STOUT AND CORONADO TAKE AIM AT EL PASO TAXPAYER REVOLT
David Stout has the unique distinction of having voted for all five salary increases for the El Paso County Commissioners Court since assuming office in January 2015, increasing his own…
STOUT AND CORONADO VOTE AGAINST COUNTY PAY RAISES BECAUSE THEY ARE EXCLUDED
During today’s County Commissioners Court meeting under Budget and Finance item 12A, the five-member court discussed whether to increase the salaries of County employees up to 4.0%, effective January 3,…
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…
IS DEMOCRAT ANNETTE GRIEGO A FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO SERGIO CORONADO?
Family nurse practitioner Annette Griego is challenging Commissioner Sergio Coronado of Precinct 4 in the current Democratic Primary. Coronado is an extreme tax-and-spend “progressive” who increased his own salary 16.2%…
TAX-AND-SPEND POLITICIAN SEEKS RE-ELECTION
We received this mailer from Commissioner Sergio Coronado promoting himself without citing a single specific achievement. Maybe we did not look hard enough, but we did not read anything about:…
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…
WHO WILL DEFEAT COMMISSIONER SERGIO CORONADO IN NOVEMBER 2026?
The General Election of November 2026 may seem far away, but we cannot wait to see Commissioner Sergio Coronado of Precinct 4 booted from office! By any standard, Coronado is…