The general runoff election will be Saturday, June 15, 2013.
Doubleheader
The city manager is considering a job offer from Lee County Florida just before our election. Word on the street is that if her choice does not win here in El Paso she will be moving.
Maybe we will be electing a new mayor and deciding what to do about our city manager at the same time.
Double credit!
Your vote is important. Regardless of which side you are on it looks like you will be helping decide about two jobs at the same time.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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Of course you can vote often, just ask the Al Frankin regime. But right now l’m kinda gitty for a few reasons: 1-Doug Stanhope (the darker and more rebellious Lenny Bruce) is coming to town. 2-Someone actually busted-out some common sense by posting “slower traffic keep right” signs on our highways. 3-And Drama Queen Joyce might be going FAR AWAY from us. When l read that in the local fish-wrap, my first thought was- well, Florida is used to disasters, so DQJ should fit right in. But what if those Floridians start doing some research on her and decide not to take her from us? The answer is obvoius. we start a massive pro- Joyce campaign by (temporarily, of course) “cooking” the books back to the level of debt we had before she came onto the scene. Then we lie through our collective buttocks by bombarding The Times with positive things like: “Golly, that Joyce is always very cordial, rational and never becomes unglued no matter what the situation becomes.” or how about “Remember last year when Joyce pulled those blind, quadraplegic toddlers out of that burning bus? She NEVER once complained about those 2nd and 3rd degree burns. How did Florida get so gosh darn lucky?”
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Once again today, 6/10, the El Paso Times reporter Cindy Ramirez shows her bias with this sentence in a pre-election report:
“The runoff election pits city Rep. Steve Ortega, who was first elected to office in 2005, against political newcomer and businessman Oscar Leeser, who narrowly missed winning the seat outright in the May election.”
On 6/2, she wrote:
“The hotly contested mayoral runoff pits city Rep. Steve Ortega, who was first elected to office in 2005, against political newcomer and businessman Oscar Leeser, who narrowly missed winning the seat outright in the May election.”
She is apparently both lazy and biased. She put Ortega first in the sentence despite the fact that Leeser is the frontrunner and “L” comes before “O”. Clearly, in her way of thinking the guy who nearly won it outright is less important than the candidate she prefers.
Any objective reporter would have put Lesser first, but they consistently do these little subtle things to put Ortega in the more prominent position. It’s too bad that the Times is willing to sacrifice it’s integrity in an effort to influence election results. They may find that they gave up their most important asset for a losing proposition.
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You cannot get rid of city manager form of government until 2015. The charter cannot be changed except every 2 years. We just had a charter election in 2013. So the earliest a vote can be taken is May 9, 2015. In the meantime – JW leaves and has Leesser absolutely, definitly promised he will put CM form of government on the ballot?
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The Florida media reported these excerpts from Joyce Wilson’s Lee County interview:
She said the achievements that mean the most to her are those that have had the greatest impact on the less fortunate. “Those are the people that need government the most,” Wilson said.
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“I’m also pretty demanding and have high expectations but people always know where I stand,” she said.
Wow!
My responses to those comments are:
— I did not know that Paul Foster, Woody Hunt and the folks developing downtown are among the less fortunate and need government more than the rest of the taxpayers.
— I wonder if the truly less fortunate like the unemployed will find work hawking peanuts at the ballpark.
— People always know where they stand with Joyce as long as they can access her private e-mails.
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JW will be right at home in Florida. I read yesterday that Florida has a high rate of corruption in local governments. In fact, maybe her experience with and as a part of local corruption made her the front-runner for the Florida job.
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Yes, Martin Paredes pointed out on his blog that all of the finalists for the Lee County manager job had checkered pasts. So questionable ethics and behavior must have been a prerequisite for consideration. When asked about the problems Ms. Wilson had in El Paso, the Lee County commissioners also reportedly told the local media they could could not conduct due diligence on her until after they had a contract. Ironically, that sounds like they, too, prefer to do things backwards. That sounds sort of like someone building a ballpark before they know how much it’s going to cost.
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