El Paso Politics

Its been awhile since I've dusted off the Homeboy of the Week Award but its in order. And then later, State Rep Lina Ortega needs to take look in the mirror. But first, the good then the bad. City Rep Svarzbein is homeboy of the week. He went to the anti SB4 rally. Cesar Blanco is down for La Raza and fought it hard in the legislature, so of course he was there. He's really the chingon of the delegation at this point. And Stout was there, but you expect Stout to show up. He's running for County Judge so if that guy saw a girl scout group with a lemonade stand he'd show up and issue a press release. But Svarzbein showing up and speaking up is something noteworthy. As he said, he's the son of a Jewish immigrant from Argentina who recently passed. I was glad to see him show up. People notice who shows up to rally and marches. It might not feel like you accomplish anything, but showing up strengthens the commitment of those that do the grunt work of movements. So kudos ...

  There's no way around this or explaining this away - the latest EPISD scandal is a major blow to the candidacy of Dori Fenenbock. Aside from being yet another example of the district not being able to exert any oversight over embattled Superintendent Juan Cabrera - Fenenbock's one claim to fame was being a Board of Trustee for a short period of time. With no track record of accomplishments to speak of, other than her time at EPISD which is what she has been banking on and why she made herself the face of the EPISD bond, this story that has been reported so far in the El Paso Times and on KTSM is a blow to Fenenbock's credibility. And before people start framing this as a story of the big bad media against a candidate, lets not forget the history of the public corruption scandal, which included EPISD. Trump has made it fashionable to attack media and blame them for stories that he doesn't like and call it Fake News. This story is a perfect example of why a strong, an...

Dori Fenenbock's biggest problem is going to be convincing people she's actually a Democrat. The fact that a woman her age has such a short voting history is, quite frankly, embarrassing. The fact that she thinks she's congressional material because of her checkbook, coupled with that short voting history, is a problem for a lot of people. On top of that, quitting the job she just got elected to in order to buy run for a congressional seat is also problematic. Two-thirds of her very short voting history has been for Republicans. Nearly 1/2 of the money on her first report came from Republicans. The first time she ever voted Democrat in her life was in 2016. My 13 year old daughter Maya has literally done more for the Democratic Party in her life time than Fenenbock has. Hell, she's knocked on more doors for Democrats and passed out more lit for Democrats than Fenenbock has. Anyone active in local politics that is living in the valley knows that. Hell, Chairwoman Holgui...

While David K is having a heart attack over looking like an idiot again (he's really mad that I told everyone his little scheme where he makes shit up and then later says it didn't happen because he blogged about it), Dori Fenenbock went to the Paso Del Norte Tejano Democrats meeting. I know, I laughed too. And it was predictably the outcome everyone expects. The loud Vero haters are pumping her up and going to trash Escobar all over the internet - thats no different than when that same group of people did that to Beto O'Rourke when he put Congressman Reyes out to pasture. It makes them feel good to think they are having an impact - and they are, just a negative one on their own candidate. And Fenenbock is going to try to buy some Democratic street cred. She's already throwing around money and all the rat consultants in town are going to line up to get their share of the money. She's all of a sudden become a member of every Democratic organization in town and buying...

If you haven't figured it out yet, David K doesn't like to admit when he's wrong. So what he does is make something up, say he heard it somewhere, and then when it doesn't happen he claims victory by saying that it didn't happen because he blogged about it. The County Judge wants Stout to be her successor. David K has some obsession with Susie Byrd, which started the minute his buddy Jim Tolbert went from hero to zero faster than anyone in El Paso politics. Susie is Team Escobar all the way. There's NO WAY she'd run for anything while Escobar is running her race. I don't know why he keeps pushing that line, but when it doesn't come true he's gonna say it didn't come true because he blogged about it. He's completely in the pocket of Dori Fenenbock so everything he writes is from that perspective. I've been critical of both - unlike David K. And trust me, Team Escobar has taken it personally, even though the criticism has been completel...

City Rep Maria Reyes Today is Election Day in Socorro. Instead of focusing on the flood problems in Socorro, the community has an even bigger problem on their hands - the on-going antics of two of their city representatives, Yvonne Colon-Villalobos and Maria Reyes.  Here is the latest from the dynamic duo. It appears the two may have intentionally missed a special meeting of Socorro City Council in order to avoid having an item appear on the November ballot of their Charter Amendment.  And some in Socorro are saying that it is  intentional  and meant as a "payback" to the city manager.  On August 21st of this month there was a meeting of council. If you click this link you will see agenda item 29. You may recall a previous post I did on this issue. The agenda item was for a formal complaint from the City Manager against District 4 City Rep Yvonne Colon-Villalobos,  which  the item specifically saying in part, "...and to discuss several concerns City M...

Probably. Yes, if she has the legal authority to do so. Hell no. I'm speaking of the replacement vote for County Judge Veronica Escobar. She sent out an email telling everyone that she has a big announcement coming. Unless you’re as stupid as David K is pretending to be, you know that its her announcement for her congressional bid that everyone knew was coming the minute Beto said he was running for Cruz’s seat.  I answered the questions already but lets take a second to go through it shall we?  ***Can she vote for her replacement? *** Well according to the Texas Holdover Clause, she probably has the authority to do so. She stays in place until there’s a replacement.  Normally when there is a replacement that needs to be appointed on the Commissioner’s Court, its Escobar that makes the appointment. She’s done so a couple of times, first with Precinct 3 when Willie Gandara got caught being his own narcocorrido and she appointed Tanya Chozet, and the other time was upon the...