They come from throughout Brownsville. Mechanics, housewives and office clerks blue-collar workers. Individually, they say, elected officials can easily ignore a lone voice. Together, as Valley Interfaith, their voices thunder to be heard.
People don t usually listen to a person alone.
Candidates will be asked to take a yes or no stand on various issues that they have already been briefed on, said the Rev. Alfonso Guevara, a group leader and pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. The event bans political signs. Our agenda is really an agenda of the people because it was developed from hundreds of house meetings and conversations with the citizens of Brownsville. The agenda includes higher wages, more police protection and improving schools. Early voting is already taking place weekdays at City Hall, the Cameron County Courthouse and the BISD administration building on Price Road.