Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Bill Sanders Unleashes Beto 4.0 Amid Malfunction of BetoBot


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Bill Sanders Unleashes Beto 4.0 
Amid Malfunction of BetoBot
O'Rourke Campaign states Bot was in "Suegro" mode when it exposes Plans for Segundo Barrio and South Yarbrough Ahead of Schedule

by Satira Sinvergüenza 
Senior Technical Reporter
Last week's public malfunction of BetoBot has brought a series of customer complaints and jeers enough to make billionaire El Paso real estate tycoon Bill Sanders announce that he is releasing Beto 4.0 to replace the crash-frequest Beto 3.0.

Above, Sanders introduces the new Beto 4.0

At the Beto 4.0 release, Sanders described the new programing of Beto 4.0 and that programmers have ironed out most of the bugs found in earlier versions, especially Beto 3.0.

This announcement comes as public scrutiny has taken aim at recent malfunctions by a BetoBot with Beto 3.0.

According to witnesses, during a grassroots door-to-door district walking on Saturday in El Paso near South Yarbrough, BetoBot suddenly passed a bulldozer parked on the side of the road, jumped aboard starting the ignition, and drove toward the Ysleta Pre-K, Centro Cristiana Alpha y Omega, and Valentine's Bakery before neighborhood residents jumped aboard the bulldozer and stopped BetoBot.


“This is pretty alarming,” says CNET analyst Amado D. Kompuradoras. “The Betobot has had a series of problems since its initial outing as Robert O'Rourke.1.0. At that time, that version was sufficiently Republican until you got the BetoBot was released in Version 3.0, name change and all, now a Democrat.”

“I think the main problems the O'Rourke Campaign has had with the Beto 3.0 software," said Kompurador, "is several stability, reliability, and performance issues in the Beto 3.0 software"

However, computer analyst, Dan Deknica, says this is not the only problem with Beto 3.0.

At a recent party in the Five Points area of El Paso, Betobot danced up a storm with a local city politician and then suddenly started spurting out the names of the high-end contributors to the O'Rourke campaign, the majority being Republican donors including super-suegro Bill Sanders, Robert Hoy, among other.

Above, this past Saturday, Lower Yarbrough Dr. residents saved Valentine's Bakery & Ysleta Pre-K from destruction by Betobot. In a public statement, the O'Rourke Campaign said that demolition of Lower Yarbrough is not to begin until next year but a malfunction made BetoBot confused dates.

“We think this was just a vulnerability issues,” says Deknica. “One that exposes Betobot to flip flopping, run time errors, and other quirks.”

However, Saturday's incident has left many wondering about the reliability of Beto 4.0.

A previous version of BetoBot malfunctioned at an El Paso City Council meeting killing six city representatives before being disabled by Rep. Steve Ortega who had received training in disabling Beto 2.0's Suegro Mode.

In a statement, Annie Mentomain, technical director for the O'Rourke Campaign said the issue is very simple.

"There are various settings for Beto 3.0. On Friday, the setting was set to 'Suegro Mode.' At this setting, consumers can enjoy the 'classic mode,' the old Robert 1.0 through 2.0 settings such as bulldozing Segundo Barrio, building a port of entry over a Pre-School, and more Republican-like features,” said Mentomain.

“However, the campaign,” admitted Mentomain, “we forgot to switch Beto.3.0 back to Democrat mode on Saturday morning and this explain the incident with the bulldozer.”
BetoBot with Beto 2.0 killed 30 police officers at a Los Angeles police precinct in 1984

At Sanders' introduction of Beto 4.0, he explain that Beto 4.0 has settings for the far left too. “At our Cheechnchong Setting, Beto 3.0 can be spurting all the marijuana legalization talking points we grew to love until the race for U.S. Congress began,” says Sanders.

The O'Rourke campaign however, admitted that because of reliability issues, they seldom put Beto 3.0 on its Cheechnchong setting.

