I wrote this back in December 2012 and forgot to publish it. I still think it is relevant.
I read the guest column written by one of our city representatives and printed in the El Paso Times Sunday (Dec. 9, 2012).
I agree with much of what she wrote but was taken back by her closing paragraph. She wrote “These negative, personal attacks and unfounded allegations must stop.”
Firstly I wonder who she thinks she is. She works for us. We should tell her what to do, not vice/versa. Evidently she thinks that she is in charge and that of course is a large part of our problem with the current, temporary, city government.
Beyond that, I would like to suggest that the people in city government stop calling us citizens “crazies” and “amateurs” as has recently happened. Our government is founded on citizens who are “amateurs” in government affairs electing our representatives. Most of us think that our elected representatives should be “amateurs” and not professional politicians.
Lastly, it would be more appropriate for the city representative to caution the city staff and the other representatives to be more respectful of the citizens and each other. They have unfortunately been saying disparaging things about each other and the citizens. They are way out of line.
She should clean up her own house and then bite her tongue when wanting to criticize the citizenry.
We deserve better
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The concept of citizen servant for the honor of public service has been so distorted on the federal level it was just a matter of time for the attitude of elected = better than John Q. Citizen to filter down ot the local level. I am not conversant on the merits of the City’s lawsuit against the Texas Attorney General about the constitutionality of releasing the City Council’s personal emails about city business, but in the interest of pushing back on the level of arrogance of local government politicians and high level city employees, it would be a good thing to have those emails exposed to take a few prima donnas down a few notches. But more importantly to provide a signal to all those that follow.
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Its hard to believe that these elected officials think that their correspondence written on our nickel is not public. One of them is a lawyer who never practised and refers to us voters as amateurs.
I think he missed a few classes. Plus they are using our money to sue the Texas Attroney general. There must be something very interesting they want to hide in these documents.
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But it’s okay for the public to stand at the podium and rail on staff and elected officials – accusing them of public corruption, calling them names and making false accusations against them. That’s okay in your mind?
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