The Corruption in this Town

Last week I put up a new meassage on my billboard located on the South side of I-10 just east of the downtown exit. It says, "End Corruption Now." This of course was paid for by the many generous donations I have received from you, my supporters. Also due last week, was my campaign finance report which was filed with the State ethics committee. Things have in fact been busy around here.

For those of us who want to see a change in the District Attorney's Office and who specifically want the incumbent to leave, we have long known about the rampant corruption in this town and how it has not only been promoted but those who have spoken out against it have been tarred and feathered at best or arrested and prosecuted at worst. One of the resounding cries I am hearing with the recent FBI investigations is where is Jaime Esparza and why does it always take outsiders to scrutinize what is going on?

We have heard from County Attorney Jose Rodriguez and others but not a peep out of Jaime Esparza. Why the silence? People in his own office have come up to me asking where he has been on all of this and what he is currently doing about it? I have no answer other than Esparza owes the public his position on the matter and he has once again not been forthcoming on the topic.

Why hasn't the press probed the sitting DA of the last 14.5 years on the corruption supposedly going on under his nose? Where is their role as watchdog in election season?

But the People hear the silence. They know who is who and where they have been? And from what I can tell, El Paso is just plain sick of long time do nothing incumbents and corruption.