El Paso Politics

This was meant to be several different posts but I've been busy and thought it best to trust truncate the posts into one post, so be prepared for political capirotada.  First, lets start with some comments from Mayor Leeser that I think need to be called out. A while back during the budget talks at the city, Mayor Leeser got into a dust-up with City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. Leeser is apparently pretty self-conscious about not having a college degree and during a back-and-forth with Rep Hernandez, he basically said she needed to check her privilege because she has an education from a fancy school.  It takes A LOT for me to defend someone like City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. I don't care much for political grandstanders and she's in the Hall of Fame of grandstanders here in the local political scene. Hell making August 3 all about her at a community meeting shortly after was just one example of the stuff she does that I find annoying.  But for a wealthy white man to tell a Ch...

The Ding Dongs are still trying to be relevant and quite frankly the ONLY reason that the anti-masker / anti-vaxer crazies are even given a platform is because EPISD Trustee Daniel Call lacks the backbone to tell that very small but vocal group to act with decorum.  All because of personal friendship with the Head Karen of the Westside, Kendal Jessup.  And make no mistake about it - there is no greater threat to public health to the average El Pasoan than the members of Call Qaida.  I'll be a honest with you all, I'm even more heated about these anti-masker/anti-vaxers because my kid ended up with COVID because she was sent back to class and has to sit in the same classrooms as students who's parents are the crazies.  You guys read this blog because I tell it like it is - so here is the truth about Daniel Call. He killed a once-bright political career by aligning himself with the Ding Dongs. He will never be elected to anything again. He will never rise above his cur...

I don't know who is running former State Rep Joe Pickett's run for city council, but judging by the logo they came up for the rebirth of his potential political career - he should fire them like, yesterday!  As a matter of whether or not someone is going to win an election, the logo matters very little. Especially for a guy like Joe Pickett who has strong name ID among the older voters of the Eastside. But it does say a lot about the decision-making of this campaign team that actually presented this to him with a straight face at some point.  But for an elected official who has had such a long and noteworthy career, you'd think he'd pick a political team that would at least have some sense packaging an established leader like Pickett.  The man was once chairman of one of the most powerful and influential committees in the Texas legislature and his campaign design team came up with.... Fucking sparkles.  Are you kidding me? They came up with a logo that makes it look ...