Let me preface this post by saying American Express is fantastic.
Its point system is the best.
Also, you can tell how civilized a place is by their acceptance of American Express.
Like beautiful Bogota, Colombia. Almost everywhere I went accepted it. Lisbon, Portugal? Not so much.
"Max, what does your hard-on for a credit card have to do with anything?"
Well, because it appears your mayoral frontrunner, David Saucedo, too had hard-on for American Express.
But somewhere along the way Saucedo's thing for American Express went south.
Apparently, American Express took your mayoral frontrunner to court: Download CaseID=7026501.
Now, could this be another Saucedo?
Possibly.
We would need to ask Saucedo.
But just as important, does it matter?
Well, yes. For the last several years all levels of local government in El Paso have taken out credit cards to buy things like a children's hospital and an yet-to-be-built downtown arena.
It would seem now would be a time to cut back from using the municipal credit card.
The question for you is whether or not you can trust someone who was not able to handle their own personal credit card to handling a more public one that does not even give you the benefit of a points program.
El Paso is on the top ten list of nonpayment of individual debt so is it a surprise that we would have elected officials that go on spending sprees? And voters that agree with the spending, borrowing to almost a billion dollars. Not to mention the mantra of "it's free money" !
If it is him, he is ready for the job. It doesn't take a genius to spend but it does to budget.
Posted by: Old Fart | 03/28/2017 at 09:19
What a little p***y, I guess he couldn't just resign as an American Express member and avoid any responsibility like he did with the Boys and Girls Club. Loser....
Posted by: Ramona | 03/28/2017 at 09:32
speaking of funding and free money, El Paso is on list of cities to lose federal funding because it does not accept ICE detainers.
Posted by: ?? | 03/28/2017 at 09:44
how disappointing. Looks like this kid needs a good shave and to get his affairs in order
Posted by: Pauline | 03/28/2017 at 09:54
I think we are voting for Dee. Emma is a part of the entire mess at city hall and David clearly doesn't know the meaning of responsibility. What does Emma do for a living anyway?
Posted by: Dr. Doogie | 03/28/2017 at 10:32
Emma is a jack of all trades, master of nothing. She lives off her lawsuit settlement. Still in the government tit. Ya basta con Emma
Posted by: Common sense | 03/28/2017 at 16:00
Good lord people. Dee got his money from where ? His wife's Father ?
Basically spoon fed into the suegro's business? Dee is owned by Foster and Hunt too and will do anything they want whether its good for the average taxpayer or not. He is just a Republican Steve Ortega. Shit, if Foster and Hunt wanted the new city hall(El Paso Times) to be torn down so we could put the Arena there he would do it. Acosta is an Ex-worthless city employee. Saucedo looks better and better each day. Hell, i didnt use American Express for years because they fucked me on interest when they mail out there bills so late. IMHO they used to do that on purpose. i quit them for 15 years until Cosco made you get there card to get gas.
Watch who donates to who and follow the money.
Posted by: WTF | 03/28/2017 at 16:01
WTF,
First of all, AMEX is awesome. It is you who sucks.
Secondly, I'll have some words about Dee, but I'll save that for the next post.
Thirdly, all candidates are "for" the arena.
Love,
Max
Posted by: Max Powers | 03/28/2017 at 16:27
David is pathetic. His stupid You Tube videos are like SNL skits. Is this guy for real? A boxing match? Sounds like this guy is all EGO. No thanks. We've had that on council and look where we are now. Buh bye Saucedo.
Posted by: Common sense | 03/28/2017 at 22:34
Saucedo has potential but needs more time to grow up, get some experience and a little backbone. Margo is probably the only one who can manage the out of control council. And to answer your question -- no, I do not want a mayor that over spends. Been there, done that.
Posted by: Garcia | 03/28/2017 at 23:14
David came by my house a couple weeks back. He sounds like a used car salesman. He looks terrible and unkept. I agree he needs to shave and trim down the hair. Also, he will say just about anything for a vote. He had no platform. I was thoroughly unimpressed.
Posted by: Westsider | 03/29/2017 at 06:26
You pretty much admit in this post this isn't his lawsuit but still decide to post, cause people are stupid and will go along with it anyway. And you can say, "Hey, I said it probably wasn't his". Cute, Max. Very cute.
Posted by: Stahala | 03/29/2017 at 07:47
S,
Well you are more than welcome to check it out yourself.
If I am wrong, I'll do a post saying I was wrong.
Love,
Max
Posted by: Max Powers | 03/29/2017 at 08:03
S,
One more thing, aren't you running Saucedo's campaign?
Why you are spending time on this?
Love,
Max
Posted by: Max Powers | 03/29/2017 at 08:25
Toilet reading. Love your shit. Big fan of Abeytia's blog as well. David K is pretty bland, but every now and then puts something interesting. And Parades, oh my god! No one gives a shit about what you think of Trump! Time to wipe.
Posted by: Stahala | 03/29/2017 at 09:20
Stahala, how is Teresa C. doing ? Hope she is doing well. I agree with you on Paredes.
Posted by: WTF | 03/29/2017 at 13:35
Stahala, shouldn't you be combing more grease onto Davids hair and beard? Don't forget your place so early in the campaign.
Posted by: Hairy beast | 03/29/2017 at 21:14