More Mystery At Zorro Ranch! -- Marcie Jones - Wonkette

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/more-mystery-at-zorro-ranch

Last Thursday, before and after we saged our laptop, we told you about how on Monday officials in New Mexico had searched the property formerly known as Epstein's Zorro ranch, a spooky, blustery parcel on a remote high desert plateau between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, after an anonymous email tip from 2019 claimed that two girls were buried there. But that tip, as with most others, was never investigated, and the ranch was never searched, in spite of multiple reports that children had been raped there.

And shit gets so much weirder, y'all. The man who quietly bought that land in 2023 was former Republican Texas state Senator, Don Blaine Huffines:


... who immediately set to secretly digging the property up with backhoes, no permits requested. Once reporters found out, Huffines said his plan all along had been to make the place a Christian retreat, but the county says he has not requested nor filled out any paperwork for either permits or to operate such a thing, either. And Huffines is not just some rich entitled sack of shit who might be able to pretend that he didn't know any better; before he was a state Senator he was a career real estate developer. Who is now running to be the Comptroller of Texas! Huffines knows full well how building permits work, and wants to make keeping tabs on Texas's financial paperwork his entire job. But either he figured he was a special exception to getting his digging shut down, as it now has, and, or, Some People Are Wondering if he thought the risk of immediately digging up the place was worth it because there's some evidence on that ranch he wants to try and hide for one or more of his GOP pals. Who can say!

It seems unlikely any evidence would be left after so much time, or able to be located in the ranch's vast 7,600-acre expanse, especially after Epstein's Belarusian dentist girlfriend had ample time to clean it up before it was seized to pay Epstein's debts, but who knows.

And Don Huffines' Trump connection is HMMM. Both he and his twin brother Phillip are OG Tea Partiers cum bigtime Texas MAGA, GOP and Trump donors. Yes, of course Don has a twin brother in this wacked-out hallucinatory Nancy Drew hellscape we're all now forced to inhabit.

Don Huffines was so MAGA that in the Texas senate, along with the usual MAGA crap, he wrote a bill to end vehicle safety inspections. Naturally, another hobbyhorse of his attacking the Texas Department of Child and Family Services for being too woke, huh! Those MAGA Republicans sure do hate anything that tries to rescue children from abuse with the heat of a thousand suns. And eventually Huffines got too nuts for even Texas, in 2018 voters in his district booted him in favor of a Democratic candidate for the first time in decades.

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