Refuse the Juice

[...] they are costing themselves either money or integrity - or both. The City of El Paso and your city council is digging furiously at this moment and it could likely cost YOU a lot of money.  Their [...]

[...] into the pension's bank account and there's not a thing you can do about it. So where's city council on all this BS?  Well, they have been bought off with police and fire union money and they won' [...]

[...] capital improvements. 2.  The city council could use water and sewer rates/fees for whatever they wanted.  Instead of passing a direct [...]

[...] the constitution does not mention anything about employment at the city of El Paso).  It seems city council is now on this bandwagon as well and it's going to get the city (read: taxpayers) sued. The [...]

[...] might remember last week when the mayor went to battle with Niland over her thoughts on the city attorney's performance pertaining to a certain land issue.  Watching the video you can even see where [...]

[...] 're an idiot if you think Leeser doesn't know this. Leeser used the de jour city manager - the city attorney - to figure out how he could get some powerful political help in his office.  Like I said, [...]

[...] underway during the last city manager's tenure, but must have been run by the mayor and the city attorney.  If you are looking to blame someone - blame the chain of command. Where this employee hit [...]

[...] a public request for information on a personnel matter.  She got her hand smacked by the city attorney who had to tell her behind closed doors that you can't drag employee HR issues out into a [...]

[...] the city manager.  By giving that title - even in a deputy role - it became an irritant to council members.  It also provided more tragets to aim at when council found themselves looking like fools. [...]

[...] constituents.  Well, if you count leaking gossip to the press and turning in ORRs on other council members - then that was work, I guess... So it was not a surprise that Limon's contribution to the [...]

[...] taken into executive session. 2. City Attorney Sylvia Firth's performance was to reviewed by council members after the messy process of hiring the new city manager.  This matter was immediately taken [...]

[...] meetings are about that we've seen on the council agenda. Those same insiders tell me that council members came together to agree to fight this out in executive session in order to maintain a more [...]

[...] the El Paso Times. The story shows a picture of Ray Adauto - a guy who has the same boss as Martin Paredes.  Both Paredes and Adauto are owned and operated by a local home builder - at least that's [...]

[...] how ignorant he is.  I've never seen somebody walk off so many cliffs in my life. Thank you Martin Paredes for being El Paso's biggest political joke since Jaime O. Perez became a Libertarian. [...]

[...] . The problem is that they're on the wrong side of history and they are trying to force it. Martin Paredes latest complaint against Rep. Cortney Niland is that she was appointed to CAD board and didn' [...]

[...] what amount of profit is worth not kissing your wife and kids goodnight. ------------------ Martin Paredes and other people who do not understand "economic development" will tell you that [...]

[...] long and prosper (see what I did there?). You've got two avenues you can go when hiring a new city manager and they mimic hiring a college football coach. 1. Lateral move from big program to big [...]

[...] bomb throwers don’t get very far in life.  They are dumb enough to think they can lobby the new city manager over to their side.  They have no idea that everyone sees them individually as lacking [...]

[...] about it.  His staff has been telling anyone who will listen that they don't expect the new city manager to be around long.  And I don't mean behind closed doors - it's happening in official public [...]

[...] when council and the ankle biters were going to wake up and figure out what hiring a new city manager when you already had one on contract would cost.  It seems like yesterday's council meeting [...]

[...] it's likely a city manager shouldn't either. I'm not saying that rinky dink papers like the El Paso Times don't often misuse the "first 100" article on everybody from dog catchers to high [...]

[...] The El Paso Times did a Q&A with city manager Tommy Gonzalez about his first 100 days at work. Notice I [...]

[...] taxpayers dollars to pay his buddies off. Powers was aiming his satirical sword at the El Paso Times with his post.  I think the El Paso Times gets it in the way Powers suggest.  They know [...]

[...] to be fixed for all of them. As for everything else that went down at council, the El Paso Times has a good rundown HERE. My thoughts on the meeting in no particular order. 1.  Kudos [...]

[...] I thought Representative Emma Acosta had turned things around and was legislating as friend to El Pasoans instead of a friend to special interests.  I guess I was wrong.  The El Paso taxi cab union/ [...]

[...] stop because El Paso lacks a paying audience.  It's not a secret.  It's well known that El Pasoans are "last minute" ticket buyers if they even bother to show up at all.  El [...]

[...] turnout is in when politicians are fighting over a whole 20 votes.  I bet 90 percent of El Pasoans couldn't tell you where the building is.  I guess that doesn't matter.  El Paso is set [...]

[...] only be accomplished in El Paso. You all might remember a decade or so ago when some local El Pasoans started trying to screw with TxDOT because they didn't think the city was getting its fair [...]

Nobody thought things could spiral more out of control in council chambers from when Mayor Cook was running things.  Nope, he was the worst.  He had [...]

[...] With the vote on the budget going the way it did... any of you still believe Mayor Leeser is any different than Steve Ortega?  Do you really think you cast a vote for a guy who had [...]

[...] through that he had no idea of... even though it was clear he had plenty of knowledge of it. Mayor Leeser had to step in and gently remind Robinson that this issue was thoroughly vetted with staff and [...]

[...] and ready to go, he'll lose the only friends he has left... but with friends like that??? Mayor Leeser hates Niland and everyone who votes with her.  He's out to get her and everyone at city hall [...]