What follows are questions that the El Paso Times has submitted to me to answer for a story they say they are doing. Because I have been misquoted and vilified by the Times in the past and because Dionicio Flores, the editor, wrote in an editorial in November 2007, just three months ago, that my campaign would be "grist" for future editorials, I only deal with the Times in writing if I deal with them at all.
Here are the questions posed to me and my answers.
1) A year ago you told me if elected to office you would put an end to the "illegal system of DIMS." Is that still your plan and why do you think DIMS is illegal?
Answer: Doing away with DIMS will be my first act in office for the citizens of El Paso County. DIMS is illegal because the District Attorney has put himself in the place of the judge; my opponent sets bonds and makes arrest approval decisions. Setting bonds and making arrest approval determinations are the function of a judge and not the DA. Fifth graders know this. Under DIMS a person is jailed without seeing a judge and the DA sets the bond. DIMS is also illegal because it has created two legal systems in El Paso. According to my opponent's DIMS manual which he wrote himself the following persons are exempt from DIMS. I quote from the manual, "Non DIMS CASES: Cases involving employees of the District Attorney's Office. Cases that involve a public official." The public needs to know this. In this country there is one law and it is supposed to apply equally to everyone. My opponent treats people in power specially.
2) Campaign Contribution reports indicate your opponent has raised more money than you have. Do you think you are getting the financial support you need to run an effective campaign?
Answer: I have raised thousands of dollars which combined with my own resources have enabled me to get my message out through direct mailouts, a billboard, signs, cards, website and newspaper ads. I have spent my contributors' money honestly and wisely in getting my message out. My opponent has used his money to contribute to other politicians' campaigns (some of them targets of the FBI investigation) and to pay for $320 meals at fancy restaurants in Mexico City. It's all about how you spend your money. The fact that people know my name, that I am running for District Attorney and that I want to clean up this town shows me that I have been very effective. I have also used my own shoe leather to walk El Paso precincts all over town. I have many supporters who help me every day to get my message out. The debate I did on KVIA resulted in more people calling me to offer their support and help.
3) How do you think your campaign is going so far? What is your campaign platform?
Answer: My campaign is going very well and gaining more support every day. My campaign platform is to:
a) Restore the rule of law to the District Attorney's Office: One law for everyone. Get rid of DIMS.
b) Set up a special mental health unit to properly evaluate cases involving the mentally ill.
c) Set up a special financial crimes unit with accountants and lawyers with financial forensic expertise to investigate local public corruption at the taxing entities and entities like the Housing Authority.
d) Reform the corrupted grand jury process. House them in a neutral place, properly train grand juries and discontinue my opponent's policy of using the grand jury as a weapon and restricting the public's access to the grand jury.
e)Take citizen complaints directly from the public: Encourage citizen whistle-blowers to come forward and report corruption and crime.
f) Make it unneccessary for the federal government to have to step into local politics by investigating and prosecuting corruption myself as your next District Attorney.
g) Give the accused a fair trial and be even handed with the power vested in me by the public.
h)Convene a grand jury to investigate public corruption.
4)What do you think are the top three issues in this race?
Answer:
-DIMS and the erosion of the constitution and our checks and balances in the arrest process that my opponent has created and nurtured for years.
-Public corruption going unaddressed for years by my opponent.
-A properly trained DA staff to investigate and prosecute the crimes facing this community and destroying this community, i.e. public corruption and the fleecing of the taxpayers. The public needs to understand that public corruption simply means that our politicians are stealing our money by selling their votes to engorge their friends' pockets (voting to pass bonds and certificates of obligation on the public). This increases our already crushing tax burden which in turn is driving people out of El Paso and out of their homes.
Theresa Caballero
Questions from the El Paso Times
January 29, 2008, 6:49 pmKVIA-7 Debate
January 29, 2008, 7:59 am
Last night on Channel 7-KVIA, Theresa Caballero won the first television debate against Esparza. If you missed it, don't despair as you can still view it on line in its entirety at KVIA.com. She not only looked more "prosecutorial" than he did but she also spoke better, told the truth and proved herself to be the much better candidate by far. It was obvious that Esparza has been in office way too long. His canned responses were laughable.
