As you all likely know, Bob Moore is leaving the El Paso Times next month. Moore says he is making way for reporters to stay on at the newspaper. But, I don’t believe so. As some of you likely know, my blog is the direct result of Bob Moore. Specifically, it is my belief that… Read More Bob Moore Quits, Or So He Says
To this day I believe that my blogging projects were the reason that Ray Caballero was not reelected. Blogs were a new thing and many people, including Bob Moore at the El Paso Times, underestimated how online discourse could have an impact on politics. Do not get me wrong, I am not suggesting that my… Read More Social Media Comes Unto Its Own in Politics
The single most important issue that I have been focused on in my blog since its inception is my belief that the high level of El Paso corruption and ineptitude, that has led to one of the highest tax rates, is the local news media. Specifically, editors and reporters who supported the Caballero-Rodriguez-Shapleigh troika that… Read More David Crowder and the Politics of News
I have written before and told my friends that I have never felt discriminated against because of the color of my skin or my nationality. That is not to say that I have not been discriminated against, but it was not because of the color of my skin. It was because of my language and… Read More Know My Place
Let’s play a little game today. Let’s assume for this post that the State of Texas has mandated that all government business must henceforth be done via email. For example, if you need to ask a question about your property taxes, or to pay them you must do so via email. That goes for all… Read More Bob Moore and Self-Serving Commentary
Today, I am faced with having to discard the post I had ready to go for today. Instead I am writing a new one because Jim Tolbert undeniably pulled off an unexpected win on Saturday. Tolbert is now the District 2 representative and depending on how quickly the City is able to move he may… Read More The Tolbert Agenda
Last month, on April 8, to be exact, I shared with you the results of my open records request looking into who had lied about the Cathedral High School traffic calming devices. As you might remember, Larry Romero wrote in his response to Ross Fischer’s question about the devices that he had sent Cortney Niland… Read More Did Niland Order the Cathedral High School Calming Devices?
Something politically important happened yesterday at city hall but if you read the El Paso Times you won’t know about it. That is because Bob Moore selectively targets certain politicos, like Larry Romero and certain officials like Tommy Gonzalez, but protects others like Claudia Ordaz. It doesn’t matter what you believe about the Jose Landeros… Read More The Story the El Paso Times Refuses to Report
In the continued quest to make El Paso the most corrupt city in the world, Joyce Wilson has given us an opportunity to analyze, dissect and explore how corruption is incubated, maintained and spread throughout the city. As I have stated before, corrupt practices is not just the criminal element of a quid pro quo.… Read More Anatomy of Corruption: Another Case Study with Joyce Wilson
Over the years I have been developing an online data set of the various scandals that have plagued El Paso for decades. Much of it is corruption related. As I have written previously, the impetus for my blog is Bob Moore’s unethical practices, which happens to be the most important reason that corruption exists in… Read More El Paso Scandals
The deception to cover up the $20+ million because of the delay of the bonds continues. In the latest installment, city council spent over four hours in executive session discussing Tommy Gonzalez. As with all cover ups, this latest deception is hidden behind the argument of “personnel matters.” However, as usual, not all is what… Read More The Tommy Gonzalez Deception
(This is part 4 of a 5-part series) Infamously and very smugly, Joyce Wilson referred to those that opposed the ballpark as “crazies.” Every corruption needs an individual to work through the bureaucracy in order for the corruption to succeed. Joyce Wilson was the instrumental tool that navigated the destruction of city hall, the building… Read More Peeling the Onion – The Joyce Wilson Saga
(This is part 3 of a 5-part series) One of the strongest tools that the corruptors have is intimidation through economic terrorism. They go after your livelihood by pressuring your bosses or your clients. When that doesn’t work, they then use the threat of criminal prosecutions to silence opposition or to bring to heel those… Read More Peeling the Onion – Luther Jonesing Tommy Gonzalez
(This is part 2 of a 5-part series) Plain and simple, the ballpark fiasco was never properly vetted by the community. It was rushed under the notion that if the City did not act immediately they would lose the opportunity to bring the Chihuahuas to the city. Throughout the process, certain information trickled out that… Read More Peeling the Onion – The Ballpark Bonds
