notice.

“Exactly where in Texas is that nut job from?”

“Hidalgo County. Right on the border.”