City council is scheduled to discuss agenda item number: 19.1 that was postponed last week. The item, “Clarification of ethics rules/ordinances, including clarification on Council’s ability to interact with employees without violating ethics rules” was posted by Michiel Noe. It was originally scheduled for last week’s meeting, immediately after Claudia Ordaz’ emails were made public […]
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Corruption In El Paso
In 2004, an FBI agent started to investigate public corruption in El Paso. It started as an investigation into the activities of Bob Jones and it snowballed into the indictments and jailing of various public officials. Many have proclaimed that Poisoned Pawns curtailed public corruption in El Paso. But has it? In the last couple […]
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David Karlsruher and City Insider
The Claudia Ordaz text messages have exposed so much that is wrong with the city that today I am posting a rare Saturday post. One of the things that political operatives have going for them is the short institutionalized memory of the city. Being unable to document the political shenanigans is what allows the corruption […]
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The Silence is Deafening
It does not matter what you believe the Claudia Ordaz texts reveal. Whether you believe they are nothing more than a political embarrassment or they reveal serious problems at the city, I believe we can all agree that they are news worthy. They are news worthy by the mere fact that an elected official released […]
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The MPO Conspiracy
As you likely know already, the Claudia Ordaz text messages have proven that the MPO issue was a conspiracy to keep Vince Perez in charge of the MPO. The question is why. The answer is rather simple. Today, I have my avatar, Robo-Pepe explain the details to you in the second episode of The Proteus […]
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Here Is What You Need To Know About the Ordaz Texts
By know you have either had an opportunity to review the text messages or have heard enough about them to get a general feel for their content. Besides the fact that an elected official, Claudia Ordaz, is being coached by a County employee on city public policy, there are many more issues that the community […]
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The Claudia Ordaz Text Messages
As you likely know by now, Ali Razavi aka MaxPowers released some text messages from Claudia Ordaz’ telephone. Yesterday I showed you how Claudia Ordaz used text messages to drive the MPO issue at the city council meeting on July 14, 2015. Today, I am sharing more of the text messages with you. In an […]
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Claudia Ordaz Receives Instructions During City Council Meeting
Late last week, Ali Razavi, aka MaxPowers, published a set of text messages from Claudia Ordaz’ telephone. Razavi received them pursuant to an open records request he filed with the city. The over 100 pages of text messages gives us an unprecedented look into who is managing Claudia Ordaz for their own political gain. Unfortunately, […]
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Manufacturing Crisis to Deflect Attention
The bankruptcy testimony and depositions must be exposing Veronica Escobar’s dirty laundry to the public because, like all politicians who are attracting unwanted attention, she is looking to manufacture a crisis to distract you from the children’s hospital testimony. In case you missed it, KVIA ran a news segment on August 30, 2015, about the […]
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Court Testimony Exposes UMC Fraud
I have written various articles showing you how the El Paso Children’s Hospital was nothing more than a fraud perpetuated upon the taxpayers of the city. On Monday, the bankruptcy court held a hearing about the disputed rent payments. The testimony, according to what the El Paso Times reported, are clear proof of fraud. Marty […]