Sam Morgan
El Paso blogger Brutus Ep alerted us to this extremely misleading map (top of graphic) that City leaders used in a presentation to give City Council a reason to vote yes for the “boneheaded and dumbass real estate deal of the decade”. (my words)
I’ve redone the map the way it should look (bottom of graphic) and asked a serious question…
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At a recent forum hosted by El Paso Realtors Ordaz claimed that her role is to “power through” the "difficult decisions" that primarily benefit her wealthy developer contributors.
Everyone else who doesn't agree on the "sports arena," the way the Mexican American Cultural Center was rammed down our throats, the TIRZ plan to destroy open spaces, or non-voter-approved Certificates of Obligation to pay for pork, is merely causing "disruption" and "dysfunction" and "chaos."…
Read MoreWatch and share this EXPLOSIVE VIDEO that exposes the conversations between city leaders as they plan to “help” the Central Appraisal District” get higher valuations for our homes so they can get hundreds of millions in additional taxes every year to pay for
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Local billionaire investors get a soccer franchise and MAYOR MARGO says we will PAY NO TAXES to help them???
C’mon man! We know better...
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The big news is MountainStar Sports Group is buying a lower-tier soccer team to add to the ballpark ego trip they stuck El Paso taxpayers with a few years back.
Wonderful!
Our billionaire/millionaire investor El Pasoans can pay for it 100%.
They can easily cover the costs from their excess instead of expecting El Paso citizens to pay from our lack.
Mayor Margo says he doesn’t believe El Pasoans will pay any taxes for the stadium or anything associated with it.
Where have I heard this before?
Margo — “I will hold the line on taxes.”
Remember that campaign slogan he repeated 24/7 when he was running for mayor?
Didn't happen. He knew full well it wouldn’t.
And giving these wealthy friends of his tax incentives and other forms of corporate welfare is stealing taxes from El Paso that would otherwise go to paving streets and putting cops on the beat. Taxes that WE will end up paying out of our pockets.
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON...
Margo and his billionaire/millionare Borderplex friends want the following from us:
1) our tax dollars to help subsidize their investments and property holdings in downtown. They ALL own properties in downtown which is why they will not build the “sports arena” or a soccer stadium anywhere else. If it isn't built in downtown, then their investment portfolio doesn’t appreciate.
They want incentives and tax increases to minimize their risk, while we continue to be taxed into OBLIVION.
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2) they want to flip that ABC-7 poll that had 37% of El Pasoans undecided on the placement of the “sports arena” in Duranguito so that we can get all excited about D-league soccer in downtown and DEMAND that it be built in Duranguito WITH SPORTS included.
This is about changing public opinion regarding the arena and they are using a soccer franchise and stadium as a mechanism to try and attain that shift in public opinion.
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3) they can just as easily and responsibly use the already built ballpark for the games (as they have before and will for the foreseeable future). But they WANT A STADIUM in addition and you can bet your last dollar that they will come DEMANDING that EL Pasoans pony up the bucks as part of the deal.
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This is about big egos and people (inc. Margo) who own properties all along the El Paso / Juarez corridor and will want nothing less than our tax dollars invested in their properties. This is why City leaders have habitually ignored other locations in El Paso just as worthy of attention and investment.
Like Lincoln Park and the Northeast part of town. Don't be fooled by their grandiose plans to build a massive waterpark/surfing/arcade/whatever the hell where Cohen stadium sits idle and neglected.
Has anyone explained just where the tens/hundreds of millions it will cost to accomplish this will come from?! This is not part of the 2012 QOL bonds so we can be sure they will eventually find a way to add to our already stratospheric property taxes.
Make the billionaire/millionaire investors pay their own way.
If they are truly committed El Pasoans, they will without expecting us to sacrifice from our need for their benefit.
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MUST WATCH VIDEO!
When mayor Margo and city council team up with ex-con Billy Abraham to buy his neglected properties, everyone loses except the devil.
Video © Jud Burgess / James No Bond on Facebook
City leaders have long been playing a fool’s game with ex-con and downtown investor and slumlord Billy Abraham when it comes to his derelict properties. They’ve never been interested in enforcing his code violations with any backbone until now and it’s my guess this is just another game the City is playing for appearances sake...
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Rather than give El Paso mayor Dee Margo and City Council my usual 3-minute speech, I produced and presented to them a 3-minute video that exposed the immature attempt by the mayor to create hostility between amateur historian Fred Morales and degreed historians Drs. David Romo, Yolanda Leyva and Max Grossman, over Barrio Duranguito historical heritage. A vain ploy to undermine the historical value of the Union Plaza neighborhood so they can place the sports arena and erase El Paso history, architecture and culture.
Full-length unedited video follows on this blog.
Jud Burgess / James No Bond confronts Mayor Margo and city council for their blatantly dysfunctional and abusive treatment of El Pasoans who support preserving Barrio Duranguito and oppose the location of the sports arena.
