Tony GARZA, B.F.E.E. Flunky--Next TX Governor or B.F.E.E. Gigolo?

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Cliff Notes 101 re: Tony GARZA

(Think Alberto GONZALEZ.)

1.1. Tony was the ONLY Repuke in Extreme South Texas. No Repuke had ever won ANY elective office there for 100 years.

1.2. A cabal of evil incumbents (Dem) had stayed in power TOO long and were corrupt. The citizenry were finally fed up after 12 years and clamored to throw-the-rascals-OUT.

1.3. Tony happened to be the Repuke in opposition. Statewide Repukes were flabbergasted that a Repuke could WIN, so Tony became a STAR!

1.4. Shrub becomes governator. He follows Poppy's minority-flunky-appointee model and appoints Tony to Secty of State, the Katherine HARRIS slot. After that, Tony is ELECTED to the Texas Railroad Commission, notching his resume as the FIRST HISPANIC TO BE ELECTED TO STATEWIDE OFFICE. (Means nothing.)

1.5. Shrub usurps national office and appoints Tony as AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO (sounds good, no?).

Now HERE is the news: Tony is now engaged to marry the RICHEST WOMAN IN MEXICO, $1.5 billion, the 377th billionaire in the world.

SIDEBARS: Tony is 44 yrs old, never married. Ms ARAMBURUZABALA is a sophisticated person who is LIBERATED, who has DATED BILLIONAIRES such as CitiGroup. WHAT in the world would attract her to a dude whose ONLY individual achievement was COUNTY JUDGE???

Could it be that the B.F.E.E. gravy train specializes in elevating minority flunkies willing to GO CORRUPT for PERSONAL GAIN?

Now, let's go on to Chapter 2.

2.1. Tony is 44 yrs old and never married.

2.2. Being NEVER MARRIED does NOT equate with being Gay. OtoH, BEING married does NOT equate with being Straight.

2.3. Tony went 44 years without entering into a lovely commitment, yet-----YET finally finds THE RIGHT ONE who happens to be worth $1.5 BILLION.

2.4. WHAT in the world would Ms YabbaDabbaDoo find in TONY GARZA that she never saw before in her previous dates? Could it be that Tony will be installed as a TX governator? Thereby, she can fulfill the Teresa Heinz KERRY role as governess of the PROVINCE OF TEXAS???!!!

2.5. Picture this: A Mexican princess, becoming the FIRST LADY OF TEXAS, thereby, reclaiming Texas for its original Mexico beingness.

Now------THAT----would be a billionaire's crap game.

On to Chapter 3.

3.1. Now Tony occupied the Gay Seat in Texas, Secretary of State. Just because he was Never Married at 44 yrs of age doesn't make him Gay. And being married doesn't make one Straight, either.

3.2. Never-married is a time-honored condition in Hispanic culture.

3.3. ANYBODY can be married, and ARE, more often than not.

3.4. Let's see, (stay with me now) Tony could find NO WOMAN TO MARRY for 44 years, yet suddenly finds THE person who HAPPENS to be worth $1.5 billion.

3.5. Ms YabbaDabbaDoo MIGHT be happy with a Thousand-aire, a MILLIONAIRE, a BILLIONAIRE-----all of whom she has met. Yet she chooses TONY GARZA. What music, art, intelligence does he HAVE she hasn't SEEN anywhere else? It's got to be that he is a B.F.E.E. flunky who will be INSTALLED into the Governor's mansion, which will make her the Teresa Heinz KERRY of the Province of Texas.

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http://www.worldtrademag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/cov...

.... ...Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, the 39-year-old chairwoman of Mexico's leading brewer Grupo Modelo, with more than $3.5 billion in revenue. Tall, slim and with a fashion sense that tends towards tight sweaters, miniskirts and sky-high heels, Aramburuzabala hardly fits the image of the hard-driving woman executive. Dismiss her as a confection at your own peril, however. The girly exterior is little more than a cover for the shrewd business mind that lies beneath. ....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/2005...

.... ...Tony Garza, 43, a longtime friend and ally of President Bush (news - web sites) who is often mentioned as a possible future candidate for Texas governor. ....

