El Paso Inc.: Emails show fast decision on sculpture

Nobody’s talking, and a lawsuit is all but certain. El Paso city officials and employees have been told not to comment on the brouhaha over a sculpture by artist Margarita Cabrera, which was removed by the city from a roundabout on Country Club Road on Friday, March 13.

But much of what happened that day is revealed in a series of emails between city officials.

They show that city manager Tommy Gonzalez ordered the removal of Cabrera’s partially installed “Uplift” sculpture less than an hour after the first complaint was brought to his attention that Friday, a day when City Hall was closed.

The complaint was about the presence of gun fragments in the sculpture that depicts a flock of birds taking flight. The item was ninth on a list of 10 gripes about Country Club Road emailed to Rep. Cortney Niland by Alma Ramsey of the Love Road Neighborhood Association at 12:11 p.m.

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