By Elida S. Perez, El Paso Matters El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson defended his tie-breaking vote Wednesday to stop a City Council effort to negotiate a formal agreement with the Transportation Security Administration, saying the city lacked authority to respond directly to a controversial federal video blaming Democrats for the government shutdown that has stirred frustration at El Paso International Airport.

“Personally, I don’t think TSA should be playing a video like that at any airport, but that is completely not in the city’s purview or in our jurisdiction – it’s being played in the TSA area,” Johnson told El Paso Matters. If the item had been approved by the City Council on Tuesday, the city manager and city attorney would have been tasked with developing a memorandum of understanding

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