When a news story recently surfaced reporting on how El Paso mayoral candidate Renard Johnson had personally terminated a Mexican American employee for “raising alarms about possible discrimination” in violation of Title VII, I wasn’t really surprised. It kind of fits a pattern of ambivalence on the part of Johnson to issues of relevance to […]
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El Paso City Council Election Campaign Funding Over $1 Million By The Numbers
Correction: This article was corrected on November 8, 2024 to correct an error in the campaign contribution of $1,000 to Alan Serna. The contributor was Steve Ortega and not Steve Fox. The totals have been corrected for both Fox and Ortega. Early voting ended on Friday for Tomorrow’s election. One hundred and eighty-two thousand and […]
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Ivan Nino Responds To Release Of Investigative Report Alleging Wrongdoing
The article reporting on campaign funding originally scheduled for today has been delayed until tomorrow to bring you this special report. Earlier today, Max Grossman published several documents suggesting that District 5 candidate Ivan Niño was accused of a misdemeanor for Deceptive Business Practices while he worked for a private titling company providing vehicle titling […]
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Deep Dive Into The PAC Helping Renard Johnson To Be The Next El Paso Mayor
Today is the last day to cast an early ballot for Tuesday’s election. There are 23 candidates running for city council who have reported raising and spending campaign funds. In total, candidates running for mayor and the six open city council seats have raised over $1 million to win their respective seats. The candidates reported […]
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Guest Editorial – Who Is Funding Renard’s Dirty Campaign?
By Max Grossman Renard Johnson, whose former business partner was federally indicted in a $3 million Ponzi scheme and whose firm faced a $277,000 judgment in a discrimination suit against a Hispanic, has raised a whopping $881,000 for his mayoral campaign, breaking Dee Margo’s record by more than $200,000. According to his 8-Day Finance Report, […]
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Deep Dive Early Voting Data Analysis
Correction: due to a programming error we inadvertently published the wrong data for Republican voters. This article was updated on October 25, 2024 at 09:30E to correct the information. Thank you to Chris Hernandez for pointing out the error. Over the last few days, El Paso News has been analyzing the early voting voters. We […]
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Early Voting Begins On Monday
The November 5 election gets underway on Monday. El Paso voters are allowed to cast their ballot in any of the early voting locations. For early voting locations, visit the County’s website here. Although this is a presidential election, El Paso voters are expected to overwhelmingly cast votes for the Democratic Party candidates making the […]
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Does Heather Wilson still support Trump?
There appears to be an ever-expanding list of former Trump allies and aides including former Cabinet officials who have turned against Trump with varying degrees of intensity. This opposition, for lack of a better term, has presented itself in a variety of forms ranging from some mildly critical remarks and refusals to endorse Trump to […]
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Analysis: El Paso Taxpayers Funding Over 98% Of The Downtown Deck Park For Plans
Lost in the political rhetoric of the proposed Downtown Deck Park being championed by the Downtown Deck Plaza Foundation and several elected officials is that the $5 million in funds being raised to secure another $5 million is almost all taxpayer monies. On September 24, the city council voted five to two in favor of […]
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Exclusive: Ricardo Samaniego Misses El Paso Commissioners Meeting Due To Altercation With Girlfriend
On May 9, 2024, El Paso News received a tip from a reader alerting us to an event that transpired on April 22, 2024 involving county judge Ricardo Samaniego. The reader advised us that Samaniego missed that day’s county commissioners meeting because of a matter involving law enforcement. The reader provided us the address where […]