County Staff Violates Campaign Rules

You're not allowed to campaign on County time if you're an employee. Its considered the public's time.

You're also not allowed to campaign using a public resource. In this case, it appears to have been county email.

And according to the email, it sounds like the sender of the email was doing so at the direction of their boss - who is a judge.

This seems to be a pretty blatant violation, although I don't know what specific repercussions a county employee is subject to for violation of these rules, nor do I know if there is any mitigation if the employee was doing so under the direction of their boss.

As you can see in the screenshot of the email, it very clearly shows the sent time. That was obviously during a regular business day.

I blurred out the employees name but left the last part of the email address so that you can see the email came from a county email address. The email was sent at 1:42 yesterday afternoon.

I'm on Don Williams' email list and was forwarded the email along with everyone else in his list. This is the attachment that came with the email. As you can clearly see, its a campaign fundraiser event. There appears to be some urgency to it being sent because the campaign event was just a few hours after the email was sent out from the county email address.

Judge-elect Samaniego has received some criticism within the El Paso Democratic Party lately because they feel like he turned his back on the party after the election and went back on some promises that were allegedly made to the Party.

There's also a weird thing going around the courthouse about who he is allegedly looking at to hire as his staff. I'll post something about that later today.