SAMANIEGO TO BE HOSTED BY EL PASO ELITES FOR FUNDRAISER
When County Judge Ricardo Samaniego assumed office on January 1, 2019, he seemed determined to restrain spending and stand with the taxpayers. After all, he was a businessman who knew…
COMMISSIONER CORONADO RECEIVES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HUNT AND FRIENDS, PREPARES FOR REELECTION CAMPAIGN
Commissioner Sergio Coronado has been in office only 27 months but has already managed to vote for $720 million in GO bonds (of which the voters approved $552 million) and…
CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR ESCOBAR AND JOHNSON JOINS EFFORT TO RE-ELECT SAMANIEGO
Veronica Escobar’s campaign manager, Lauren Zimmerman, not only managed the campaign of Renard Johnson, but she has now joined the team to re-elect County Judge Ricardo Samaniego. Martin Paredes of…
CITY COUNCIL REJECTS CITIZEN OVERSIGHT OF NEARLY $700M IN BOND PROJECTS
City Reps. Canales and Limon co-sponsored item 21 on yesterday’s City Council agenda, which would have provided citizen oversight of $685,602,650 in general obligation bond expenditures, amounting to approximately $1.3…
MAYOR JOHNSON PROMISED TO LOWER OUR PROPERTY TAX BUT WILL NOT DELIVER
What is the difference between Dee Margo and Renard Johnson, aside from the fact that they are cut from the same cloth and relied upon the same group of friends…
SAMANIEGO ASKS PERMISSION TO RECEIVE PRIVATE FUNDS FOR TRAVEL TO TAIWAN
Yesterday the El Paso County Commissioners Court voted 5-0 in support item 13A, “to allow the County Judge to accept any donations for the purpose of travel to Taiwan to…
MAYOR JOHNSON, PLEASE WRITE TO THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Dear Mayor Johnson, Yesterday, City Council voted 8-0 to proceed with a RFQ that will result in the sale of 17 City-owned properties within the former Arena Footprint to private…
STOUT WANTS A NEW $105M COLISEUM BOND, IGNORES THE WILL OF THE VOTERS
On November 5, El Pasoans rejected El Paso Bond Proposition D, which would have authorized the issuance of $105,485,000 in general obligation bonds “for the County’s Coliseum and adjacent facilities…
ABOLISH THE CLIMATE OFFICE
Dear Mayor and City Council, On November 8, 2022, Proposition C passed with only 50.63% voter support, mandating “the issuance of $5,200,000 General Obligation Bonds for renewable energy and resource…
THE DEVELOPERS AND THEIR ALLIES SEIZE CONTROL OF THE CITY’S FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
For two years, Brian Rep. Kennedy was Chair of the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) of the City of El Paso and served alongside Reps. Alexsandra Annello, Joe Molinar,…