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Odette De Leon of the El Paso Chamber, Angelica Rosales of Sundt Construction, and Eddie Trevizo of El Paso Electric sent yet another mailer attacking Chris Canales of District 8 with outright lies while supporting his opponent Matthew Guzman, the darling of the Oligarchs.
The behavior of these three individuals is vicious, immoral, and disgusting and we have never seen anything like it in local politics.
What is worse, the organizations they work for have a direct financial stake in City Council elections and seem to tolerate employees who traffic in dark money.
De Leon, Rosales, and Trevizo have deployed nearly $64,000 dollars worth of mailers in less than a week from undisclosed contributors through The Sun City Coalition, a 501(c)(4) operating as a political attack machine.
The latest mailer began arriving in District 8 mailboxes yesterday and again falsely claims Canales raised taxes four times when De Leon, Rosales, and Trevizo definitely know he raised taxes only twice. The mailer also claims Canales took a pay raise of 41% though City Council reps do not vote on their pay raises, which are indexed automatically with median household income.
The mailer claims “only 5% of voters support Chris Canales” but when we wrote to Trevizo asking who conducted the poll and whether it was scientific, he refused to divulge any information. As far as we can tell, he and his two co-conspirators made it up.
GUZMAN GOES ON THE RECORD
The reverse side of the mailer claims Matthew Guzman, one of Canales’ opponents, is “a breath of fresh air” and “wants to lower property taxes” when, in fact, he stands for expensive capital improvement projects that will definitely increase deficit spending and taxation.
We wrote to Guzman to ask whether he condones the anti-Canales mailers from The Sun City Coalition and he responded, “I reached out to Chris personally to let him know I had nothing to do with these mailers. I wasn’t aware of it. I don’t condone it. I didn’t approve it. And I hate that my name is on it. It’s not my brand of politics.”
He also pointed out he has been married for 15 years, and not 22 years as the mailer claims.
El Paso deserves better.
Btw, we endorse Arturo Alluin for District 8!
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