El Paso Politics

If you know Sierra then you know how much it bothers him that everyone is scrambling to distance themselves from him after his public bragging about electing County Judge-Elect Ricardo Samaniego. Actually what probably bothers him more is that Samaniego contradicted the substance of what Sierra said about Escobar and went out of his way to make sure everyone knew he had no beef with Escobar. Seriously Sierra gets denied more times than Peter denied Jesus. He's not even like a sancho a girl doesn't want her vato to find out about, he's more like a case of herpes that she denies ever having but it just won't go away. Had the public known about Sierra's interaction with the Samaniego campaign, they never would have elected Samaniego. That is a fundamental point to understand given the razor-thin margin of victory for Samaniego. Think about it, the turnout was super-low and Sierra's involvement would've pushed people that only voted in the congressional race to ...

If you read Max Grossman's periodic musings he sends via email, which sound more to me like a manifesto written by some weirdo who lives in a small secluded cabin "off the grid", then you know that Max Grossman is now trying to elect himself some elected officials. He uses some Houston billionaire to bankroll the little op and it looks like he will considering he already kicked in like $15K for the county judge's race. Just read finance reports, the proof is easily found. So who does the Republican Max Grossman team up with? Well if attendance at a candidate's kick-off event for District 8's city council race, it appears to be another infamous Republican, Carlos Sierra. Expect Grossman, Sierra, and probably at least one other political wanna-be to start fielding a slate of candidates. I've heard rumblings of them wanting to set up meetings with potential candidates so that they can identify who they are going to support. The problem is, they have a messagi...

Four trustees at the Socorro Independent School District voted against teachers in a recent meeting of the SISD Board of Trustees. The four trustees voted against a measure that would provide teachers with a small 3% raise and a $1,500 bonus. The trustees that voted against teachers are Board President Cynthia Ann Najera (District 2), Hector Gonzalez (District 1), Angelica Rodriguez (District 3) and Tony Ayub (At-Large). It is beyond believe that with charter schools opening within the boundaries of their district that they would not do anything they could to make sure that they continue to provide their students with the best possible teachers. A couple of these trustees are actually Republicans. And I don't mean just regular run-of-the-mill Republicans, I mean Fox-News-Dismantle-Public-Education-Republicans. But since they are Republicans, lets explain it in a way that they can understand. This is a matter of being competitive in a market. Charter schools opening means that SISD ...

So Trump is now separating families when they are apprehended during their migration. We also now know that the feds have lost a lot of kids somewhere in the system. I've seen the outrage from my fellow liberals all over social media this weekend. Thats the work of your party of family values people. Here's my question for all of you good Democrats out there that want comprehensive immigration reform. Are you still okay with the fact that we are housing more undocumented immigrants in our downtown jail (at a loss to taxpayers) than any other community in Texas? Because you can't really be all outraged about what Trump is doing when you support a jail contract that has a major local impact of this new national policy. How do you all feel about that jail contract now that it has the impact of separating families? Remember when so many of you bought that line that people were going to be shipped far away, God knows where, and be away from their families? Well...the Otero facil...

Richard Samaniego won a razor thin victory in the County Judge race on Tuesday night. Apparently Carlos Sierra was running his campaign from the shadows, which is a bit of a surprise that Samaniego would be so willing to risk affiliation with Sierra coming to light during his campaign. You don't have to take my word for it, read Sierra's own words for yourself. That must be why Sierra is not on his campaign finance report. So either Sierra worked for free, or there's a big problem for Samaniego on his finance report. Had the public gotten wind of the fact that Sierra was running his campaign, he would have lost. Which again goes to the whole problem Sierra has with running campaigns in El Paso. He's got such a bad reputation for dirty pool that the minute he's tied to a campaign, its the kiss of death. By Sierra's own admission, he's been running the campaign for two months, so at the very least there should have been an in-kind contribution reported by Sama...

File this under the most Dori thing you’ve ever heard. A source in the Democratic Party says that a campaign was contacted by an employee of Dori Fenenbock asking, on behalf of Dori and her husband, to be removed from mailing lists of the Democratic Party. Yup, you read that correctly. I guess they are going back to the GOP, but for all you people that spoke about how genuine Dori’s conversion to the Democratic Party was, well she wants out. You better believe if she was still in the runoff she wouldn’t want anyone to be off of a mailing list! Truth be told, the only way she’d get mail from Democratic candidates is if they mailed to people who voted in the last primary because she doesn’t have enough Democratic voting history to be considered a reliable Democrat. Because she’s not. And she never was.

Ay raza... You realize you're following someone who in the opinion of many, doesn't really care about you, right? Since the days of the whole arena discussion Max Grossman has done everything he can to put on brown face and give you all the opinion he cares about little ol' brown ladies that live in the arena footprint. Understand that Grossman cares only about one thing, buildings. I don't think for one second that he really cares about the people living in them, and certainly doesn't care about the conditions they are living in either. But the guy won't hesitate to put an elder who is monolingual Spanish-speaking in front of a microphone if it helps his position. And you vatos stand there and watch it. Well mark my words, the minute Grossman sees the door open to protect his buildings, he's going to and then pull a Donald Trump and tell everyone how great the deal is. Yeah, thats a real picture of Grossman by the way. I know, he looks like a Scooby-Doo vil...