Jim Tolbert
Some politicians, when they term out, find it hard to say goodbye.
Susie Byrd wrapped things up as El Paso’s District 2 representative several years back but telltale Byrd feathers can be found as proxies in and out of the district continue her work to some degree.
Read More
El Paso’s mayoral candidates were asked at a recent League of Women Voters of El Paso forum to grade our city council on their overall performance.
Six candidates graded the council and two chose not to.
Drumroll please…
Dee Margo gave them a D.
David Saucedo gave them an F.
Read More
This past Wednesday, January 11, at close to the noon hour, Western Refinery sustained a release of what has been identified as sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere near the Lakeside, Ascarate and Bassett neighborhood areas.
According to ABC-7’s reporting of the incident, the event started at 11:43 a.m. and ended at 7:43 p.m. that night. That’s almost 8 hours of potentially toxic chemical release.
During that time, it has been estimated that more than 2,000 pounds of the chemical gas was released into the area and surrounding neighborhoods.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More