Earlier I wrote in Slight of hand? about the feeling that some of have that the city may be using the situation over at the fire and police pension board as a diversion — get our attention focused on something other than what city council and the city staff are doing.
A reader posted a comment that indicated that the city manager and a city representative were aware of problems but chose to wait until “later”.
The reader indicated that the information came from an email string between the city manager and the city representative. The reader was kind enough to send the link recently. You can left click on the image below to make it larger:
Reading the emails from the bottom up, what you see is an August 14, 2012 exchange that started with the city manager telling the city representative the the pension fund director is a “boozer and partier [sic]” (I guess that the city manager does not feel the need to use spell checking).
No respect
Once again we have the city manager calling people names behind their backs. It is totally inappropriate for this to happen this way.
The plan
The city manager tells (not asks) the city representative to “Ask them for info on all their operating expenses and travel”.
Then we see that the city representative does not understand. She inquires “Who’s operating expenses …. the managers or fire?” She must not be in on the plan yet. She calls the director of the organization the manager. She does not know if she is supposed to bird dog the director or the entire fire department.
The city manager responds “The Police/Firemen’s pension fund. Not the departments [sic]” (I guess grammer is not important to the city manager either). Note that she puts the Police first. The name of the organization is the El Paso Firemen and Policemen’s Pension Fund. Anyway the city manager is saying don’t attack the city departments, attack the pension fund and it’s director.
The admission
Then comes the kicker. The city manager writes “Don’t say anything just request it later”. The city manager obviously has plans to mount an attack later — when she needs to. We are seeing the results of the plan in the news now.
I still think that the diversion is designed to cover up what is happening with the railroad. See Catch me if you can.
Muckraker
elpasospeak 
For people who think they are so much smarter than the rest of us, you would think that Niland and Wilson would have better grammar and spelling skills. Niland uses “who’s” instead of “whose”. I frankly think their many back-channel communications, which are now being made public, are evidence of their carelessness, recklessness, and lack of concern for details in EVERYTHING they do. Smug, manipulative and conniving do not adequately describe these two individuals. Lastly, if they can’t spell, how can we trust them to do basic math on all the tax dollars they are spending.
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these people seem to think that they can get away with what they’re doing, this is not right, when the people know what’s going on there will be some serious consequences
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