El Paso Politics

I try really hard to be factually accurate and when I get it wrong, I have no problem correcting the record. So I have to correct two errors I made over the last month about City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. First, I erroneously identified her as the City Rep for District 7 when she is the City Rep for District 3. Second, I mentioned that she was removed from the MPO yesterday. That is correct, but I didn't give the whole story and that isn't fair to Rep Hernandez. So my bad, let me clear the record. Rep Hernandez was actually replaced on a few boards, rather than just the MPO. Rep Hernandez deserves accuracy as much as anyone else and I should have been more accurate about how things went down at city council the other day. I got it wrong and I try hard to get it right. So mea culpa - Hernandez is now off of most, if not all the boards she was appointed to - not just the MPO. My bad. I'll try harder to get things right in the future and not be in such a rush to blog something ...

There was an item at city council that no one is talking about but had it been any other city rep than Cassandra Hernandez, it would have made news. City Representative Cassandra Hernandez was unceremoniously and abruptly removed off of the MPO at council yesterday. No one said a thing about it. It was really hush-hush and there was no discussion. The MPO is a board that city reps fight to get on because it is so influential and important. I can't recall an instance where a city representative was removed from the MPO in the middle of their term and when it wasn't a change in mayors. Why it isn't being discussed is a mystery to me, but there must have been a reason that led to this sudden change because it certainly wasn't because she wanted to be off the MPO. She was taken off. The question is, why?