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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Campaign Finance Shenanigans

2020-02-20 elrichiboy Corruption, elections, Ethics, Slider One comment

Those nice guys at The Forma Group lent almost $7,000 to their client Debbie Torres for her District 6 runoff

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How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

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Vote Now. Vote No.

2019-11-05 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, elections Leave a comment

If you didn’t vote in Early Voting, today is your last chance to cast you ballot. City Council wants you

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At The Polls

2019-10-29 elrichiboy Boondoggles, elections, Slider Leave a comment

All the police and firemen are voting. And their families. All the contractors are voting. And their families, and their

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Good Neighbor Sam

2019-10-09 elrichiboy City Council, elections, Law Enforcement, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider 3 comments

Look, it was all a simple misunderstanding. She just wouldn’t shut up. Do you think Rep. Morgan will lose his

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The Great Divide

2019-09-27 elrichiboy elections, Politics, Slider 5 comments

El Paso is fractured. Culturally. Geographically. Economically. Politically. And linguistically. According to the most current estimates from the U.S. Census

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Unintended Consequences

2019-07-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, elections, Los Gallos Negros, Media, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Sometime in the murky past, the City moved the date of local elections to coincide with state and national elections.

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The Trouble With The Trouble With Term Limits

2019-06-18 elrichiboy City Council, Corrections, elections, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Way back at the end of May, I made the argument that term limits restrict the electorate’s ability to retain

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The Trouble With Term Limits

2019-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, elections, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Currently, El Paso’s elected officials are limited to two terms in office. That means that once they figure out what’s

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Don’t Be complacent about Lost Dog

2019-04-26 elrichiboy elections, Lost Dog Leave a comment

I know, it looks like the open space advocates have this one won. But don’t underestimate the Forces of Evil.

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The State of Politics

2018-11-15 Rich Wright elections, Politics, Slider 3 comments

I didn’t make the runoff. But Tuesday night, before the probability curve collapsed, I went to a meeting with a

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

2018-11-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, economic development, elections One comment

Today is an inflection point in the evolution of El Paso. Today, voters in the state either will or won’t

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The Quest for Continuity

2018-08-27 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, elections, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our

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The Easiest Thing To Do Is Not Care

2018-07-27 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, elections, Slider 8 comments

City Council has shown a complete disregard for what many members of the community care about. They’ve made their decisions

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What Are We To Do?

2018-07-02 elrichiboy economic development, elections, Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Education, elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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Not John Cook

2018-05-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, elections 8 comments

El Chuqueño does not endorse political candidates (though there’s this one candidate for District 8 that the editorial board is

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy arena, City Council, downtown, economic development, Education, elections 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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Where’s Peter?

2017-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, economic development, elections 3 comments

Here’s former City Representative and mayoral candidate Steve Ortega talking about the trolley in the El Paso Scene: Among the

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