Blog Statistical Analysis and the Current Blogosphere Political Culture in El Paso

You can't argue with statistics.  This is just a "shortie" on the blog and data which provides an interesting snapshot of the blog and blog posts to date.  The Norma Chavez Blog is still in the infancy of it's existence. I started posting on January 3rd, 2012 and to date have published only 13 blog posts (this being the 14th post) with over 6,000 views to date (as of today right now). 

As I have stated in previous blogs, this blogging experience is like "writing in the open skies", and it is also like learning a new language, first choosing a blog host, blog format, template, etc., and after that is done reviewing the tools available to the blog such as a statistical analysis.  Eblogger provides a weekly, monthly and overall statistical review of page views, traffic sources such as referring URL sites and browsers, and monitors your audience including countries with people that are following your blog (to date I have followers in the US, Mexico, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany (a lot for some reason), Philippines, France, Argentina and other countries (I've gone global already!). 

In the very short time that this blog has been in existence, it has garnered an average of 400 views per post per day with a low of 250 per day, and the greatest number of pageviews in one 24 hour period being 900 plus.  Granted these are not overwhelming numbers for a blog in a city of 700,000 people.  But considering that 85% to 89% of the traffic is from Facebook because it is not readily available in search engines yet (not sure why, but have some "techie youngs" who have offered to help me with that), and from what I have been told it is recognized by search engines based on actual hits (still figuring that out).  Though the blog is not even one month old, it is still good traffic for a new blog. Because I have chosen to "write in the skies" you never know who is looking up at the sky from around the world!! 

What the data demonstrates is reflective of the blog culture in existence prior to my writing a blog. The top three blog posts in the order of page reviews are (1) County Judge Veronica Escobar to Constituent "Alex Guzman "U R Not my Facebook Friend", (2) Facebook Page "Unfriend Veronica Escobar 2014", and (3) "Pachangagate, Darren "WITCH" Hunt, and Racism.  In that order.  All three blogs caused the most political controversy, most comments, and most personal emails, texts, phone calls, from both people supportive of me for exposing the political faction and their agenda and from those critics that don't like the labels or names I put to the faction.  For the most part, those who don't like the labels, don't like political factions nor do they like the local blogs.

This brings me to the subject of blog culture in El Paso, specifically political blogs.  I have only been blogging less than a month.  The political blog culture was already in existence when I started it and I too am disappointed that the number 1, 2, and 3 blogs are of the "chisme" nature.  It is annoying to read the other two political bloggers, the Criminal Blogger and the WASM (White Anglo Saxon Male) Blogger, and their perpetual reference to me with accusations, exaggerations, personal attacks and plain lies.  They will cross a libel line and their files are getting fuller every time they mention me.  I have no need to create false names because I have a blog and a personal Facebook account with my very own name, and obviously I don't have a problem writing what I think on either of those two social media mediums.  A subpoena of internet names and URL's from the proper authorities will clear those lies up.  But it is amusing how my blogging has created such heartache for these two men.

So, this blog will move into the next phase.  This blog will not be an exclusive political blog (we have that already, I have no interest in doing that because this is bigger than that), but I do intend to include blogging about politics and voice my political opinion using my experience and knowledge serving 14 years honorably in the Texas Legislature and organizing in the community over the last 20 plus years. This blog will continue to be peppered with everything El Paso in hopes to tease you, amuse you, anger you, get you to think, and to expose you to soooo, soooo much that is happening in and around El Paso with people OTHER THAN POLITICOS!!  I hope that my blogging will encourage others to blog locally because a healthy blog community is good for El Paso, "writing in the skies" exposes all the local details by the locals to an internet world!!  :-)

(For the record, I am not sending traffic to those mean spirited, self serving, egotistical bloggers, so any mention in your comments to them by name or blog, will not be posted - fyi).

