CITY’S NON-VOTER APPROVED DEBT OBLIGATIONS NOW STAND AT $852 MILLION
The City’s latest debt figures are available on page 79 of the FY 2023 Budget Book, posted to the webpage of the Office of Budget & Management. There you will…
ADAM POWELL REPORTS ON CITY’S $30 MILLION SLUSH FUND
“I’m not suing for a million dollars for Joe Pickett. I’m suing for all taxpayers in El Paso. I just want some accountability for these fees.” –Joe Pickett, Former State…
EL PASO TIMES: FORMER CITY REP. CLAUDIA LIZETTE RODRIGUEZ FINED $1,000 FOR ETHICS VIOLATIONS
Dear Friends and Media, Adam Powell of the El Paso Times reports that former city rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez has been fined $1,000 by the Texas Ethics Commission for multiple…
TEXAS ETHICS COMMISSION FINES CLAUDIA LIZETTE RODRIGUEZ $1,000
Today the Texas Ethics Commission fined former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez $1,000 for violating Sections 253.003(b), 253.094, 254.031(a)(1), and 254.031(a)(6) of the Texas Election Code. You will recall that…
AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL FIRES ITS CITY MANAGER
On Wednesday the Austin City Council voted 10-1 to fire their City Manager, Spencer Cronk, who held his position since 2018. Cronk, who is paid a base salary of $388,190…
EL CHUQUEÑO SPEAKS TO JOE PICKETT ABOUT THE CITY’S $30 MILLION “SLUSH FUND”
Rich Wright of El Chuqueño has started a new podcast and his first guests were former Texas Rep. Joe Pickett and me. We discussed the City’s $30 million slush fund,…
CITY USING “FRANCHISE FEE” ON OUR WATER BILLS AS A SLUSH FUND
If you pay a monthly water bill like I do, you will notice a tax levied by the Environmental Services Department (ESD) of the City of El Paso. I have…
CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ: “WHO WILL WATCH THE CROOKED POLITICIANS?”
Dear Friends and Media, In her public remarks to her District 3 constituents four days ago, City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez criticized the proposal to modify the City Charter so as…
ETHICS REVIEW COMMISSION DISMISSES DORA OAXACA’S COMPLAINTS AGAINST BRIAN KENNEDY
Yesterday the City Ethics Review Commission convened for the first time in two years in order to review Dora Oaxaca’s complaints against Rep. Brian Kennedy of District 1. Her complaints…
TEXAS SUPREME COURT DISMISSES CITY’S PETITION FOR REVIEW
On January 19 the City of El Paso filed a motion with the Texas Supreme Court to dismiss its petition for review, and I did not file a cross-petition for…