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Families in Shock Over Troubled Cemetery
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By: Yami Virgin
Its another 90 days for the owner of Eastview/Southern Memorial Cemetery to clean up the mess.
Joann Ramon on Tuesday reached and agreement in court with the Texas Attorney General's Office.
Over 25 family members of people buried at the cemetery were present for a hearing that never took place.
The AG's office has also asked Ramon to secure entrances to the cemetery on Roland Ave.
Among the complaints from family members are missing remains, missing tombstones, sinkholes and garbage all over the cemetery.
Bonnie Johnson, who flew in from Oregon, is one of the first complaints the Texas Funeral Commission received on Ramon years ago.
Johnson says to come back and see the deplorable conditions is heartbreaking.
Former Councilman Mario Salas says he doesn't know how Ramon will clean up the mess since she says she has no money.
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Corruption alleged in crypts and politics
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Brian Chasnoff
Nov. 9, 2012|
Updated: Nov. 10, 2012 3:34 p.m.
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Politics can be creepy. Consider the story of a longtime Democratic operative.
Last month,JoAnn Ramon scored a gig with the Bexar County Democratic Party to run its vote-by-mail operation. Considering Ramon's controversial past, I tilted at the party's new chairman, Manuel Medina, for hiring her.
One area of concern: The state attorney general's office is investigating complaints that Ramon has illegally buried corpses at her South Side cemetery, a disgraceful expanse of weed-choked gravesites.
On Halloween, the day after my column ran, Weston Martinez — a longtime Republican operative — filed a complaint with the secretary of state alleging “vote harvesting” at the cemetery in the 2010 primary.
Martinez, a member of the Texas Real Estate Commission, says his complaint was prompted by a “packet of data” he received “at midnight” from “an impacted source.” The secretary of state's office decided the complaint had enough merit to forward to the attorney general. (Both offices are run by Republicans.)
“It was of enough concern for us to review it,” said Tom Kelley, a spokesman for the attorney general's office.
Martinez has since flagged the media, calling a news conference at the cemetery the day before Election Day and persuading at least one news station to run a segment about his “grave concerns.” The television coverage gave the impression that Ramon's deployment of ballot applications, using her office at the cemetery for a return address, was somehow crooked.
So-called “vote harvesting,” however, can be perfectly legal, as Ramon will explain.
“We don't handle the ballots,” she says. “We handle the requests for application.”
Ramon says she uses a computer program to identify likely Democratic voters who are 65 or older.
“Then I have people who call these people and say, ‘Would you like to vote from the convenience of your home?' If they say yes, then we mail them the application already completely filled out, with their name, their address, their voter ID number, their date of birth. And then we highlight where it says, ‘Sign here.'”
The voter then mails the application for a ballot to the county.
“The county sends them the ballot,” Ramon said. “Not us. You cannot touch the ballot. That is against the law.”
Yet== that's exactly what Martinez is accusing Ramon of doing.
“I have submitted evidence (of voters) saying that individuals came into their house to help them fill out ballots,”== he told me. “This is what I'm hoping the attorney general finds out. Where do they stop chasing the ballot?”
Of course, Martinez could just be seeking a cheap way to bury Ram, a seasoned South Side operative whose graveyard woes make her an easy target. Her cemetery's license was revoked last year.
“In a couple of instances, (the Texas Funeral Service Commission) found that we should have kept the place cleaner. We should have — whatever,” Ramon said. “We don't have perpetual care at that cemetery. It's a very poor and economical cemetery for the people of the community who don't have money. And you can be buried there for as cheap as $1,100.”
An email sent to Ramon in August from the funeral commission states she's allowed to bury folks whose families have already purchased plots.
“The complaint is I'm burying people without a license,” Ramon said. “I know that. They told me to.”
I asked her why she thinks she's catching so much heat.
“It's political,” she said. “I've been in politics for 25 years.”
The problem: In crypts and politics, there's room for corruption. In both cases, it's up to the attorney general to dig up the dirt.