COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX BY $137 ON AVERAGE
We all knew a massive County tax increase was coming because four of five members of the Commissioners Court are tax-and-spend liberals who would rather waste our hard-earned money than…
SAMANIEGO, STOUT AND CORONADO RUNNING FOR REELECTION, VOTED TO ISSUE MASSIVE DEBT AND RAISE THEIR OWN SALARIES
Adam Powell of the El Paso Times nailed it in his report on the reelection bids of Samaniego, Stout, and Coronado: “Stout and Samaniego pushed the unpopular $340 million CO…
COUNTY PROPOSAL TO PLACE $105M COLISEUM BOND ON BALLOT FAILS
Yesterday the County Commissioners Court debated Commissioner David Stout’s proposal to place a $105 million Coliseum bond proposition on the May 3 ballot even though the same proposition was rejected…
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…
EL PASO COUNTY IS A FINANCIAL GODZILLA!
The El Paso County Commissioners Court is planning to authorize a total of $894 million worth of bonds by the end of this year, which will explode our property tax.…
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 $720 million in general obligation bonds and COs. He…
GROSSMAN ADDRESSES EL PASO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT ABOUT PROPOSED $173.8M CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION
Yesterday our Chief Instigator, returning from work in Italy, called the El Paso County Commissioners Court from Newark Liberty International Airport to comment on agenda item 9A, which was a…
STOUT AND CANALES SIGN LETTER TO BIDEN DEMANDING GAZA CEASEFIRE
El Paso County Commissioner David Stout of Precinct 2 and City Council Representative Chris Canales of District 8 signed a letter to President Biden, dated January 9, calling for a…
COUNTY MAY HOLD BOND ELECTION, COULD ISSUE UP TO $500 MILLION OF NEW DEBT BY JANUARY 2025!
On Monday, October 23 the County’s financial advisers, Brad Angst and Nancy Rocha, gave the Commissioners Court a Q3 market update under agenda item 8. Toward the end of their…
EL PASO TIMES: “DOWNTOWN EL PASO HISTORIC DISTRICT IS NOT DEAD, BUT RATHER IN LIMBO”
Dear Friends and Media, Anthony Jackson of the El Paso Times is reporting that “the proposed Downtown Historic District is not dead, but rather in limbo. The National Park Service…