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Facebook Group: "Unfriend Veronica Escobar 2014", and the "Veronicuns"

Just a quick update on the "U R Not My Facebook Friend" scandal between County Judge Veronica Escobar and Democratic Party activist Alex Guzman.  A new Facebook group has been created called "Unfriend Veronica Escobar 2014". It is a closed group, with 198 members, created last night (from what I can tell), I was added by someone and will remain in the group to observe the goals and growth of the group.  Because I am a member of the group, and if you want to join the group, please Facebook me a request as only a member of the group can add members.  It is not a "fake" group, it is real from what I can tell.

It appears that the primary goal is to "UNFRIEND" County Judge Veronica Escobar in 2014", as in her next election.  The group is accumulating a list of political blunders that I will post at a later date.

Who are the "Vereonicuns" and why are they called "THE VERONICUNS"?
The "Veronicuns" are a political faction lead by the "juan-and-only" Veronica Escobar.  The "Veronicuns" emerged as a leadership group out of the political faction known as the "Shapleighites".  The Shapleighites were led by former Senator Eliot Shapleigh who began his political career by pushing out former Senator Peggy Rosson before her 4th term in office, even though he was in the group that recruited her to run against Senator Tati Santiesteban.  Shapleigh created a group called "UNITE El Paso" that he used to launch his political career, disparaging the hard work of EPISO and after he was elected to office he abandoned UNITE El Paso, which to this day is dead.  His political ally and masta strategist is former Mayor Ray Caballero, the one time mayor of El Paso who was defeated by former Mayor Joe Wardy.

The "Shapleigh Generals" of the faction were Veronica Escobar and her BFF (best friend forever) City Representative Susie Byrd. Steve Ortega (aka Stevo) and Beto O'Rourke (aka Baytoe) were Lt. Generals. 


After the loss of Mayor Caballero, the Shapleighites decided to run for office successfully, pushing what they call a "progressive" agenda of gentrification (the systematic and calculated erasure of symbolic Latino cultural symbols, historical buildings, monuments, and public art in El Paso), awarding unprecedented no-compete contracts to questionable entities including friends and political allies, pushing an eminent domain agenda of properties that perceived political allies are interested in, tolling roads (starting with Cesar Chavez Highway), placing on the agenda domestic partner benefits even though City Representative Jan Sumrall had already passed it on Council in December 2003, reversing a voters referendum, increasing taxes, increasing the indebtedness of the county and city with non-taxpayer approved bonds, awarding tax breaks to what appears are political allies and then changing the terms of the contract because the "ally" could not increase jobs as he had promised, supporting privatization against the desires of organized labor and dissing union contracts even though all of them are proclaimed "Democrats" and much, much, more!

After former Senator Eliot Shapleigh retired from the Senate, the "Veronicuns" emerged.  County Judge Veronica Escobar has jumped from County Commissioner to  County Judge.  City Reps Stevo and Susie Byrd are being recalled, Beto O'Rourke if still on Council would have been recalled but retired from Council to run for Congress against Congressman Silvestre Reyes with an agenda that includes proposing and pushing legalization of marijuana and signing off on the permit to build the International Bridge at Yarbrough, even though his father-in-law has real estate interests on the other side of the bridge in Juarez, and there is opposition against the bridge by neighborhood groups, the El Paso Independent School District, and the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, that have federally recognized Indian land claims.

Veronicuns - a political faction known for their cunning and deceptive political maneuvers to push their own agenda (see progressive agenda above)


Leader, County Judge Veronica Escobar


General Michael Wyatt: (her immediate past campaign treasurer until he resigned in order to be appointed the "Ethics" Attorney at the County by Escobar and the County Attorney)


General Susie Byrd (BFF), currently helping Candidate Baytoe O'Rourke with his legalization of marijuana campaign and signing books across America; voting on and chief architect of the "progressive" agenda described above.

Secretary of No Compete Contracts: General Stevo Ortega, has led the awarding of thousands, if not millions, of "no compete contract" public dollars to various entities including some political allies.

Secretary of Build the International Bridge at Yarbrough:  Baytoe O'Rourke Candidate for Congress, who has questionable conflict of interest votes when he served on City Council, and who as Congressman will be the deciding factor on whether the bridge will be permitted or not.

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