There are several ballot initiatives going that I really support in their concept. But the language makes it almost impossible for me to support several of them. The advocates of these initiatives are going to lose their mind when they read this and say I'm not progressive because I don't support their poorly worded ballot language, but its not my fault they took a good idea and didn't execute it well.  Thats entirely their fault.  And they are mostly pushed by El Paso's "white saviors".  You know who they are, the Kern Place gabachos who found them some Malinchistas who were w ..read more

Okay, we have to stop pretending that what is going on in the El Paso District Attorney's Office is anything other than an unhinged spiral of what in my opinion can only be described as political lunacy.  I know it seems like my blog is pretty centered on only a couple of themes lately but the truth is, my blog reflects what is going down in our political sphere.  Our District Attorney appears to not be able to handle criticism very well and appears to have used her office to launch attacks on what she seems to think are her adversaries. In fact, I fully expect to be on her list in ..read more

Eddie Holguin's hand-picked candidate for Mayor of San Elizario has been involved in a situation in which she has allegedly not paid workers for the work they did for her restaurant / bar. The workers are undocumented immigrants and Holguin's wife is the County Commissioner representing the area, a former chair of the El Paso County Democratic Party and she is also an immigration attorney.  If she's not taking action on this issue, its a problem. She's supposed to be the advocate for the area, she's an immigration attorney and shouldn't have to be told what the right thing to do here is ..read more

Good Lord this is becoming completely unbelievable at this point. The DA's office now appears to have yet another problem on their hands.  And I'm not talking about a minor problem - I'm talking about a potentially really bad situation.  The DA has been having Doug Tiemann serve as the Chief of the Intake and Screening Unit. Basically its his job to unfuck the case backlog mess.  He may have been the guy in charge of the donuts for the Saturday Screen Party in the DA's Office a few weeks back.  Anywho, the DA has this guy in charge of that unit and he has to deal with ..read more

I have had a lot of people ask if the workers in San Elizario got paid following a post I wrote earlier this week explaining that workers allege that San Elizario Mayor Isela Reyes didn't pay them.  Today was supposed to be another pay day.  Well, according to the workers, they still haven't gotten paid. Nor have they had any contract with Isela Reyes.  I know what you're thinking, after the information coming out that she hadn't paid her workers, you'd think she'd make it a priority if for no other reason, than to save face. I'm not even talking about how its very obviously th ..read more

If you recall recently some abortion rights advocates staged a sit-in in the lobby of the District Attorney's Office to get a meeting with Rosales to ask her if she was going to prosecute women who seek abortions under the new Texas law.  Apparently there was a chance meeting on the 3rd floor that continued in an elevator that is the reason the meeting even happened in the first place. The group, Texas Rising, first reached out to Rosales as early as June to urge her to follow the lead of another Texas DA that was going to exercise his prosecutorial discretion to not prosecute the new cr ..read more

Nothing sickens me more than to have to write this piece on Labor Day weekend of all times, but as anyone who has ever spent any amount of time reading my blog knows, I’m an outspoken labor advocate and I know a lot of people in the Valley. So naturally I was approached by a group of workers recently that allege San Eli Mayor Isela Reyes has not paid them for wages they earned at her restaurant/bar in San Elizario, Los Pistoleros.  The workers indicate that they have reported the matter to law enforcement. Other sources have indicated that there are multiple investigations underway invol ..read more

In some of the most blatant acts of political tomfuckery, two city council reps tried to vote against a tax increase after they voted for it.  City Reps Isabel Salcido and Claudia Rodriguez surrendered whatever spine they may have had in a purely political move designed to try to make them look good shortly after they announced their candidacy for reelection.  If their opponents are worth a damn - which they aren't - they'd be getting the flip-flop political opportunism mailer to the printer right around first thing in the morning.  Let me break down why its such political cowa ..read more

Okay, I'm just gonna rip the band aide off here. This is a still image from an interview with Theresa Caballero on KVIA. This is what happens when lawyers cosplay after binging Marvel series' on Disney Plus.  Don't get mad at me - you thought the same thing when you saw the story.  Anywho, I don't see why there was a news story that appears to be solely for the sake of providing a platform for a lawyer to speak in favor of Rosales. I mean what is the news angle? She's was a campaign supporter of Rosales. Seriously, what is the journalistic interest in this story. I just don't get it ..read more

There are definitely no supply-chain issues when it comes to the number of excuses that fly out of the District Attorney's Office when they have their almost weekly bad news stories lately.  There are so many excuses it would make a classroom of irresponsible third graders blush about why they didn't do their home work.  My dog ate my indictment. I couldn't bring the case to trial because La Llorona stole my case files. I couldn't come to court because I caught piojos and the judge said I couldn't be next to the other lawyers until my hair was clean. The latest negative press Rosal ..read more