Many individuals commented to me that I was completely delusional about my belief that the up-and-coming Newspaper Tree was going to be nothing more than a propaganda outlet for Woody Hunt and his friends: Paul Foster, Bill Sanders and the other proponents of the destruction of El Paso. My blog post of March 7, 2013 described […]
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Steve Ortega Returns Campaign Contribution and Other Questionable Characters Contribute
The El Paso Times saw fit to make an issue of a $25 campaign contribution to the Oscar Leeser Campaign from Fernando Parra who has pled guilty to public corruption in today’s edition. But as is the modus-operandi of the local paper masquerading, as a newspaper, it has neglected to point out questionable characters donating […]
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Ballpark Back Door Dealing
And there you have it; the “crazies” weren’t so crazy after all. First in The El Paso Inc., on Sunday, June 9, 2013 and then the next day on KVIA, outgoing mayor John Cook clearly lays out the conspiracy to keep the El Paso electorate from deciding whether they wanted city hall demolished or not. In […]
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Who is The Forma Group?
Reviewing Steve Ortega’s campaign finance reports I noticed that Steve Ortega has paid a company named The Forma Group almost $200,000 since 2012. So who is The Forma Group I pondered. As with everything political in El Paso tracking down information about political linkages is like searching for the ever illusive winning lottery ticket, you […]
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Lee County and Joyce Wilson
Years ago I was tasked with helping a team, working on a threat analysis, develop and implement a pattern analysis matrix. Although I was only involved in a very small component of the overall threat analysis I quickly realized how powerful a properly developed pattern analysis matrix is. For those that do not know, a […]
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Courtney Niland Makes A Move, Media Manipulation and the Cabal’s Useful Idiots
Watching El Paso politics for the last 14 years I sometimes feel like I’ve seen it all. And lo-and-behold a new politician steps up and leaves me dumbfounded once again. The latest political idiocy is Courtney Niland. I guess one requirement for El Paso politics is to forgo common decency in the quest to serve […]
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In Other Words: Mayor Cook’s Press Release Regarding Joyce Wilson
On Thursday, May 23, 2013 the mayor’s office issued a press release to the media advising the community that he has unilaterally decided that Joyce Wilson will not get the performance review she had requested. Two things immediately stand out and they both demand further citizen scrutiny. The first is that the mayor, through his […]
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One El Paso Boondoggle
El Paso government officials decided that the city needs a quality of life center for El Paso’s future. They allocated over a million dollars to fund the project and they started to build the structure. The voters of the community said, hold on for a moment, why didn’t we get a say in this? The […]
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Steve Ortega Hates El Paso
I have to give credit where credit is due. Steve Ortega hates the essence of El Paso. Unlike Susie Byrd who embraces her El Paso heritage publically but turns around and votes against it, Steve Ortega has consistently been open about his disgust for his El Paso heritage. In a paper Steve Ortega presented to […]
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Steve Ortega Under reported $40K
Something has been bothering me about the Steve Ortega campaign finance reports. They just do not add up. As I sat down to review them, I wanted to check my numbers once again so I went to the Municipal Clerk’s office and lo-and-behold Steve Ortega had filed not one, but two amendments to his initial […]