BILL HICKS FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
We initially had no intention of making an endorsement for District Attorney. We interviewed all three candidates, current District Attorney Bill D. Hicks, Deputy Public Defender James Montoya, and retired…
RYAN WOODCRAFT TO THE EL PASO TIMES: “BRING FISCAL SANITY BACK TO EL PASO COUNTY”
Ryan Woodcraft, Guest Columnist, El Paso Times, Sept. 5, 2024 “I am running for County Commissioner of Precinct 1 in order to bring fiscal sanity back to El Paso County,…
ALERT: TAX-AND-SPEND CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL OFFICE HAVE APPEARED ON OUR RADAR!
Today we are are reporting from our fortified bunker at a secret location beneath a mountain. Our patented atomic radar can identify tax-and-spend politicians from a distance of 10,000 kilometers…
EL PASO COUNTY WILL OWN THE DECK PLAZA OVER INTERSTATE 10!
This past Monday, the El Paso Commissioners Court voted 4-1 (with Iliana Holguin dissenting) to contribute $1 million toward the design cost for building a five-block deck plaza over Interstate…
DAVID STOUT DEFENDS COUNTY SPENDING BINGE IN DISHONEST OPINION ESSAY
Commissioner David Stout published a guest column in the El Paso Times defending the County’s tax increase and its authorization of $894 million in general obligation bonds and COs. He…
CLAUDIA LIZETTE RODRIGUEZ RAISES $0 FOR HER CAMPAIGN FOR COUNTY PRECINCT 1
Zero dollars. That is how much Claudia Lizette Rodriguez has raised for her campaign for County Precinct 1. On her January 15 campaign finance report, she indicated that her husband…
CITY IS ON RIGHT COURSE, BUT COUNTY SPENDING IS OUT OF CONTROL: MAX GROSSMAN
Max Grossman: Guest columnist, Published 7:01 a.m. MT Aug. 15, 2024 Our city and county have adopted opposite approaches to borrowing and taxation. While the mayor and majority of City…
COUNTY VOTES FOR RECORD PROPERTY TAX INCREASE!
Today the County voted: 1. to place on the November ballot a $396.6 million general obligation bond for UMC. 2. to place on the November ballot a $323.8 million general…
COUNTY TO VOTE TOMORROW ON AUTHORIZING $324M IN BOND DEBT PLUS $397M IN UMC BOND DEBT
Tomorrow the County Commissioners Court plans to go on a record shopping binge by authorizing a general obligation bond in the amount of $323,796,000, which will be divided into five…
SAMANIEGO AND THREE COMMISSIONERS GO TO THE DARK SIDE
County Judge Ricardo Samaniego originally ran for office on a platform of fiscal discipline but turned out to be just another tax-and-spend progressive. He voted to raise his own salary…