Downtown Arena
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."…
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Mayor Margo, city attorney Firth and city council have been pushing the fast track to building the sports arena and demolishing Barrio Duranguito and have left us a trail of mudprints we can follow to see just how dirty their politics are...
Read MoreJud 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.
Mayor Dee Margo, who I believe to be a Republican Trojan Horse with the ultimate goal of Republicanizing liberal-leaning El Paso, has always advocated for the destruction of Barrio Duranguito. As a businessman sitting in the mayor’s seat, he is leading the charge to tear it down and begin building the obscene monument to fiscal stupidity and wholesale historical malpractice on behalf of his wealthy downtown property owning friends...
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