Esparza got caught not telling the truth to us about what the Federal courts said about DIMS. When Theresa pulled out the actual court opinion and read from the Federal court's Terrell opinion on live TV Esparza was shown to be not telling the truth on that point. He looked real bad when he kept saying look at page 10, look at page 10. After all, Theresa was reading the actual holding of the court in that case. He looked like he did not know what he was talking about. In comparison, Theresa looked well prepared and had the documentation with her to support her position like she always does. That is what you want in a lawyer and a District Attorney!
Gary Warner did an excellent job. His questions were knowledge-based and probing on the issues. Theresa did a great job as well. Her demeanor was very Madam District Attorney-like. She spoke well, knew all the issues, was never stumped for an answer like Esparza was. Esparza was choppy, defensive and evasive. He could not and did not answer Theresa's question about how in the world he could be cooperating with the Feds on the public corruption investigation (as he stated that he was at a forum last week) when he is both accepting and giving money to the major targets of that investigation within the last 14 month. Go read his campaign finance reports from the last few years. They are very telling as to who gives him money and who he gives his campaign money to and go a long way in explaining why HE did not do anything about public corruption in this county.
Esparza floundered around on why he did not know of or investigate the public corruption himself; he had excuse after excuse (none plausible) as to why he didn't. Theresa then pointed out that he must be either incompetent or people are afraid to report corruption to him because of his history of arresting whistle-blowers. She cited as only two examples former number two El Paso Police Officer George DeAngelis and Nancy Hollebeke, two people who reported corruption to him and who he then turned around and had arrested, indicted and prosecuted. The City ended up having to pay Mr. DeAngelis a nice, hefty sum of our taxpayer money to compensate him for what Esparza did to him. In the case of Ms. Hollebeke the last word in that case was Esparza's own attorney, The El Paso County Attorney's Office, admitting in a court document in the expunction case that Esparza set her up from the very beginning and that she should never have been arrested or charged in the first place.
Esparza claims to be proud of his 16 years in office. Experience only counts, however, if it works well for the community. After 16 years one would think Esparza would know how to try a case, get a conviction and make it stick. But, alas, that, too, is not the case because interestingly enough, and also on KVIA-7 last night at 10:00 p.m. was a story about the Capital Murder case of David Renteria. Gary Warner told us on the air, how the Court of Appeals threw out Renteria's conviction because Esparza himself (yes, he tried the case himself; he was the trial attorney) misled the jury and left them with a false impression. Shame on him. He should know better after 16 years! But he doesn't. Because of his misconduct the case has to be re-tried. This will cost the County of El Paso untold thousands of dollars in costs to re-try it and will cause the Flores family additional unecessary anguish as the issue is still unresolved. Also interestingly enough, Esparza is not even fixing his own mistake and re-trying the case himself but sending someone else in to re-try it for him. Theresa is an experienced former prosecutor and trial attorney, She knows how to try a case and make it stick. 16 years is more than enough of Esparza. It is high time for a change. He has fooled the people for 16 years and imposed this bad, terrible system of DIMS on us for years. Do not be fooled any longer.
Theresa also pointed out how under Esparza's DIMS system it delays the police getting back out on the street after they arrest someone as now, because of Esparza, they have to make two stops (one to Esparza's office and one to the judge) instead of only one to the judge as is true in every other county in Texas and how he has created two El Pasos. One El Paso is for his friends and connected people and one El Paso is for the rest of us. She pointed out how there are exceptions to DIMS by Esparza's very own written policies on it: Esparza and all members of his office and all public officials are NOT subject to DIMS (THEY get to go before a judge like the law mandates). Only the rest of us are subject to DIMS.