It's going to be a real power couple. She's very rich and he's very ambitious politically," said Rafael Fernandez de Castro, editor of the Spanish-language edition of Foreign Affairs magazine. ....

In the United States, Garza has been at odds with anti-immigration activists who oppose his backing of President Bush's proposal to adopt an expanded guest-worker program that would make it easier for Mexican workers to enter the U.S.

Embassy spokesman James Dickmeyer said Garza had no plans to alter his term as ambassador. A grandson of Mexican immigrants and the son of a Brownsville gas station owner, Garza served as Texas secretary of state under Bush and was named to the ambassador post in November 2002. ....

"I'm stepping on welcome mats marked `Men only,'" Aramburuzabala told The Wall Street Journal in 2001. "It's important to me not to feel like a useless woman who inherited money and sits on a couch eating popcorn and watching movies." ....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20021...

.... Guadalupe Loaeza, a Mexico City columnist, described Aramburuzabala as a "very open woman, very educated, very congenial, very cosmopolitan." ....


http://www.opednews.com/thoreau022704_texas_governor.ht...

.... Meanwhile, a blog written by Wick Allison, publisher/editor of D Magazine, a mainstream city magazine, mentioned that Geoff Connor, Perry's secretary of state and alleged playmate, threatened to track down the source of the rumor and sue. Republicans have blamed a Democratic operative in Houston. ....

That would be an interesting lawsuit if Connor were to actually sue someone, wouldn't it? I doubt he would follow through since the gay stories would get further into the public record.

A politically-connected attorney in Texas told me he has known about Perry's gay side since the 1980s. And two district judges in Odessa told him that the rumor was always there when they served in the Legislature with Perry.

I don't care if he is gay or bi or whatever, what's appalling is the hypocrisy involved - Perry is going around condemning gays and signing laws against them in public while possibly doing something different in private. ....

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1. Oh, What This Was About:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3038635&mesg_id=3038635



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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f1dc90ac-73f5-11d9-b705-00000e...

Wedding bells
Published: February 1 2005 02:00 | Last updated: February 1 2005 02:00

Tony Garza, US ambassador to Mexico, is celebrating a diplomatic coup like few others - his engagement to Mexico's most eligible woman.

María Asunción Aramburuzabala, his future wife, inherited the Modelo brewery fortune (Mexico's biggest and maker of Corona). Since then she has taken big stakes in Televisa, the world's biggest Spanish-language broadcaster, and Telmex, the telecommunications behemoth. Forbes and Fortune reckon her wealth at about $1.5bn, making her Mexico's richest woman.

María Asunción has been divorced once, and her private life has long been the subject of intense interest in Mexican gossip columns. She started dating the ambassador after a lengthy relationship with Manuel Medina Mora, who runs Citigroup's operations in Latin America.

As for Garza, a long-term friend of George W. Bush and the grandchild of four Mexican grandparents, he should still be able to deal with claims that he's gone native. The announcement of the nuptials comes after his stickiest moment in more than two years in the job, when he infuriated Mexican officials, including the president, by going public with a letter complaining about the escalating drug wars in the northern frontier zone.

That affair simmered down after a very public breakfast with the Mexican foreign secretary on Saturday. Now it's time for an equally public engagement.

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2. Haha - IMUS This A.M. Called PERRY, "I-have-pompoms-in-my-closet"

This A.M., through my drowsy filter, I heard IMUS doing his carnival barker thing for Kinky FRIEDMAN who was kicking off his run for TX Governor.

Now, IMUS and Kinky have a relationship and Kinky and Pickles/Laura have a relationship, so the flow of inside information goes round and round there.

In mentioning who the incumbent was whom Kinky is running against, Rick PERRY, IMUS said:

"Rick 'I've-got-pom-poms-in-my-closet' PERRY---from his days at A&M or something."

Haha. Pompoms, closet. It was a clear allusion to the PERRY/Gay rumors six months ago---only barely deflected with "A&M". Actually, the same has been applied to Shrub.

