El Paso, Texas Councilwoman Claudia Rodriguez uncovered the stunning lengths her colleagues will go to guard Joe Biden and the Democrat Social gathering on the expense and security of the residents they’ve pledged to guard. Her reward for caring extra concerning the individuals struggling in her neighborhood from a continuing stream of illegals flowing throughout Biden’s damaged border is an outright assault by the El Paso County Democratic Social gathering. EPDP appears to care extra about offering cowl for Biden within the lead as much as the election than defending their neighborhood.
In September alone, El Paso was flooded with over 2,000 individuals a day which rapidly overwhelmed town’s shelters and providers and put El Paso residents in danger.
In keeping with the New York Publish:
The White Home pressured the Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas, to not declare a state of emergency over town’s migrant disaster resulting from worry it might make President Biden look dangerous, The Publish has discovered. At the very least three of the El Paso Metropolis Council’s eight members have urged Mayor Oscar Leeser to situation an emergency declaration in response to the 1000’s of migrants who’ve stuffed town’s shelters and are being housed in native lodges, sources acquainted with the matter stated.
However Leeser admitted throughout a non-public telephone dialog final month that he’d been directed in any other case by the Biden administration, one of many officers informed The Publish.
“He informed me the White Home requested him to not,” Council-member Claudia Rodriguez stated.
Although councilors reached out to El Paso’s Democrat Mayor Oscar Lesser to ask for federal assist, he refused. The town was pressured to spend over $8m mitigating the disaster.
Councilwoman Rodriguez uncovered the scandal by revealing her personal conversations with Lesser the place he admitted he’d been following orders from the highest.
Livid at being uncovered for safeguarding political energy over individuals, EPDP made an unprecedented transfer in a nonpartisan native election by urging voters to not vote for Rodriguez .
EPDP’s web site describes the group as,”the arm of the Texas Democratic Social gathering in El Paso County, serving the cities of El Paso, Horizon Metropolis, San Elizario, Socorro, and the cities of Anthony and Clint. Practically half 1,000,000 voters reside inside the county, nearly all of whom are registered Democrats. We boast change-makers like Beto O’Rourke, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, and State Senator César Blanco.”
The El Paso County Democratic Social gathering stated in a launch:
October 22, 2022
The El Paso County Democratic Social gathering has historically kept away from weighing in on municipal races, that are non-partisan. We honor the character of non-partisan races and focus our work on engagement with voters throughout partisan elections. Nonetheless, in egregious instances, particularly in instances when a candidate works towards our neighborhood’s values, we’ve taken the extraordinary step of alerting the general public.
As early voting approaches, we’re compelled to warn the general public concerning the present candidate for re-election (incumbent) Claudia Rodriguez, candidate for District 6.
Ms. Rodriguez has violated marketing campaign finance in a shameless method (https://elpasomatters.org/2022/10/17/el-paso-city-rep-claudia-rodriguez-election-campaign-filings-may-violate-finance-laws/). When requested by a reporter about her violations, Rodriguez’s responses point out that she is both fully blind to her obligations as an workplace holder, or she believes the legislation doesn’t apply to her.
Moreover, Democrats in District 6 needs to be conscious that Ms. Rodriguez has a historical past of voting in Republican Primaries. She presently represents and is working for a district that constantly votes for and elects Democratic candidates.
Ms. Rodriguez has introduced her occasion’s partisanship to her place, as has been evident in her votes whereas on Metropolis Council.
She has advocated towards offering humanitarian assist for migrants in our neighborhood and has develop into a Fox Information common. Her a number of appearances on the Republican cable information community have centered on her private grievances with the mayor. In doing so, she has introduced a really adverse highlight to our neighborhood on a community that pushes xenophobia, misinformation, and conspiracy theories. El Paso is a neighborhood that has traditionally had a constructive historical past of embracing our location on the US-Mexico and treating migrants with dignity.
Ms. Rodriguez additionally voted towards supporting a Ladies’s Fee for El Paso and voted towards directing the El Paso Police division to make investigating abortions a low stage precedence for the division. This measure would have prevented the El Paso Police Division from utilizing its sources to focus on ladies who may need had an abortion.
Whereas the Democratic Social gathering shouldn’t be endorsing on this race, it’s crucial that the general public pay attention to Ms. Rodriguez’s lack of transparency, marketing campaign finance violations, and the truth that her values are opposite to these held by the bulk in her district. We urge District 6 voters to vote for both of her two opponents and deny Ms. Rodriguez the privilege of being re-elected to metropolis council.
In response to the assault, Rodriguez suggests to the Publish, that the assaults on her are politically motivated. “I don’t get it,” she informed The Publish Wednesday. “I stood up for the individuals of El Paso when the mayor didn’t. I used to be saying, ‘El Pasoans don’t need to be spending their cash on this. They’re already overtaxed.’”
Rodriguez joined Fox Information to debate the disaster in her metropolis.
