What have we come to when our county judge reports the county’s significant accomplishments for the year as:
- Deciding to hire a county administrator
- Taking responsibility for the county budget away from the county auditor
- Getting a new labor agreement with the sheriff’s officers association.
Wow!
Maybe next year they can work on completing the sports park or something other than bureaucratic stuff.
Most of us could have done the three things above in a couple of days.
Filling the county administrator’s job will be something to watch. The county hired an out of town firm to perform an extensive nationwide search to find just the right person.
Would anyone care to bet that the city’s former chief financial officer will be at the top of the list?
Hide and watch.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
I couldn’t agree more. The Times has somehow spun Judge Escobar’s doing very little into an accomplishment. There has to be an award for that.
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Let’s see…so they’ve agreed to the reduce the workload of the judge and commissioners by increasing overhead costs. And they’ve reduced financial controls and accountability despite our history of corruption in government spending. Idiots!
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I don’t know about anyone else but I am sick of hearing this bs about Escobar fighting corruption especially from her corrupt buddies like Beto. All she’s done is shift the graft for her pals.
Remember Escobar and her commissioner buddies sideswiped the recommended contractor for the sportspark and awarded it to the non-recommended firm who has created the current sportpark fiasco.
I don’t expect the media to hold her feet to the fire on that one.
Same corrupt tactics different faction.
Nothing ever gets better in El Paso,
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