Now is the time

Perhaps now is the time to reply to a few of the remarks being made about Mr. Casimiro on certain message boards, blogs, and open edit web site communities.

These comments are nothing more than another volley in a years-long dispute between various parties, including Mr. Casimiro, that have been dragged through courts and mediated arbitrations and continue to this day. Many of these entries are made in bad faith and are written or posted by people who merely wish to join a band wagon to bad mouth someone. They are usually clueless to the facts, but accept one person’s version of history of the events. They are never given all the facts nor do they bother to research them.

It is much easier to join a crowd and shout “Discredit!” than it is to unearth the true story.

Here we have laid out the “claims” made on these sites and blogs and then detailed as to why they should be ignored, the truth given, not the lies.

In August 2005, Mother Jones exposed Casimiro's business dealings in a 12 page article "Home Sour Home."

This claim says that the Mother Jones article exposed his business dealings in a 12 page article. However, if you actually read the article, it has more to do about one person’s complaints against the “construction-industrial complex” and Texas law requiring arbitration and uses a company my father used to direct as an example. In fact, he is not even quoted in the article. To say that the article “exposed Casimiro’s business dealings in a 12 page article” is quite misleading.

Casimiro was the topic June 12, 2007 in Washington D.C. at the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law “Mandatory Binding Arbitration Agreements: Are They Fair For Consumers?” where Jordan Fogal, "The Lemon Lady" testified against Mr. Casimiro.

An outright exaggeration. Jorge Casimiro was not the topic of this Subcommittee meeting, the concept of arbitration was the topic. Moreover, in the entire testimony totaling almost 6,700 words, Jorge Casimiro is mentioned only once. Further, to say she testified “against Mr. Casimiro” is misleading, she testified against the use of binding arbitration agreements.

In July of 2004, Harris County Judge Robert Eckels appointed Houston-based University Development Inc. CEO Jorge Luis Casimiro to serve on the Harris County Housing Authority which he served on through 2007.

This claim is true.

“The reason for his departure from this board is unknown.”

Cited several times yet this claim have validation. Further, it connotes that there was something afoul with his exit from the Harris County Housing Authority. In fact, he left the Board when his three-year term expired.

Certain persons, repeatedly, copy/paste the same viciousness on open edit sites and communities, message boards, and blogs. No changes, no thoughts, no additional information. Perhaps it is a new type spam bot, sent out, not to create links for Viagra and Cialis, but to bolster the delusions of certain individuals bent on extortion and emotional blackmail.