El Paso Politics

Its a hard video to watch, but George Floyd begged and pleaded with an agent of the government - who is charged with protecting life and property - to let him breath. The cop kneeled on his neck casually, with his hands in his pockets. Like he was waiting for the city bus casually. And several other officers sat there and watched it all happen. Not a single one of them did anything to stop the officer. Its murder by cop - and the other officers are accessories. How many stories have we seen of the black man, in custody, killed by a cop now? I've lost track. Seriously, its that many. Understandably, the riots started shortly thereafter. And now middle America and Trump supporters are wagging their fingers about how wrong the looting and rioting are. Equating loss of property or a business to loss of human life is not only stupid beyond words - but its certainly not a "pro-life" stance by any stretch.  The death at the hands of a police officer, a person in a position of pu...

The Dandy can't get me off his mind - which is equal parts hilarious and creepy. I'm frequently the subject of his little emails, even though for some reason he always adds in his emails about me how seldom he sends out emails about me.  I know, he's like a more douchey version of Trump.  I get a kick out of the fact that he's so reactive about what I say or do. But he is so obsessed with me that I'm never too far from his thoughts, which would be flattering if it wasn't so damn creepy.  Now he's pretty self conscious because basically every candidate or campaign he touches turns to shit. So whenever he sees what he perceives as me faltering, he'll jump all over it. Case in point, a recent election for the Democratic Party's convention.  But the Dandy - or Caped Culero as I know call him - plays checkers while I'm usually playing chess. So here's a video I did about the Caped Culero's email, and I make a revelation about Grossman and who ...

District 4 has always been an eclectic group of characters that run for office, which means its always an interesting race to watch - if for no other reason than pure entertainment value. Now, this years its probably gonna be a little more interesting than usual because well, you can't have a race in the Northeast without a little controversy. The incumbent City Rep is Dr. Sam Morgan, who is currently facing domestic violence charges. He's not going to win. That isn't a commentary on his guilt or innocence by the way - but he's a black man accused of hitting a white woman...I think we've all seen this movie before. Domestic violence is a serious issue. So are racial disparities in our justice system. There's a lot to unpack there and as long as that case is pending, voters aren't going to elect him. He probably doesn't know that yet. The reality is that he was involved in two very close city council races, one he lost and one he won, so reelection was an...

I’ve covered politics in this town for a really long time. I have seen a lot of crazy stuff. I broke the news of a mayoral candidate getting arrested and a few hours later covered him at a candidate forum in the Northeast. I once recorded a lower valley candidate call Hillary Clinton a really bad slur in Spanish. I covered the time some people made fliers with gay slurs and put them on vehicles at a campaign event in Fabens. And of course, I covered Theresa Caballero and Chente Quintanilla giving out cold hard cash to voters in Clint on New Years Day a few years ago.  I have seen it all - some stuff I’ve never written about. Really shady stuff. Illegal stuff. Dumb stuff. Silly stuff. You name it, I’ve probably seen it, recorded it, filmed it, or blogged it.  But I don’t think I have ever seen a campaign so openly brazen about being a dirty campaign like that of Marlene Gonzalez’s campaign. Now before you start thinking of firing off a letter to me Mrs. Gonzalez, save your...

For whatever reason Republicans don't look at basic election data in El Paso County. If they did - you'd never see any of them try for a seat other than city council or school board. Or, they are drinking some really good shit (or smoking - no judgement) that somehow convinces them that they have a shot at winning. But let me just paint a basic picture of why Republicans running in partisan races are sacrificial lambs, no matter how much they try to tell each other differently. In El Paso County, there are about 46,000 reliable Democratic voters. There are about 11,000 reliable Republican voters - and I'm rounding up here people. In general election in El Paso there are about 98,000 reliable voters. When your base only makes up 11% (I'm rounding up again) of reliable voters, its no wonder you regularly get beat. The same members of Y'all Qaida (The El Paso GOP) laugh when Democrats say they are going to turn Texas blue (so do I, because I can read election data), so...

I don't know what it is about the MAGA crowd that makes them act so tough but deep down they are all a bunch of snowflakes. Its really hard to comprehend that level of hypocrisy. But, I'm going off on a tangent really early so let me get back to the purpose of this post. Where was I? Ah yes, the Cease and Desist. Word around the water cooler is that Patty Maese had a pretty prominent local law firm that does mostly government work for local entities send a cease and desist letter to Professor Ruby Montana. If you recall, the two went back and forth on Facebook over comments in which Patty Maese interjected herself into a story about the Flu Klux Klan Open Texas protest a few weekends ago. A source indicates that the letter had a lot of words in it meant to scare the recipient like "police" and gave an account of what happened that I can only describe as laughable. Interestingly the letter allegedly indicates that Maese was "force to resign" according to a so...

Margo is going to lose his reelection bid and he is probably the only person that doesn't know that yet. I've made that point many times. But seriously, I think the whole "gotcha" photo of him not wearing a mask while having food at golf course is really overblown. First, you can't eat and wear a mask. Not sure if some of you have figured out the physics of that yet. I don't know any of the people in the picture other than Margo and I think one of them is his wife, but honestly couldn't tell you for sure. The people standing look like they are golfers. For me, the bigger issue is that golf courses are even open. The idea that you can play sports of 4 or less people is pretty much just the Rich White Folks Exemption. That is what Margo should be setting the example on - not going to places like that. I don't care that he went to a restaurant to eat. I personally won't do something like that, but if he wants to risk his own health doing so - at this ...