The El Paso Times, this morning, showed their mettle when they flately stated that all the advertising dollars will not buy their suppport. Seems like they were bothered when Mayor Leeser cut his new car advertising in the paper after they tried to do a hatchet job on him. Needless to say, the complaint against Leeser had no validity. The Paper did their best to carefully craft attacks on the front runners Leeser, Haddad and Cormel. The accusatory headlines, followed by first page implicaations and finally on pages 4-6, nothing but inuendos and no meat. Now lets talk about Stevie Boy who with the Progressive council, gave the Paper 10 millions dollars for a white elephant that was draining the newspaper and had no takers to buy. If they abandoned the building, it would be another empty downtown structure nobody wanted and cost them millions in upkeep. So “thank you, Stevie”, you get our star billing.
His countenance and ideas take up the front page of the paper and the other candidates, mentioned on, where else, pages 4 and 6. Then there is Cormel’s delinquent property tax that wasn’t delinquent, Leeser’s and Haddad’s rap sheet that wasn’t a rap sheet. Any question about about Ortega? He voted to knock down the City Hall which was on land that the Railroad owned. That would be funny but they (we) paided dearly for the “oops” with the Railroad, paying top dollar for the land and having to close strategic RR crossings they requested, resulting in pure chaos for the citizens, the students and the Water district. To Quiet the Crazies, These dead end streets were labeled as “Quiet zones” and told they should have attended the City meetings and voiced their complaints.
How’s our credo go? “Don’t let those who caused the problem, solve the Problem”.
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After attending George Washington Laws School costing upward of 150 K for 3 years, it seems the Mr Steve didn’t become a Texas Bar association member for one (1) and one half (1/2) while he taught school. Did our bright star have some problem with the Texas Bar exam. This would explain the City Hall Goof, and all the other thiings. God help his students.
Why did not the El Paso Times check this out?
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Wonder why Cindy Ramiriez didn’t do her homework or was told to “Lay off” Ortega when she wrote about the lack of eduaction of the front runners.
She and the editorial staff must have received their training at the IRS, methinks?
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They endorsed Leeser….not Ortega. Have they changed because he withdrew his advertising, or what? The original endorsement over Steve Ortega said aplenty!
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Mark — Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen a Times editorial endorsing Leeser over Ortega in the run-off. It will be interesting to see if they even take a position on the run-off. If they officially endorsed Leeser over Ortega for the upcoming run-off, please provide a link.
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The endorrsement I referred to was only for the May 11 election. They’re obviously floundering after the whomping he took and to go now for Leeser after the negative stuff is ridiculous!
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Marc
Read “Don’t rock the Boat”
Clearly, they hedged their endorsements chosing both Ortega and Leeser. I guess I got it partially right with the automobile advertizing.
They clearly showed the colors with the Front page headline indicating there was a runnoff, ignoring the fact that Ortega got as any reasonable person would say, “WHOMPED”..
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The Times decision to back both Leeser and Ortega for a run-off rather than simply picking one proved the Times’ intellectual dishonesty and lack of editorial courage. They recommended a run-off, which prevented them from having to make a tough decision. They recommended a second election, which they knew would cost taxpayers more money. Their position also implied that a run-off was inevitable, which we know was almost not the case. I wonder if Leeser might have won it in the first round if the Times hadn’t hedged their bet. Regardless, the Times decision to recommend a costly run-off was cowardly and, dare I say, political.
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