Theresa will make a wonderful District Attorney for this community. She will clean up this town. She will do away with DIMS as her first act in office. This will result in a cost saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of this community who are bleeding and will result in the re-imposition of a fair justice system in this County where all people are treated fairly and according to the law and the U.S. Constitution and not just Esparza, all his employees and public officials! That is why I am proud to support her. Please join me in voting for her on March 4, 2008!
Esparza got caught not telling the truth to us about what the Federal courts said about DIMS. When Theresa pulled out the actual court opinion and read from the Federal court's Terrell opinion on live TV Esparza was shown to be not telling the truth on that point. He looked real bad when he kept saying look at page 10, look at page 10. After all, Theresa was reading the actual holding of the court in that case. He looked like he did not know what he was talking about. In comparison, Theresa looked well prepared and had the documentation with her to support her position like she always does. That is what you want in a lawyer and a District Attorney!
Gary Warner did an excellent job. His questions were knowledge-based and probing on the issues. Theresa did a great job as well. Her demeanor was very Madam District Attorney-like. She spoke well, knew all the issues, was never stumped for an answer like Esparza was. Esparza was choppy, defensive and evasive. He could not and did not answer Theresa's question about how in the world he could be cooperating with the Feds on the public corruption investigation (as he stated that he was at a forum last week) when he is both accepting and giving money to the major targets of that investigation within the last 14 month. Go read his campaign finance reports from the last few years. They are very telling as to who gives him money and who he gives his campaign money to and go a long way in explaining why HE did not do anything about public corruption in this county.
Esparza floundered around on why he did not know of or investigate the public corruption himself; he had excuse after excuse (none plausible) as to why he didn't. Theresa then pointed out that he must be either incompetent or people are afraid to report corruption to him because of his history of arresting whistle-blowers. She cited as only two examples former number two El Paso Police Officer George DeAngelis and Nancy Hollebeke, two people who reported corruption to him and who he then turned around and had arrested, indicted and prosecuted. The City ended up having to pay Mr. DeAngelis a nice, hefty sum of our taxpayer money to compensate him for what Esparza did to him. In the case of Ms. Hollebeke the last word in that case was Esparza's own attorney, The El Paso County Attorney's Office, admitting in a court document in the expunction case that Esparza set her up from the very beginning and that she should never have been arrested or charged in the first place.
Esparza claims to be proud of his 16 years in office. Experience only counts, however, if it works well for the community. After 16 years one would think Esparza would know how to try a case, get a conviction and make it stick. But, alas, that, too, is not the case because interestingly enough, and also on KVIA-7 last night at 10:00 p.m. was a story about the Capital Murder case of David Renteria. Gary Warner told us on the air, how the Court of Appeals threw out Renteria's conviction because Esparza himself (yes, he tried the case himself; he was the trial attorney) misled the jury and left them with a false impression. Shame on him. He should know better after 16 years! But he doesn't. Because of his misconduct the case has to be re-tried. This will cost the County of El Paso untold thousands of dollars in costs to re-try it and will cause the Flores family additional unecessary anguish as the issue is still unresolved. Also interestingly enough, Esparza is not even fixing his own mistake and re-trying the case himself but sending someone else in to re-try it for him. Theresa is an experienced former prosecutor and trial attorney, She knows how to try a case and make it stick. 16 years is more than enough of Esparza. It is high time for a change. He has fooled the people for 16 years and imposed this bad, terrible system of DIMS on us for years. Do not be fooled any longer.
Theresa also pointed out how under Esparza's DIMS system it delays the police getting back out on the street after they arrest someone as now, because of Esparza, they have to make two stops (one to Esparza's office and one to the judge) instead of only one to the judge as is true in every other county in Texas and how he has created two El Pasos. One El Paso is for his friends and connected people and one El Paso is for the rest of us. She pointed out how there are exceptions to DIMS by Esparza's very own written policies on it: Esparza and all members of his office and all public officials are NOT subject to DIMS (THEY get to go before a judge like the law mandates). Only the rest of us are subject to DIMS.
