A good friend made a novel suggestion the other day.
He pointed out how professional golfers wear the logos of their sponsors, and how race car drivers have sponsor patches all over their jumpsuits.
His suggestion?
Require all members of congress to wear patches identifying their major contributors.
That way we would know whose ax they were grinding.
We deserve better
Brutus
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According to this article in the Times past county commissioners have gifted us with another disaster.
From the article:
Construction of the Tornillo port of entry cost at least $133 million. More than $91 million of that amount was paid by the U.S. General Services Administration and Customs and Border Protection.
El Paso County covered remaining costs…
That puts our portion of the bill at $42 million if our math is correct.
Again, from the Times article:
“CBP” has suspended commercial processing at the Tornillo crossing.
and later:
But Maier said since the opening of the cargo facility in early 2016, CBP processed only five formal commercial entries — shipments with a value in excess of $2,500.
We deserve better
Brutus
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An astute reader sent us an email and asked if our soon to be gone newspaper editor plans to go to work for the county judge’s congressional campaign.
Then again she wondered if he might go work for our current congressman–the one who is running for senate.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Our county judge has decided to run for a seat in the feral congress.
The Times recently wrote that she said the following in an interview that they had with her:
“I’ve been tested during some of [the] most difficult times in our community’s history. I hope that the public in El Paso saw that I passed that test.”
That kind of sounds like one of our local school district superintendents who said he had “one of the hardest jobs in America”.
It would be nice to have government officials that do not consider themselves to be victims. Maybe their sense of entitlement might diminish a little bit if they did not have to suffer so badly.
This county judge is responsible for the financial mess at the children’s hospital and for the unsustainable clinics that our new hospital administrator somehow has to salvage. Our readers should feel free to point out other failures that she has brought to us.
If she gets elected she will be at the bottom of the pile in terms of influence in congress. The more senior members of her party will relegate her to the job of trying to raise money for the party. That will consume most of her time. Unlike our current congressman she is not perceived as being very capable and will thus have difficulty raising that money.
We deserve better
Brutus
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It is unfortunate that EPISD has become an issue in the upcoming congressional election.
Like most of our readers, we don’t know the details relating to alleged wrongdoing at the board and employee levels.
If bad acts have been committed why is it that these people have waited until now to speak up?
Should we now expect to start learning about problems over at the county?
We deserve better
Brutus
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