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…
CITY, COUNTY, AND UMC TO INCREASE TAX ON AVERAGE HOME BY $336!
The City is increasing its property tax on the average home value ($221,726) by $83, with no resistance from Mayor Johnson, who had promised to lower our tax. UMC just…
FLUFFY FOR COUNTY JUDGE, MISS PIGGY FOR PRECINCT 4!
We are pleased to announce that not only is our dog Fluffy running for County Judge against the incumbent Ricardo Samaniego, but Miss Piggy is running for Commissioner of Precinct…
COUNTY BUDGET DEFICIT FOR FY2025 MORE THAN DOUBLES
Harrison Parker of KFOX14 aired an outstanding report revealing that the County budget deficit for FY 2025 (ending September 30) has increased from $18-25M to $55-62M. The new figure is…
JOHNSON ENDORSES SAMANIEGO FOR RE-ELECTION, CLAIMS HE WANTS TO LOWER OUR TAXES
We have seen a lot of mendacious campaign ads over the years, but Mayor Renard Johnson’s video endorsing Ricardo Samaniego’s re-election for County Judge is Texas AAA prime bulls%$t. Johnson…
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…
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…
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…
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…
THE PERFECT STORM: SAMANIEGO AND JOHNSON
County Judge Ricardo Samaniego ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and assumed office January 1, 2019. Since that time, he voted to increase his salary to $152,700 and to…