I recently filed several open records requests in order to conduct a test on how public officials are using technology and how it affects open records requests. The comments made by El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen, about the Black Lives Matter group gave me an opportunity to experiment. I will share with you more […]
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Ted Cruz Asked to Intervene on UMC Official
As some of you who regularly read my blog know, I have been following the development of Miguel Fernandez’s DWI arrest (link) and serious criminal and fraud allegations against his company Transtelco. Fernandez was appointed to the UMC board by Vince Perez. His DWI case is still pending in court. The other more serious issue […]
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El Paso County by the Numbers 2016
There is much controversy about the salaries that Veronica Escobar, Vince Perez and David Stout voted for themselves recently. Carlos Leon and Andrew Haggerty voted against the raises. Veronica Escobar technically voted against giving herself a raise, but it remains my contention that she did so knowing in advance that she had the votes to […]
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Impunity in El Paso
There are two standards of law in El Paso. That is the unmistakable fact that the Whataburger Incident has proven. I have previously written about this, but until the release of the report about the encounter between El Paso Police officers and Claudia Ordaz and her fiancé, Vince Perez, I had been unable to prove […]
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I Believe That the City of El Paso Criminally Violated the Texas Public Information Act
Open records laws are supposed to be about unhindered access to government records. They are supposed to empower the citizenry to hold their elected officials accountable to them. Accessing government records should not require anyone to look for a needle in a haystack without a magnet. My experience with the City of El Paso has […]
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The Jose Landeros Tuesday Appointment
On Tuesday, Claudia Ordaz is set to reappoint Jose Landeros to the City Plan Commission. Like I first pointed out to you on August 19, 2014, when Landeros was first appointed to the commission by Ordaz, this latest reappointment is also the continued building up of a political faction being pushed forth the Ray Caballero […]
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Shootout at the Durangito
As many of you know there is an ongoing battle over the Durangito community and the proposed El Paso arena. It all revolves around whether a neighborhood should be displaced to make room for an arena. Like all El Paso politics, not all is what it seems as many pieces are moving around at the […]
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Political Campaigning on Your Tax Dollars
It comes up every election cycle and like always the politicos find a way to pretend there is nothing wrong with being paid with tax dollars and campaigning at the same time. It is always the same argument based on the fallacy of an “exempt” employee. As a business owner, I understand that there are […]
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The Problematic Vince Perez Appointment to UMC
Let me start out by making something perfectly clear from the onset, under US jurisprudence, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. That fact makes accusations a dangerous slippery slope for everyone concerned because absent a conviction or a guilty plea the fact remains that innocence must be presumed. The other issue to keep in […]
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Vince Perez and UMC and Mexican Political Intrigue
The last few days I have been updating you on various interconnected issues that many of you are not aware of because, for the most part, they are things that happen at much larger levels then local politics. I covered the global internet network, the concept of being prosecuted for bribing foreign government officials and […]
