El Paso Politics

This was meant to be several different posts but I've been busy and thought it best to trust truncate the posts into one post, so be prepared for political capirotada.  First, lets start with some comments from Mayor Leeser that I think need to be called out. A while back during the budget talks at the city, Mayor Leeser got into a dust-up with City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. Leeser is apparently pretty self-conscious about not having a college degree and during a back-and-forth with Rep Hernandez, he basically said she needed to check her privilege because she has an education from a fancy school.  It takes A LOT for me to defend someone like City Rep Cassandra Hernandez. I don't care much for political grandstanders and she's in the Hall of Fame of grandstanders here in the local political scene. Hell making August 3 all about her at a community meeting shortly after was just one example of the stuff she does that I find annoying.  But for a wealthy white man to tell a Ch...

The Ding Dongs are still trying to be relevant and quite frankly the ONLY reason that the anti-masker / anti-vaxer crazies are even given a platform is because EPISD Trustee Daniel Call lacks the backbone to tell that very small but vocal group to act with decorum.  All because of personal friendship with the Head Karen of the Westside, Kendal Jessup.  And make no mistake about it - there is no greater threat to public health to the average El Pasoan than the members of Call Qaida.  I'll be a honest with you all, I'm even more heated about these anti-masker/anti-vaxers because my kid ended up with COVID because she was sent back to class and has to sit in the same classrooms as students who's parents are the crazies.  You guys read this blog because I tell it like it is - so here is the truth about Daniel Call. He killed a once-bright political career by aligning himself with the Ding Dongs. He will never be elected to anything again. He will never rise above his cur...

I don't know who is running former State Rep Joe Pickett's run for city council, but judging by the logo they came up for the rebirth of his potential political career - he should fire them like, yesterday!  As a matter of whether or not someone is going to win an election, the logo matters very little. Especially for a guy like Joe Pickett who has strong name ID among the older voters of the Eastside. But it does say a lot about the decision-making of this campaign team that actually presented this to him with a straight face at some point.  But for an elected official who has had such a long and noteworthy career, you'd think he'd pick a political team that would at least have some sense packaging an established leader like Pickett.  The man was once chairman of one of the most powerful and influential committees in the Texas legislature and his campaign design team came up with.... Fucking sparkles.  Are you kidding me? They came up with a logo that makes it look ...

Full disclosure - I'm not a marijuano (pot head for the bilingually impaired) and never have been. Just not my thing.   But I do enjoy Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson, so I guess that counts for something. And who doesn't like Rick James' classic, Mary Jane? I basically don't care if someone smokes weed any more than I care what kind of alcohol they drink. It just isn't that important to me - although I do look at people who put pineapple on pizza like someone dropped them on their head when they were a child.  I know it doesn't make sense to other people, but as long as I don't have to smell a stoner, me importa que sean Marijuanos. But I do have a big problem with government entities even implying a threat to journalists for their reporting.  I know, some of you are scratching your head right now, so let me bring you up to speed. Earlier today I was scrolling through Facebook and I came across an interesting post from Aaron Montes.  It is a garden-variety med...

By now you've all heard that an EPISD Trustees home was vandalized shortly after voting in favor of the mask mandate at EPISD. He had also received comments that any rational person would see as a threat by members of the Ring the Bells Facebook group, administered by one of its founders, Kendall Jessup.  Kendall Jessup and her BFF Bethany Hatch along with several other members of the group, participated in Insurrection Day on January 6th. They say they weren't part of any violence and didn't breech the capitol.  We believe you.  Anywho - for those of you keeping track at home that group is so far responsible for losing every election they tried to be a part of, the end of one trustee's political career, and in my opinion, quite possibly the vandalism of the trustee's home.  Calm down Karen - before you threaten to sue me - I'm allowed to express an opinion, even if you don't like it. You don't scare me. (Stick around for the end of a political career. Y...

The Trump Insurrectionist spin-off group aka The Bell Ringers aka the Anti-Maskers / Anti-Vaxxers had a pretty rough night last night at the EPISD and SISD Board meetings.  Up until last night they were living in an alternate reality. They believe an election had been stolen from them - and I'm not talking just about Trump. Bethany Hatch and Irene "La Mentirosa" Armendariz-Jackson thought their major loss was the result of some sort of election steal.  The anti-maskers / anti-vaxxers had convinced themselves that El Pasoans were really a Republicans, they just don't know it. Hand to God, I have been in GOP circles were they say this with a straight face.  Up until last night they thought they were the voice for the community.  Up until last night they thought they were the majority.  And then they got hit with an ice-cold bucket of reality. El Pasoans showed up and demonstrated that we aren't a community of selfish, ignorant, foolish conspiracy theorists.  ...

I think we should all count our lucky stars that today's garden variety Republican wasn't around during World War II. That war drew Americans together in shared sacrifice. All Americans had to do their part for the war effort.  The government had drafts and rations. All Americans had important items limited or completely unavailable to them during those few years in order to support the war effort. We had to limit things like fuel, tires, firewood, coal, nylon, silk, etc... Americans had to use ration cards to purchase basic essentials like  meat, dairy, coffee, dried fruits, jams, jellies, lard, shortening, and oils.   Can you imagine the selfish "muh riiiiiights" MAGA crowd being around then? Those snowflakes don't give a damn about anyone but themselves and have the audacity to throw around the word "patriot". Its muh Gawd-givin' riiiigggght to have nylon. You'll take muh silk fruum muh col' dayed hans ya tyrants! I ain't takin' th...