Refuse the Juice

All Democrats Are Not Intellectuals

I happened to catch Barbara Perez's excuse for a radio talk show just before lunch today.  She had some dumb sounding guy on who I couldn't identify right off the bat - mostly because Barbara is a horrible talk show host and doesn't constantly re-introduce her guests.

Turns out it was our wonderful Congressman Silvestre Reyes.  He hasn't a clue what's going with the Farah building!  When asked about the project he even admitted they he wasn't sure where the building is actually located!!  Does this idiot not read the El Paso Times at least?  Can someone in his office not say, "hey moron, here are 10 big issues in El Paso right now - know them just in case on of your constituents happens to sneak their ass past your staff and start asking questions."

El Paso's hero doesn't even know what's going on here.  He doesn't have to, I guess. It's not like anyone runs against him.

Here's a list of things Reyes should know about.  Maybe his staff will read this list to him as a bedtime story.

1. ASARCO - you're against it even if you don't live in Kern (you live in DC)

2. Border Fence - We like illegal immigration and drug trafficking - it helps our local economy and gives our kids something to do.

3. Downtown Revitalization - you're for it. Just go with it.

4. Ft. Bliss - you want to grow it, but not provide funds to help El Paso grow along with the base. 

5. UTEP - they need cash.  Please send.

6. PSB - we're not sure what they are, or what they have legal authority to do, but I just found out they own my mortgage.

7. Blowing Sand - there's not much you can do about it, but I thought I'd let you know that it pisses us off.

I hope this helps you look like less of an ass as we move forward.

Retire the Debt - What it Means

For Regina Arditti it means unethical and probably illegal contributions from people who will stand before if she is elected to the 448th.

Arditti is an idiot - we've established that.  She's also quite the gambler.  She's loaned herself (through different means including credits cards) more than $150,000 to win a judicial seat that pays $145,000.   Which, only brings me to believe that she's expecting pay-offs when and if she gets the seat. 

The pay-offs will start in the form of a "retire the debt" effort by her to pay herself back almost the entire amount she "loaned herself."  The rules say that you can't pay yourself in entirety.  The people attending this event will be defense attorneys who are smart enough not to support either candidate until after the election.  They wouldn't want to dump a bunch of cash into one candidate's account only to have them lose and their opponent not treat them well in court after the election.

Arditti plans to win by pretending to be a democrat.  If she wins, she expects that the defense attorneys will come running with big checks to pay off her campaign debt.  Those attorneys make a living representing folks in court - in front of judges.  An attorney with a judge in his pocket can make a lot of money once people come to know the score.  It's a sure way to get guilty people unfair trials that let them go free.

Arditti will surely have to promise favors to these lawyers in order to get the kind of cash she needs to dig herself out of financial ruin.  Do you feel good about this?  I don't. 

We keep electing bad people to office - we don't learn.

Landslide? With These Numbers - Looks Like It

Check out CNN Early Voter Tracking.

These are numbers that do not lie. These numbers don't need to be weighed or massaged to mirror projected turnout - these are the numbers.

Things aren't looking good at all for McCain in New Mexico where 103,778 democrats have cast an early ballot compared to only 57,104 republican ballots cast.  It's over in New Mexico.  There's no way Republicans will make up that gap.  And there's no way that any more than say 10 percent of those democrats voted for McCain.

Even Louisiana has democrat ballots out pacing republicans almost two to one.

This thing is in the bag.  McCain failed miserably to energize his base and even Sarah Palin couldn't help him.

The media has been pro-Obama from day one and it would have taken a very special candidate to beat that bias. McCain was not the guy.  Early primary states felt bad for McCain's loss to Bush in 2000 and gave him the sympathy vote, which in turn led to a lethargic response from conservative leaning Americans.

Obama was chosen by his party's leadership over the top voter getter - Hillary Clinton.  This would have been disastrous had McCain not been John McCain and handed this thing to the democrats.  I think conservatives were most shocked when he voted for the bailout and then said he wanted to bailout ignorant homeowners.  It was just too much for conservatives and those sitting on the fence.

The good news is that the democrats have failed miserably since Pelosi took them to power in 2006.  They have fallen on their face time after time and Obama is going to continue that tradition.  2010 will see a 35 or 40 seat swing in the house and possibly six seat swing in the senate.  Sometimes you need to be reminded of bitter to remember the sweet.

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UPDATE -  Just got an email from those in "the know"  and they confirm 40 seats in the house and the Senate will have 60 democrats.  Expect stock market to drop to less than 6,000 by December on fears that capital gains taxes will increase so significantly under Obama that investing will be the worst option on the table.  Lots of cash stowed away in low interests savings accounts will triple the margin between the rich and poor with service sector jobs being decimated by next summer.  Wow... just wow.

