If it’s Sunday, a few changes to the El Paso alleged corruption link chart are in order.
We’re putting in Dee Margo’s interview with the FBI (he said he is not implicated) and his association with the Chicago-based McCormick Tribune Foundation, which founded Margo’s project Border Fund. There may have been rent-free (aka “pre-paid rent” dealings with both NCED and Hospice El Paso.
Here’s the gory graphic, in all its gore:
If it’s Sunday, a few changes to the El Paso alleged corruption link chart are in order.
We’re putting in Dee Margo’s interview with the FBI (he said he is not implicated) and his association with the Chicago-based McCormick Tribune Foundation, which founded Margo’s project Border Fund. There may have been rent-free (aka “pre-paid rent” dealings with both NCED and Hospice El Paso.
Here’s the gory graphic, in all its gore:
So ASARCO got their air quality permit, thanks to the State of Taxes Texas.
An air quality permit is not the same as a politically-accurate permit asserting that the quality of air emitted by Texas bureaucrats is any finer than the sublime perfumes of the nearest stockyard.
It’s just a permit, and permits are permitted, by law and by the very nature of the word.
That’s the reality of how home-grown carpetbaggers roll in The Lone Stud State.
Thus, despite our potentially-choked lungs and could-be lead-laden watery eyes (or not), and surrounded by our devoted MS-afflicted offspring and our three-legged dogs, we are pushing through with a series of parodies. The first comes now, and why did ASARCO make it so easy for us?
Now here’s a world-class ASARCO original ™ ad, suitable for parody naked adulation. Note the dramatic effect of black-and-white postering, which is not to say it’s fascist in design, as there are no red spot color calls that would complete the Teutonic Triumvirate of black-white-red (often used by Nazis, South American political parties, Chicano farm workers movements and beret-wearing, scooter-riding, grandma-killing commie Guevaristas (which is the same as at least one Obama campaign worker). The designer could have just had a bad day. What with the bankruptcy and uncertainty over pay stubs, it’s possible ASARCO had to cull the bottom of the advertisorial barrel for a graphic artist who would work in exchange for stock futures. Which is not to say the Artist was a punk, except s/he could have been just a tad desperate. Or s/he could have been a corporate wonk alarmingly left alone with PowerPoint of a frantic afternoon, with a 5 p.m. deadline to fax ad thumbnails to Guadalupe or Rio de Right Wing, Argentina, or Hull, or Kosovo, or wherever ASARCO decides its off-shore corporate HQ is this week. (Click for full-sized badness):
And here’s our new ad, built during an all-nighter in between coughing jags, blood tests for lead poisoning at the ER, and furious phone consultations with both lead poisoning specialists at the Mayo Clinic and alcohol-poisoning specialists at Acetunas (click for full-sized goodness and click again for print-sized wonderfulness, if your so-called Internet browser supports that):
Later on, once we’ve exhausted all medical approaches to our health issues as well as creative approaches to parodying ASARCO, we’re going to explore other reasons for Mayor Crook’s Cook’s opposition to the re-opening of ASARCO. Can anyone say “land grab?”
Can anyone say, “FBI El Paso Corruption Investigation?” We knew you could.
Some updates to the link chart are included below (hold your nose and click on thumbnail for full-sized sleazy stink; on some browsers you can click again on the image to super-size and take you off your dinner). Eliminated one duplicate name, added Doris Sipes, and included what the guilty pled guilty to.
Despite all the information that has been made available, it’s still difficult to scope out star-clusters in the chart. We can see relationships about NCED, Judge Anthony Cobos, the ELPC Commission, but those are really it so far (not that those are insignificant). Some of those named in the warrant (as co-conspirators though they are easy to identify) have not appeared in reporting since. That the investigation is ongoing and that more clusters have not been uncovered suggests that more information will come to light, rather than that the investigation is slowing down.
Fernando Parra, assistant to and former employee of El Paso District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez, was arrested on child porn charges.
The unsealed criminal complaint is here. [HT: The Strelz.]
The El Paso Times astutely notes that Parra may be pressured by this complaint into cooperating in the ongoing (and presumably burgeoning) El Paso government corruption case.
Parra has done work for lawyer Luther Jones, according to the El Paso Times. Jones was more or less named in the original warrant.
Here’s the updated corruption link chart (click for full-size chocolaty goodness):
…endorsing the duo of Billary.
Too early, we think. “Silver” has made mistakes before, but shooting from the hip hasn’t often been one of them. Guess he made some calculations on which candidate would serve his career interests better. He originally endorsed Bill Richardson, but that didn’t pan out, so Reyes moved on.