This came in from Helen Marshall on Saturday, May 30, 2015:
Al W said at a debate today that the city attorney told council members who objected to hiring the contractor for San Jacinto that the law required that they do so; he stated as an attorney that such was not the case and the city attorney was responsible for the debacle. And further (both he and Peter agreeing on this) that $1000 per day is peanuts given the size of the contract.
Who knows?
elpasospeak 
She’s bad news…loves those executive sessions and keeping everybody else in the dark…e.g. FOIA case. . They should’ve replaced her when they got the new CM.
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Wow….It is still too bad we’ve got such a sorry council, though. Maybe if they paid attention to their responsibilities, and showed just a little bit of interest in doing good for the city, this kind of thing would not be happening so much. Meanwhile, when the hell is this ridiculous thing going to end?
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I would like to know her supposed legal justification for requiring the city to hire IDIQ. What law did she use?
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She is the mayor’s employee. The first thing Joe Wardy did on coming into office was to clean house in the attorney’s office. City legal staff tend to be too cautious and scare the shit out of CC by telling them what they can’t do. Any fool can tell you why you can’t do something, but it takes a good attorney to figure out how you can.
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Why does the City not post on its website the completed financial disclosures and conflict of interest disclosures for city employees and members of city council? Furthermore, why are city employees only required to disclose businesses in which they personally have an ownership interest? Why aren’t they required to disclose ties to businesses owned by relatives as opposed to simply businesses in which they personally have an ownership interest? I have an uneasy feeling about possible conflicts of interest between some of these people and firms which are receiving money from the city.
https://www.elpasotexas.gov/~/media/files/coep/municipal%20clerk/annual%20fd%20%20fd%20officer%20dept%20head%20form.ashx?la=en
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Al also said his biggest and contributors were Paul foster, Woody hunt, and Stanley jobe… I think we all know who he is speaking for.
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Not again,
Nice of someone from Svarzbein’s campaign team to drop by again.
It’s disingenuous to imply that Svarzbein is not also in the developer camp, when some of his big contributions have also come from developers. A vote for Svarzbein is a vote for whatever Niland and the downtowners want. Svarzbein is after all one of the champions of the trolley project, which is going to be another big waste of money. He will be a lapdog.
Svarzbein lost me when at the recent debate he said that Weisenberger has never done anything for the community. Not only is that statement factually wrong and untruthful, it shows both arrogance and disrespect for previous generations of El Pasoans. Weisenberger owned a business that employed people. We already have enough arrogance and disrespect among current city council members.
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One can clearly see who’s the grown-up mane in The race.
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Didn’t Fos-Hunt contribute to both? They like to play all sides.
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Exactly. Svarzbein has also been paid to do promotional work for the Chihuahuas, who are owned by Foster and Hunt. Promoting the new stadium and trolleys. Enough said.
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