Max Powers

Border Network for Human Rights

Anthony Jackson is allegedly a reporter for the El Paso Times. 

He is the one the behind the softball pieces for Claudia Ordaz, and now his most recent softball is about Fernando Garcia and the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR). 

If I am not mistaken, Garcia has been in charge of this group during the last 4 presidential administrations.

What does he do all day?

When the Board meets every God knows when, what do they ask or what does Garcia point to as a success?

It is as though this organization depends on the the lack of legislative success at all levels to keep the grievance machine going.

Because if these grievances are addressed, then why do you need BNHR?

What was it during the last administration that was a big issue?

Ah, the kids in tents shit.

Well, the kids are still there, but apparently they back in the cages. 

Thanks, BNHR?

I do not know who is giving money to BNHR, but I have a hunch. 

The big donors I am sure do not care because they are all likely staunch Democrats, and do not mind that BNHR runs cover for Democrats.

Make noise, but don't make too much noise. 

Hence Garcia's comment about the Vice President's visit.  

But if you are a small donor with your heart in the right place, well, don't.

All you are doing is padding Garcia's six-figure job that he has held for nearly two decades and has no track record of success unless you count write-ups in the El Paso Times as success.

 

When The Party Ends

 So back to my previous post. 

If you just read the El Paso Times, you would have thought State Representative Claudia Ordaz did all sorts of heavy lifting and kicked ass. 

But that is not true.

If anyone did any heavy lifting this past legislative session, it was State Representatives Joe Moody and Mary Gonzalez. 

I gotta give the motherfucker - Moody - credit. 

He landed on his feet after the previous Speaker got into some hot water talking shit about other legislators.  Not that I care, but apparently some people did, who pretended to in order to use it their political advantage. 

And Mary.  Again, credit to her for landing plum committee assignments. 

Because those two play ball and are friendly with Republicans they were rewarded. 

But ultimately all things have a price. 

When House Democrats walked out of the House chamber to break quorum over something about voting rights, Moody and Gonzalez apparently did not exactly join their colleagues in walking out. 

I am not going to argue over the weeds about whether the bill was bad or good.  Again, I do not care.  And that bill, whether it becomes law someday, will not affect El Paso.  El Paso will still be as blue as Bob Moore's ball after interviewing his favorite CongressX. 

But I do find interesting is that, if true, Moody and Gonzalez did not catch any flak from the media. 

I hate to bring it back to Norma Chavez, but I must. 

Moody would bust Norma's balls because she was not a party hack when the Legislature convened. 

Moody was Mr. Democrat.  

But Moody eventually learned that being Mr. Democrat does not pay the bills.  Rick Francis does.

Gonzalez was Ms. Pan Intersectionality, but if she wanted to accomplish anything she had to play ball.

Good for them and good for El Paso that they did. 

But I do hope for their sake and for the sake of certain folks in local media take their opportunity to reflect on their own past actions. 

Maybe times have changed, and what was a cardinal sin before, isn't anymore.  

Or maybe it is just that the people we like that commit those sins, well, we just don't talk about it.  

 

 

 

When The Party Ends

So back to my previous post. 

If you just read the El Paso Times, you would have thought State Representative Claudia Ordaz did all sorts of heavy lifting and kicked ass. 

But that is not true.

If anyone did any heavy lifting this past legislative session, it was State Representatives Joe Moody and Mary Gonzalez. 

I gotta give the motherfucker - Moody - credit. 

He landed on his feet after the previous Speaker got into some hot water talking shit about other legislators.  Not that I care, but apparently some people did, who pretended to in order to use it their political advantage. 

And Mary.  Again, credit to her for landing plum committee assignments. 

Because those two play ball and are friendly with Republicans they were rewarded. 

But ultimately all things have a price. 

When House Democrats walked out of the House chamber to break quorum over something about voting rights, Moody and Gonzalez apparently did not exactly join their colleagues in walking out. 

I am not going to argue over the weeds about whether the bill was bad or good.  Again, I do not care.  And that bill, whether it becomes law someday, will not affect El Paso.  El Paso will still be as blue as Bob Moore's ball after interviewing his favorite CongressX. 

But I do find interesting is that, if true, Moody and Gonzalez did not catch any flak from the media. 

I hate to bring it back to Norma Chavez, but I must. 

Moody would bust Norma's balls because she was not a party hack when the Legislature convened. 

Moody was Mr. Democrat.  

But Moody eventually learned that being Mr. Democrat does not pay the bills.  Rick Francis does.

Gonzalez was Ms. Pan Intersectionality, but if she wanted to accomplish anything she had to play ball.

Good for them and good for El Paso that they did. 

But I do hope for their sake and for the sake of certain folks in local media take their opportunity to reflect on their own past actions. 

Maybe times have changed, and what was a cardinal sin before, isn't anymore.  

Or maybe it is just that the people we like that commit those sins, well, we just don't talk about it.  

 

 

 

El Paso Times and Ordaz

I am not sure what to make of it, but I do find the way the El Paso Times covers State Representative Claudia Ordaz kinda interesting. 

Last week, she got front page treatment. 

And she's just a freshman.

And you know that had to annoy the more experienced, accomplished legislators.  Or did it?

This is not the first-time she has received such treatment.  The first time she received such treatment she was talking about differences between being state representative and city representative.  Where's jackoff emoji when you need one?

In the El Paso Times of the Past, Ordaz would have been taken to the woodshed about raising money to pay her husband's campaign debt.  I mean the El Paso Times did take Norma Chavez to the woodshed over a graduation party. 

But for Ordaz?

No.

It just seems a bit weird taht EPT is going to extreme lengths to make Ordaz look like some caca grande. 

Why?

A reporter has a crush on Ordaz?

Maybe.  

Bob Moore has one for Veronica Escobar and it shows.

Or is there something else going on here?

Allegedly, State Representatives Joe Moody and Mary Gonzalez hold a lot of sway in the Texas House.  

Why not the puff-piece treatment for them?