EP Inc Article Shows City Knew of Problems with MPO Projects
An article written by David Crowder in the El Paso Inc shows that officials with the city of El Paso knew about problems with complying with MPO requirements for over a year.
When Rep Ordaz first raised the issue earlier this summer city leaders at first played tonto, threw staff under the bus, and later tried to downplay the problems.
Crowder's piece is based off of emails he obtained through a request with the city. Correspondence between El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and TxDOT big shot Bob Bielek indicate that Bielek has been trying to get the city to fix their problems for over a year.
Niland basically said that the scandals of the last few months have been a strategic effort to draw attention away from the county. Well, this story blows that theory out of the water since the problems have gone back over a year.
It'll be interesting to see what council's next story is going to be about the MPO. Although it sorta doesn't matter anymore, the horse is already out of the barn and in politics, when you're explaining you're losing.
You can click here to read Crowder's story.
The reality is that over the last couple of months council has shown a couple of different things. First, they knew there were problems and apparently did nothing to fix the situation until Ordaz started raising questions. The other thing this council has shown is that if you're the one that asks questions that are uncomfortable, they circle the wagons and target that person.
A terrible strategy in the long run.
When Rep Ordaz first raised the issue earlier this summer city leaders at first played tonto, threw staff under the bus, and later tried to downplay the problems.
Crowder's piece is based off of emails he obtained through a request with the city. Correspondence between El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and TxDOT big shot Bob Bielek indicate that Bielek has been trying to get the city to fix their problems for over a year.
Niland basically said that the scandals of the last few months have been a strategic effort to draw attention away from the county. Well, this story blows that theory out of the water since the problems have gone back over a year.
It'll be interesting to see what council's next story is going to be about the MPO. Although it sorta doesn't matter anymore, the horse is already out of the barn and in politics, when you're explaining you're losing.
You can click here to read Crowder's story.
The reality is that over the last couple of months council has shown a couple of different things. First, they knew there were problems and apparently did nothing to fix the situation until Ordaz started raising questions. The other thing this council has shown is that if you're the one that asks questions that are uncomfortable, they circle the wagons and target that person.
A terrible strategy in the long run.
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