On Thursday, November 17, 2011, a lawsuit against the City of El Paso and Texas Attorney Greg Abbott was filed in Federal Court in El Paso, Texas.  The Alliance Defense Fund filed the suit on behalf of Pastor Hoyt, et.al., alleging that Mayor John Cook is using Texas election laws to chill free speech.    Here is the link: http://adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/5203

This all started when Mayor John Cook sued El Paso citizens for circulating a recall petition against him alleging that the petitioners illegally circulated petitions by circulating them in churches.  Mayor Cook testified under cross-examination by attorney Stuart Leeds that he had absolutely no knowledge of any wrongdoing on Mr. Ben Mendoza’s or Mr. Sal Gomez’ part, people whom he is suing, and that he only sued them because they had “information” he wanted.

Cook testified that if the recall election were to go forward and he were to lose, the City would lose the benefit of his “vision” and that he was, by virtue of his position of mayor, in charge of enforcing the Texas election laws.

Mayor Cook just got the whole city sued!