Theresa will make a wonderful District Attorney for this community. She will clean up this town. She will do away with DIMS as her first act in office. This will result in a cost saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of this community who are bleeding and will result in the re-imposition of a fair justice system in this County where all people are treated fairly and according to the law and the U.S. Constitution and not just Esparza, all his employees and public officials! That is why I am proud to support her. Please join me in voting for her on March 4, 2008!
The FBI Investigation, Esparza, The EP Times, Aaron & Ramon Bracamontes
January 28, 2008, 8:53 am
This week you have to pay your annual property taxes by Thursday or pay a steep penalty. As you write your checks and go and wait in long lines to pay them on time remember that El Paso has the third highest property taxes in the entire state of Texas. Then ask yourself as you register the thousands paid into your check registry and see your bank account drained, what services you have received in return for this money. Do you have a well trained police force? Do you have a DA who follows the law? Do you have adequate trash pickup? Is the city clean or dirty? Are your parks maintained? Are the schools educating your children properly? Is there proper drainage for rain?
The answer to these questions for me and many El Pasoans is a resounding NO. Why?
The answer is that local politicians have been STEALING!
We now know that the Federal government through the FBI and the US Attorney's office has had to investigate and is now prosecuting high level theft by local elected officials. These officials now admit they were selling their votes to pass bonds (which make our property taxes go higher) to engorge their friends' pockets off of our backs. What did we get out of it? Nothing but higher taxes and a city that looks and runs terribly.
My opponent has watched this corruption that we pay for flourish for 16 years and he has done nothing. Absolutely nothing. Are he and other responsible local officials going to continue to act like they didn't put us in the hole a whopping $1.8 billion dollars as a community in bond and certificates of obligation debt and money for all their programs like Esparza's DIMS. DIMS does nothing but take away your constitutional rights. Our children will be paying this bill. Will they be able to buy homes to shelter their families when they grow up?
The late Sheriff Samaniego tried to get my opponent to investigate corruption cases but it just didn't happen. In the end, Sheriff Samaniego and others went to the FBI and passed the information on to them.
Esparza has no excuse or reason as to why he never convened a grand jury to investigate and why he never prosecuted the thieves. He will say, now that he is under my gun, that he "is cooperating with the FBI investigation." But what does that mean? It means he did nothing and the Feds had to take over. If Esparza is cooperating with the feds, then he must have information to share. If so, why didn't he use this information to lead his own prosecutions? Ask Esparza how much money was stolen? Ask him who stole it?
While Esparza is stumbling around those questions proving he is either incompetent or corrupt himself, entire families are being driven from their homes because they can't pay their ever rising taxes. People are having to choose between educating their children and paying their property taxes, between moving from their homes and paying their property taxes, between eating and paying their property taxes, between paying for medicine and paying their property taxes, etc. This is what we have come to.
The El Paso Times wrote an article today through the pen of Ramon Bracamontes which would have you believe that no one is talking about the corruption and the high property taxes except for me. The entire population is SCREAMING about their taxes and the corruption. Two years ago El Pasoans filed thousands of protests and untold numbers of lawsuits regarding their taxes. But they CAN'T HEAR US.-- It is interesting to note that Mr. Bracamontes never once mentioned in his article that it is my opponent's job to prosecute theft and abuse of power and how he failed to do his job and that is why the Feds are involved. But then Ramon Bracamontes' son Aaron Bracamontes was employed by my opponent. Exposing Esparza's failure to prosecute corruption might bode poorly for future employment for Bracamontes' son and other members of his family. So who cares about you and your family. Not Ramon Bracamontes and Dioicio Flores at the Times. Who cares about your need to know this information when casting your vote in hopes of better government and NOT better employment for Aaron Bracamontes and family?
