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The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – HERNANDEZ FILES PAPERWORK FOR MAYORAL CAMPAIGN DURING KEY ARENA VOTE
[[{“value”:” At exactly 12:29pm today, under agenda item 29, City Council voted 5-2 to place an item on the November 5 ballot that would cancel spending bond money for a downtown arena….
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – GROSSMAN ADDRESSES EL PASO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT ABOUT PROPOSED $173.8M CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION
[[{“value”:” Yesterday our Chief Instigator, returning from work in Italy, called the El Paso County Commissioners Court from Newark Liberty International Airport to comment on agenda item 9A, which was a discussion…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – SAMANIEGO AND THREE COMMISSIONERS GO TO THE DARK SIDE
[[{“value”:” County Judge Ricardo Samaniego originally ran for office on a platform of fiscal discipline but turned out to be just another tax-and-spend progressive. He voted to raise his own salary to…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – SAMANIEGO ENDORSES JOHNSON FOR MAYOR
[[{“value”:” Renard Johnson, the Oligarchy candidate for Mayor whose brother and former business partner was indicted for a $3 million Ponzi scheme, appointed the daughter of County Judge Ricardo Samaniego as his…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – COUNTY POISED TO SUPPORT $1.6 BILLION IN NEW DEBT SERVICING, EXPLODING OUR PROPERTY TAX
[[{“value”:” Two days ago we reported that the County will soon vote on whether to issue $188 million in certificates of obligation without voter approval and place a $294 million general obligation…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – THE COUNTY’S $482 MILLION SPENDING BINGE
[[{“value”:” During a Special Meeting of the County Commissioners Court on July 9, Jose Landeros, Director of Strategic Development, presented the recommendations of the Bond Advisory Committee for future debt issuances. The…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – TRACEY JEROME IS NOW SOMEONE ELSE’S PROBLEM
[[{“value”:” One of the happiest emails we received in recent months is the one attached below, confirming that Tracey Jerome, one of Tommy Gonzalez’s most notorious sycophants, is no longer a Deputy…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY COUNCIL TO LET VOTERS DECIDE IF THEY STILL WANT A DOWNTOWN ARENA
[[{“value”:” Yesterday the City voted 5-3 to let the voters decide in the November 5 General Election whether to kill the City’s ill-fated project to build an arena in downtown El Paso….
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – MORE THAN $47,000 IN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS MISSING FROM CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT
[[{“value”:” It is campaign season and the candidates were required to submit their July 15 finance reports by yesterday, covering the period from January 1 through June 30. City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez,…