Monday Brutus wrote Proposition 6, civil. He did not express an opinion, hoping that someone would give us some information.
Tuesday in No one will notice I criticized a Times article. It failed to point out several things about the ball park bond debt. Instead it acted more as a spokesman for the city, in my opinion. Proposition 7, waiting for input by Brutus got a nice response from a civil service commission member.
Cato wrote about the hospital district bonds in Heal thyself pointing out that their financial situation is not good and that the bonds will increase our costs. Then also on Wednesday Brutus wrote about Proposition 8 and once again pointed out that the ballot language was inconsistent with what the city web site says it means. The civil service commissioner provided some more input in her comment.
Thursday saw Demolishing trust and Proposition 9 by Brutus. Demolishing trust was an update about the real financial situation relative to the ball park and the moving of city hall. Proposition 9 was the last of Brutus’ introductory posts about the proposed city charter amendments.
Cato wrote about one of the city manager’s emails in Stacking the votes. She was attacking a citizen member of the civil service commission because he would not the way she wanted. That was the only article Friday.
Then on Saturday Cato asked why members of our state legislative group are trying to take away our right to vote. Another issue might be taken away from the voters was about how the voters of El Paso must currently approve any bailout contributions that would be made to the Fire and Policemen’s Pension Fund. This legislation would give that power to city council. Why would some of our state legislators want to do that to us? Could it be the campaign support that Police and Fire give to them? Then M. T. Cicero posted El Diario an article about institutions not consulted by city council when they agreed to close the rail crossings and how El Diario was doing a better job covering what is happening than The El Paso Times is.
Lastly on Sunday Brutus wroteBall park clarification, explaining that he was not against the ball park but was against how it is being done.
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