James No Bond Almost Arrested Jud Burgess

Jud Burgess aka JAMES NO BOND and City Council Rep. Dr. NOE have it out at a public city meeting.

January 24, 2017

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.

James No Bond demands that Superintendent Cabrera TURN DOWN HIS RAISE.

January 21, 2017

Was it ever really for the kids?

From the very day the EPISD bond was made public, it was clear to me that it was never for the kids.

El Paso taxpayers are currently staring down the barrel of a gargantuan school bond that failed to address the most important issues facing our city’s students—the quality and effectiveness of their very education

What is EPISD Superintendent Juan Cabrera’s reward for passing the MOST EXPENSIVE EPISD BOND ever for El Pasoans?

January 19, 2017

EPISD School Board president Dori Fenenbock justifies Juan Cabrera’s colossal salary and $45,500 “bump” because of a couple of very important things to keep in mind...

#1 Excerpt from the El Paso Times January 19 column titled “Teachers are mad as hell at Cabrera’s raise” –

“Fenenbock said that the EPISD is the 12th largest school district in Texas

EL PASO ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

January 14, 2017

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.

EPISD BOND FAIL

January 13, 2017

This is what happens when you issue a $670,000,000 EPISD bond that does NOTHING to address the QUALITY OF EDUCATION towards El Paso’s unique border students.

When the bond does nothing to support or financially compensate their educators....

DR. NOE puts BARRIO DURANGUITO back on the potential chopping block

January 10, 2017

On December 20, just five days before Christmas in El Paso, City Hall had an energized meeting with 40+ Duranguito advocates of all backgrounds stepping up to the mic to plead the case for preventing City Council from finalizing an arena plan that would displace 150 residents from El Paso’s oldest historical living neighborhood.

The long and short of this continuing novela is that after a drawn out private executive session behind closed doors,

Ethics and Inertia

January 04, 2017

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.

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5

December 21, 2016

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.