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Sorry I'm late with this today... I've been crying all day since I read Grossman's comment on my last post and haven't been able to bring myself to move onto this topic until now.  

An email went out a week or so ago from a dude named Oscar J. Martinez, PhD (well, well Mr. Fancy Pants) who is an Emeritus Professor of History (not so impressed now) from the University of Arizona (UTEP West as it's known in some circles).  Never fear, his email clearly states that he is now residing in El Paso.  I won't go all the way into the specifics of the email here, but folks Oscar J. is here to save the day!  

Oscar J.'s email starts:

You are cordially invited to an organizing meeting of COMMUNITY FIRST, an emerging coalition of community organizations, leaders, and activist El Pasoans concerned with economic, social, and political decisions that are impacting our everyday lives in negative ways and draining our tax dollars.

Well shit, it's about time someone around here started complaining about everyday lives, negative ways and tax dollars.  For Christ's sake we need more "interest groups" jamming up city council meetings with ankle biters who can't comprehend how long three minutes is (one page double spaced and one off-the-cuff personal attack is all you have time for in three minutes).  The cops at the meetings are starting to get a little soft around the middle since Jud Burgess got pinched a while back.  I will state right now that I'm in for $100 to the first person tasered in city council chambers during a meeting.  (No cash, only gift cards. State rules on prizes are very strict - just ask the Tiguas.)

I digress.  There are important things to get to here with this COMMUNITY FIRST group.  Quick question - am I going to have to write that in all caps every time?  The email has the name capitalized throughout and if that's the ways things are going to be, it's going to be annoying.  Screw it, let's shorten the name and make it more descriptive of the people who organized the group in the first place - EGOS FIRST.  

Here's the list of people who created EGOS FIRST.  Or as they stated exactly "ad hoc committee comprised of":

1. Oscar Martínez - (our new hero from Arizona!)
2. Carmen Rodríguez - (welcome back Carmen)
3. Liz Chávez - (I don't know a Liz Chavez, but I'm hoping it's just Norma testing out a new name)
4. Gloria Barragán - (don't know Gloria yet, but can't wait)
5. Dylan Corbett - (proof you always have to have at least one white guy)
6. Lily Limón - (YES!)
7. Marisa Limón - (I don't know Marisa, but if she's anything like Lily we're in for a treat!)

Also - anyone want to guess where they met last Saturday?  Cafe Mayapan of course.  This isn't important as it is just so typical. 

They list local issues followed by state and federal issues.  We don't care and we are not surprised by the national issues, so we'll skip those.  The local issues are below with their introduction and my unneeded commentary:

Local Issues

El Pasoans need to put a check on critical and far-reaching decisions being made by local economic elites and city officials with little or no community consultation; such decisions mean exorbitant expenditures of taxpayer money and an increase in the city’s already sky-high debt. Further, some of those decisions have come with detrimental effects on the life of the community.  Recent disturbing actions taken by economic elites and/or city officials include:

• the demolition of the city hall building to make room for an expensive baseball park that could have been built in a better location away from the congested downtown area; (Are they really going this far back?  Are they really going to take a public stance against the city's most beloved sports team the Chihuahua's? Somebody go find Four Names Allala and ask her how that whole campaign went for her.)
• the construction of an unneeded and costly streetcar system, resulting in the disruption of traffic flows along the streetcar route; (Peter got reelected and as dumb as streetcars are, people like them.  Do you know how I know that? Peter got reelected.)
  
  
• the plan to destroy historic Duranguito, where Native American and Mexican El Paso began, in order to build a sports arena unsanctioned by the voters; (Guys, I know you want Max Grossman to be on your team, but he doesn't share the spotlight - stop pandering.)
  
  
• the payment by the City of highly inflated prices for properties in Duranguito targeted for demolition to make room for the proposed voter-unapproved arena; (If Duranguito is where western civilization began as you claim - then I think the city paid a fair price.  Either the place is a shithole with no significance that the city overpaid for or it's a historical and cultural priceless gem that should be restored at the cost of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. It can not be both.)
• the diminishment of the MACC (Mexican American Cultural Center) through the allocation of insufficient funding and denial of a stand-alone structure; (Okay, let me get this straight...  holding the line on spending when it comes to useless things like popular baseball stadiums, arenas and streetcars goes right out the window when it comes to the Mexican American Latino Hispanic Museum of Chicano Culture whose purpose is to show Latino people what it's like to be a Latino person.  I don't want to pretend to be the guy with all the answers here, but if you want Latino people in El Paso to know what it's like to be a Latino person in El Paso, maybe they should just... you know... look around? I haven't run the numbers on that yet, but I'm sure it's cheaper than what you have in mind and just as effective.)
• the planned reduction of our downtown library space by 40 percent to make room for the MACC, resulting in the elimination of many library services; (I'm thinking maybe you guys should have hired whoever that guy was that convinced voters they needed an empty arena to carry your water on that MACC idea.)
  
  
• the highly-questionable appraisal and transfer of 2,313 acres of city-owned land to a local billionaire in exchange for his 44 acres, all to facilitate the building of a resort; (Maybe that billionaire will give you a couple acres to put your Mexican American Latino Hispanic Museum of Chicano Culture stand-alone structure on.  That would also keep you from screwing up the downtown traffic you're already so upset about with the baseball stadium. I'm not trying to muscle my way onto the board here, but I think killed two birds with one stone with this brilliant idea.)
• the exclusion of at-large community representatives on the selection committee for the new UTEP president; (You mean the same people who put Anthony Cobos in the County Judge's seat?  Last thing we need is some guy from UTEP West telling us who's going to preside over our fine football team and the surrounding academic facilities.  Sorry Oscar J.)
  
• the willingness of city leadership to put our open spaces and beautiful desert landscapes on the auction block in pursuit of cheap gains. (You can't bitch about the value of the 2,313 acres when you plan on devaluing tens of thousands of very valuable acres so a couple of white guys can ride their mountain bikes close to home.  Also the desert isn't a landscape.  It's actually the absence of landscape.  When a place has no landscape they say it looks like a desert. )

My loyal readers can deduce who the core of this pity party turned militant breakfasting group really is.  And we all know exactly how this ends.  The thing about these egos is that they tend to clash.  The fight for the spotlight can get bloody.  I give it six months before my buddy Jaime has a blogpost detailing the implosion of this group.  

However, between now and then - the lord has smiled upon this blog.  We shall have a ton of fun chronicling the collective public temper tanrtrums of the has-beens, never-was's and never-will-bes of El Paso politics.  

 

Comments

[Jared Kushner is a Jew/Kike]

You are NOthing but a piece of Jewish Shit...a Kike who runs his piehole. You and your kind need to go back to Israel. Perhaps the Iranians will take care of you there. You are a Total Piece of Kike SHIT.

[Stephen Miller is a KIKE]

Fuck the Jews...they are a Stain on our Society...especially Stephen Miller!!!!! :)

[Big MACC Attack]

Just park a few taco trucks in front of Main Library and call it the MACC. Much cheaper.

[MexicanJew]

I know you want to keep the comment space as a place for open discussion but the antisemitism has gotten vile and frankly a little disturbing. Maybe it’s time to start screening comments? I’m all for dissenting voices but this hate speech is not benefiting anyone in any way.

[To get to them, go thru me]

Absolutely disgusting ! Folks if you're ok with this, just think about what is said about you when you're not around.

So much for a stanch liberal region that preaches inclusiveness.

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