This article has been corrected throughout to correct an error in the calculations. The graph was also updated. (January 23, 2025 at 9:53am.) A second update was made on January 24, 2025 to correct an error in the graph. The high cost of the 2024 municipal elections has raised eyebrows across the city among the […]
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Renard Johnson Campaign Manager Paid $89K By Two Campaigns In 2024
The campaign manager for El Paso mayor Renard Johnson was paid $89,203.19 to run Johnson’s and Veronica Escobar’s campaigns in 2024 according to the latest campaign finance reports. The funds used to pay her came from the two campaigns. According to her LinkedIn profile, Lauren Zimmerman has been Veronica Escobar’s campaign manager since June 2019. […]
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Updated Rules Allow El Paso Candidates To Get Paid To Run For Congress
This year the Federal Election Commission (FEQ) clarified a rule that allowes candidates running for federal offices to use campaign funds to pay themselves a salary. Although not well known, the FEC has long allowed candidates to pay themselves for running for office. In 2020, Dana Balter, a New York Democrat, paid herself a salary […]
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An El Paso Election Treatise: A Handbook For Political Candidates
Author’s note: This is a condensed version of the White Paper available at Polinotes. The full version is available for free by subscribing to the newsletter here. In her book about political strategies, Catherine Shaw wrote in the preface that “it is astonishing just how little candidates know about their path to victory or defeat.” […]
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Political Corruption: The El Paso Experience
In a paper published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2013, then OECD Secretary General, José Angel Gurría Treviño said that “in all countries and at all levels of society, corruption threatens to distort social and economic interactions, reducing efficiency and increasing inequality by favouring the well-positioned.” (British spelling in original) […]
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Two Recent Advertisements From A PAC Targeting The El Paso Children’s Hospital Raises Questions Across El Paso
Recent advertisements listing the El Paso Children’s Hospital CEO and its Board of Directors started to appear in the El Paso Inc. and in the El Paso Times this month. The first advertisement was placed in the El Paso Inc.’s December 1 edition. The second advertisement appeared on December 24 in the El Paso Times. […]
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Happy Holidays & Have A Wonderful 2025!
We want to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a wonderful Holiday Season and an exciting New Year! https://videopress.com/v/QcLmVJfe?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Felpasonews.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F12%2Fxmas_24-4k_mp4_dvd.original.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true A short holiday message for our wonderful readers! There are some changes coming to El Paso News in 2025. We will be making an announcement in our weekly newsletter. If you have not […]
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Breaking News: El Paso Children’s Hospital Dropped From Lawsuit
In an update to a story, we brought you two days ago, we just learned that the court issued an order late yesterday dropping El Paso Children’s Hospital from the malpractice lawsuit filed by David and Mariana Saucedo alleging wrongdoing by two doctors and the children’s hospital in the death of the three-year-old daughter. In […]
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Latest El Paso Children’s Hospital Malpractice Court Filing Exposes Hospital Deceitfulness
Since 2020 we have been closely following a malpractice lawsuit filed by David and Mariana Saucedo against the El Paso Children’s Hospital and two doctors over the death of their three-year-old daughter. The lawsuit alleges that the medical staff and the children’s hospital were negligent and caused the death of their daughter. Over the course […]
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The 2024 City Council Election Winners
The election preliminary results for the 2024 city council runoff election are in. Here are the presumptive winners based on the preliminary counts released by the County Elections Department. The New Mayor Is Renard Johnson In the mayoral race, Renard Johnson faced off against Brian Kennedy. Johnson received 56% of the vote. For District 1 […]