Special thanks to The El Paso Times. They chose to partially cover the contentious discussion at city council yesterday about the closing of seven rail road crossings on page 2B today (you can read the article here). The closings are part of the deal that the city had to make to get the land to build the ball park. See Train wreck by Brutus.
I have not seen the video yet but the article once again tells us a lot by what it does not say.
Three representatives from the Ysleta Independent School District were concerned about the unintended consequences of the closures and the fact that the school district was not notified. Two city representatives “stood up” to them and pointed out that they had been holding community meetings for years. Evidently the representatives feel that the city government can operate without regard for other governments and their agencies in El Paso. The attitude seems to be “we hold meetings, you need to come bow before us, we have no obligation to reach out to you”.
The closing vote passed by six to two. Most interesting to me is that the article did not mention the city representative who is running for mayor. Did he sit back and let other council members carry the ball in this issue where parts of El Paso got sold down the river for the sake of the city hall destruction/ball park deal? Or did he speak up for the progress that he and his cabal are inflicting on us?
Either way the Times should have told us. The man is running for the office of mayor. We have the right to know about his actions on council. Maybe the reporter got tied up in traffic going to the candidate’s campaign office.
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