A Texas official who blew the whistle on the White House pressuring El Paso not to declare a state of emergency — because it would make President Biden look bad — has been targeted by the Democratic Party.
The city became a flashpoint in the migrant crisis as over 2,000 people a day flooded over its border in September, overwhelming the city’s shelters and services.
Despite calls to action from councilors, Mayor Oscar Leeser refused to ask for state or federal help and the city spent over $8m dollars dealing with the crisis.
Councilwoman Claudia Rodriguez exposed the scandal by speaking to The Post about her private conversations with the mayor, a Democrat, in which he admitted he’d been following orders from the top, but it has now made her a target of the El Paso County Democratic Party.
A statement issued by the party took the unprecedented step of weighing in on a forthcoming non-partisan local election to ask voters not to vote for Rodriquez, who is up for re-election.
Democrats called Rodriguez a “Trump-style Republican” and said they were taking the “extraordinary step” of issuing “a warning” to voters in the town — home to Democratic party superstar Beto O’Rourke – about her record as it was an “egregious case”, according to the post.
Rodriguez claims the attacks on her are politically motivated.
“I don’t get it,” she told The Post Wednesday. “I stood up for the people of El Paso when the mayor didn’t. I was saying, ‘El Pasoans don’t want to be spending their...
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