It takes a village to clean up corruption

On June 17, 2009, David Chowder--writer for The News Paper Tree - El Paso's Online Newspaper, wrote and posted a story about my involvement in the City of El Paso's campaign by federal authorities against public and private corruption. In the article, Chowder asks the question: How will the community address the fact that its public institutions and a segment of its private sector have been compromised by a deeply imbedded system of bribery, conspiracies, tainted bidding and contracts and dirty alliances that the federal corruption investigation may not cure?

Things in the El Paso community continue to happen that cause people to wonder why it’s not more prosperous and more capable. So, it kind of begs that question because we can be doing better. We should be doing better.

Read David Chowder's story at: Getting honest: It takes a village to clean up corruption. It's an interesting prelude to what can be done on a much grander scale.