San Elizario Mayor Miguel Chacon Censured

Shame on me for slippin a little after all these years. I reported to you all how the Mayor of San Elizario was censured by his own council later last year - but I never followed up with posting the actual document. 

I was inspired to come back to this topic by a woman named Andrea who runs a FB page dedicated to making the mayor look good. Its the political equivalent of glamor shots - take the regular person add all kinds of filters and smoke and mirrors and you end up with an image you paid a lot of money for that doesn’t really look like the real person. That pretty much perfectly defines the page. 

She doesn’t know how to engage in political discord so when someone disagrees with her she just trashes them, says they are fake news, or threatens them with cease and desist letters. Well, if people didn’t weaponize the justice system, what would lawyers do for money I guess. 

Anywho, since she inspired me to share the actual document. This is now a historical document because I don’t recall the last time this happened in any level of government in El Paso county. It may be the first time that an electeds actions were so egregious that there was an actual censure. 

It is not an action a legislative body takes regularly. 

This action by council became necessary after Mayor Chacon directed IT to grant access to his credentials to an employee that had been fired. She had been fired because she fabricated RFP responses from several local advertising firms so that it would look like the firm that Chacon awarded the contract to, which was owned by a personal friend of his, won a legitimate contract. 

His actions jeopardized the city's legal position by allowing an ex employee to have access to sensitive city information. He stated his intent was to help her sue the city of San Elizario.