Most of you, if not all of you, are aware of the Ross Fisher Ethics Investigation Preliminary Findings and Advice Report dated February 26, 2016 and released by the City. There is much commentary and speculation about the report and its findings online and, of course, by Bob Moore’s newspaper. The report has already generated… Read More The Fisher Report Peels the Onion of Corruption
The City released a copy of Tommy Gonzalez’ answers to the questions asked of him by the investigator looking into how Gonzalez and Larry Romero handled the financial advisor and other issues. In the case of the financial advisor debacle, there are two major issues that need to be addressed. The first is whether Larry… Read More Tommy Gonzalez Answers and the El Paso Times $20 million Bias
Riddle me this, the El Paso Times has reported numerous times that Larry Romero has resigned. The paper has even published the affirmative assertion that Larry Romero resigned “effective Sunday.” KVIA, for its part, initially stated that Larry Romero had resigned referencing the El Paso Times as its source. KVIA followed up its initial report… Read More Riddle Me This About the Supposed Resignation
As I expected, as soon as Claudia Ordaz got over the shock of the ethics complaint, she went into immediate damage control mode. As an experienced politico who has lived off of taxpayer monies almost from the moment she became an adult, she fully understands that it’s not about the facts but rather the public… Read More Claudia Ordaz Activated Her Public Relations Machine
In the last two days I have demonstrated to you how a cover up is underway to protect certain individuals. A cover up requires an outlet to distract you by focusing your attention on one of the issues to keep you from asking the important questions. As you know, the El Paso Times has been… Read More Another Cover Up Example – Open Records Hypocrisy
As many of you know, the El Paso Times has been focused on Larry Romero and his questionable activities as a city representative. The local newspaper has gone so far as to publish an editorial asking for Romero to step down. You likely know that I am not fan of Bob Moore’s brand of journalism… Read More Selective Coverage by the El Paso Times
On Monday, KVIA posted an eleven-minute interview with Larry Romero. I believe that this interview is the first time Romero has answered news media questions about the latest controversy surrounding him. The latest controversy is where he failed to disclose his previous business relationship with Estrada Hinojosa while pushing city officials to replace First Southwest… Read More The Larry Romero Affair
I realize that yesterday I wrote about the incompetence of the El Paso Times and that today I am congratulating them for doing what they should be doing – investigating Larry Romero. First let me address the dichotomy of complaining about the El Paso Times’ lack of journalistic ethics and the following day, I am… Read More How Long Before the FBI Investigates Larry Romero?
Some of you may have noticed that on Thursday, November 19, 2015, the El Paso Times published an article about the firing of Steve Norwood, the county’s first county administrator. The local newspaper published its account almost 15 days after I published the results of my open records request. That it took fifteen days for… Read More The Malfeasance of the El Paso Times
Today’s blog is about El Paso the ineptitude. The ineptitude oozes so thick that it only takes a few words to point it out. What is even worse is that there is not one example but two examples in one day! Imagine, in a normal community there may be one or two examples of ineptitude… Read More The Boys That Cried Wolf
As you likely know, an intent to recall Larry Romero was filed on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at city hall. It really should not come as a surprise to anyone because of the questionable actions taken by Romero in recent days. Recalls are the final action that voters have to make their representatives pay attention… Read More The Case of the Two Larry’s
**Spoiler Alert** If you are planning on seeing the movie then stop reading now, I cannot comment about the movie without revealing some of the plot. Before you go, just know that obviously Peter Svarzbein nor the Cd. Juárez mayor had seen the movie before using it for political points. **Do not continue to read… Read More My Observations About the Sicario Movie
Apparently, I have a knack of upsetting many individuals that read my blog for many different reasons. Obviously, upsetting politicos is part of the blogging game. That comes with the territory. Upsetting readers is something a blogger does not like to do because it is the readers that keep the blog going. However, upsetting readers… Read More A Reader is Upset About My Grammar
