State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh will not run for re-election in 2010

This is subjective, not objective = "tireless"

EL PASO -- State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, El Paso's tireless adovcate for the poor and underpriveleged, announced today that he will not be running for re-election in 2010.

This is the best news I have heard in years! One more Liberal Clown retires to live on what he has ripped off of the El Paso taxpayers. Beware, he will be running for Reyes's Congressional seat, now that everyone is angry at Reyes's failure to hold town hall meetings. As bad as Reyes is, Shapleigh would be a total disaster.

GOOD, that's great news

dont let the door hit your......on the way out
Austin and East Texas still rip us off on the regs

Good ridiance!!!!!!!!!! One more lying, crook gone!!

notfree wrote:

This is the best news I have heard in years! One more Liberal Clown retires to live on what he has ripped off of the El Paso taxpayers. Beware, he will be running for Reyes's Congressional seat, now that everyone is angry at Reyes's failure to hold town hall meetings. As bad as Reyes is, Shapleigh would be a total disaster.

Whether he runs for Reyes' Congressional seat or not, Shapleigh, the "Liberal Clown" has done an outstanding job representing El Paso. If you think it is a cushion job, try running for a political job, where you are constantly being criticized for defending your constituents’ rights. It is always easy to bad mouth someone, when you have not done it yourself or you are not capable of doing it.

I'll run for the vacant slot. VIVA AZTLAN!!!!!

Thank God!!!

El Paso has one of the highest poverty rates in the United States.
Matter of fact El Paso is #7 in the top 10 cities with the highest poverty levels.....and guess what all the top 10 cities have in common?

All run by Democrats.
Hmmmmmmmmm????

And they are for the poor huh?

What a freaking joke.
The joke is on the poor, they keep voting these idiots back into office thinking they are going to get something for nothing (welfare)and sell their own souls so they can stay home and watch soap operas and eat cheetos all day long.

The Democrats are for the poor allright.
To keep them enslaved and vote the Crats back into office.
End of story.

I would say, the way he hijacked the healthcare issue, he has plans for Reyes's job. The repetitious media exposure and moves to tidy up his personal life.

This is great news.

I hope he does go for Reyes, that would be good for EP.

I think he had many chances to do more for El Paso but he didn't. Let's find someone better.

Reyes or Shapleigh mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
the lesser of two evils or the better of two evils.

A great loss to the community - especially thoseless fortunate.

Wooohooo! Finally! This guy has been taking credit for everything from the medical school to the creation of man. The only reason our legislature forked over $250 mil for our medical school was b/c we finally got some local investment in the form of a $50 mil donation from Paul Foster. Shapliegh had absolutely nothing to do with that. In fact, we almost lost the bid b/c our legislature was tired of El Paso sticking their hand out. Good riddance! I hope this guy doesn't go for Reyes' seat or we're screwed.

Just out of curiosity, would someone post his successes in legislation and how they benefited this community as a whole? How have those successes changed the community as a whole? How did those successes benefit the state as a whole? Are we paying more taxes or less? Stuff like that!

He needs to be at a higher level office. Texas needs something other than GOP chokehold grip on Texans. Dealing with the combatative, and hostile GOP tactics it is no wonder Shapleigh's had to have tenacity.

He has had a well balanced time in office not just fighting for the under represented.If Texas can't settle for Perry (who's really not educated and too angry) then Shapleigh can surpass that.

Good Luck Eliot Shapleigh on whatever you choose to do. Very few people speak up for others like you did. Gracias por todo lo que has echo por ELPaso. Dios te bendiga!

Berry Perry, Bush tush, Lt. Dinglehurst, and the whole lot of losers have kept Texas in the gutter for too long. They like low wages, job losses, big money giveaways to their polluting contributors.

Hunt just gives' Berry Perry a fund raiser in thanks for getting government contracts. Texas low standards are a result of greedy self serving GOP.
High gas, property taxes, regressive taxes utilities, tuition, unemployement, pollution, budget shortfalls that Stimulus had to patch, junky arson Forensic Science based on ignorance......

Gimme a break II wrote:

Just out of curiosity, would someone post his successes in legislation and how they benefited this community as a whole? How have those successes changed the community as a whole? How did those successes benefit the state as a whole? Are we paying more taxes or less? Stuff like that!

Helped get funding for roads, helped get funding for Medical Center, helped get funding for UTEP, helped to regulate colonias....and so on.