The Brownfield Empire Strikes Back

Lord Brownfield had gone underground for a while but has come back with a vengeance.

The frequent poster on The Strelz Forum, which has now birthed several bloggers, including Yours Truly, who was known for voluminous posts filled with humor and sarcasm has struck out on his own. You can find his blog here. I've also included it in my blog roll at the bottom of my website.

Frankly, it was about time. “Brownie” as he is known in the Strelz circle, usually writes long pieces that take time to sit and digest and don’t really lend themselves to the quick-fire exchanges in the Strelz forum.

As you can see in his most recent posts, he’s learning how to use multimedia and the Force is definitely strong with him. He came out with guns blazing making fun of, well, everyone!

I haven’t laughed that hard reading a local blog since the El Paso Times bought out the El Paso Fake News Blogs in a bloody hostile take-over that is rumored to have cost the El Paso Times dozens of dollars.

(I know, I know, you’re expecting a joke about how the El Paso Times is now in the business of fake news given who’s calling the shots, the quality of a couple reporters, and rumored relationships. But I just won’t do it, it’s too easy. Sometimes a lay-up is enough, you don’t always have to slam dunk.)

The expansion of a business as large as the Brownfield Empire, LLC has caused havoc and a flurry of activity in local politics.

REDCO issued a press release taking credit for the tens of jobs that will be added to the local job market.

The El Paso City Council immediately put several items on the agenda to ensure that it would be more difficult for the Brownfield Empire to actually conduct business in this town, and added a late agenda item to restrict the signage size of the Brownfield logo on his blog.

Rumor has it that three blogs must go down in order for the City to authorize the posting of his blog.


Not to be out done, Jaime O. Perez, Republican candidate for County Judge issued a (yet another) press release condemning city council’s proposed agenda items as unfriendly to business and un-American.

City Rep Steve Ortega then called for a multi-million dollar study on blog logos and street cars and City Rep Susie Byrd introduced a resolution designating House of Pizza the official restaurant of her district.



Mostly out of reflex, County Commissioner Dan Haggerty voted against the study, but Commissioner Veronica Escobar reminded Haggerty that he could only vote “no” on Commissioner’s Court, not at the City. The job of voting “no” at the City belongs to City Rep Eddie Holguin. Escobar then got in to an argument with County Judge Anthony Cobos.




County Commissioner Willie Gandara immediately stepped in to be the peace maker. He awarded everyone, except me, a plaque in a “5-minute” ceremony that lasted 9 hours.


In response to seeing happiness around her, State Rep Norma Chavez then had Sammy C kicked out of the ceremony. That led to another Escobar-Cobos argument.

Prominent lawyers Terry and Stewie then declared that the entire award ceremony was part of an elaborate cover-up and County Judge Anthony Cobos quickly had me locked out of the ensuing press conference.

Larry Medina then showed up because he heard awards were being given out. After not seeing the Mayor play his guitar, he realized he wasn’t being given another Conquistador Award and proceeded to hug everyone in the room and call them carnal or buddy.


Mayor Cook then arrived and awarded Medina another conquistador award for being nice. County Commissioner-elect Sergio Lewis then read some poetry, which led to another Escobar-Cobos argument.

Alejandro Lozano then arrived with campaign material showing a photoshopped push card with an image of Jesus wearing a t-shirt that says Vote for Lozano for President. Again, Escobar and Cobos argued.

As the event wound down (Gandara still at the podium the entire time except for Sergio Lewis’ poem), Senator Shapleigh arrived to take credit for the closing of Asarco, the acquisition of the Medical Center, improved test scores in EPISD, and Texas becoming a state.

He immediately awarded the Brownfield Empire LLC, an Adelante con Ganas Award. Word on the street is that Brownfield was going to donate his Adelante con Ganas prize money to Rep-Elect Naomi Gonzalez, but she didn’t know how to cash a check that wasn’t from the TLR.




State Rep Marissa Marquez showed up late and left early. State Rep Joe Moody was not in attendance due to the fact that WWE Raw was being filmed in Las Cruces that day.

The El Paso Times reporter on duty filed the following accurate (sarcasm) account of the entire event:

El Paso, Texas - Something, somewhere in El Paso, happened today.