El Paso Politics

I spoke to the news director and she indicated the decision to remove the story was an editorial decision made in the newsroom but acknowledged it looked nefarious. She indicated that they attempted to get comment from Mr. Davis and called his office several times and finally went in person and they overheard him say he wasn't going to comment on the matter. She indicated without his side of the story they didn't feel that it was doing the community a service having a story that wasn't complete because the more they looked into it the more questions were raised. I mentioned that they have reported stories with no comment from one side plenty of times and she acknowledged that was true but indicated that they just didn't feel the story was complete. Although that doesn't explain whey it was originally aired. I asked if Mr. Davis advertised with the station and she indicate that she didn't know. For what its worth, I believe her. I worked around a newsroom and the...

We live in the era of social media gaffe's so its not uncommon to see someone say something on social media they probably really think but decide later its not a good idea for the whole world to know its something you really think. Its worse when I news stations reports on it, then posts an update on social media about the story, posts the story on their website, and airs the story...and then the next day its all gone. Poof. Disappeared. A prominent El Paso attorney Mark T. Davis made these remarks recently on his Facebook page: Mr. Davis didn't stop there. He also posted this comment: And this one: Those comments didn't sit well with several veterans in El Paso and several veterans groups are apparently organizing a picket on Monday at Mr. Davis' office on Lomaland. Mr. Davis apparently got wind of the demonstration and posted this on social media: Which is really interesting because Mr. Davis actually deleted the original Facebook post. So apparently he invokes his ri...

Freeway Caroets have used their billboard for public commentary for years. I think they are the valley's original Twitter account.  I was in the neighborhood the other day and happened across these signs.  Ouch.

An article written by David Crowder in the El Paso Inc shows that officials with the city of El Paso knew about problems with complying with MPO requirements for over a year. When Rep Ordaz first raised the issue earlier this summer city leaders at first played tonto , threw staff under the bus, and later tried to downplay the problems. Crowder's piece is based off of emails he obtained through a request with the city. Correspondence between El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and TxDOT big shot Bob Bielek indicate that Bielek has been trying to get the city to fix their problems for over a year. Niland basically said that the scandals of the last few months have been a strategic effort to draw attention away from the county. Well, this story blows that theory out of the water since the problems have gone back over a year. It'll be interesting to see what council's next story is going to be about the MPO. Although it sorta doesn't matter anymore, the horse is already ou...

Haven't had a Homegirl/boy of the Week in a while. This week, it's City Rep Emma Acosta. Frankly, it's a damn shame that the city of El Paso is the only local government that doesn't recognize Veterans Day. City representative Emma Acosta took a small step towards alleviating that situation during last weeks city Council meeting. This year Veterans Day falls in the middle of the work week. Thanks to representative Acosta city workers will have the day off. That's a good thing! Honorable mention for city representative Lily Limon. She raised the issue of making a permanent solution to the city of El Paso not recognizing Veterans Day. She wants to make it a permanent thing for the city of El Paso.

                                             

City Rep Cortney Niland, who mysteriously left the council meeting yesterday, popped up on the KLAQ Morning Show with Buzz Adams this morning. Gotta love it when a city rep ditches a city council meeting but somehow has time to show up on a morning radio program. I'm sure District 8 is very happy with the selection of priorities by their city representative. Anywho, back to the radio program... I found a couple of things she said of particular interest and I'm sure you will too. Lets back track a little, I'm guessing she was on Buzz this morning because she wanted to try to deflect from the piece written yesterday about her staffer, Jeremy Jordan, allegedly involved in some negative political activities against her council rivals. Well played. Although I find it funny that those that said Ordaz was going to be disliked by her colleagues on council and treated like the girl who has piojos at school now get a look at what Jordan was allegedly up to. Vince defending his girlfr...