I would be embarrassed. It is one thing for an error to creep into a reporter’s article in a newspaper. Editorials however reflect on senior management at the paper. To have an error in an editorial, much less multiple errors, tells us a lot about the quality of their product.
The El Paso Times edition of Sunday, June 9, 2013 either shows how desperate they are or how little they really care about facts. This is a link to the editorial.
Let’s not discuss their opinion at the moment. Let’s discuss why we might even consider listening to them.
Major mistake
The Times wrote “And that’s why it’s important that Steve Ortega be elected major”. Major? After a few years would he be able to appoint himself Emporer? Then again maybe he should join the army.
Feral spending
Later in the editorial the Times incredibly states that the voters of El Paso granted “approval for more than $700,000 million in quality of life projects…”. I hope not much more.
The number they used equates to $700 billion dollars. Those kind of numbers used to only be thrown about by the government in Washington DC — you know, the feral goverment.
The incredible shrinking budget
The editorial page writer for the Times put the number at $700,000 in an article on the same page that day. That’s might be enough to build a new press box for the Times.
We heard you the first time
The Times previously endorsed their candidate. Now they devote over 95% of their editorial page to trying to help the same candidate.
With friends like that who needs an opponent?
Muckraker
elpasospeak 
Normally, we hear from business leaders that what government really needs is a good, experienced, successful businessperson to take the reigns from the fiscally irresponsible bureaucrats. That’s why it’s funny to see so many local business people lining up behind Ortega, a career politician, rather than behind Leeser. Most of the big Ortega backers are developers and people with a financial stake in downtown redevelopment, while poor Oscar is just a car salesman with enough money that he doesn’t have to listen to certain people just because they have several more zeros at the end of their net worth. If Ortega loses, we better watch the back door. If he loses the mayoral run-off, the cabal might try to promote him as the person to fill the city manager position when Wilson leaves.
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Obviously you have not perused Leeser’s campaign finance reports. He’s got a lot of developers in his corner too. Everyone hedges their bets. I think Steve will move on to bigger and better things if he is unsuccessful in his mayoral bid. He’s a big boy and he will survive.
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