Jesus Doesn't LIke Campaign Signs

I haven't been over to the east side of the mountain today, but I do know the west side got a pounding from the wind last night. 

I can't find my trashcan lid.  I acquired a bunch of leaves that don't match any of the foliage in my backyard - thank god my pool was there to catch them all...  My dog, cat and wife were all so bothered by the wind they couldn't sleep, which meant that I wasn't allowed to sleep either.

(note: we did get a dog from a friend who couldn't handle him anymore with her three other dogs.  It's a Bichon Frise and I'm officially a target for every joke about dudes with poodles.)

When I drove to work I noticed something was missing along the roadways - campaign signs.  The wind took care of just about every one of them.  I saw a car at Red and Westwind get broadsided by a huge Moody sign, but that was about it.  I didn't see where they all went, but they're gone. 

The question is; Do you go out and put up new ones?  A lot of people have already voted. Do you want to spend the money and volunteer time on signs?  Could those volunteers be doing something better with time like starting whisper campaigns about their opponent?

I hope they stay gone.  I don't want to read all the whiny letters to the editors about the candidates going out and picking those signs up.  Two years ago I actually met a guy who wrote one of those letters.  He was bragging to me about it as he threw empty pack of cigarettes on the ground.  Typical El Paso.

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Did you see Norma Chavez commercial asking El Pasoans to vote straight ticket Democrat?  She's got to go - that's an idiotic mantra and is the very reason we are one of the poorest cities in the country.

Arditti Only a Democrat When It's Convenient

I found out some interesting news on our democrat candidate for the 448th.  Let's run down the list of what we already know:

1.  She was never in her court when she was supposed to be.  She was so truant that she decided to try and hide her attendance records via her order.  She was told she couldn't do that.

2.  She's paying her deadbeat dad ex-husband over $9000 for God knows what.  Allegedly he owes the state money and all his pay has to go through them.  If this is in fact true - she's knowingly breaking the law - great judge!

3.  Arditti is funding her campaign with credit cards and loans.  She's gone in the hole $170,000 for a job that pays $145,000.  How stupid can you be?

And now the kicker

Arditti claims to be a straight ticket voting democrat.  A good democrat.  A team player for the democrats.  So what was she doing applying for a judicial appointment from Governor Perry?

Yep, Arditti the "good democrat" was not long ago Arditti the "goodrepublican!"  She was actually offered Criminal Court #1.  She turned it down because she wanted the 448th spot.

The interesting thing is that you have to be a good republican to be considered for these court appointments.  They check you out.  The only way a democrat gets considered is if they turn on their party and endorse a republican like Perry. 

So... she is lying when she says she is a "good democrat." 

She sounds very trustworthy!

Another bad candidate looking to bring El Paso down.

Funding Your Campaign on Credit Cards

Arditti is an idiot with credit.  She just admitted on Barbara Perez's show that she is supporting her campaign on credit cards! 

Moron with a capital "M."

Why Barbara is supporting this woman is beyond me.  Arditti runs around with Emma Acosta who runs around with Luis Siriana and Carlos Aguilar.  I'm guessing we can expect Barbara's name to come up in investigation conversations just anytime.

We must find corruption and get rid of it.  The choice is easy here.

Developing Arditti Story - Money for Nothing and Chicks for Free

I got word this morning that a man named Robert Vance was paid $9210 by the Arditti campaign.  I then heard that this Robert Vance is Arditti's ex-husband.  It's a Little odd, but not illegal... or is it?

Turns out that there is allegedly a child support claim still in front of the Texas Attorney General and any pay he gets has to run through the state so that it gets properly distributed.  Did that $9210 go through that process?  If it didn't, it's illegal.

Another day and another story about Arditti that isn't flattering.

Grandmas Are Handy Tools in an Election

Things don't look good for McCain at all.  I see margins widening this week instead of closing.  Most of the time pollster close up the spread right before the election in order to cover their ass.  It's a lot better for them to be wrong when they predict a 50/50 race than when they screw up up a 60/40 race.

Zogby who was an exclusive democrat pollster for years (that's a fact - he was exclusively a democrat pollster forever until he wanted to make more money) has had several embarrassing misses in his career because he didn't do as other pollsters do and close up the race in the final weeks.

McCain is just not the guy and the democrats are in a blind furry to elect anyone other than a republican even if they regret it a short time later.  Obama is inexperienced and as dumb as Palin if not dumber. 

However, he's using his grandma to his advantage again.  You might remember earlier this year in Philadelphia when he threw her under the bus by basically calling her a racist.  I'm sure she enjoyed that.   Now that it's a couple weeks out and Obama needs McCain to stop attacking him, he's all of a sudden got to tend to his sick grandmother who is dying... but not until Thursday!

