Our humble County Judge, Veronica Escobar, has been spending her waking hours writing op/ed pieces for far away newspapers about an issue that is not even under her jurisdiction, blasting the Governor of this state for "wasting" taxpayer money, adding another layer of bureaucracy at the County, among other things.
And when she is not doing that she spends a few moments trying to resolve the UMC-Children's hospital fiasco.
One thing Escobar cannot say was that she was not warned.
From an El Paso Inc. article linked (and attached Download Epincchildrenshosp) on Veronica Escobar's county page:
Of the dozens of citizens who spoke at the Commissioner's Court meeting Thursday, none opposed the children's hospital.
That's not because there is no opposition. John Harris, CEO of the Sierra Providence Health Network, for one, has said the children's hospital at Thomason will duplicate services already provided at Providence's 144-bed Children's Hospital. He believes the study commissioned by Thomason administrators to determine the feasibility of the hospital is "severely flawed," and that the hospital would likely become a drain on county finances. (emphasis added)