Fenenbock's Fantastic Fibbing

Dori Fenenbock's campaign is slowly morphing into the recent David Saucedo mayoral bid.

It just seems to be an endless stream of a comedy of errors, blunders, pandering, and fish tales.

And the video on this one is hilarious, so sit tight.

For someone who came out of the gate attacking her opponent on telling the truth, Dori Fenenbock seems to have a relationship with the truth that reminds me a lot of President Trump more every day.

The other day at the Westside Democrats of El Paso endorsement meeting Fenenbock made a claim that I just let go without comment because it was just so silly. She indicated that she had spoken to nearly every family in EPISD. Do I believe its possible that she spoke to a lot of families in EPISD? Sure, I'll buy that. Lets, for the sake of argument, say that she's the most engaging school board member in the history of EPISD and in between all of her out-of-town trips funded by the taxpayers in the school district, she devoted every waking hour to meeting families, then yeah, sure, I believe she could have spoken to a lot of families.

But nearly all of them? Really?

REALLY?

See this is the Trumpification of American politics. There was a time when public figures made comments like that - blatantly untrue - they would be held accountable. Untruths used to mean the end of someone's credibility.

But Trump has made telling the truth something that is casually glazed over.

***Fenenbock's camp at one point allegedly claimed to have had the endorsement of the teacher unions in EPISD - that turned out to be untrue.

***Fenenbock said they needed to reign in spending when she was a candidate for EPISD School Board of Trustees, then proceeded to pass the largest amount of public debt ever attempted in El Paso County.

***Fenenbock claimed to be a licensed attorney. Yet when I checked with all 50 states there was no record of her being a member of any of their Bar Associations and only one state (Colorado) had a record of her ever having a law license, but it was inactive. Meaning when she says she's a licensed attorney, well not really.

***Fenenbock claims "We have 92 schools in EPISD and I have been in homes of almost every family..." 3:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01flxWe0cn8

***She's also been all over the place on charter schools, but that is another post that I'll address by itself.

The bottom line here is that Fenenbock and facts are a lot like Trump and facts...not exactly a strong track record for believability if ya feel me.

So the other day at a forum when the candidates were asked about their positions on the environment, I was floored when I heard Dori Fenenbock claim that she was an Eagle Scout.

Yep, you heard me. She said she was an Eagle Scout.

For those of you that don't know, Eagle Scout is the achievement or rank you can receive in the Boy Scouts of America. Its an award that is over 100 years old and only 4% of all Boy Scouts ever achieve making Eagle Scout. If memory serves, even one of our former presidents was an Eagle Scout, Gerald Ford I believe.

I was a Boy Scout when I was a kid but never got anywhere near being an Eagle Scout. Takes a lot of commitment to scouting to make it. A buddy of mine is an Eagle Scout though.

So fun fact about being an Eagle Scout...there are no girls who have ever achieved making Eagle Scout.

Why? Well because its an achievement of the BOY SCOUTS! Duh.

But this year Boy Scouts will start accepting girls and they can start to try to earn Eagle Scout in 2019.

But apparently Dori Fenenbock has done so already. Well, thats how she tells it.

But hey, don't take my word for it, roll the video!



Now normally this would be something that her campaign consultant Christian Archer would dismiss as "fake news", even though there's video of her making the claim.

But thats not gonna happen. Know why?

Cuz word around the ol' Boy Scout campfire is he left the campaign a while ago...

Okay, somebody play the Fleetwood Mac song now...