In 2004, an FBI agent started to investigate public corruption in El Paso. It started as an investigation into the activities of Bob Jones and it snowballed into the indictments and jailing of various public officials. Many have proclaimed that Poisoned Pawns curtailed public corruption in El Paso. But has it? In the last couple… Read More Corruption In El Paso
It does not matter what you believe the Claudia Ordaz texts reveal. Whether you believe they are nothing more than a political embarrassment or they reveal serious problems at the city, I believe we can all agree that they are news worthy. They are news worthy by the mere fact that an elected official released… Read More The Silence is Deafening
Today, the El Paso Times and KVIA (actually published late yesterday) ran two stories about UMC and the El Paso Children’s Hospital. Comparing both news reports clearly shows how Bob Moore runs cover for Veronica Escobar and cohorts. Let us start with KVIA’s report titled “El Paso county [sic] warns of impending UMC tax hike”.… Read More Bob Moore Continues to Run Cover for Veronica Escobar
Of course, they are leaving! As you likely already know, Bloomberg reported on how El Paso leads the nation in residents abandoning the city for greener pastures. You also likely saw that Bob Moore’s newspaper mentioned the exodus as well. He had to because it was trending on social media. As is common with the… Read More The El Paso Exodus
Editor’s note: I had meant to conclude the four part series on the Culture of Corruption this morning however, it is important that I point out the complicity of the El Paso Times along with useful idiot Jaime Abeytia in regards to Claudia Ordaz’ attempt at managing her public relations persona via the MPO issue.… Read More Bob Moore’s Complicity Exposed Again with MPO
Earlier today, during the city council meeting it was clearly shown that the whole MPO issue is an attempt by Claudia Ordaz to manipulate the public perception of her being a taxpayers’ savior. For more than two hours, city staff and city council looked into the allegations that the city has “lost” about $29 million… Read More Claudia Ordaz Caught Manipulating MPO Issue
As I have been pointing out for some time now, Jaime Abeytia has become the go to person for politicians looking to control the public perception of issues. Ever since Michiel Noe was chastised by members of the community for his attempt to appoint Abeytia to the Hispanic Cultural Center sub-committee, some of the politicians… Read More The Claudia Ordaz and Jaime Abeytia Connection
Through many articles, I have written posts detailing Veronica Escobar’s responsibility for the El Paso Children’s Hospital. I have shown you how she has been involved from the very beginning with the process including supporting two individuals that had a direct hand in allocating taxpayer funds for the children’s hospital as well was driving it… Read More Bob Moore, Veronica Escobar and Blood in the Water
In the grand scheme of things in El Paso, it seems that it is better to be a criminal than to live an honest life. From the beginning, I felt this but it is a difficult thing to prove because the corruption is so endemic that it covers up after itself. The corruption is so… Read More Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres: Jaime Abeytia
This weekend, as I was trying to enjoy Easter with my family I saw a Facebook feed about Bob Moore’s editorial in the El Paso Times about journalistic integrity. I was flabbergasted because, although I know useful idiots are adept at creating illusions through distraction, the audacity of Bob Moore to write about credibility goes… Read More Bob Moore Makes Case for his Lack of Journalistic Integrity
Many times the traditional news media likes to argue that online media has no effect on public policy. They want to keep this fiction in place because they are hoping to stop the erosion of their reader/viewership. Today we proved that online media has the reach necessary to influence public policy. At 9:44 this morning,… Read More Today We Proved that Online Media is Effective
For many years, I have been showing you how Bob Moore’s journalistic ethics were dropped by him in favor of working for a public policy agenda that favors his newspaper’s bottom line. Moore’s lack of journalist ethics is so egregious that there are so many examples of them that my blog is in danger of… Read More An Examination of How Bob Moore Controls Public Perception
The other day, the El Paso Times masquerading as a newspaper, published an editorial on its Media Buzz blog. Yea, I know who knew the El Paso Times has a blog. In yet another instance of editorial incompetence, Bob Moore, through his newspaper’s blog is crying that KVIA was taking credit for being first about the… Read More Bob Moore’s Hypocrisy on KVIA Hype