We are simple creatures really! Our focus is primarily on Frisco Politics and things happening in the city. If we believe we have a reason to question them then we will start the process of investigating. When that happens, we must first determine if that person is a public figure as defined by Texas and U.S. law. Public Figures are defined in two ways:
Public officials are government employees with substantial responsibility or control over public affairs (e.g., city council members, police chiefs, school superintendents).
Public figures include:
- General-purpose public figures: People with pervasive fame or influence (e.g., celebrities).
- Limited-purpose public figures: Individuals who have voluntarily thrust themselves into a particular public controversy to influence the outcome (e.g., activists, podcasters, social media influencers, religious leaders, local business owners, candidates for office, voluntary participants who give media interviews, and people who give press conferences or statements on public matters).
In a rare instance, someone outside of the “City Hall” circle or local Frisco politics may give us a reason to look their direction. Recently for example, we were surprised to learn we were the hot topic in the cul-de-sac of FAKE NEWS.
That’s right, a local nobody, who likes to think they are somebody important, decided to come after us. This is someone who was never on our radar. Guess what? They are now! To be fair, we have received numerous emails from different people across the city, calling this nobody into question. We chose not to investigate at first because he was not directly connected to Frisco Politics. However, when the Cul-De-Sac came after us and our followers, we couldn’t sit back. That means … Game on!
Sit back, grab your popcorn, because we are about to tell you a story! We are going to call our main character Mr. Romero! It is, of course, his alias! Mr. Romero likes to pretend to be this amazing online influencer in his prime with great clarity, but some things don’t add up. He once said, “Sometimes the best way to understand yourself is to genuinely understand someone else first.”
According to multiple reports from Been Verified, Intelius, PeopleCheck and more, Mr. Romero graduated from high school around 1989. We were curious about what happened after high school. Well according to public records, Mr. Romero supposedly married a woman on December 20, 1990, in San Antonio, Texas. The honeymoon didn’t last long because in November 1991, Case# 1991CI16543 was filed in Bexar County District Court by the couple filing for Dissolution/Divorce.
Wonder why it didn’t work out? We don’t have the answer to that question! But soon after Mr. Romero allegedly found himself intermingling with the law several times. Based on public records under Mr. Romero’s legal name which we will not mention we found the following:
1/4/1992 THEFT $20-200 CHECK – Bexar County Case: CR9 551259
1/6/1992 Driving While Intoxicated 1st – Bexar County Case: CR9 513420
1/6/1992 Unlawful Carry WPN – Bexar County Case: CR9 513421
9/20/1993 Driving While Intoxicated 2ND – Bexar County Case: CR9 559070
2/5/1994 Driving While License Suspended – Bexar County Case: CR9 568762
2/11/1994 Driving While License Suspended – Bexar County Case: CR9 569252
12/24/1995 Fail Ident To P-O With TX WARR – Bexar County Case: CR7 623448
7/30/1996 Poss CS PG 1 Less Than 1 GRAM – Bexar County Case: 1996CR5694
SENT START DATE: 09/06/1998 DEPT OF CORRECTIONS 1 YEAR
5/12/1998 Driving While License Suspended – Bexar County Case: CR4 701007
6/20/1998 Driving While Intoxicated 3D/M – Bexar County Case: 1998CR4448
Probation Expired – Case Reopened on 07/29/2004
6/20/1998 Driving While License Suspended – Bexar County Case: CR4 697836
6/13/2009 Assault FV (Family Violence) – Dallas County Case: M-0911359
1/31/2008 Z&C Plano vs (Legal Name Removed)
07/10/2009 (Legal Names Removed) Case: 417-53316-2009 Protective Order
2/25/2017 Driving While Intoxicated 3rd or more – Denton County Court Case F17-1751-158
04/18/2017 Occupational DL Compliance Hearing with Judge Robert Ramirez (Denton County)
4/29/2019 (Name Removed) vs Texas Dept of Public Safety – Petition for Occupational License (OCA) Case: CV-2019-01412-OL in Denton County Court Law 2
10/20/2022 Offender and Vehicle Interlock Removal Order Case: F17-1751-158
6/7/2023 Device Removal Order Transdermal Ankle Monitoring Device (same case)
We noticed two big gaps in the timeline, the first was from 1998 to 2009. What happened during that time? Well, allegedly Mr. Romero began to dance. His little tippy toes and hip rolls drove the woman crazy!
According to his Flicker account, dancing took him around the world. His description reads, “His body of work has allowed him to travel and compete all around the world. He has visited and competed in many parts of the globe including Italy, Florence, Tuscany, Verona, Rome, Venice, Banff Canada, Hawaii, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Chicago.”
In 2007, Mr. Romero competed with his amazing partner in Italy doing the Bolero Solo.
Romero also competed in the Associate Bronze Tango in Italy 2007.
Feeling like we were reading a new version of Dirty Dancing, all we could think is no one puts baby in a corner! Back to Mr. Romero, who continued in the interview, “But in his defense, he couldn’t help himself. I love to dance; it’s in my soul.” Source Dallas Morning News (Assoc Press Oct 18, 2008)
In 2008, Mr. Romero’s dancing took him all the way to jail! That’s right, we found several online reports about it. One report said in a “jailhouse interview that he advertised his services and provided forbidden dance lessons to students in the area.”