Even the Strelz was crying yesterday, "leave him alone his grandma is sick!"  She's been sick for a while and if she was really that bad and he was really that good of a guy he would have dropped everything he was doing the moment he heard she was dying and gone out there.  None of us would get the news that our family member was "dying" and then plan on going to see them when it was convenient.  Many of you may have had family that was sick and dying - you didn't hesitate to get your ass home to see them.  Obama is using this as a sympathy ploy. 

There is nothing more wrong with her today than there was a week ago.  This is a campaign ploy to get the sympathy vote.  The woman he called a racist on national TV will once again help him in another role this campaign - the sympathetic grandson.  How soon we all forget.

Arditti - The Scoop

Let me be very direct and to the point on this.

Exhibit A - You haven't heard this in the main stream media because they are unabashedly in the bag for local democrats.  Or they are just scared shitless of Norma Chavez and don't want to piss her off.

During the primary Regina Arditti put in an open records request with the city to get every single employee's email address.  Once she had those emails she sent them a campaign themed message.  THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW!  Arditti should know that, but since she's only a part time "judge" maybe she doesn't - more on that later.

The city sent her a cease and desist letter and she complied.  However, you never heard about this breaking of the law until now.  I can't believe she started her campaign for a judicial spot by breaking the law.  And we wonder why we have huge problems with corruption.

Exhibit B - Arditti just pulled the same stunt with the EPISD employees!  Where's the media?  Where's the outrage of her breaking the rules yet again?  Nowhere. 

Exhibit C - She's never in her court! Look at these two attendance sheets from 2006 and 2007.  Her name is supposed be there as presiding judge most of the time - it is not.  She showed up less than 40 percent of the time one year!

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Do you think the local news would pick up on this at all? Nope.  We have a judge serving at the pleasure of City Council and she never shows up.  Turns out that she even tried to keep these records from becoming available to City Council members!!!  She was overruled, but what does it matter - you don't know about it.

Exhibit D - Where in the hell did this women get the unaccounted for $170,000 to $200,000 campaign loan to herself?  The job pays $140,000.  Seems like a lot of dough to spend for a job that pays way below the going rate for lawyers.  Do you really feel secure knowing this woman is loaning herself this kind of money that nobody knows where it came from and why she want this job that bad?  Is there someone out there waiting to pay her back if she wins?  Do we have the seeds of corruption being planted and grown here?  YES WE DO.

Exhibit E - Arditti is out of money from what I hear.  I even hear that Rep. Norma Chavez is bankrolling her ads on KTLK 1150.  Norma Chavez is going to want to set me on fire and push me into a gasoline pit for writing this, but it has to be told.  What's going on?

I hope everyone takes notice of this lady and makes sure she doesn't win.  She's dangerous.

She'll probably try to sue me etc.  I'll keep you up to date on that as it unfolds.

Palin Very Unpopular - Only 10,000 Come Out in Roswell?!?!?

The number quoted in EP Times can't be correct, right?  They reported that 10,000 people came out to see VP hopeful Sarah Palin at a hanger in Roswell.  You can read all the details HERE.

I thought Obama was cleaning up in New Mexico. I heard he's got it wrapped up and ready to deliver.  Why then did nearly four times the amount of New Mexicans turnout for Palin than Biden?  Newspaper Tree had Biden's event at around 2,400 folks in Old Mesilla last Friday.

This means that out of the 86,000 or so people who live in Las Cruces, somewhere around 2.7 percent showed up to see Biden.  One would have to guess that there were at least a few hundred El Pasoans there to see Senator Biden who can't vote in New Mexico.

The Roswell numbers are a little different.  The 2006 census estimate has Roswell at a population of nearly 46,000 people.  That means nearly 22 percent of their population showed up to see Governor Palin.  Wow.  Where's the news story on that?

Between Las Cruces, El Paso and all the little towns around them they coudn't muster more than 2,400 people who cared enough about the Obama/Biden ticket to show up.  Then in the middle of nowhere 10,000 people show up to see Palin.  That's a news story. 

Obama is supposed to be firmly in control of New Mexico but it seems nobody in Las Cruces cares enough to even show up to campaign events and the rural areas turned out 10,000 people for Palin.  The entire southern part of New Mexico including the state's second largest city isn't acting like they are going for Obama at this point.

The media is ignoring this little factoid.  How many other places are we not hearing about that are proving to be more McCain/Palin than Obama/Biden even though the media tells us differently?

By the way, the best quote from the story is:

"Some people waited inside the hangar as long as four hours as the temperature soared to 80 degrees to see her."

OH NO! NOT 80 DEGREES! THE INHUMANITY!  Jesus people, get a life.  I hope everyone spent at least five hours outside this weekend in the 80 degree weather - it was a beautiful weekend.  This is a great example of reporters write drama into their pieces.  You won't find this kind of crap on Newspaper Tree unless I'm writing it.