El Paso Politics

I can't believe I now have to turn around and defend Gary Gandara. I feel like I need to shower just writing this post - but what is right is right.  And what is wrong, is wrong.  And there appears to be a lot of wrong floating around SISD Trustee Paul Garcia since his election to the Socorro ISD Board of Trustees.  A couple of days ago I had to write a rumor-killer blog about someone running around telling people in the valley that I was running Gary Gandara's campaign. I was being cool and didn't say who it was that was spreading that rumor - even though I confronted the person that was spreading it.  The person that was spreading that rumor was none other than Trustee Paul Garcia. Turns out - Trustee Paul Garcia is behind a pretty elaborate effort to dislodge his colleague from the Board.  Let me stop and explain that in almost every single district in El Paso County - incumbents stay away from the races of their colleagues. Even if they support their colleag...

Right-wing conservative nut Pedro "Conservative Anthony" Aguero appears to be caught on video inside the capitol building on Insurrection Day, the day thousands of Republican Trump supporters committed sedition against the United States of America.  Some of you might be wondering why its a big deal that Aguero was caught on tape inside because he actually said he had gone inside.  Well there are a lot of reasons - chief among them being the fact that you need know what to believe out of Aguero because he brags a lot, but rarely lives up to his own hype.  Which is funny because he calls himself an "independent journalist".  He's not a journalist. He's not a news source. He's a biased conservative and is not affiliated with an actual news site. In fact, a little over a week ago he was kicked out of an event at the border by officials because they called him out on not actually having press credentials. He has something he made with his picture and the name...

I know.  I haven't been blogging. I've been busy, but I'll try to be better about blogging more. There really is a lot going on, I just got a lot of plates in the air right now.  I didn't think I'd ever actually have to clear up a rumor like this but apparently I do. You have to be a really special kind of stupid to believe this particular rumor but some people apparently do, so I actually have to say this shit out loud but here goes: No, I am not now - nor have I ever been - running a campaign for Gary Gandara.  I don't know how this got started but enough people have mentioned it to me that it is no longer a punchline for a smart ass remark from me.  Do you people not read the shit I've written for the last, oh I don't know, DECADE about the Gandara clan?  They are their own narco-corrido.  That family put a stain on lower valley politics that will literally take generations to undo. I have many, many flaws as a human being - put I don't involve my...

Many of us saw the current crazy of the Republican Party start to poke its head out from their KKK hoods back in the Tea Party days. After Obama won two elections in a row, many in the Republican Party knew that they could no longer afford to continue to contract in numbers. They realized that they could no longer be a whites-only country club party.  But that effort didn't last long. They ditched the effort to attract new people fairly quickly, which is why you always see shots of the same few token minorities that show up to their conventions. They are pretty bold about things now, and they went in the opposite direction. Now they actually have white nationalists, confederates, overt racists, and covens of gringas calling themselves "Border Blondes" making up their leadership. There was actually a time that the GOP made an effort to keep their weird fucking uncles hidden in the basement in an effort to hide their crazy.  Now, the inmates are running the asylum.  Rather ...