[Gruenemann]

5. Kinky also said that

Perry was more interested in having shirts ironed than ironing out the problems with education.

The kinkster has my vote!

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3. Tony as a Low Rent "Tancredi" (VISCONTI's "The Leopard")

So Burt LANCASTER is the aging aristocrat who sees the coming tide of the middle-classers and adjusts, sees the need to CHANGE ("Things must change for them to remain the same"). He marries off his nephew, "Tancredi", to the daughter of a new-rich.

He sees that there will be political positions available in the new government, that Tancredi is ambitious but doesn't have enough money, and says, "Tancredi needs money (for his ambition)."

Insert "Tony GARZA" into the Tancredi mix.

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CWQL//qid=1107446936/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5323740-3455304?v=glance&s=dvd&vi=reviews

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
With this magnificent Criterion DVD release, Luchino Visconti's 1963 historical drama The Leopard will finally earn widespread recognition as one of the most beautiful epics ever produced. In adapting the popular novel by Giuseppe Tomassi di Lampedusa (an Italian equivalent to Gone with the Wind, set during the tumultuous Garibaldi revolution of 1860-62), Visconti was initially reluctant to cast Burt Lancaster as the melancholy Prince of Salina--the aging aristocrat "leopard" of the title--who accepts change as inevitable during the struggle for a unified Italy. But Lancaster (even with his voice dubbed in the fully restored Italian release) delivered one of his finest performances, modeled after Visconti himself, and reacting to political and familial upheavals with the wisdom and whimsy of a man who knows that his way of life--and all he holds dear--must change with the times. You won't find a more intimate epic, and Giusseppe Rotunno's masterful cinematography represents the pinnacle of painterly beauty, matched only by the authentic splendor of the film's impeccable production design. The climactic hourlong ballroom scene--which even the hard-to-please Pauline Kael called "one of the greatest of all passages in movies"--is utterly breathtaking. Anchored by Lancaster's performance and the romantic pairing of Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, The Leopard is sheer perfection, fully restored to its 185-minute glory. --Jeff Shannon

DVD features
In the scholar/critic category, Peter Cowie's full-length commentary for The Leopard ranks as one of the finest ever recorded--a delightfully unpretentious synthesis of erudition, informed analysis, production history, and biographical detail on Visconti, incorporating well-chosen readings from Lampedusa's source novel to illustrate the elegance of the screenplay adaptation and enhance one's understanding of the story's historical context. (Cowie also notes the Proustian influence on the film's celebrated ballroom sequence.) The hourlong documentary features 2003 interviews with most of the film's surviving cast and screenwriters, and in a dignified interview, producer Goffredo Lombardo expresses his affection for The Leopard despite the fact that his company, Titanus, was bankrupted by the film's exorbitant cost. University of Pennsylvania historian Millicent Marcus provides scholarly detail about the film's lavish historical background. And while it's hard to imagine anyone preferring the now-obsolete, truncated English-dubbed American release that includes Lancaster's own vocal performance, that version is included here for collector value and critical comparison. All in all, The Leopard is yet another polished jewel in Criterion's burgeoning collection of cinematic treasures. --Jeff Shannon

Description
Making its long-awaited U.S. home video debut, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy. Burt Lancaster stars as the aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation, represented by his upstart nephew (Alain Delon) and his beautiful fiancée (Claudia Cardinale). Awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, The Leopard translates Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel, and the history it recounts, into a truly cinematic masterpiece. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the film in two distinct versions: Visconti's original 187-minute Italian version, and the alternate 161-minute English-language version released in America, in a newly restored, three-disc special edition that also features a new hour-long documentary on the making of the film, and more.

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4. Dirt on Garza

This is copied and pasted from a chat this afternoon with an old friend from McAllen who has two siblings in the legal profession there:

"Graza's best friend, judge Ricardo Hinojosa, from mcallen is very, very gay.

BUT...Tony was also living with tracy klinger, who when they broke up, moved to Mcallen to be an appellate judge under Hinojosa.

Tracy resigned her post to move to Atlanta...i bet she feels real good that Tony is marrying the richest person in mexico."