Defining poor taste

December 26, 2016

One of our former city representatives was involved in a dust up with our mayor the other day.

The former city representative was at one time being investigated for threatening a city employee.  The case seems to have disappeared and we never heard what conclusions law enforcement officials came to.

Many feel that she was “given a pass” by our district attorney.  Over and out discussed the situation in more detail.

This time we are being told that she and her husband accosted our mayor in the presence of his wife.

The former city representative and her husband are entitled to their opinions.  However, accosting the mayor at dinner in a public restaurant in front of the mayor’s wife shows us their lack of class.

There are many better ways to express their thoughts.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2016

We wish all of you a safe holiday season.

Further we hope that we together can find ways to make our political discourse more civil and less personal.

Brutus

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Shoehorn needed

December 24, 2016

If they tear down the convention center how long will it be before we start hearing that the city needs bond money to build a new one?

It seems that we may need to get a bigger downtown if they continue to cram stuff into it like they are doing now.

We deserve better

Brutus

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No destination in El Paso

December 23, 2016

If the city moves forward with the plans of some of the city council members that would tear down our existing convention center and replace it with an arena what will happen to Destination El Paso, the city department that is responsible for booking conventions?

Would it be silly to suggest that the department be eliminated since they will not have a convention center to offer?

For decades the complaint from the department has been that there are not adequate hotels in the vicinity of the convention center.  Simply put, no big convention could be enticed to come to El Paso.

Now several hotel projects have been started and at least one has been completed.

Will we now have hotels but no convention center?

What purpose will the department serve without a convention center?

Maybe they could entice tourists to come see the egg-beaters on I-10 out by the airport.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Ethics violation?

December 22, 2016

It would appear that members of our city council deliberately held what is called a “serial meeting” where meetings were held to discuss the arena but there was never a quorum of council present.

The Texas Local Government Code says this about “serial meetings” that are held to violate the Open Meetings Act:

Sec. 551.143. CONSPIRACY TO CIRCUMVENT CHAPTER; OFFENSE; PENALTY.

(a) A member or group of members of a governmental body commits an offense if the member or group of members knowingly conspires to circumvent this chapter by meeting in numbers less than a quorum for the purpose of secret deliberations in violation of this chapter.

(b) An offense under Subsection (a) is a misdemeanor punishable by:

(1) a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500;

(2) confinement in the county jail for not less than one month or more than six months; or

(3) both the fine and confinement.

We deserve better

Brutus

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