Early in the race, Bracamontes called me for an interview. When I called him on the fact that his son Aaron worked for my opponent, he quickly backed out of his request for an interview and he said that someone else would be covering the race. I had caught him red handed. Now Bracamotes is back on the job, writing about my race and down playing Esparza's do nothing position regarding local corruption. Ramon Bracamontes wrote his story today as though he is neutral. Why didn't Bracamontes tell you in the article, "By the way readers, Caballero's opponent gave my son a job?" Reader beware. These are the kinds of reporters Dionicio Flores has at his newspaper. This is the kind of "ethics" they employ at that newspaper.
It brings me nothing but deep sorrow that we have such a corrupt government and a newspaper that so abuses the public trust.
I have long fought against this and other forms of corruption. If elected to be your DA I will aggressively investigate corruption and prosecute it. On top of investigating it myself, citizens will be able to report wrong doing directly to my office. I also pledge not to have the whistleblowers put in jail as my opponent has done in the past. The tax dollars you will pay to run the DA's office under me will be used to hire lawyers and accountants with the knowledge, expertise and talent to FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.
Be sure and watch the KVIA debate tonight on my race. It starts at 6:30! Remember to vote for Theresa Caballero on March 4.
The answer to these questions for me and many El Pasoans is a resounding NO. Why?
The answer is that local politicians have been STEALING!
We now know that the Federal government through the FBI and the US Attorney's office has had to investigate and is now prosecuting high level theft by local elected officials. These officials now admit they were selling their votes to pass bonds (which make our property taxes go higher) to engorge their friends' pockets off of our backs. What did we get out of it? Nothing but higher taxes and a city that looks and runs terribly.
My opponent has watched this corruption that we pay for flourish for 16 years and he has done nothing. Absolutely nothing. Are he and other responsible local officials going to continue to act like they didn't put us in the hole a whopping $1.8 billion dollars as a community in bond and certificates of obligation debt and money for all their programs like Esparza's DIMS. DIMS does nothing but take away your constitutional rights. Our children will be paying this bill. Will they be able to buy homes to shelter their families when they grow up?
The late Sheriff Samaniego tried to get my opponent to investigate corruption cases but it just didn't happen. In the end, Sheriff Samaniego and others went to the FBI and passed the information on to them.
Esparza has no excuse or reason as to why he never convened a grand jury to investigate and why he never prosecuted the thieves. He will say, now that he is under my gun, that he "is cooperating with the FBI investigation." But what does that mean? It means he did nothing and the Feds had to take over. If Esparza is cooperating with the feds, then he must have information to share. If so, why didn't he use this information to lead his own prosecutions? Ask Esparza how much money was stolen? Ask him who stole it?
While Esparza is stumbling around those questions proving he is either incompetent or corrupt himself, entire families are being driven from their homes because they can't pay their ever rising taxes. People are having to choose between educating their children and paying their property taxes, between moving from their homes and paying their property taxes, between eating and paying their property taxes, between paying for medicine and paying their property taxes, etc. This is what we have come to.
The El Paso Times wrote an article today through the pen of Ramon Bracamontes which would have you believe that no one is talking about the corruption and the high property taxes except for me. The entire population is SCREAMING about their taxes and the corruption. Two years ago El Pasoans filed thousands of protests and untold numbers of lawsuits regarding their taxes. But they CAN'T HEAR US.-- It is interesting to note that Mr. Bracamontes never once mentioned in his article that it is my opponent's job to prosecute theft and abuse of power and how he failed to do his job and that is why the Feds are involved. But then Ramon Bracamontes' son Aaron Bracamontes was employed by my opponent. Exposing Esparza's failure to prosecute corruption might bode poorly for future employment for Bracamontes' son and other members of his family. So who cares about you and your family. Not Ramon Bracamontes and Dioicio Flores at the Times. Who cares about your need to know this information when casting your vote in hopes of better government and NOT better employment for Aaron Bracamontes and family?
