What can the Alamogordo City Commissioners do?
Alamogordo city commissioners have a reputation. There is some popular radio talk-show host who refers to Alamogordo as “the crookedest town in the U.S.” They are run by what others traditionally call “The Shifty Fifty.” Their M.O. dates back to Oliver Lee’s day, when to get what you want you just shoot the guy who is telling you no. Sonnichsen’s history of the Tularosa Basin tells says the big players who settled Alamogordo were so bad that they were actually kicked out of Texas. What has this to do with PRESTO? Alamogordo apparently did promise Presto the water they would need for their foundry as an inducement to getting them in 30 or whatever years ago. But instead of digging the well that had been in the original plan, they opted for the easy way out, i.e. just to tap them into the city’s drinking water supply. Since the city has been pulling its drinking water out of surrounding hills for decades, and destroying the surrounding eco-system by doing so, this item of information is
