COMMISSIONER STOUT SPONSORS “PAUL CICALA APPRECIATION DAY”
Paul Cicala is a local journalist who most recently worked as a primetime anchor for ABC-7. We like Mr. Cicala and believe he is a competent newsman and a kind…
COUNTY VOTES 3-2 FOR DEBT PLAZA MOU, JUDGE AND TWO LAME DUCKS CARRY VOTE
Today the County voted 3-2 “to sign a memorandum of understanding establishing a non-binding collaborative framework with the City of El Paso and the Downtown Deck Plaza Foundation for the…
COUNTY DOMINATED BY RICARDO “VADER” SAMANIEGO AND HIS STORMTROOPERS
Ricardo Samaniego ran for County Judge against John Cook in 2018 on a platform of fiscal restraint. Instead he voted for record spending, including COs and tax notes, and increased…
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…