Early in the race, Bracamontes called me for an interview. When I called him on the fact that his son Aaron worked for my opponent, he quickly backed out of his request for an interview and he said that someone else would be covering the race. I had caught him red handed. Now Bracamotes is back on the job, writing about my race and down playing Esparza's do nothing position regarding local corruption. Ramon Bracamontes wrote his story today as though he is neutral. Why didn't Bracamontes tell you in the article, "By the way readers, Caballero's opponent gave my son a job?" Reader beware. These are the kinds of reporters Dionicio Flores has at his newspaper. This is the kind of "ethics" they employ at that newspaper.
It brings me nothing but deep sorrow that we have such a corrupt government and a newspaper that so abuses the public trust.
I have long fought against this and other forms of corruption. If elected to be your DA I will aggressively investigate corruption and prosecute it. On top of investigating it myself, citizens will be able to report wrong doing directly to my office. I also pledge not to have the whistleblowers put in jail as my opponent has done in the past. The tax dollars you will pay to run the DA's office under me will be used to hire lawyers and accountants with the knowledge, expertise and talent to FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.
Be sure and watch the KVIA debate tonight on my race. It starts at 6:30! Remember to vote for Theresa Caballero on March 4.
Hanks High School: Tonight
January 26, 2008, 10:02 am
Everyone:
All the public is invited to Hanks High School tonight at 6:00 p.m. to watch Theresa Caballero and Esparza at a forum. Everyone is welcome.
Reminder: Monday, January 28, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 7 (Cable Channel 6) tune in to watch the debate between Theresa and Esparza right before the State of the Union Address!
Stuart
All the public is invited to Hanks High School tonight at 6:00 p.m. to watch Theresa Caballero and Esparza at a forum. Everyone is welcome.
Reminder: Monday, January 28, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 7 (Cable Channel 6) tune in to watch the debate between Theresa and Esparza right before the State of the Union Address!
Stuart
Esparza Lies to Eastside Voters
January 24, 2008, 8:35 am
We all know one. We all know a person who can look you straight in the eye and lie. And when we say, "hey that's a lie," this person then lies some more. Last night there was a candidate's forum hosted by the East Side Civic Association. There were about 100 people in attendance, half of them being the candidates and their families and supporters. The candidates got a two minute introduction, then five minutes of questions and then a one minute closing statement. I spoke about the FBI corruption probe and how Esparza had failed to prosecute corruption in his 16 long years as DA. I also pointed out how he uses his power to do his friends favors and refuses to prosecute them when they get arrested. I used the example of how Esparza refused to prosecute his friend and former mayor Joe Wardy when Wardy got caught with a loaded gun at the airport. I told the audience that Esparza told the public he couldn't prosecute Wardy because it was "a federal case" because it was at the airport. This of course is a lie. I then juxtaposed the Wardy case with Rachel Quintana's case who Esparza had arrested for a crime allegedly committed, where, AT THE AIRPORT. So which one is it? Rachel Quintana also was in the audience last night.
Esparza's turn was next. Here a few of the bald-faced lies he told the audience:
1-"The Federal Courts ruled that DIMS is constitutional."
The truth is that the Federal Courts ruled that they were not going to rule on the constitutionality of DIMS. The Courts said that the issue had not been properly raised before them and they were therefore going to remain silent on the question.
2-"There are separate investigations and I am helping and working with the Federal government on the Federal investigations."
The truth is Esparza has nothing to do with the federal investigations. Now that it is obvious that he has done nothing but let corruption flourish, he is trying to make it sound like behind the scenes he is working on it.
3-"I am a state prosecutor and no one ever reported corruption to me."
The truth is that several people I am personally aware of reported corruption to Esparza and he had them jailed, i.e. George DeAngelis, second in command at the PD reported that there may be possible drug cartel infiltration at the police department and Nancy Hollebeke who reported that she had been raped by two cops one of whose fathers works for Esparza. Esparza ordered both of these people to go to jail for reporting the crimes.
