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Charlie Edgren, The El Paso Times and other Shady Types
Posted: December 14th, 2008, 10:33am EST
This week El Pasoans witnessed a particularly brutal attack on El Paso County Judge Anthony Cobos once again from the ink droppings of Charlie Edgren, et. al., who sits on the editorial board of the El Paso Times.-Read on because I will tell you a true story from the mouth of a friend of Charlie Edgren about Charlie Edgren. For quite some time now, Charlie Edgren has been able to pass himself off as respectable, honest and as a "fiscal conservative." I am not really sure how he has achieved this. He has written editorials on how we need to tighten our belts and then he turns around and savages the few representatives we have who consistently oppose higher taxes. For example, is Edgren for the plan known as "Stealing of Private Land Downtown to be Developed by the Friends and Family Members of Joyce Wilson and City Rep Beto O'Rourke at Tax Payer Expense" or is he against it and therefore supports the lonely voices of Eddie Holguin, Melina Castro and Rachel Quintana? Because if Charlie Edgren, the respectable, the honest and the fiscal conservative is against the above plan to steal private land, why is he so hateful toward the three city reps just mentioned who are against the plan? Or does Edgren just tell his friends out of the side of his mouth that he is really for the wretched, overburdened taxpayer and against the plan but that he just PRETENDS to be otherwise in print because he writes what the powers that be tell him to write so that he can keep his pitiful job at his dying and decaying newspaper because he is that hard up? What I am about to tell you is a true story. Last year, around this time, a friend of Charlie Edgren's called my friend and supporter Stuart Leeds and asked Stuart if he could arrange a lunch so that the three of us could get together and talk about the DA's race. This friend is an attorney and very aware of the systemic problems with the DA's office and with Esparza. The three of us met at Cafe Central. The friend said that h ..