Et Tu Brutus?

If you don't know, its now pretty apparent. The El Paso Speak's blog is allegedly a few different people, but one of them I know for a fact is Xavier Miranda.

I've known this for quite some time, but I never said anything. But now it'll be different for Miranda because he's actually going to have to stand by what he writes. Anyone can take a position on issues when you don't have to stand by what you say, its harder to do when you put your name by what you write.

He's going to use the blog to push his candidate for EPISD Trustee. He's a big backer of Gary Berglund. As I've written previously, a lot of people started dropping out of his forum once he publicly criticized AFT's endorsement of candidates. Interestingly the other big union in EPISD is the El Paso Teachers' Association.

They endorsed the same candidates as AFT - so there is consensus among labor about who the best candidates are and it really bothers Miranda.

Miranda is trying to have it both ways - he's trying to support Berglund while trying to maintain the facade of being "objective", which is why he's so bothered that people have called him out on it and chosen not to attend his forum.

I personally don't care who Miranda supports. Its not like he carries a lot of credibility with his support and he's not some campaign professional either. He's a hell raiser, which I admire, but he's no strategist or operative.

But he obviously has a movida.

So he wrote a piece that was meant to mislead people about the main opponent to his candidate. He's trying to equate the opponent to Hatch. Miranda knows that there's no residency issue, but he's trying to throw it out there to help Berglund...for real.

The irony of Miranda's Movida is the he was trying to push a candidate to run in District 7, the Coronado area, that ... wait for it ... didn't live in the district!

Also, Miranda has visions of running for Mayor.

Which will be fun because when it comes to Xavier / Brutus, El Paso definitely deserves better.