Max Powers

Cesar Blanco: No Skin in the Game...Parte Dos

State Representative Cesar Blanco's support for the EPISD bond package got me thinking.

Where does Blanco live?

Per the Bexar CAD, Blanco owns a home in San Antonio.

Per his campaign finance reports, Blanco claims a post office box in El Paso.

When the Texas Legislature is in session, Blanco does disclose rent payments in Austin...which is A-Okay.    

But let's go back to the Bexar CAD.

Listed in the Bexar CAD is an El Paso address.

If you look up that address in El Paso CAD, you will not see Blanco's name come up with that corresponding address in the El Paso CAD.

Is this a big deal?

Maybe.

If Blanco's San Antonio home is paid-off, well, maybe he can get by with paying rent for a duplex in El Paso so he can pretend that he lives in there. Of course, we are assuming he is paying rent at a market rate because if he was not then Blanco would have to disclose that...or at least we would hope because if not, then oh boy.

If his house in San Antonio is not paid off, well he has both a monthly mortgage AND rental payment that he has to pay for personally.  Paying that on a state legislator's salary is nearly impossible unless you max out your monthly state allowed per diem as well as have another job.  He does have another job, but how much time he dedicates to that job and amount of compensation he receives in return only he could disclose.

But who cares, right?

This is your next congressman, who by the way wants you to vote on a bond issue that does not affect him. 

 

 

 

 

 

Cesar Blanco: No Skin in the Game

Members of the El Paso Delegation want you to support the EPISD bond package, which is to be expected.

Sorta.

Per the El Paso Times, one of the members of the El Paso Delegation, State Representative Cesar Blanco, said:

"...voters have to think of the bond issue as an investment and not as a tax increase because El Paso children deserve state-of-the-art classrooms just like Austin, Dallas and San Antonio."

Easy for that asshole to say.

Why you may ask?

Because Cesar pays as much in property taxes in El Paso County as David K, Jaime Abeytia and I combined. 

Which is to say...ZERO.

Cesar wants you to vote on something that will cost you something, but will cost him nothing.

So next time San Antonio resident Cesar Blanco tells you how to vote on a local issue, tell him "Vete a la chingada."

 

 

 

 

El Paso Teachers: Shooting the Messenger

A couple of weeks ago, the El Paso chapter of the American Federation of Teachers had a list of demands that needed to be met before it could endorse the EPISD bond package.

One of the demands involved the Forma Group.

Better said, one of the demands asked that Forma Group NOT be involved.

The reason?

Per the El Paso Times:

The stipulation about Forma Group is partially due to a heated spring primary race for a Texas House seat, Moore said. Forma received nearly $300,000 from a pro-charter-school group to defeat one of the candidates, Rep. Mary González, in the primary against former state Rep. Chente Quintanilla.

And if you think about it, this demand by these El Paso teachers is kinda odd.

Why is it odd?

Well, that pro-charter-school group happens to be Texans for Education Reform.

Any guess as to who is on the board of that organization?

Oh, that's right, El Paso's own Woody Hunt.

You know who is donating money to support the EPISD bond package?

The same Woody Hunt that is on the Texas for Education Reform board.

If El Paso teachers had balls maybe they would have said, "EPISD, you won't have our support if Woody Hunt is involved."

But no because that would require...balls.

That and teachers are generally broke/cheap asses, and need Woody's money. 

So the Forma Group becomes the punching bag because of teacher cowardice.

Oh well.

Here is what I do not understand though. 

Let us say you are successfully able to run the Forma Group out-of-business, is the next consulting firm or individual gonna say, "Woody, I am not going to accept this $300,000 contract for 6-months of work on the basis of principle"? 

 

 

Why Some Latinos Might Be For Trump

It puzzles some people that there are Hispanics, Latinos, or whatever the hell label is, are pulling for Trump.

I know.

"Donald hates brown people and wants to deport us all!!!"

But let us say you are Latino and a have large extended and blended family.

The thought of a particular annoying relative of questionable status getting kicked out-of-the-country does not sound like a bad idea.

Yea, racists suck, but you are more likely to get annoyed by a suegra than to be harassed by a racist.

I am sure right now there are some Latinos who have packed up their suegra's shit hoping.

 

 

 

Oh, hey!

Ummm, yeah.

So I have not been posting.

I was in beautiful Bogota for my birthday, but then I came back to deal with my day job.

Then it was off to New York City, which is not as exciting as it sounds when you are going to visit family with a sibling and nephew in tow.   

Then back to the day job.

But hang in there El Paso, I know it is hard without me.

And it is taking a toll on some of you.

Some of you are looking a little disheveled.

But I'll be back at it.

In the meantime, go wash up. 

 

Conditioner, Vero.