“What happened Saturday at lower Yarbrough was unfortunate,” says Ben Dido, the campaign Hispanic outreach coordinator, “and we are glad lower valley residents were able to stop Beto 3.0 before any demolition occurred.”

“It's is not in Beto 3.0's programing to bulldoze lower Yarbrough for a port of entry for his suegro,” says Dido, “at least not until after Beto 4.0 wins the election.”

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

El Paso Times: El Paso ISD seeks secrecy over federal audit of allegations

El Paso Times: El Paso ISD seeks secrecy over federal audit of allegations

El Paso Independent School District leaders are seeking to keep secret preliminary results of a federal audit, but two open-government experts say the Texas attorney general ordered the district to release the documents weeks ago.
The school district and the U.S. Department of Education last week sent letters to the state's attorney general seeking permission to withhold a four-page report that includes preliminary findings of a federal investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at the district. 

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

El Paso Times: 36% of money to fix roads spent in West El Paso



from April 11, 2012, El Paso Times
36% of money to fix roads spent in West El Paso
If you want your street fixed, it might take 200 years or more to get it done because the city does not have the money, and the money it has is mostly going to the West Side.

Since 2004, the city has spent $205.4 million on street improvements -- 36 percent has been used on West El Paso, according to a City Council presentation on Tuesday. West El Paso includes council districts 1 and 8.

The issue caused a heated discussion among council members and the city's department of transportation director.


http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_20369455/36-money-fix-roads-spent-west-el-paso

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Redistricting Blues, Part II: At-Large Districts and the Chicano Mayor



Redistricting Blues, Part II: At-Large Districts and the Chicano Mayor
Single-Member Districts

El Paso's move to single member districts did not bring the equality some had hoped for El Paso's people of color (POCs).

As mentioned earlier, the White-dominated city council of the time, divided the city into two “safe” white districts, and as for the other two districts, drew them so that they could go either way. So in those two districts, which should have been safe Chicano districts, the council drew them to make sure they did not go Chicano.

El Paso currently has eight districts which were last drawn in 2000 after the 2000 Census. 

Return of At-Large

Have we seen the end of at-large council representatives. It is interesting to note which parties and representatives have mentioned briefly, that Downtown should have an at-large congressman. Watch your asses!

 Why have a Brown Republican when you can have a White one?

Former County Judge Anthony Cobos represented District 8 at the time, and during deliberation of the Districting Commission, he was supportive of moving District 8 farther north past Sunland Park Drive thinking the richer and whiter residents would support his politics. But what often happens with POC who are of the conservative persuasion or Republican, when Whites can replace you with one of their own -- they will do it. Why have a Brown Republican when you can have a White one?

Now, remember, the city offices of mayor and representatives are non-partisan. That means candidates for mayor and city council do not run as Republicans or Democrats.

Non-Partisan City Elections

This all goes back to the 1957 Election. Raymond Tellez ran successfully for mayor in the Democratic primary. Everybody knows that in the Stronghold of Texas, if you win the Democratic primary, you are a sure win for which ever elected office you ran.

Tellez ran with a slate of White alderman candidates. When the White Elite found that they had been beat, they initiated a write-in campaign. They alleged that Tellez as a Mexican could not be “unbiased,” and would “fill the courthouse with Mexicans” as if whites are not biases.

Tellez would beat the write-in candidates, but two years into his election, the city changed their mayoral and city council races to non-partisan. How convenient?

You see, the White Elites realized that the Chicano community could organize and beat them in a Democratic primary. And even though most of the White Elite were “Democrats” in name, their politics was like today's fiscal Republicans. However, the White Elites knew they had to run as Democrats to win.

So, they moved to have non-partisan elections. In this way, Republicans did not have to run as Democrats or face a Chicano opponent in the run off who had the strength of a straight-ticket ballot.

People wonder why El Paso has only four Chicano mayors, five if you include Wardy.

It's been difficult to elect a Chicano mayor and those “Hispanic” candidates that cater more to the White elites than the POCs in El Paso, will gain favor from the White elites and maybe get elected.


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