Valenti Under Fire - Again

The Children's Hospital and their Board of Directors basically didn't pay bills to UMC for a really long time - a debt that big doesn't happen over night - and appear to be perfectly content with the fact that Valenti can't help himself from being the villain.

Its a distraction from the fact that they flat out just didn't pay bills.

That being said, Valenti is, as the El Paso Times put it in today's editorial, his own worse enemy. To pretend that he isn't is simply ignorant of reality.

Sure, Children's Hospital may not be his fault, but the guy makes himself look bad every time he speaks.

Commissioner Vince Perez has publicly called for his head now a couple of times, going back to when he first laid off employees and then turned around and accepted a fat bonus.

Now he's angered Commissioner Carlos Leon with what appears to be another change in his story about the people that were let go.

If it were up to the Court, I'm pretty sure Valenti would be gone already. Unfortunately he is hired/fired by the UMC Board, which Commissioner's appoint but cannot fire. So Valenti has done a good job of keeping most of them happy.

The problem is when he has these public gaffe's he is withdrawing from their support bank account. You can only make so many withdrawals from the account before you start bouncing checks. We he messes up in public, the board gets the heat for having him as the Head Vato in Charge.

The El Paso Times all but called for his head in today's editorial. Valenti now has lost the faith of commissioners, the public, and the media. He has lost a couple of his main apologists on the board. The board can renew his contract if they want to next year and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. Not the media, not the court, not the public.

Nothing.

So the real question is, does Valenti ultimately end up with the support on the board for a contract renewal?