El Paso Politics

State Rep Dee Margo has been pretty clear over the last month or so that he was not going to be filing many bills. Again, a page from the George Bush playbook, when in doubt, lower the expectations . Makes sense, that way you can basically get away with not doing very much. But if you recall in an earlier piece about Margo, I mentioned that I found it interesting that Margo was so critical of Joe Moody on the campaign trail and then changed his tune as soon as he got in to office. I went back and dug up the quote from an article in the El Paso Inc. It was actually from October, so just right before the election. And his quote doesn't really give him any wiggle room either. In an October Issue of El Paso Inc., Margo had the following criticism: “My point is not one legislative bill filed by Joe had anything to do with the third building,” Margo said. “If you say it’s that important, I don’t care if you’re a rookie or whatever, go fulfill what you say is important. What changed?” Don...

When Dee Margo ran against Joe Moody for State Rep District 78, his main argument wasn't what Joe Moody did, he ran on what he said Joe Moody didn't do. In fact, I remember a large part of his argument was that Moody didn't get another building for the medical center. In fact, he once said, "he didn't even try". It would naturally follow that if his criticism of Moody was that he didn't even try to get another medical building, he was going to. Which is interesting because the deadline to file bills has come and gone and guess what? We don't have another building for the medical center. From The Lion Star Blog by Jaime Abeytia Not only do we not have another building for the medical center...Margo apparently didn't even try to get it for us. WARNING, THIS IS GOING TO GET A LITTLE NERDY, SO TRY TO FOLLOW ALONG. Below is a list of bills for each of the 5 El Paso Reps. First, a little explanation about what it, and what is not on this list. What is he...