Here’s a story maybe you didn’t see.
From ElPasoTimes.com:
[El Paso Mayor Oscar] Leeser related a recent encounter with someone involved with “one of the special interest groups that seem to have all the information.” The person, described only as someone whose “father-in-law is one of the big money guys,” approached Leeser and used “very vulgar language” to accuse him of tanking an executive session item related to the person’s business.
How arrogant, to try to dress down the mayor for a decision made in Executive Session, right? How petulant and entitled.
But who could it be?
That story was posted on ElPasoTimes.com on April 22.
According to the agendas posted on the City’s website, City Council went into Executive Session at the City Council Work Session on April 22, and also on April 8, and did not go into Executive Session at either of the regular City Council meetings those work sessions corresponded to.
I don’t reckon Mayor Leeser waited more than two weeks to vent about someone leaking privileged information from City Council’s Executive Sessions.
There were 10 items discussed in Executive Session on those two dates. Five of them appear to be lawsuits filed against the City. Two of them were modifications to El Paso Electric’s rate plans. One was a discussion relating to regulations of animal elective surgical procedures. And on both dates there was a discussion on potential economic development opportunities in Northeast El Paso.
I reckon that discussion “on potential economic development opportunities in Northeast El Paso” was about that new amphitheater private investors are building out where Cohen Stadium used to be.
I reckon Mayor Leeser fudged the truth a little bit when he described the interaction as being between “someone whose ‘father-in-law is one of the big money guys,’ [who] approached Leeser and used ‘very vulgar language’ to accuse him of tanking an executive session item related to the person’s business.”
Or maybe the mayor was misquoted.
He who has eyes let him see.