Introducing Ali Enrique Razavi

Time to pay the piper Prince Ali.

Slowly.

Ali Enrique Razavi has been outed as the guy behind Max Powers. In reality, Ali Enrique Razavi is a con-man. He's demonstrated over his entire career that he will say pretty much anything he has to in order for him to get ahead or what he needs. He apparently now has my buddy David K under his spell, although he should know better by now.

Before I go on, let me remind you about the difference between me and this guy, because when he was outed he tried to act like we are somehow the same. We aren't.

You guys can say what you want about me, and many of you do, but one thing about me is that I leave non-combatants out of any beef. He has fucked with my family and my loved ones. Hell he's messed with my relationships, an ex, my haircut, how I dress, my affinity for cholas, and my weight.

Now that you've had a chance to actually put a face to the name, you see Prince Ali might want to not talk about weight.

Do I disagree with public figures and electeds? Hell yes. But it is always policy related. And when I agree with them, even if I'm not a fan of them, I give them props.

Some examples - I made Lily Limon Homegirl of the Week once. State Rep Mary Gonzalez, I used to like her personally very much, but since she was elected I have major issues with her policy and lack of leadership on some issues. It isn't personal like it is with Ali who is pretty vile in terms of how he goes after her.

And when he does it, it almost makes me want to defend her.

Almost.

This guy has really messed with the personal lives about a lot of people. His constant obsession with Rep Gonzalez was weird at first, but now its just creepy. He makes fun of her sexuality and her identity. He implies that she's in a relationship with another member of the legislature. Both of whom are in committed relationships.

You can't mess with people's personal lives and expect people to turn the other cheek. Well I don't turn the other cheek, I guess I shouldn't speak for anyone else. I don't get personal with people unless they do it to me first, but like I've always said, I love a good fight.

Ali probably ruined the marriage of a city staffer in the mayor's office all because he thinks its funny and entertaining. Seriously, for him its about entertainment value.

But how you gonna talk about people's personal appearance when you look like a chubby hairy Persian version of the Crocodile Hunter with 90's boy band hair? Or more like Joey Lawrence's hair when he was on Blossom. Actually now that I think about it, maybe more like Marco Antonio Solis after being stung by a lot of bees.

Ali has gone after many people's livelihood. Not in a tangential way either, he has flat out publicly done so.

Now people know he works for 1SOLTECH in Dallas and he's going to have to worry about whether any of the many people he's wronged decide to pick up the phone and call the Fardi's and tell them all about Ali Enrique Razavi's little escapades.

I wonder how he'd react if people brought his loved ones into their beef with him. I wonder how he'd feel if people raised issues about his sex life or sexuality?

Ali will now find out what its like to be in the world of the known. He has to deal with accountability for what he has said. I can't stand Martin Paredes anymore than I can stand Ali, but he has at the very least always been out. Same with David K and I - we were the only political bloggers in El Paso and people knew who we were. Honestly it takes much bigger balls to write what we write because people know who we are.

I'm the only one that actually lives in El Paso. So I'm the only one that really has to be held accountable for a damn thing. Except DK, he has family and business here and so he has to be held accountable for it. And he has.

Ali and Martin live in Dallas and Florida. They hate El Paso and thats why they always down talk El Paso. Easy to do when you're literally hundreds of miles away.

----- A History of Betrayal -----

The con-man has been at this longer than many of you think. When he was a staffer for State Representative Norma Chavez he was leaking info about her to her political rival camp and bloggers like David K and myself.

He broke staffer code. I talk to a lot of staff and have been one. There are some things you never do. One of them is betray your boss. In politics, loyalty is a big currency. When you work for an elected you hear a lot of privileged information. In all my years of doing this and in all my MANY conversations with staffers there is one thing you don't do, you don't bad-mouth your boss. Sure it sucks that sometimes the elected throw staff under the bus, like the time Naomi Gonzalez did that. But it never goes the other way around.

Except for Ali Enrique Razavi. He sought me out. He couldn't wait to do that.

