Posted on 09/02/2008 10:14:37 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
NEAR MISSION - Police say a suspected illegal immigrant working for a Democratic state representative brutally beat another man to death with a bat Monday morning.
Froylen Casares, 24, was working at a ranch owned by state Rep. Kino Flores near the intersection of North Tropser and Yukon Roads when he killed a young Hispanic male whose name authorities have not released, said Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño.
"It was a very bloody, very bloody, very gruesome crime scene," Treviño said.
Authorities continue to search for Casares, of Honduras, who fled the scene before they arrived at about 5:30 a.m. Flores, who has owned the ranch for eight years and uses it to ride his horses, said he hired the man without checking his background because he didn't appear to be an illegal immigrant.
"He was preppy. He looked the part. No indication. He fit in extremely well, he had family members here," the Democrat from Palmview said. "It just looks bad in general ... of course it's going to grab more traction. I certainly don't want to go around challeng-ing people's status."
Flores, a six-term representative who is running unopposed for reelection this fall, was out of town for the holiday and was reached by phone Monday afternoon. He said he did not know the victim.
Treviño said the suspect's immigration status and whether Flores broke the law was a federal issue that would have to be investi-gated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Flores purchased the five-acre tract in 1986, expanding it in April this year with an additional six acres. The property was appraised at $143,648, according to county records.
“Eleven acres do NOT a “ranch” make.”
Right you are. Evidently it does make a nice illegal alien sanctuary.
Funny that he does not list his party affiliation anywhere on his websites.
I think you’ll find the same on all the other state representatives. They aren’t even listed by party on the House role.
State Rep. Kino Flores did you know the person you HIRED was an ILLEGAL? I bet you did know!!
State Rep. Kino Flores did you know the person you HIRED was an ILLEGAL? I bet you did know!!
No surprise, there...
http://www.themonitor.com/news/rodriguez_9304___article.html/flores_campaign.html) PALMVIEW — A government parking lot became the verbal equivalent of a schoolyard shoving match Friday between two candidates for Texas House District 36. Cloaked in righteous fury, challenger Sandra Rodriguez plunged into a knot of incumbent Kino Flores’ supporters to get to the man himself. Comfortable with the home field advantage, Flores had a small smile on his face, arms crossed over his chest. He leaned back against a black school bus painted with his campaign insignia. Rodriguez berated the state representative over a perceived slight against her campaign workers — Flores, she said, had waved a wad of money at the opposition’s tent, signaling that his campaign was better funded. He denied it ever happened. Moments later, two Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies intervened.
“Can everybody just go to their sides?” one said, waving to the other side of the Hidalgo County Precinct 3 lot where Rodriguez’s supporters had set up camp. “There are no sides,” Rodriguez snapped. “Right, but I need to separate everybody. That’s what I need to do,” the deputy replied, arms outstretched. Resentfully, the crowd dispersed and their voices slowly quieted.
District 36 meanders along Expressway 83 through parts of Pharr and McAllen and out to Palmview. But the atmosphere of this year’s primary contest — defined by the starkly contrasting temperaments of the Democrats running for the seat — has tended more toward the scrappiness of western Hidalgo County politics than to the relatively more genteel politicking typical of McAllen.
We had a similar situation in the Arkansas Legislature: http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/aug/05/arkansas-house-adopts-no-dwayne-dobbins-rule/)
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