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Renard Johnson: “We are the sixth largest city in Texas.”

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ABC 7 Sunday Xtra The Race for El Paso Mayor Part 1

Published December 10, 2024 | Video Starts at 03:47

Where would you say they failed? Where you could succeed? Well, you know, what I can tell you is it's got to be leadership because we are one of the, We are the sixth largest city in Texas. and we are not the only ones faced with this issue or this problem. So other cities and other counties have figured this out. So we have to figure it out as El Paso. (03:47–03:50)

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Asserts that El Paso is the sixth largest city in Texas.

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“We are the sixth largest city in the state of Texas and we're number 22, number 23 in the United States.”
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“We can't afford to raise [tariffs] 25% because that would be devastating for El Paso in our region.”
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“We're already short 400 officers. We cannot be enforcing immigration.”
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“It costs about $40 million to maintain the infrastructure.”
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“They only budgeted $12 million to fix our roads.”
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“We're short about $28 million to get these roads fixed.”
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“There is over 600 donors that have donated to my campaign.”
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