Actually he used to drop really bad embarrassing and personal crap about two electeds in particular on a regular basis. Obviously his boss Norma Chavez, but also State Rep Marisa Marquez. Although judging by how positive he is about her in his blog, he's actually now a fan of Marquez's now.

How would any employer or person involved with business trust a guy like Ali Enrique Razavi considering his history of betrayal for the sake of personal gain and entertainment?

Anywho...

I mentioned DK earlier and wanted to get back to that. No sooner had he written a piece about how Ali isn't tied to anyone in El Paso than Ali writes a piece about all the people he's been tied to in the past. Not the first time he's burned someone and damn sure won't be the last.

----- The Forma Connection -----

But the reason that Ali wrote that piece is because he wants to try to put distance between himself and Forma. David K and Ali make the point he wouldn't be tight with Forma since they were partially responsible for her downfall. That implies he has loyalty. The fact that he stabbed her in the back on the regular shows he doesn't. The fact that he would risk doing so shows that he didn't care about working for her and so why does he care if Forma bought her down? If he cared that damn much he wouldn't have been feeding DK and I, and all her political rivals info.

David K also makes the very valid point, using Escobar's emails as proof, that we in the blogosphere all get fed info. Some of us more than others. I don't get fed as much as I did in the begging. Now I pretty much hunt on my own but I get the occasional tip from electeds from all factions. I don't deny that at all.

So if David K was trying to say that Ali isn't tight with anyone locally he probably shouldn't have made that point because it actually proves that Ali has been fed. Trust me, Ali is closer to at least one elected official than DK and I will ever be.

(Sidebar: Escobar sending emails to an anonymous blogger was beyond stupid and there's no getting around that. She's not the only elected that has sent emails to bloggers. Like I said, electeds from all factions have sent me stuff. Probably DK as well. The difference is we haven't burned them and people know who we are. So yes, Escobar really screwed up doing so, but who do we know she's the only one? It might be that she's the only one he's burned so far.)

He lives in Dallas but was an Austin staffer, so it makes sense that he's dialed in to the Austin scene. But if he has no connections to El Paso, why would he be so concerned with what happens in El Paso city politics? He's never met the mayor's staffer that he was so visceral about. But he sure took a big interest in her didn't he?

Why? Because he was being fed.

Ali also spent a lot of time mocking Bobby Bowling and the rest of the Bowling family. What is Ali's connection or beef with them? None if he lives in Dallas and isn't connected to anyone in El Paso.

Except for the fact that Bobby Bowling and familia have a few business rivals in their field. Their chief rivals are Woody Hunt and Ike Monte.

Guess who Hunt and Monte are clients of?

Yep...Forma Group. You want proof? Well I thought you'd never ask!


Ali regularly writes about Forma and Forma's allies rivals. Need another example? I'm glad you asked again.

Today he wrote about Peter Svarzbein. He never wrote about him until the finance reports came out and he out raised the field.

That would include another Forma client, Al Weisenberger.

Now all of a sudden that target on Svarzbein's back that I mentioned is starting to be pretty visable.

Also, lets give credit where credit is due. Ali was bested by Martin Paredes. Which is funny in itself!

But it was a stroke of genius for Martin to bust him the way he did. Frankly considering how wrong he normally is I'm pretty shocked he put it together like that all by himself. Good for him.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Ali went from saying he was still having fun being the Max character to coming out of the closet in a matter of days. And you people think that was because he wanted to? Don't be naive. He was told to. Forma has feeling the heat.

Ali knew that Martin was going to out him and like all seasoned politicos, he went back to the playbook. When there's bad news, get it out first and try to frame the conversation. That was Martin's mistake.

If it were me, I would've had the piece completely written and just left a spot for a quote and then published it. Rookie mistake by the JV team.

One last difference between Ali and I. I've been through hell and back. I've been to war and back. He hasn't. He's gonna learn what its like to have people shoot arrows in you. I've had it done and I'm still kicking. There isn't anything he can say (again) that hasn't already been said about me.

Welcome to the playing field Ali. This is going to be a lot more fun now.

More to come - I'm going to take my time with this one because I've been waiting a long time...