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>Looks like both him and his brother may be on the payroll
oh look.
Rick Perry
George W
In 1999, the Texas Senate passed a resolution honoring Yarrington. WhenGov. Rick Perrywas sworn into office for his first full term in 2003, Yarrington was in attendance.
His successor, Hernández, was in attendance and received a mention in Perry's 2005 State of the State speech. A Perry spokeswoman said the invitations were the result of “a professional relationship in their capacities as border governors.”
A closer relationship appears to have existed between Yarrington and former President George W. Bush.
During his time as Texas governor,Bush worked closely with Yarrington, Cavazos Lerma and other Mexican officialsto forge trade initiatives and address environmental issues, and when Bush first ran for president in 2000, news stories cited his friendship with Yarrington as evidence of his foreign policy bona fides.
“Tomás is terrific, worked with him a lot,” the Los Angeles Times quoted Bush as saying in 2000.
For his part, Yarrington spoke highly of his Texas counterpart. During the campaign, a Dallas Morning News story included Yarrington relating the tale of sharing a stage with Bush.
“Tomás Yarrington is not my friend,” the then-Tamaulipas governor quoted Bush as saying. “The crowd went silent. Then he said,‘Tomas Yarrington is my compadre.'The crowd went wild, and he immediately won them over. Governor Bush is a politician with a human face.”
The fallout's reaching the U.S., too. A spokesman for thecampaigns of U.S. Rep.Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, andhis brother, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar,said they'vereturned or given to charity campaign donations from Peña-Arguelles, the accused conduit between the cartels and Mexican politicians.
In 2007, Peña Arguelles gave $1,500 to Martin Cuellar's election campaign, and in 2006 Antonio Pena's then-wife, Armandina, gave $1,000 to the re-election effort of Henry Cuellar.
Martin Cuellar asked the person who solicited the donation from Peña Arguelles to return it, said spokesman Colin Strother, and Henry Cuellar donated the money to charity. They did so last year, after learning that Peña Arguelles' brother was slain in Nuevo Laredo and his killers left a note accusing the brothers of working with the Zetas.
>https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Former-Mexico-officials-with-ties-to-Texas-under-3342138.php