Word: eligio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another proposal, put forth in a bill by Texas Democratic Representative Eligio de la Garza, is to kill the Postal Service and bring back the old Post Office under total Government control. The trouble with this idea is that it invites a return of the abuses and inefficiencies of the Post Office, which was inflexibly bureaucratic and ridden with politics. The virtue of a Government corporation is that it can make appointments on the basis of merit alone, transfer funds as it thinks best without bureaucratic controls, and plan ahead and borrow money for modernization...
...Eligio de la Garza, Democratic Representative of Texas' 15th Congressional District, is treated less generously. The report claims that there are 25,000 people in the 15th District who do not have potable water but that de la Garza seems uninterested in alleviating the situation. His district is extremely poor, populated largely by Mexican American farmers and migrant workers; yet, according to the report, 90% to 95% of the federal funds coming into the district are channeled to the interests of the 25% "Anglo" portion of the population. The conclusion drawn from the profile is inevitable: de la Garza...