From Wiki
John Cook (born February 27, 1946; Brooklyn, New York) is an American teacher, businessman, veteran, civic leader, and member of the Paso Del Norte Group. Cook has been Mayor of El Paso, Texas since defeating incumbent Joe Wardy in June 2005, and was reelected in 2009 to a second four-year term.[1] Due to the City Charter’s term limits clause Cook will not be eligible for a third term in 2013.[2]
It's involved but extremely alarming -- locals expressing their opinions in Letters to the Editor were threatened and I think actually hauled into court. The Robert Womack Case
It's been years since I read this. I cannot point to anything specific about the case. Dentist Dr. Womack wanted to buy an out-of-business service station and convert it to a parking lot. The environment nutcases, government and private, got involved and pure insane horror followed. You'd think that they'd caught him planning the 9/11 attacks.. no wait, he would have been treated with more respect than we was -- even after 9/11.
>>Due to the City Charter’s term limits clause Cook will not be eligible for a third term in 2013.<<
Why not? He has shown that he will do what he damn well pleases, regardless of what anyone or anything says. But then, what do you expect from a Demoncrat, from a Yankee, who thinks that the South should be punished forever, etc.