El Paso Politics

Judge Marlene Gonzalez - Mayte's Momma I already covered the arrest of Marco Camarillo, the bailiff assigned to the 388th District Court, over on another one of my platforms. Camarillo was arrested earlier this month… right there in Judge Marlene Gonzalez’s courtroom. Talk about an awkward day at the office. As luck would have it, I happened to be at the courthouse that morning. A little while after Camarillo was hauled away, I spotted Judge Gonzalez in the courthouse cafeteria enjoying lunch with Justice of the Peace Lucilla Najera and a handful of prominent El Paso County Democrats. We’ll come back to that little lunch date in a minute, because the irony is thicker than a torta for the Northeast. I’m talkin’ Dyer Torta… Photo from that lunch below. Now, in a publication that’s been working overtime cosplaying as a legitimate news organization, it was “reported” that Judge Gonzalez issued a statement explaining the situation. Unfortunately for her, some of those explanat...

On Thursday, June 18th, in the final hours of the workday, Lucilla Najera finally did what she should have done days earlier. She abandoned her recount. And before anyone starts firing off Facebook comments about what “really happened,” let me save you some time. I was there.  For days. From morning until evening. I watched the process unfold in real time. So if anyone wants to challenge what I’m about to write, that’s fine. Just make sure you were actually in the room. First, Let’s Talk About The Recount An election recount is not exciting.  It isn’t dramatic.  It isn’t some episode of Law & Order where a surprise witness bursts through the door and changes everything. It’s tedious. Painfully tedious. Mind-numbingly tedious. You count. You recount. You sort. You resort. You verify. You verify again. After spending several days watching the process, I came away with a new appreciation for the employees in the Elections Department. Those folks don’t get paid enough to ...

Election Deniers - Trump (Left), Chavez (Right) Even now, well into his second term, Donald Trump remains incapable of doing one simple thing: admitting he lost an election. Recently in Iowa, Trump got into it with a reporter and once again insisted that the 2020 election was rigged and that he was the real winner. This, despite dozens of court cases, countless investigations, and repeated opportunities to provide actual evidence. Every time he went looking for proof, all he found was another judge telling him to go sit down somewhere. The problem isn’t evidence. The problem is ego. Trump simply cannot bring himself to admit that he lost to Joe Biden because his ego won’t allow him to acknowledge something millions of Americans figured out years ago: sometimes you lose. And while I’m talking about Donald Trump, I could just as easily be talking about Norma Chavez. If you recall, a few years back, around the same time Trump was busy trying to overturn reality, Chavez was runn...