{"id":88176,"date":"2016-02-21T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88176"},"modified":"2016-02-21T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:23:37","slug":"diversity-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88176","title":{"rendered":"Diversity &#038; Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/will-self-driving-robot-cars-really-work\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\n*  <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/20\/us\/crystal-city-texas-water\/\">Yet another prosperous, red-blooded American city with a water problem. This time it\u2019s Crystal City, Texas, with a name that sounds like it must certainly must be filled with white, Republican evangelicals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOh wait. In a Crystal City story unrelated to the water problem: \u201cIndicted were Mayor Richardo Lopez; council members Rogelio Mata and Roel Mata; former council member Gilbert Urrabazo; and William James Jonas, who served as city manager and city attorney. Ngoc Tri Nguyen, a businessman, was also indicted\u2026Councilman Margo Rodriguez was indicted January 27 on unrelated federal charges of smuggling undocumented immigrants, KSAT reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s a lot of news in one month for a city of just 7,000 people. It\u2019s not the first time a slew of Crystal City officials have been indicted. It happened back in 1976, as well. But it should be all ok once these good Latinos assimilate to American ways. Crystal City (95% Latino) has only been overwhelmingly Mexican-American since at least the early 60s.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * Yet another prosperous, red-blooded American city with a water problem. 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