Another article published by JonathanTurley.org in October 2008, reads Judge Roach in Texas did not like Romero’s stomping on a dance floor and sent him to jail where he is now desperately trying to look like a psycho gang banger. Turley, quotes Romero, “that without the Tangos – he is nothing – even suggesting that is a sin and [If i stopped] it would be like blasphemous.” Turley continues, that Judge Roach appeared to find contempt in Romero’s dance moves when he taught dance (before the 2009 deadline) at the Tango & Cha Cha’s dance studio in Dallas.
Why is this a big deal? Because Mr. Romero had been employed by Arthur Murry in Plano and had a non-compete. Turley’s states, “A client signed the incriminating affidavit, identifying Romero as the man who took her through the unlawful dance moves.” That violated his non-compete and the case went to court in Collin County District Courts.
The second big gap in the timeline is from 2009 to 2016. We know in August 2010 Mr. Romero was still dancing with those amazing feet! A video posted on YouTube shows Mr. Romero at DanceSport Studio teaching a group class. He is talented!
According to PRLog in 2011, “Dancing Superstar Eric Romero Lands in Laguna Beach…” It says that former Texas Resident and acclaimed ballroom dance instructor Eric Romero who has been moved by dance since he was 4 years old, is celebrating his new location of dance in Laguna Beach, California.
In March 2013, Mr. Romero appeared in a YouTube video called Letting the Oceans be the Oceans with Celebrity Ballroom Dance Coach Eric Romero. Romero continues to talk in the video to let God be God and let him take over the overwhelming burdens in your life and allow him to let beautiful things happen.
The other discrepancy we found was his education. Romero’s LinkedIn has the following:
McLennan Community College 1999 – 2002 Business Administration & Management General
Baylor University: 2000 – 2005 Business Administration & Management General
Collin College 2015- 2016
University of North Texas 2017 – 2019 Bachelor of Business Administration – BBA Communication and Media Studies
University of North Texas Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 Masters in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies/Learning Technologies/Interactive Communications
According to Romeros Flicker account he attended Baylor and studied Business Administration and ARTS? We don’t see arts on his LinkedIn.
On his professional website today, he lists his Professional Achievements as:
Associates & Bachelor’s in Digital Video Production & Film – FROM WHERE?
Bachelor’s in Interactive & Virtual Communications Studies, University of North Texas
Romero claims to have completed this from 2017 – 2019 but according to UNT’s website this is an “On Campus” format only and takes 4 years to complete. We called UNT and spoke to an Academic Advisor and asked if they would take credits from a previous educational institution from 2000-2005? The advisor said they will not as that was too long ago, and methodologies would have changed since then which could make it difficult to understand the current material. Now we are left scratching our heads! How did he finish it in 2 years? Things that make you go HMMMM!
Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies focused on Learning Technologies & Communications, University of North Texas -3.89 GPA
Romero claims to have a Master’s – this program offers a Master of Arts or a Master of Science. Why doesn’t he list which one he has on his website?
Mr. Romero claims in Digital Journal article that his experiences helped him develop empathy for others and that empathy now fuels his mission to support transformative conversations that inspire healing. From what we see online Mr. Romero does not have a lot of empathy at all. He actually appears to be condescending and arrogant in most of his social media replies to people who disagree with him or question him.
His alleged legal history shows family violence charges, 5 DUI’s with the most recent in 2017 which allegedly appears to be an active case according to public records. He has multiple social media accounts under his legal name, business name, and alias going back 10 to 15 years. Knowing all this he goes out and pokes his nose into Frisco Politics, comes after us at Whistleblower, residents of Frisco, and candidates for office clearly showing he has an alleged anger problem. I mean who spends the time to make a video like Cul-de-sac Curtis attacking a resident for wearing a shirt and then exposing names of private figures just because they like our post. Funny, he seems to be the only one who knows Curtis and posted the video.
Even more concerning is how city leaders like Laura Rummel and Former Councilwoman Tammy Meinershagen have flocked to appear with this person, and like all his posts. Do they even know anything about Mr. Romero? Maybe questioning the judgement of our local leaders and other local influencers is reasonable after watching how they have flocked to this man’s side.
Second chances are a beautiful part of the human experience—proof that we can grow, evolve, and right our wrongs. But with redemption comes responsibility. For community leaders, influencers, and those in positions of trust, embracing someone’s “new chapter” doesn’t mean turning a blind eye to the previous volumes. Character counts. And patterns—especially those involving violence or repeated recklessness—deserve scrutiny, not selfies. When a person with five DUIs and a history of family violence becomes part of the public sphere, we must ask ourselves: is this rehabilitation, or reputation laundering? And when friends publicly toast their “changed” buddy with offers to drink again, are we witnessing growth—or just more bad judgment? Second, chances don’t erase consequences—they walk hand in hand with accountability. We all have the right to change. But we also have the right—and duty—to question who we choose to stand beside. Because in the end, the company we keep speaks just as loudly as the words we post.
Source: Collin County District Court Records, Denton County District Court Records, Dallas County District Court Records, Orange County District Court Records, BeenVerified, Intelius, PeopleCheck, TruthFinder, Dallas Morning News, Public Social Media Accounts
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