The rules of the forum did not permit me to ask a question of Esparza. The El Paso Times was there taking pictures. One cannot expect them to ask a question much less an intelligent one. And indeed, there is not one word in the paper today about Esparza's public spectacle last night. So Esparza looked the voters in the eye and he lied to them.
Do you want a prosecutor who lies to you? Because that is what Jaime Esparza is. He is a person who lies when the truth would serve him better. He lies when he comes to work in the morning and he lies at political forums at the end of the day. He lies for fun and he lies for business. He lies about how he handles cases. He lies about evidence. (And is currently being sued for that by someone who spent eight years in jail because of his lies). He lies about what the law is or is not. He lies about court rulings. He lies about what he has done to people. He lies about how he spends your money. He lies about what his duties are. He lies about what other people do or don't do. And after he has spent all day long lying and hurting people and ruining lives and destroying the constitution, he goes and he holy rollers it up and tells you while on his knees how religious he is.--One member of the audience last night stood straight up and said, "he is lying." Esparza's lies are breathtaking and they are numerous and on every subject.
Vote for an honest person. Vote for Theresa Caballero who knows what the truth is and who would never tell you anything but the truth and has never told you aything but the truth. Protect your families from liars in office. A liar as the chief prosecutor only serves to destroy the law and the sanctity of the courts. A lying prosecutor like Esparza puts your family and the future of your children at risk. This Esparza has clearly already done to us. Now it is time to stop him from continuing to harm us. Vote him out of power. Let him know what you think of him and his lies.
Esparza's turn was next. Here a few of the bald-faced lies he told the audience:
1-"The Federal Courts ruled that DIMS is constitutional."
The truth is that the Federal Courts ruled that they were not going to rule on the constitutionality of DIMS. The Courts said that the issue had not been properly raised before them and they were therefore going to remain silent on the question.
2-"There are separate investigations and I am helping and working with the Federal government on the Federal investigations."
The truth is Esparza has nothing to do with the federal investigations. Now that it is obvious that he has done nothing but let corruption flourish, he is trying to make it sound like behind the scenes he is working on it.
3-"I am a state prosecutor and no one ever reported corruption to me."
The truth is that several people I am personally aware of reported corruption to Esparza and he had them jailed, i.e. George DeAngelis, second in command at the PD reported that there may be possible drug cartel infiltration at the police department and Nancy Hollebeke who reported that she had been raped by two cops one of whose fathers works for Esparza. Esparza ordered both of these people to go to jail for reporting the crimes.
The rules of the forum did not permit me to ask a question of Esparza. The El Paso Times was there taking pictures. One cannot expect them to ask a question much less an intelligent one. And indeed, there is not one word in the paper today about Esparza's public spectacle last night. So Esparza looked the voters in the eye and he lied to them.
Do you want a prosecutor who lies to you? Because that is what Jaime Esparza is. He is a person who lies when the truth would serve him better. He lies when he comes to work in the morning and he lies at political forums at the end of the day. He lies for fun and he lies for business. He lies about how he handles cases. He lies about evidence. (And is currently being sued for that by someone who spent eight years in jail because of his lies). He lies about what the law is or is not. He lies about court rulings. He lies about what he has done to people. He lies about how he spends your money. He lies about what his duties are. He lies about what other people do or don't do. And after he has spent all day long lying and hurting people and ruining lives and destroying the constitution, he goes and he holy rollers it up and tells you while on his knees how religious he is.--One member of the audience last night stood straight up and said, "he is lying." Esparza's lies are breathtaking and they are numerous and on every subject.
Vote for an honest person. Vote for Theresa Caballero who knows what the truth is and who would never tell you anything but the truth and has never told you aything but the truth. Protect your families from liars in office. A liar as the chief prosecutor only serves to destroy the law and the sanctity of the courts. A lying prosecutor like Esparza puts your family and the future of your children at risk. This Esparza has clearly already done to us. Now it is time to stop him from continuing to harm us. Vote him out of power. Let him know what you think of him and his lies.