Ethics Complaint
As El Pasoans, we will be judged by our ability and desire to protect our city’s most vulnerable citizens.
Our eight city leaders and mayor stand at a moral crossroads where their decisions will affect two opposing groups of El Paso citizens.
The Latino and poor. The disenfranchized and voiceless.
The 1% and powerful. The wealthy and entitled.
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Yesterday the city held a public meeting where they would once again try and explain to City Council (for the 8th time) just how DWNTWN and hotels within 1,000 feet of the convention center would be positively impacted by the location of the sure-to-lose-money arena as close as possible to the convention center.
It is more than obvious that most of the City is all in to dropping this arena in the Duranguito barrio, giving the boot to 150 or so residents and cementing our oldest history in favor of the investors, property-owners and hoteliers that are salivating as they wait for the $180,000,000 tax-payer funded arena to materialize and blow up their fat bank accounts.
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Monday was the first day back to work for Congress and what did several Republicans do behind closed doors?
They planned to strip the Office of Congressional Ethics of it’s powers so they can basically indulge in corruption and law-breaking without threat of ethical oversight.
They want to do what they want, when they want, how they want without the knowledge of those they have been elected to serve...with impunity and an arrogant lack of respect for the laws.
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JUD BURGESS aka JAMES NO BOND files ETHICS COMPLAINT against MAYOR and CITY COUNCIL
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 and five city leaders meeting behind closed doors even while taking turns is breaking the law...maybe...we’ll see.
I just put Mayor Leeser, Rep. Jim Tolbert, Rep. Cortney Niland, Rep. Peter Svarzbein, and Rep. Lily Límon on notice.
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