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Truth in Advertising: The Run-Off

Commissioner Stout & Judy Gutierrez dancing at a Democratic Party function last week.Early voting for the Primary Run-Off Election started today and the run-off mailers have been dropping steadily...

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Election Integrity and the El Paso GOP

We all get a good laugh at the people who still refuse to believe that Donald Trump lost and that he lost to someone who received more votes that any other president in US history. And the GOP...

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Holguin & Limón Candidates Trounced

I know this post is like a week late but Eddie Holguin is dressing like Pee Wee Herman these days and it takes time for a vato to process that shit.You know we do winners and losers every...

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Irene Armendariz-Jackson & Planned Parenthood

There's a rumor floating around the GOP circles that Republican Congressional Sacrificial Lamb Candidate Irene Armendariz-Jackson took money from Planned Parenthood - which would be a major problem for...

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Svarzbein Files Complaint Against Leeser; Alleges Concern of Physical Violence

A source at the City of El Paso leaked a draft of a press release from City Rep Peter Svarzbein announcing a complaint he's filing against El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser alleging Leeser told him to "shut...

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Holguin & Limón Try to Rebrand

I've had a few people hit me up over the weekend about Eddie Holguin and Lily Limón starting another political consulting firm, this time with fake "journalist" Martin Paredes. There are two important...

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Eastside City Council Races Get Crowded

City Council races are going to be the main event in the November election since pretty much all the state and county races are over-with at the end of the primary election cycle. I mean Beto is going...

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Rosales Regrets

Photo Credit: El Paso MattersBy now you all have seen the news coverage over the last few days regarding District Attorney Yvonne Rosales and the Walmart Shooter case. If you haven't, the short of it...

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Leeser's Anti-Women Vote; TDP Boss Rescinds Endorsement

In a very controversial session of El Paso City Council recently, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser cast the deciding vote against an effort to de-prioritize the investigations of women having abortions....

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Social Media Pendejadas

I feel like a broken record writing a similar post almost every election cycle, but at some point candidates need to get it through their thick skulls.Social media kills campaigns. The last primary...

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Who Wrote the Walmart Shooting Family Member Mystery Email?

If you haven't seen this story that aired on KTSM recently, it is all the hub-bub in the El Paso County Courthouse these days.  The gist of the story is that a prominent El Paso attorney named Amanda...

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Lupe Giner is a Republican, Not an Independent

No one would blame you if you read the headline and said, who the hell is Luper Giner?She's technically running as an independent candidate, but make no mistake, Giner is a Republican candidate running...

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Jeremy Jordan & Consulting Conflicts

There's a climate change petition going around that might end up getting enough signatures to get on the ballot. While I agree with it in principle, I mean who doesn't want government at any level to...

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Yet Another Rosales Firing Controversy

I was planning on posting a different piece today about Rosales. It was about her endless excuses for everything and how nothing is ever her fault. Classic la toxica trait. The context was the...

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Rosales & Respect for Workers

There are definitely no supply-chain issues when it comes to the number of excuses that fly out of the District Attorney's Office when they have their almost weekly bad news stories lately. There are...

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Caballero Defends Yvonne Rosales

Okay, I'm just gonna rip the band aide off here. This is a still image from an interview with Theresa Caballero on KVIA.This is what happens when lawyers cosplay after binging Marvel series' on Disney...

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Two City Reps Flip-Flop On Budget

In some of the most blatant acts of political tomfuckery, two city council reps tried to vote against a tax increase after they voted for it. City Reps Isabel Salcido and Claudia Rodriguez surrendered...

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Workers: San Eli Mayor Not Paying Employees

Nothing sickens me more than to have to write this piece on Labor Day weekend of all times, but as anyone who has ever spent any amount of time reading my blog knows, I’m an outspoken labor advocate...

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Yvonne Rosales' Humiliating Meeting Requirements

If you recall recently some abortion rights advocates staged a sit-in in the lobby of the District Attorney's Office to get a meeting with Rosales to ask her if she was going to prosecute women who...

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San Eli Mayor Worker Pay Issue Follow-Up

I have had a lot of people ask if the workers in San Elizario got paid following a post I wrote earlier this week explaining that workers allege that San Elizario Mayor Isela Reyes didn't pay them....

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Another Day, Another DA Office Problem

Good Lord this is becoming completely unbelievable at this point. The DA's office now appears to have yet another problem on their hands. And I'm not talking about a minor problem - I'm talking about a...

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El Paso Judge Reprimanded

An El Paso judge has been publicly reprimanded for what appears to be continuing to be the attorney of record on a case for at least 6 months after he was sworn in as a judge. Correction - it wasn't...

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San Eli Mayor Isela Reyes & Fiestas Patrias

Eddie Holguin's hand-picked candidate for Mayor of San Elizario has been involved in a situation in which she has allegedly not paid workers for the work they did for her restaurant / bar. The workers...

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DA Rosales Asks for Help From GOP AG

Okay, we have to stop pretending that what is going on in the El Paso District Attorney's Office is anything other than an unhinged spiral of what in my opinion can only be described as political...

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"Fair" Elections Ballot Initiates Are Anti-Union

There are several ballot initiatives going that I really support in their concept. But the language makes it almost impossible for me to support several of them. The advocates of these initiatives are...

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