Von Ormy Mayor Art Martinez de Vara spotlighted locally

You might say Von Ormy's mayor is a dreamer ...
  
By Greg Jefferson
Plaza de Armas

Art Martinez de Vara recalled his triumph at last weekend's state GOP
convention over a Diet Coke in El Chisme Cafe, a diner just outside
Von Ormy where the purple walls and two chatty waitresses keep your
mind off the overall shabbiness. Two days earlier, he'd stood on the
convention floor in Fort Worth, in front of thousands of grassroots
conservatives, and successfully defended a provision in the party's
new platform that softens its hard line on immigration.

He said opponents waited near the microphone stands for hours for the
chance to get in their shots.

"They did a full-frontal attack," said Martinez de Vara, the
37-year-old mayor of Von Ormy – its first. He's also an attorney, and
he chooses his words carefully and says them softly. "They used the
same old rhetoric… We had some bullies – they tried to intimidate us
at the mics."

In part, they wanted to beat back a new platform plank that calls for
the creation of a federal guest worker program.

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