El Paso's Thin-Skinned Trump-a-like Dandy

Max Grossman is about the most entertaining thing in El Paso politics this side of the rumor of David Saucedo running for the Texas legislature against Lina Ortega. Yeah, that is actually going around - I've heard it from three different places and as much as I'd love for that guy to run for something again for sheer entertainment value, I doubt he actually does it. He's not a Democrat and no one would buy it if he tried to switch parties. And he can't win as a Republican - though he can't win as a Democrat either.

Anyhow, back to Max Grossman. He has become El Paso's version of Donald Trump and he wallows in it. Think about it, he's loud, obnoxious, rude, arrogant as all hell, can't stand not being the center of attention, and has a very casual relationship with the truth. Seriously all he's missing is a porn star beefing with him and a Twitter account.

But he makes up for the lack of a Twitter account for his middle-of-the-night rants in crazy town with his emails.

He recently sent one that is completely divorced from - of all things - history.

Which completely undermines a guy who is allegedly some guardian of history when he can't even get recently history right about his own life.

Check out this recent email where he goes on a rant about the fact that Dr. Rick Bonart was dismissed from a city commission recently. I don't know why the mayor dismissed him, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was related to the fact that Bonart is running for office. Or maybe its because he retained a lawyer in a matter relating to the city. I'm not sure what it was exactly, but the email Trump-a-like sent out was in reference to Bonart no longer being on a city commission.

The nonsensical Trumplike tirade is all over the place, drawing a nonsensical comparison between the removal of Sylvia Firth and the removal of Bonart from a commission. Anyone who knows city hall knows that Cassandra Brown really pushed the ouster of Firth more than anyone else. Don't get me wrong, I love when Grossman goes after the mayor, I'm a Democrat so I love me some Republican on Republican crime. Its like watching Saucedo go after Margo all over again, no matter who loses, I win.

No Laughing Matter

Okay, fun time is over. This email is actually something that is quite serious. I've long held the believe that Grossman is yet another in a line of bad actors on El Paso's political scene that is going to use money and influence for his own personal benefit. at the end of the aforementioned email, which I highlighted in yellow, he makes an absurd claim. He alleges he was removed from the El Paso County Historical Commission because of his opposition to the arena.

That is factually inaccurate. Or as us regular folks would say, he's lying.

Grossman's and Sargent's and terms on the commission were up. As he admits in the email, they had been there for over 25 years combined. It was time for some new blood. But lets not also forget another huge elephant in the room, pun intended because Grossman is a Republican.

Grossman and Sargent were under a cloud of controversy because they had sent out an electronic message trying to conduct commission business that was outside the parameters of the Texas Open Meetings Act, and the Court had instructed them to refrain from holding meetings until they were trained up on you know, how not to violate the law.

So the controversy magnets gave the Commissioners, which is was all of them not just the two he singled out in the email, that booted Grossman and Sargent.

Grossman's letter is a flat-out lie about the reason he was removed from that commission. Don't believe me? Well unlike Grossman, I offer proof. Read this, this, or this.

That is just one example of Grossman's very casual relationship with the truth, which is one of the many reasons I don't trust him or any of the candidates he's using to try to buy city council. And make no mistake about it that is exactly what Grossman is trying to do. He couldn't get a council that would bend to his will, so he figures he can just go buy one.

Hell Grossman even got caught lying about the result of the vote taken unlawfully by email when he said it was a unanimous vote by members of the Historical Commission to oppose the arena site. It wasn't.

After the ouster of Grossman and Sargent, revelations about some accounts the commission maintained that had not been reported to the county auditor's office surfaced. As a result of this revelation the county reorganized several policies related to commissions. Grossman also left that little tidbit out of his letter rather conveniently.

Grossman always loses his cool whenever he is critiqued and he recently sent a message that said, "If you stop lying about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you". I laughed at the plagiarism. But I also laughed at Trump-a-like having the nerve to challenge anyone on "the truth".

So Grossman should stop making himself out to be a martyr on the historical commission and tell the truth about why he was dismissed.

Yes Trump-a-like, the truth indeed.