An astute reader pointed out that Texas house bill 343 will require all of our school board members to disclose their financial statements in January.
Since the El Paso Independent School District has a state appointed board of managers acting with the powers and responsibilities of our elected school board will the members of the board of managers be required to disclose their financial statements also?
It does not take much imagination to think that the members of the board of managers will refuse to disclose their financial statements based upon the fact that they are not members of the school board and that the new law does not specifically include members of a board of managers.
On the other hand the board of managers assumes all of the responsibilities of the school board. Is reporting your personal financial situation a responsibility?
My prediction is that we will not see the financial statements of the members of the board of managers. After all, they think that they are special.
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Marquez, Moody, Pickett, Rodriquez and Gonzalez: Those are the authors of the bill along with Pat Fallon (Dist 106) who was added because he is a Republican that actually could get a bill passed in Texas, unlike our cinco amigos that are still taking their marching orders from Idiot Shapliegh and the El Paso progressive cabal and have less power in Austin than the 2 feral EPEC windmills in Horizon City. Only in El Paso do we have representatives that punish the district they represent by passing BS like this.
This bill was stupid to begin with and makes El Paso look even more stupid (can that actually be done? YES!) to the rest of the state. No other school boards ANYWHERE IN TEXAS have to do that.
What we need to do is to make the Cinco Amigos come out in public and say that they believe the EPISD Board of Managers should do file their financials. That would be sweet. Of course they won’t, because they are all in bed with each other.
Of course, EPISD’s current Board of Managers, accountable to absolutely no one, will ignore this law, much as Mr. Margo has done throughout his tenure as Director of the Board of Managers.
The local media will not call them on it because they will be too busy in January writing about the upcoming Chihuahua baseball season.
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Deputy,
I still find the use of the word “progressives” in El Paso to be very confusing. In the national media these days, the progressive label is generally a synonym for liberals and people who are not true conservatives. I’m not sure what people mean when they use it to describe the local “cabal”. I don’t even know all the persons considered to be members of the cabal or all the decisions being attributed to them. Please help me with this, so I can stop scratchin’ my head and get back to fishin’ for catfish.
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To me (can’t speak for Dep. Dawg who made the original comment) the “local cabal” of progressive Democrats would include Moody, Rodriguez and maybe Gonzalez. When I say “progressive” I mean candidates that Veronica Escobar, Jamie Esparza, Susie Byrd, Jo Ann Bernal and the sainted Paul Moreno would have their picture taken with for campaign postcards. I’ve never thought of Picket as part as that crowd. Nor Marquez, really. Those two do not seem tied to a progressive machine that tells them how to vote.
Marquez wrote the bill and everyone else supported it. How could all five not support it? The bill passed soon after the local school board mess and everyone wanted to “do something” to stop future messes. Whether this bill is the answer, quien sabe? But I do think if any of the five begin to walk back from the bill and don’t require the Board of Managers to comply, they will suffer political damage.
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“Cabal?”. How about “cannibal?”. Except, unlike El Paso Dems, cannnibals don’t eat their young.
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If I understand the state law that ONLY applies to El Paso County, says that all elected and appointed Trustees must file full financials. Even though they call them Managers, they are appointed Trustees. It will be interesting to see if transparency is followed.
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